Uganda and Education
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- The BLDS education collection
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Search for the latest education-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Exploding the myth of unemployable university graduates in Africa
- S. Al-Samarrai; P. Bennell / Poverty and Social Policy Team, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, 2003
- This report presents the main findings of an international research project evaluating the further education and employment experiences of secondary school leavers and university graduates in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Usi...
- Better livelihoods through literacy or literacy through livelihoods skills?
- John Oxenham; Abdoul Hamid Diallo; Anne Ruhweza Katahoire; Anna Petkova-Mwangi; Oumar Sall / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Does literacy come first and development follow? How much literacy is needed as a pre- requisite to development? Can effective training in livelihood skills be added to large scale literacy programmes? Or is it more effective to add l...
- Film, book or play? Community-based HIV prevention in rural Uganda
- K. Mitchell; S. Nakamanya; A. Kamali; J. Whitworth / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
- Behavioural change interventions still offer the best chance of preventing the spread of HIV in developing countries. But which methods are most effective? Researchers at the MRC Programme on AIDS in Uganda assess four HIV education s...
- Knowledge is power: AIDS education for Ugandan schoolchildren
- J. Kinsman; J. Whitworth / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
- Comprehensive AIDS education can make pupils aware of the need to protect themselves against infection. It can also bring about gradual changes in the wider social environment, making safer sex more acceptable. But what is the best wa...
- Tackling adult illiteracy: encouraging news from Uganda
- Anthony Okech; Roy A. Carr-Hill; Anne R. Katahoire; Teresa Kakooza; Alice N. Ndidde; John Oxenham / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- As the number of adult literacy programmes grows, is there evidence that they work? How can we evaluate whether those who have passed through adult education schemes have achieved basic literacy? Should donors do more to fund adult li...
- Gender gaps and primary schooling: promising policy options for sub-Saharan Africa
- Christopher Colclough; Samer Al-Samarrai; Pauline Rose; Mercy Tembon / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Belief that investment in girls’ and women’s education will result in broader development gains and poverty reduction has received widespread acceptance internationally. But what can be done to close the primary education ge...
- Read all about it. How relevant are printed materials for farmers in Africa?
- Isabel Carter / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- It is often assumed that many grassroots farmers are illiterate and that print is an ineffective means of communication. What little printed information is produced is usually aimed at resource-rich, commercial farmers. However, resea...
- The importance of integrating the HIV/AIDS dimension in African universities: teaching, collaboration and research
- A.M. Ennals; E.C. Rauan / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2002
- The report looks into the status, impact and preventive actions taken by some of the partner universities and colleges in Africa of Agricultural University of Norway (NLH) against the spread of HIV/AIDS. Countries included in the stud...
- Reforming agricultural university teaching in Africa
- H. Michelsen; L.W. Zuidema; C.H. Hoste; D. Shapiro / International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2003
- Universities in sub-Saharan Africa have been widely criticized for being too academic and remote from the practical needs of the societies that they are supposed to serve. Yet these universities often include among their faculty a gre...
- How do sector wide approaches tackle poverty reduction objectives in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?
- M. Foster; S. Mackintosh-Walker / Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
- Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper. The purpose of this paper, produced by the Overseas Development Instit...
- Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda (MISR)
- MISR is an autonomous institute of Makerere University. It conducts and coordinates basic and applied research on social development. The Institute also provides consultancy services to private, public and NGO sectors; undertakes networking with related institutions globally; develops and maintains a regional data bank and disseminates information. Key research areas include: governance a...
- Uganda Martyrs University (UMU)
- Teaching and research university with specialisms including development studies and business administration
