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Integrating Women’s Reproductive Roles with Productive Activities in Commerce: The Case of Businesswomen in Kampala, Uganda
(Urban Studies, 1999)Uganda has registered signi® cant improvement regarding economic growth and the raising of women’s status at the macro level. Commerce is one of the sectors that attracts women of varying social status. The paper is based ... -
Household Coping Strategies in Response to the Introduction of User Charges for Social Service : A Case Study on Health in Uganda
(Institute of Development Studies, 1999)This study examines approaches to health care seeking and financing by households living in communities in two poor rural districts of Uganda. It seeks to explore differences in the choice of provider and methods of funding ... -
Men’s Attitudes To Condoms And Female Controlled Means Of Protection Against HIV And STDS In South-Western Uganda
(Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2000)There is widespread demand for the development of female controlled methods of protection against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV. The success of such methods will not only depend on their acceptability to ... -
Socializing influences and the value of sex: the experience of adolescent school girls in rural Masaka, Uganda
(Uganda. Culture, health & sexuality, 2000)In order to explore the socializing in¯uences which have shaped rural adolescent schoolgirls’ views and values about sex in a high HIV prevalence area of Uganda, detailed qualitative data was obtained over a one year ... -
“The Real and the Ideal”: Teacher Roles and Competences in South African Policy and Practice
(International Journal of Educational Development, 2000)olicy-makers have placed great faith in education as a means of transforming and developing South African society. Recent policy documents specify occupational, professional and academic roles and competences for teachers. ... -
Information and its value to health workers in rural Uganda: a qualitative perspective
(Health libraries review, 2000)A study was conducted in 1998/99 to investigate the accessibility and use of information by health workers in rural Uganda. Data were collected qualitatively using semi-structured interviews. As a qualitative study, it ... -
Market-Oriented Public Management in Uganda: Benchmarking International Best Practise?
(A Journal of African Studies, 2000)This paper examines the phenomenon of"new" pulblic management in Uganda in the broader context of the history of administrative reform, the quality management revolution, and the rise of economic rationalism over ... -
Female Control Of Sexuality: Illusion Or Reality? Use Of Vaginal Products In South West Uganda
(Social Science & Medicine, 2001)This paper reports on a trial of vaginal products that were distributed and used by 131 women and 21 men in south west Uganda. It focuses specifically upon the issue of female control in heterosexual relationships and ... -
The Negotiation Of Sexual Relationships Among School Pupils In South-Western Uganda
(AIDS care, 2001)The objective of the study was to explore how school-going adolescents in south-western Uganda negotiate sexual relationships. Qualitative data were obtained from 15 boys and 15 girls (14-18 years old), during a series of ... -
Coping with the Challenges of Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century
(Effective Teaching in Higher Education. Entebbe: Nkumba University, 2001)The importance of education today, more than ever before, cannot be overemphasised. Education is the key to addressing some, if no all the major problems confronting the world during out time. Challenges such as respect ... -
A comparative study of Makerere University Graduates of the Faculties of Arts and Sciences
(AAU Research Paper Series, 2001)The economic crisis that hit Uganda in the 1970s and 1980s precipitated a shock to Makerere University. The crisis hit the university in several ways: crippling under-funding, low staff pay and lack of morale, centralised ... -
Information manpower capacity building for decentralization in Uganda through industrial training
(IFLA journal, 2002)Information is a key resource for development. Information can be kept in registries, records centres, archives, libraries, resource centres, research centres, documentation centres and in public offices. Information ... -
Applications of digital libraries and electronic technologies in developing countries: practical experiences in Uganda
(2002)Analyses applications offered by different organisations in Uganda and gives a way forward for the use of digital libraries. A qualitative approach with a purposive sampling strategy was adopted. The study was limited ... -
Capital account liberalisation
(Willey, 2002)Following full liberalisation of the capital account in 1997, Uganda realised increasing private capital flows. However, this has posed enormous challenges and risks. Macroeconomic management has been complicated because ... -
The determinants of rural and urban household poverty in the North West province of South Africa
(Development Southern Africa, 2002)Based on standard poverty measures, the extent of poverty in the North West province is on average worse than in South Africa. For instance, the poverty gap ratio for North West is twice that of the South African average, ... -
Financing Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs)
(Bank of Uganda research department, 2003)This paper investigates the economic rationale for intervention in support of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) on both theoretical and empirical grounds. It argues that the inherent weaknesses of SMEs in Uganda ... -
Impact Of EU Sugar Trade on Developing Countries A Study with Focus on East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda)
(Germanwatch eV Bonn, 2003)The aims of the study presented here are to assess the impact of the European Union sugar trade (with an emphasis on dumping) in developing countries. In particular, the focus was on small farm holders and markets. The ... -
Sustainable Livelihoods, Mobility and access Needs
(TRL Report, 2003)This research project provides an ‘investigation of the utility of the sustainable livelihoods approach in identifying the mobility and accessibility needs of the poor, with specific reference to rural–urban linkages’. ... -
Focus group discussions on social cultural factors impacting on HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
(Makerere Institute of Social Research., 2003)Uganda is one of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa worst hit by HIV/AIDS, but at the same time among the few nations that have successfully stemmed the escalation of the epidemic. HIV prevalence among the adult sexually ... -
Determinants of Labour Force Participation in the North West province of South Africa
(Development Southern Africa, 2003)Based on data extracted from the 1995 October Household Survey of Statistics South Africa, this study has found that potential income is a major factor in labour force participation by African women in the North West ...
