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Development and social policy reform in Uganda: The slow emergence of a social protection agenda (1986-2014)
(Centre for Social Science Research University of Cape Town, 2014)This paper provides a broad overview of the evolution of development and welfare policy—and the politics surrounding—it in Uganda, but focuses primarily on the increasing prominence of social protection, especially ... -
Sociology of the COVID-19 Lockdown: Critical Analysis of Its Effects on Private School Teacher Wellbeing
(IGI Global, 2022)Much of the research on COVID-19 is gleaned on epidemiological, virological, and medical outcomes of the global pandemic. In education, research focus is skewed towards how school closure affected the psychological ... -
Uganda’s National Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Measures and Implications for Public Governance
(The International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2020)This paper analyses Uganda’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Uganda responded to the pandemic decisively –with context-specific measures which were underpinned by science rather than fiction –thus registering quick ... -
Parenting Initiatives in Uganda Learning from UZAZI AVSI Parenting Model and Related Initiatives
(Fountain Publishers, 2021)This book provides a national context and state of parenting in Uganda. It introduces the concept of parenting and helps the reader to gain an understanding of the attributes and dimensions that make parenting either ... -
Handbook on Participatory Methods for Community-Based Projects: A Guide for Programmers and Implementers Based on the Participatory Action Research Project with Young Mothers and their Children in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Uganda
(PAR Project, 2010)Participation” is a word that has been used in child protection and development circles for many years. The term has come to mean everything from a token consultation with a benefi ciary group to full-scale participation ... -
South–North collaboration and service enhancements at Makerere and Bergen University libraries
(African Minds, 2016)Collaboration between Makerere University in Uganda and the University of Bergen in Norway began in 1999. In 2009, the two universities celebrated the first ten years of their ongoing relationship, which includes research ... -
Frontiers of Phonology: Atoms, Structures, Derivations
(Routledge, 1995)Atoms, Structures, Derivations is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of recent trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. During the 1970S and the 1980s a fairly radical reconfiguration of ... -
Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) A guide for students and practicing managers in developing and emerging countries
(Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., 2012)Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A guide for students and practicing managers in developing and emerging countries, is a book that can be used to teach a thirteen-week course unit at undergraduate ... -
Teacher education in Uganda: Policy and practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)Teacher education is concerned with helping teachers acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills they need to carry out their duties and responsibilities as teachers; and this is vital since teachers are central in the ... -
Perceived Organizational Support and Employee Engagement: Interrogating Dynamics of Job Satisfaction through Teacher Perceptions
(Academia, 2020)The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of job satisfaction on the perceived organizational support-employee engagement relationship among secondary school teachers in Uganda. The study took a cross-sectional ... -
Financial liberalization and its implications for the domestic financial system: The case of Uganda
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2003)This paper presents an analysis of the impact of financial liberalization on the conduct of banking business and its impact on the real sector. Survey results show that the overall assessment by commercial banks of ... -
Sharia Law and Islamic Banking in Uganda
(Jescho Publishing House, 2022)When I see the mountains and think of them firmly fixed, they shall pass away as the clouds pass away. (Such is) the handiwork of God, who carries out all things with utmost proficiency." (Quran 27:88) Your wisdom is ... -
Using school-based early warning systems as a social and behavioral approach for HIV prevention among adolescent girls
(Routledge Studies in Health in Africa, 2020)A growing body of literature discusses social and behavioral approaches to HIV prevention. In a recent literature review of adolescent-focused HIV prevention research by Pettifor et al., (2018), the authors noted the ... -
Literacy as placed resource in the context of a rural community member’s everyday lives: The case of Bweyale in Uganda
(Routledge, 2016)Literacy is a placed resource that is used differently in the different places of everyday life in rural communities. Bweyale is a multilingual rural community in Uganda. In this chapter, I ... -
Leveraging community capacity to manage improved point-water facilities
(2015)Community-based water management systems (CBWMSs) are now a popular policy strategy for sustainable rural safe water supply in Africa. However, the effectiveness of the model is marred by numerous bottlenecks of varying ... -
The Female Genital Mutilation Economy and the Rights of the Girl Child in Northeastern Uganda
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Objection my Lord: legal practice demystified
(Jescho Publishing House, 2022)Having received a brief of the client’s case, and identified legal issues. You should develop a Checklist to enable you pick necessary legal information you would need to advise the client and also in case of court action, ... -
Objection my Lord: legal practice demystified Vol. 1: Land Transactions
(Jescho Publishing House, 2022)Having received a brief of the client’s case, and identified legal issues. You should develop a Checklist to enable you pick necessary legal information you would need to advise the client and also in case of court action, ... -
Objection my Lord: legal practice demystified Vol. 2: Family Law & Practice
(Jescho Publishing House, 2022)Having received a brief of the client’s case, and identified legal issues. You should develop a Checklist to enable you pick necessary legal information you would need to advise the client and also in case of court action, ... -
Objection my Lord: legal practice demystified Vol. 3: Criminal Law and Practice
(Jescho Publishing House, 2022)Having received a brief of the client’s case, and identified legal issues. You should develop a Checklist to enable you pick necessary legal information you would need to advise the client and also in case of court action, ...
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