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Addressing Youth Unemployment in Uganda: The Inevitable Advice of the 21st Century
(Gateway Research Centre, 2020)
The issues raised in this policy brief provide a body of recommendations to policy makers including: the central government, local governments, curriculum developers, educationalists, and other policy implementers. It also ...
Reducing the social acceptability of wildlife trafficking through behavior change interventions
(Basel Institute on Governance, 2021)
Behavior change interventions aimed at reducing the social acceptability of wildlife trafficking are an important part of efforts to prevent wildlife crime. This policy brief summarizes lessons learned about how to develop ...
Curbing wildlife trafficking in Uganda: lessons for practitioners
(Basel Institute on Governance, 2020)
This policy brief summarizes the main findings from extensive field research on the drivers, facilitators and
strategies of wildlife trafficking in Uganda. The research shows that individuals engaging in the first stages ...
Is Uganda’s middle class strong enough to deliver national aspirations?
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
Uganda envisioned to become a lower middle-income status by 2020 as a foundation for achieving vision 2040. Policies, including the National Development Plan (NDP), were instituted to drive the aspiration. However, the ...
Within the EAC, which countries stand to benefit from the implementation of the AfCFTA
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will affect EAC countries in terms of tax revenues, trade volumes and poverty. Estimates paint a mixed picture among specific EAC economies regarding ...
How can Uganda address gender data gaps in the land sector?
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)
Land is one of the most important resource held by Ugandans. However, the lack of real time, clear and accurate disaggregated gender statistics has repeatedly made it a challenge to develop policy responses to inequalities ...
Financial literacy as a tool of business transformation for Small and Medium Enterprises in Uganda
(Gateway Research Centre, 2021)
Majority of the businesses in developing countries, Uganda inclusive fall under Small and Medium Enterprises. They employ the largest part of the population and contribute to livelihood improvement and sustainability. SMEs ...
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Universal Primary Education (UPE) Programme: Financing and Costing of UPE
(National Planning Authority, 2020)
With the introduction of UPE in 1997, Government committed to providing the basic facilities and resources to enable every child enter and complete primary school. The Government commitments included: (i) payment of school ...
What interventions are required to achieve gender balance in political representation at the local government level?
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2021)
Women remain underrepresented in local government politics which offers men an unfair advantage,ultimately overshadowing women in decision-making. It also implies that issues that uniquely affect women may not be prioritised ...
Creation of New Cities in Uganda: Social Economic and Political Implications
(Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2020)
Urbanization is a global trend and has largely been a positive force for economic growth, poverty reduction and human development. Urbanization is understood as a population shift from rural to urban areas, it is the gradual ...