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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 ... -
Making partnerships work on the ground
(Springer, 2003)For many years the Government of Uganda’s (GoU) development plans centred on the implementation of a series of three-year rolling Public Investment Plans (PIPs). PIPs contained many discrete projects in different sectors, ... -
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 ... -
Comparative Studies of Orphans and Non-Orphans in Uganda
(Center for International Health and Development, 2004)There are now in Uganda more than two million orphans, i.e. children under 18 years old who have lost one or both of their parents. Roughly one in every five children is an orphan and one in every four households in the ... -
Depression and Suicidal Behavior in Uganda
(Makere University., 2005)Depression and suicide ideation are prevalent in the general population but their recognition and detection in primary care is problematic. The present study investigated the reliability and validity of the RISLE and its ... -
Equal Opportunity, Age-Based Discrimination and the Rights of Elderly Persons in Uganda
(Human Rights and Peace Centre, 2008)Average life expectancy for Ugandans is currently estimated at 50 years for both men and women. Nonetheless, with developed healthcare systems and social conditions, there are telling indicators that a signiicant number ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Science Of Public Procurement Management And Administration
(Charting a Course in Public Procurement Innovation and Knowledge Sharing, 2013)That public procurement as a field of academic research and a “lucrative” field of practice has increased over the last 10 years or so is now a matter beyond contention among policy makers and academics in both developed ... -
A Preliminary Speech Learning Tool for Improvement of African English Accents
(IEEE, 2014)Speech recognition systems emphasise: accent recognition, recognition system performance through calculation of word error rate (WER), pronunciation modelling, speech-based interactions (tone, pitch, volume, background ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Makerere University as a Flagship Institution: Sustaining the Quest for Relevance
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2017)Makerere University is an interesting case of a traditional university in sub-Saharan Africa. Such universities were established as both national and regional symbols with the main objective of human resource capacity ... -
The Female Genital Mutilation Economy and the Rights of the Girl Child in Northeastern Uganda
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Makerere University Business School Co-Evolution Journey: The Role Of Extraordinary Performers
(Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2018)For over 20 years, Makerere University Business School (MUBS)’s source of sustainable competitive advantage happened to be associated with a few forerunner employees’ unusual acts in solving prevailing challenges. ... -
Obuntu-bulamu and the Law: an extra textual aid statutory interpretation tool
(Marianum Press Ltd, 2020)There is a patriotic obligation on all of us not to allow our Constitution and the idea of respect for human rights and dignity to slide into such disrepute.The debate over whether or not Obuntu-bulamu can be translated ... -
Treatise to my Learned Friend, the Attorney at Law
(Marianum Press Ltd, 2020)More often than not the law is usually argued to be a sworn commitment to the asset of absolute fixed ideas within rigidly narrow parameters. The letter of the law is often framed in absolutes, stated in black and white but ... -
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 ...
