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Substance Abuse and Deliquency Among Youths in Walukuba Division in Jinja Municpality, Uganda
(Journal of Advances in Applied Health and Social Sciences., 2016)
The study investigated the relationship between substance abuse and delinquency among youths in
Walukuba division in Jinja municipality in Uganda. A sample of 322 youths was investigated. They
ranged from 12 -19 years ...
Eco-socio Impact of Mineral Resource Mining in the Karamoja Region of Uganda
(Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, 2017)
Mining is one of the prolific activities geared towards poverty eradication, but an elusive goal for most government leaders in developing countries. Oftentimes, the economic aspect of mining overshadows ecological and ...
Amnesty and Prosecution of International Humanitarian Law Violations in Uganda:
(Journal of Development Studies, 2015)
In continued human search for peace and justice, which are pertinent to development, post-war societies are confronted with a dilemma of either letting go of the past through legalized amnesty or embarking on comprehensive ...
Building vocational skills for marginalised youth in Uganda:
(Elsevier, 2015)
Educational exclusion leads to the marginalisation of many youth in regards to employment and other livelihood opportunities. Vocational education and training (VET) is expected to offer skills to ameliorate this situation. ...
Democracy and rural development in post-apartheid South Africa
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)
The research addresses the contentious link between democracy and sustainable rural economic development in post-apartheid South Africa. Historically, in 1994, the democratic state in South Africa inherited a legacy of ...
Documenting Baganda Ethno-medicine:
(Journal of Applied and Advanced Research, 2016)
The continued use of ethno-medicines among some indigenous communities in the contemporary Uganda remains as one of the clearest evidence that indigenous people do not only have close relationship with nature, but also ...
Prospects for Africa's socioeconomic development despite marginalisation
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)
This paper discusses the external and internal factors hindering holistic and sustainable socioeconomic development in Africa. The factors are identified as: 1) marginalization engineered by manipulation of market forces, ...
A review of enabling factors in support intervention programmes for early school leavers:
(Elsevier, 2015-02)
One of the major problems facing education systems in Sub-Saharan Africa is the phenomenon of young people who leave school before completion. Research has shown that this phenomenon disadvantages young people and exposes ...
Centrality of the family in the pursuit of sustainable development
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)
The complex nature of the concept of sustainable development requires an integration of knowledge, other than basing on a particular science or model. This article widens the horizon by bringing onboard an approach based ...
Using participatory action research to improve vocational skills training for marginalised youth in Uganda:
(International Journal of Training Research, 2015)
Although vocational education and training is considered to be a good option for improving livelihood opportunities for marginalised youth in developing countries, it often suffers from an image problem. This situation ...