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Accountability: a necessity to pro-poor service delivery in Municipal Councils in Uganda
(Journal of Governance and Accountability Studies, 2021)Purpose: There is mounting fear that the present-day Local Government managers do not appropriately respond to pro-poor service delivery. Yet, the number of people lacking access to quality services is swelling. This fault ... -
Achieving a pro-poor local government budget process in Dokolo district, Uganda: The role of civil society organizations
(American Journal of Strategic Studies, 2023)Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the role of civil society organizations in pro-poor local government budget processes, with Dokolo District as a case study. The specific objectives of the study are (i) To examine the ... -
Adolescent Pregnancy and Education Attainment of Female Learners in Iceme Sub County, Oyam District, Northern Uganda
(Journal of Gender Related Studies, 2023)Purpose: This study aimed at determining the factors associated with adolescent pregnancy, motivating factors for girls to stay in school and the effects of adolescent pregnancy on education attainment and livelihoods in ... -
Agricultural policy frameworks and the agricultural sector in Uganda: Analysis of the plan for modernisation of agriculture
(International Journal of Pure Agricultural Advances, 2023)The aim of this study was to evaluate the Plan for Modernization of Agriculture’s effectiveness and offered suggestions. Accessible literature has chosen to deliberately modernize agriculture and acknowledged the necessity ... -
Agricultural practices in mid-western Uganda: Challenges and prospects for food security in rural areas
(Journal of Gender and Behaviour, 2019)Globally, there is a concern that current food production and distribution systems are not developing at a rate that matches the growing human population. In Uganda, rural-urban drift, land grabs and population explosion ... -
Analysing the effect of English language proficiency on Councillor involvement in local council discussions in Uganda
(Loyola Journal of Social Sciences, 2015)Within most local governments in Uganda, annual assessments suggest that councillor involvement in council sessions has suffered from remarkable set-backs, and remains inadequate. Low involvement in council sessions is ... -
Analysing the significance of village savings and loan association (VSLA) to community development in Uganda
(IJISET - International Journal of Innovative Science, Engineering & Technology, 2022)financial services to the rural poor in Africa. But poverty reduction, in the context of sustainable development, remains a major challenge. Extreme poverty ravages the lives of one person in four in the developing world. ... -
Analysis of the contribution of the Youth Livelihood Program towards enhancing Self Reliance among the Youths in Lira City, Uganda
(Journal of Social, Humanity, and Education (JSHE), 2023)Purpose: This study investigated the contribution of the YLP towards enhancing self-reliance among the youths in the west division of Lira City. Methodology/approach: The study employed a descriptive cross sectional ... -
Analysis of the quality of local council elections in Hoima city, mid-western Uganda
(International Journal of Developing Country Studies, 2022)Purpose: The aim of this study was to discuss the quality of local council elections by exploring factors that influence vote buying and vote selling during electoral seasons in Uganda. Methodology: A cross-sectional study ... -
Analysis of the Quality of Peace and Security from the Perspective of Community Policing in Lira city, Northern Uganda
(Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2022)Uganda faces an ever-upward rate of urban criminality; this has led to continued loss of lives and property. Security officials, especially, the Uganda Police Force have embraced a range of approaches to mitigate, avert ... -
Awareness Creation As A Strategy To Reducing The Rate Of Teenage Pregnancy In Lira District
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2020)Teenage pregnancy is a serious public health and social problem, with 95%% occurring in developing countries. This study aimed to seek explain how awareness creation can be used to reduce the rate of teenage pregnancies ... -
Bridewealth in Northern and Eastern Uganda: Transformations of generosity between partners and generations
(IMAGENU, 2024)Bridewealth – in different forms of gifts and services – constitutes social and economic exchange and cohesion between families and generations that can serve to express, confirm and acknowledge partners’ and generations’ ... -
Candidate’s physical attractiveness as a consequence in an election
(International Journal of Public Policy and Administration, 2022)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to deconstruct election results within the framework of candidate’s physical attractiveness. There is a mounting fear that modern-day political institutions are not presenting candidates ... -
A case study on the quality of healthcare in Uganda: Examining the effectiveness, safety, patient-centred and timeliness of district healthcare facilities
(Journal of Governance and Accountability Studies (JGAS), 2021)Purpose: This study aims to examine the quality of healthcare in Uganda in terms of effectiveness, safety, patient-centred and timeliness of District Healthcare Facilities. Research methodology: This study took a case ... -
Choosing between Traditional Policing and Community-oriented Policing in the Quest for Peace and Security among Slum Dwellers in Lira City, Northern Uganda
(Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2022)Peace and security in urban centres remains key to their growth and development; however, slum areas remain dented with numerous aspects of insecurity. While a number of models have been sought, none has drawn a comparisons. ... -
Citizen Participation and Policy Formulation: A Study of Bottom-up, Top-down, and Horizontal Scenarios in Local Councils in Western Uganda
(Administratio Publica, 2015)Abstract This article reports on research that aimed at assessing the contribution of citizen participation in policy formulation in Western Uganda. The central thesis statement was that “citizen participation has no ... -
Civil Society Organisations, Applied Research and Rural Development
(Applied Research and Rural Development, 2012)This research deals with the position of civil society organisation in sustaining rural growth through applied research. This is subsisting with the conclusion that the realisation of a successful rural development stratagem ... -
Collaborative planning as a prospect to nurturing domestic tourism: perspectives from service providers in mid-western Uganda
(African Journal of Hospitality, 2017)Abstract This article investigates how collaborative planning can be applied to nurture domestic tourism in midwestern Uganda. Available literature suggests that the country’s domestic tourism potential has not been given ... -
Commercial Soyabean Farming and Household Livelihoods in Kole District Northern Uganda, A Critical Analysis of Farmers Cooperative Society
(International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research (IJFMR), 2024)This paper presents the relationship between commercial soyabean farming and household livelihoods of members of Alito Joint Christian Farmers’ Cooperative Society Limited (AJCFSL) in Kole district, Uganda. We used mixed ... -
Community Support Groups and Home-Based Care among People Living HIV and AIDS in Uganda
(Annals of Justice and Humanity, 2023)Purpose: This study investigated the contribution of Community support groups on Home based care to Persons Living with HIV in Lira District. Research Methodology: We adopted a cross-sectional research design among ...
