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Challenges of non-governmental organisations in providing for the welfare of vulnerable children in Uganda: a comparative study of AMG - International and Sunrise children’s village
(Makerere University, 2009-11)
The study was set to examine the welfare of vulnerable children in Uganda. The research design used was a comparative type where AMG Bukoto Child Development Centre (CDC) an International NGO and Sunrise Children’s Village, ...
Factors affecting access to decentralized health services: A study of households seeking malaria treatment for children in Bundibugyo District
(Makerere University, 2008-09)
This study is an interrogation of factors that inhibit access to health services for treatment of malaria among children below five years. Analysis is done in the context of decentralization which ideally is supposed to ...
Public private sector partnership in Uganda’s local governments: A case study of revenue collection in Makindye Division, Kampala
(Makerere University, 2009-09)
In 1993, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government adopted a decentralised system of administration. As such, decentralisation is central to Uganda’s mode of governance as spelt out in the 1995 Constitution and ...
The challenges faced by the police in eliminating mob justice in Kampala: 2005 - 2007
(2009-12)
The research examined the challenges faced by the Police in eliminating Mob justice in Kampala between 2005 and 2007. This is the period a new constitution was promulgated but acts of mob justice by the public in the quest ...
An assessment of school interventions in protecting adolescent students against risky sexual behaviours in Kampala and Luwero Districts
(Makerere University, 2008-03)
An assessment of school interventions strategies implemented in the last three years to
prevent risky sexual behaviours among adolescents; was conducted in Mazzi and Kalinabiri Secondary Schools in Luwero and Kampala ...
Social construction of sexual risk for HIV and behavioural change among youth in Masaka and Kampala Districts
(Makerere University, 2007-02)
HIV/AIDS, a disease without cure or vaccine, is a devastating pandemic. About 40 million people are infected worldwide, 4.1 million are infected annually, and about 800,000 died from AIDS related illnesses each year. In ...
Assessing the coping mechanisms of HIV/AIDS-Orphaned children in Rubaga Division, Kampala District
(Makerere University, 2008-05)
The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) disease is neither solely a health problem nor can it be dealt with as such. In Uganda it has affected both rural and urban dwellers, adults and children across the country ...
Child domestic work and the right to education in Uganda: A case study of Ruhinda County, Bushenyi District.
(Makerere University, 2009-10)
The study was about finding out the significance of child domestic work on the right to education. Basing on UDHR article 26 that says, “Everyone has the right to education…” The CRC article (32) aims at protecting children ...
Challenges facing public policy implementation in areas of insurgency and displaced people: A case study of Northern Uganda Reconstruction Program (1992-1999) in Gulu District
(Makerere University, 2009)
Public policy formulation is a very significant stage in the course of public policy development and success. For the policy to be realistic and workable, its design should carry the content, which makes it possible for ...
Substance abuse and their social effects on adolescents in Uganda: a study of secondary school students in Nakawa division, Kampala district
(Makerere University, 2008-12)
Preventing substance abuse by adolescents has been one of the agendas of the government of Uganda for a long time. Government has tried its best using various policies and legislations to curb the habit of substance abuse ...