Internal controls, corporate governance and fi nancial performance of MFIs in Uganda by Abanis, Turyahebwa, Eliab, Byamukama Mpora, Arthur, Sunday

“…Consequently, the study has underwritten to the lasting internal controls and corporate governance debate in the field of financial industry. The study has further established that internal control and corporate governance magnitudes operate in a synergic way to affect financial performance in Microfinance Institutions in Uganda.…”
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Residential Density and Illegal Waste Dumping In Cities by Mahamba C, and Ruhiiga TM

“…Methods: Primary data was collected through field observation and measurement was input into multiple linear regression and correla- tion using the SPSS™ programme. …”
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Factors Associated with Male Partner Support During Pregnancy and Child Birth in Kabale District. by Niwarinda, Denesi

“…Quantitative data generated from the field was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and presented in frequencies and percentages, and logistics regression was used to trace the associations between study variables and male partner support during pregnancy and child birth at 0.05 level of significance. …”
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Factors Associated with Male Partner Support During Pregnancy and Child Birth in Kabale District. by Niwarinda, Denesi

“…Quantitative data generated from the field was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and presented in frequencies and percentages, and logistics regression was used to trace the associations between study variables and male partner support during pregnancy and child birth at 0.05 level of significance. …”
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Design and Prototyping of a Pineapple Juice Extraction Machine. by Kyazze, Sulaiman

“…The methods included library search, field surveys, internet search and interviews. Reviewing design parameters of different scholars to come up with the conceptual design and developing the layout by use of SOLID WORKS. …”
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Assessment of the Social-Economic Contributions of Mgahinga National Park to Local Communities in Muramba Sub-County, Kisoro District, South-Western Uganda. by Mahoro, Shallon

“…The challenges faced by people living near the National Parks were limited livelihood alternatives, increased competition on other development initiatives, inadequate innovation and human capital, crop animal raiding, prostitution and lack of mass education on conservation.The possible solutions to the challenges faced by communities near Mgahinga National park were community`s involvement in conservation activities, community-based natural resource management, ensuring environmental sustainability, practical field-based monitoring of illegal activities, use of wildlife friendly products and implementation of policies. …”
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The Effect of Interest Rate on the Profit Ability of Microfinance Institutions in Rubanda District: A Case Study of Kihanga Mparo SACCO Hamurwa Branch. by Amanya, Anthony

“…Findings of the study were obtained from the field interpreting the results analyzing based on the specific objectives of the study. …”
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The Effect of Early Marriages on Social Development in Kakabara Town Council, Kyegegwa District. by Birungi, Beatrice

“…In chapter four showed the findings of the study obtained from the field interpreting the results and analyzing basing on the specific objectives of the study and Chapter five portrayed the summary of findings, findings of the study revealed that female respondents were highly involved in the study. …”
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Significance of Microfinance Institutions on the Economic Development of Kabale Municipality: A Case Study of Kihanga Mparo SACCO. by Katungi, Robert

“…The objectives of the study were to examine the services provided by Kihanga Mparo SACCO to its members, the effect of Kihanga Mparo SACCO on economic development, and the challenges faced by Kihanga Mparo SACCO on economic development, a case study design was used and a sample size of 40 respondents was used, purposive sampling technique and simple random sampling were used to collect data and data was collected using questionnaires and interviews from the field. From the study findings on services provided by Kihanga Mparo SACCO to its members, the responses were got from the statements which included savings services, opening and running of savings accounts, terms of interest on savings and credit services terms, the study results on effects of Kihanga Mparo SACCO on economic development also showed that the responses were got on increased income among the members, women empowerment through owning their independent accounts and savings, provision of agricultural loans which leads to increased food security, the SACCO has provided employment opportunities to many people, It has improved peoples standards of living by providing loans to their clients and provides financial advice on resource allocation through making follow-up activities to the borrowers and the study results further indicated that the responses were also got on challenges faced by Kihanga Mparo SACCO on economic development on the statements; poor infrastructure, dependency syndrome, fear of collateral being auctioned, loan defaulters, poor government policy on sacco s, embezzlement by managers and poor officers and poor service delivery due to poor IT. …”
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One Parent Type Family and Social Welfare: A Case Study of Nyarusiza Sub-County Kisoro District. by Duhimbaze, Emmanuel

“…The findings of the study obtained from the field interpreting revealed that most of the single-parent type families were of female respondents 56% and had attained a primary level of education, the findings further revealed that single-parent type families had a significant relationship with education services of the children and this was represented by 22% of the respondents who strongly agreed. …”
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The Effect of Gender Inequality in Education on Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Nyakagyeme Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Akaruhanga, Jasper

“…Findings of the study were obtained from the field interpreting the results analyzing based on the specific objectives of the study chapter five portrayed the summary of findings, and recommendations were made such as the Ministry of Labor, Gender and Social Development should address the problem of poverty concerning gender inequality among women in Uganda, there should be awareness raising regarding gender-based violence, the gender inequality should be addressed through social protection programs like equal enjoyment of social services for example clean water in the community, for women to contribute in the development process their potential should be unfolded by sensitizing them about development and providing them with necessary knowledge to help them to be included in the development process and women should get access to economic assets like land and houses that can be used as collateral to secure soft loans…”
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Assessing The Impact of Records Managers Training on Performance of Municipalities: A case Study Of Kabale Munuciplity Kabale District. by Ninshaba, Clare

“…There is a need to introduce other methods of security of records management systems such as the use of computer program packages such as database and pastel respectively for this can reduce the tow and growth of paper records, there also should be skilled personnel who have more experience and proper training in the field of records management, there also should tic on job training especially the records staff of Kabale municipality in order !' …”
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Examining the Application of Information and Communication Technology in Records Management at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital. by Kyoshabire, Fortunate

“…The study recommends that formal training and orientation programs should be organized at the various departments in the hospitals for medical records officers, doctors and nurses on the use and application of information and communication technology in their professional field so that there will be enough staff to make use of the ICT tools which will promote efficient medical records and information management in the hospitals.…”
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Effects of Eucalyptus Tree Plantations and Croplands on Selected Soil Physicochemical Properties in Lake Bunyonyi Sub-Catchment of South-Western Uganda. by Byamukama, Simon

“…Landsat TM/ETM images for spatial temporal variations of EP alongside other land uses, and a field survey design accompanied by laboratory analysis of soil samples were used to determine the effect of EP on selected soil physicochemical properties. …”
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The Effect of Wildlife Conservation to the Surrounding Community in Nyamagabe District: A Case Study of Nyungwe National Park. by Vestine, Batamuliza

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Fiscal Decentralisation and the Performance of Health Sector in Kabale District, Uganda. by Ali Khamis, Hashir

“…Those methods that helped the researcher to collect data from the field of study.196 respondents were selected for the study whereby, 84 were male and 112 were females. …”
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Career Guidance and Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Kisoro District; A case Study of Namirembe and Nyanamo Comprehensive Secondary Schools in Bukimbiri Sub-County. by Robert, Mwesigwa

“…To gather primary data for the study during the field, the researcher used, questionnaire, interview observation guides and focused group discussion guide and the documentary review for secondary data respectively. …”
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Attention-Based Multi-Learning Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition With Dilated Convolution by Samuel, Kakuba, Alwin, Poulose

“…The proposed ABMD model achieves comparable performance while taking global contextualized long-term dependencies between features in a parallel manner using a large receptive field with less increase in the number of parameters compared to the number of layers and considers spatial cues among the speech features. …”
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