This dissertation examined the factors affecting demand for domestic tourism in Uganda with the aim of enhancing the understanding of policy makers, tourism sector managers and private sector of the dynamic forces at play that influence growth of domestic tourism amongst Ugandans and non-residents. The objectives of the research were to examine the influence of economic factors such as individual income, tourism prices, tourism information and tourist attractions on domestic tourism demand in Uganda. The research used the 2013 Pilot Household Survey on Domestic Visitors (HSDV) data from the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities (MTWA). A multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to examine the impact of these factors on domestic tourism demand. The results indicated that the factors of tourism prices, tourism information and tourist attractions were statistically significant in explaining the demand for domestic tourism in Uganda while individual income was statistically non-significant. The research recommended the reduction of entry fees and transport costs to tourist attractions in order to improve demand for domestic tourism in Uganda. The research also recommended the need to intensify advertisement of the available domestic tourism opportunities to increase the knowledge and awareness of local destinations among potential tourists. The research findings will complement existing literature on the motivations of domestic tourists in Uganda and support the formulation and execution of relevant policy measures and marketing campaigns specific to the tourism and travel needs of Ugandans in order to improve domestic tourism demand in the country while assigning efforts to the major determinant factors of the country’s domestic tourism levels.

Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) is among the few governmental institutions with well-established monitoring and evaluation system that is majorly an implementation focused system. In the past years of its operations, there has been wide spread complaints about the little emphasis placed on outcomes and results thus recognizing the significance of outcome and result focused monitoring and evaluation systems. The purpose of this study is to examine the success factors for implementing a Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation in MoES - Uganda. The study was guided by four objectives namely: examine how institutional factors influence implementation of a result based monitoring and evaluation in MoES; find out how organizational capacity influences implementation of a result based monitoring and evaluation in MoES; establish the relationship between organizational resources and implementing a result based monitoring and evaluation in MoES; and establish the relationship between organizational culture and implementation of a result based monitoring and evaluation in MoES. The research design was descriptive and a cross sectional study was carried out by conducting key informants’ interviews on thirty selected staff using purposive sampling. The data employed was collected from both primary and secondary sources using quantitative and/or qualitative methods. Primary data was obtained using the questionnaires and data was measured based on nominal and ordinal measurement levels. The findings from the study show that the Ministry is faced with a number of structural and organizational challenges which could hinder the implementation and sustainability of the Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation system. Some of these challenges include: insufficient organizational resources, gaps in the organizational capacity and lack of a transparent administrative culture that does not encourage accountability for both effective financial and performance management. Basing on the findings, I recommend that top management should be sensitized on the benefits of results based M&E as compared to the traditional M&E; deliberate efforts should be made to recruit and/or train staff; advocacy for increased facilitation of M&E activities to enhance performance; increased stakeholder engagement to ensure ownership of implementations; and ensure transparency and accountability.

The study analyzes the effect of government domestic borrowing on private sector credit in Uganda for the period 1988-2020 using time series data. The data was obtained from the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED), Bank of Uganda and the World Bank‟s World Development Indicators. The study employs the unit root test of Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Philips Perron (PP). The co-integration was analyzed by the bounds test. The Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique was used to find the long-run and short-run co-integration relationship between the independent variables and private sector credit. The results show that government domestic debt has a positive and significant relationship with private sector credit in the long run. Inflation has a positive and significant relationship with private sector credit in the long run. These results confirm that the domestic borrowing by the government in Uganda positively affects private sector credit. This means that there is need for continuous government borrowing so as to absorb the credit in banks that isn‟t absorbed by the private sector. The banks should also ensure effectives in channeling resources to the private sector so as to encourage private sector borrowing.

The East African Community has registered a proliferation of financial institutions. These are widely spread across the region and aim at increasing access to financial services. However, access to credit is still limited and this continues to hinder the growth of small and medium enterprises yet these enterprises play a major role in reducing unemployment and poverty as well as providing a breeding ground for innovations. This study aims at exploring the determinants of access to credit by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the East African Community. The study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey data and employs a Heckman Probit Model. The study explores the key determinants of access to credit among which include the following; Firm size, Ownership by gender, Export status, Location, Age of the firm, Innovation, Riskiness, Legal status, and Sales. Findings indicate that Innovation increases the likelihood of access to credit by 4.2 percent and this is statistically significant at all conventional levels. Furthermore, results show that the presence of risk in form of crime reduces the chance of receiving a loan by around 1.9 percent which is statistically significant at 5 percent conventional level. This indicates that an increase in innovation and risk reduction are crucial in increasing access to credit by SMEs in the EAC. The study, therefore, recommends an increase in both product and process innovation by firms, strengthening of security by both the government and privately by firms to guard against crime, and promoting the growth of firms to boost their likelihoods of access to credit. Keywords: Access to credit, Heckman Probit

