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Improving women and children refugees’ livelihoods through self-reliance at Nakivale settlement, south western Uganda
(Kabale University Interdisciplinary Research Journal (KURJ, 2022)UNHCR reports that of the 82.4 million people who have been forced into displacement, over half are women and children. The East African region hosts one of the highest levels of refugees in the world. Refugees in Camps ... -
Debunking the local government malaise under the decentralization policy in Uganda: an analytical treatise
(Kabale University Interdisciplinary Research Journal (KURJ, 2022-12)Several years have passed since Uganda approved decentralization both as a tool of good governance and as a policy of poverty reduction however many regions and districts in the country, including the city authorities, ... -
Judicial proceduralism: the application and exploitation of the substantiality rule in presidential election petitions in Africa
(African Journal of Governance and Public Leadership (AJoGPL), 2022)Presidential candidates who have faith in judicial supremacy often turn to the courts for redress when they lose presidential elections, because the courts often rely on technicalities and the substantiality test to ... -
The neglected governance challenges of solid waste management in Uganda: Insights from a newly created City of Mbarara
(African Journal of Governance and Public Leadership (AJoGPL), 2022)e challenges of rapid urbanization threaten governance of many urban centers especially in developing countries. However, to achieve these challenges, the gaps in governance of waste management need to be addressed. ere ... -
“The Poor will always be with you”: Ethical Implications for the Church and Development in Africa
(Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS), 2022)We live in the world and Africa in particular where the Church that promotes the love of God and neighbor but also harbours the poor as well. However, in the gospels Jesus in Matthew 26:11 echoed the words of Deuteronomy ... -
Practicing a Christian Environmental Ethic through Stewardship
(Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS), 2022)This article defines the human’s moral and ethical obligations toward environment and development but based on Genesis 2:15 where ‘the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden” to work it and take care of ... -
Living with Gorillas? Lessons from Batwa-Gorillas’ Convivial Relations at Bwindi Forest, Uganda
(Conservation and Society, 2022)In recent years, convivial conservation has been proposed as a better alternative to fortress conservation by working with marginalised communities. This is a welcome development because most of the injustices and ... -
Directive leadership style and staff motivation in private universities in Uganda: a case of Kampala International University
(Kabale University Interdisciplinary Research Journal (KURJ), 2022)This study was conducted to establish the effect of directive leadership style on staff motivation in Private Universities in Uganda taking Kampala International University as a case study. Two specific objectives guided ... -
Challenges in decentralization and service delivery, Wakiso district
(Kabale University Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2021)The paper examined the challenges involved in service delivery under decentralization in Wakiso District, Uganda. The study was guided by a case study design and employed the qualitative data collection approach. A total ... -
Public Governance and leadership in times of Uncertainty. Intimacy of Politics and Science in Pandemic Management?
(African Journal of Governance and Public Leadership (AJoGPL), 2022)Societies of all times have withered the storms caused by social, political and economic disruptions. roughout the journey of mankind, problems have often presented themselves and solutions have always been found. Men ... -
Assessing the Relationship between Genderbased Violence and COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda
(2020)Whereas there is an abundance of literature linking gender based violence (GBV) in the aftermaths of natural related disasters, the linkage with health related emergency pandemic is scanty. However, some studies have ... -
Trecking the historical concerns for effi ciency and eff ectiveness in the study and practice of Public Administration
(African Journal of Governance and Public Leadership (AJoGPL), 2021)is paper attempts to re-introduce the ideologies through historicizing the debates and then make a case for their relevance in today’s public administration systems. Public administration in its dual nature of being ... -
Public Procurement Governance: Toward an Anti-corruption Framework for Public Procurement inUganda
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021)The quest for good governance appears to have tormented humankind for several hundred thousand years and this threatens to remain so for the next several years. The greed by people against fellow people and the broader ... -
Governance and Public Leadership: Bundles of Democratic societies?
(African Journal of Governance and Public Leadership, 2021)Like an elephant being described by blind men differently depending on where each of them touches, governance and public leadership are concepts prone to different interpretations by different people. Some commentators ... -
Towards a Framework for Anti-corruption and Improved Procurement Governance in Uganda .The Role of Administrative Efficiency.
(Administratio Publica, 2021)Public procurement has been and remains a core function of the public sector. When it is managed effectively and efficiently, it can contribute immensely towards attaining good governance within the now-complex public ... -
The Discourse of Non-Citizens Expulsion Reinvigorated: Examination of Racial Undertones in Asians Expulsion from Uganda in 1972
(African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research, 2021)The expulsion of non-citizens from countries around the globe is not a new phenomenon. In Africa, there have been numerous documented and undocumented cases after the continent acquired political independence in the 1960’s. ... -
Nomination Violence in Uganda's National Resistance Movement
(African Affairs, 2021)Institutional explanations of intra-party violence rarely address political economy dynamics shaping the institutions in question, and therefore they fail to understand their emergence and their stability. Specifically, ... -
Determinants of Level of Household Income Utilization and Decision Making Among the Educated Working Married Employees in Mbarara Municipality, Mbarara, Uganda
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2021)The study determine the level of household income utilization and decision-making among educated working married employees in the Mbarara Municipality, Mbarara, Uganda. The study was guided by the Sen’s Cooperative Conflict ... -
The most marginalized people in Uganda? Alternative realities of Batwa at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(Elsevier, 2020)Indigenous peoples such as the Batwa in Uganda are predominantly seen as marginalised groups, leaving little room for foregrounding their power, influence and involvement in tourism and development. Inspired by ... -
Barriers to women's participation in public procurement in Africa: Empirical evidence from Uganda.
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITY STUDIES, 2020)Global policy agendas and declarations continue to focus on the participation of women and women-owned businesses (WOBs) in the public and private sectors. The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...
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