Uganda and Poverty
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- Policies to address pastoralists impacted by climate change
- Oxfam, 2008
- This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change. Although pastoralism makes a significant contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) in many...
- Adapting to flood risks in urban Africa
- Ian Douglas; Yasmin McDonnell; Kurshid Alam / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Volatile weather patterns are increasingly affecting urban slums in Africa. Climate change is already aggravating urban flooding. When floods occur, residents of marginalised areas have only a limited set of options. They need urgent ...
- How are violent conflict and poverty connected?
- Patricia Justino / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Violent conflict affects poor people disproportionately. It affects their assets, livelihoods, education and health. It can force them to leave their homes and destroy their social networks. Poverty can also act as a trigger for confl...
- Lack of a formal policy on ageing is harming the elderly in Uganda
- F. Nyanzi / The Aged Family Uganda, 2008
- There are over a million older persons in Uganda, many of whom lack food, money, clean water and medical support and have lost their children to war and HIV and AIDS. This paper, based on a survey of older persons and a follow up conf...
- Understanding the influence of poverty on adolescent’s sexual behaviour
- N. Nadise; E. Zulu; J. Ciera / African journal of Reproductive Health, 2007
- This article, published in the African Journal of Reproductive Health provides evidence on the link between poverty and risky sexual behaviour. It examines the effect of wealth status on age at first sex, condom use, and multiple part...
- Do cash transfers that do not specifically target HIV and AIDS patients reach more affected households?
- B. Schubert; D. Webb; D. Temin / Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme, 2007
- This paper analyses the degree to which social cash transfer schemes that do not explicitly target HIV and AIDS affected persons or households reach HIV and AIDS affected households. By comparing different schemes in Zambia, Malawi an...
- Including different actors is key to successful local economic development
- E. Wilson / Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008
- This paper describes the transformations that have taken place in the honey production and marketing in West Nile since the launch of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme in 2001. In pursuing local economic de...
- Elites can channel community knowledge of poverty into policy
- Ursula Grant; Ingie Hovland; Zaza Curran / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- The knowledge of poverty gained from working with poor people is rarely given importance in policy debates relevant to poverty reduction. In Uganda and South Africa, local elites such as lawyers running legal aid centres could communi...
- How can agriculture be made to work for the poor?
- M. Prowse; A. Chimhowu / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
- This paper looks at the links between poverty, agriculture and land, reporting on panel data analysis in five countries – Vietnam, Uganda, India, Nicaragua and Ethiopia. It suggests that three ‘pillars’ can help to m...
- Uganda’s cash transfer scheme: Q&A
- J. Namuddu / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
- This brief attempts to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the cash transfer scheme piloted by Uganda’s Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development (MGLSD), with funding support from UK’s Departmen...
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