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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 ...
The Case for an African Solution to Cybercrime:
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2016)
Currently, Africa hosts 4 of 10 countries with the highest cybercrime levels in the world. To augment the inadequacy of municipal cyber legislations in Africa, the African Union Convention on Security in Cyberspace and ...
Conflict threats to human security: the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) case, Gulu District, Northern Uganda
(Science Research Publishing, 2019-12-03)
The study recognised that conflicts threaten human security in various ways.
When prolonged, for example, they have a direct damage on physical infrastructure such as medical and educational facilities. Using a qualitative ...
Exam and knowledge-based educations in Uganda: a comparison of concepts, a case of Lango sub region, Northern Uganda
(International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, 2018-07-07)
The argument that today’s graduates were more theoretical than practical has been dominating the educational sectors in the
country. The study sought to investigate the role of Exam and Knowledge-based Education on students’ ...