According to the study Sexual harassment is defined as unwanted and unwanted sexual approaches, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical sexual encounters that foster a hostile or uncomfortable environment. This study evaluates how well regulations prevent sexual harassment of young female athletes. The study's main goal is to investigate the legal system in Ugandan sports that prohibits sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is a problem that is progressively "coming out of the closet”. In the first chapter the paper discusses how the participation of girls and women in athletics appears to be hindered in by sexual harassment and abuse. Furthermore, the second chapter talks about the legal frame work governing sexual harassment in Uganda, where there no laws and regulations that were taken into accounts against sexual harassment. In addition, chapter three indicates the impact of sexual harassment in sports where sexual harassment are frequently evaluated in terms of somatic, physical, psychological, and emotional health, wellbeing, work-related factors, and career growth. Chapter four illustrates the implementation of the legal framework on sexual harassment in Ugandan sports where there has been laws governing women though the laws are not specific on the sectors. Finally, chapter five recommends the on how this research can help the female Athletics to fight against sexual harassment. As more victims have the bravery to voice their complaints, societies are beginning to acknowledge the problem's reality and some leaders are acknowledging that it may damage their people.

This research is set to analyze the way irony is brought out in Ganda proverbs and its effectiveness in bringing out the verbal irony and sarcasm. Using my knowledge of oral literature and different readings about it, I was able to do a lot in the field of proverbs. Through this research, I was able to see that indeed irony plays a big role in giving the proverbs their underlying meaning and passing on morals through the different types of irony used and employed in the proverbs.

The need to balance the savings-investment gap and offset fiscal deficits in developing countries over the years has continued to propel and compel their governments to source for external finance outside of domestic revenues and internal borrowing to bridge this gap with the intention of achieving economic growth and poverty reduction. This is usually in the form of Official Development Assistance (ODA), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), External Debt Stock (EDS). However, there is no solid consensus among scholars on the actual effectiveness of external financing inflows in economic growth and development Given its importance to the economies of developing countries, it is therefore important to understand and evaluate the contribution of external financing, specifically ODA, FDI and EDS to economic growth in Uganda and thus this study. A co-integrating test to determine the relation among the variables and establish whether there exists a long run relation between them was done using Vector Auto Regression (VAR) methodology. The set of variables were found to have at most four (4) cointegrating vectors, and the VECM (Vector Error Correction Model) estimation technique which adjusts to both short run changes in variables and deviations from equilibrium was used. The error correction term in the VECM model showed that external financing has no effect on economic growth of Uganda in the short run. The VECM results for long run relationship between the variables further revealed that external financing significantly influences economic growth in the long run in Uganda, with external debt stock and official development assistance showing a significant negative effect, while foreign direct investment revealed significant positive effect on economic growth. The study concluded that external financing variables can be veritable tools for long run economic planning for a developing country like Uganda. However, the use of external financing, especially, external debt, foreign direct investment, and official development assistance for short run economic challenges would be counterproductive. It is therefore recommended that the government of Uganda must adopt fiscal adjustment mechanisms that can enhance its revenue profile through improved taxes rather than borrowing, attract FDI into Uganda by creating an enabling macroeconomic environment while foreign aid should be critically monitored and scrutinized by the government.

This study looked at the contribution of an improved transport system to the economic development of a country by analyzing the nexus between government expenditure on road infrastructure and economic development in Uganda. In doing so, the study reviewed the 1982 -2016 period using annual data. The study found out that there is an equilibrium relationship between government spending on road infrastructure and economic development in the long run. The estimation results showed that an increase in government expenditure on road infrastructure causes an increase in output growth. It was therefore concluded that government expenditure on road infrastructure has a significant positive effect on economic development in Uganda. The study recommends that government increases construction and regular maintenance of roads. This has an advantage in that it will help in providing increased access of rural areas to the various markets consequently stimulating the agricultural sector and also will increase the country’s competitiveness especially in the East African region through the reduced transaction costs brought about by increased access across borders.

Creation of better youth employment opportunities is a key policy challenge across the globe leading to high rate unemployment and this affects youths‟ welfare, economic performance and social stability. In Uganda, it was estimated at 62 percent and above in 2017. Coffee contributes approximately 20-30 percent to foreign exchange earnings and supports over 3.5 million people across the entire value chain. But the participants in the sub-sector are majorly elderly people operating a poor production chain and youths are not motivated and do not see job opportunities in the sub-sector due to limited access to productive assets and a general negative attitude towards perennial crops, which negatively impacts the development and sustainable contribution of the sector. It is thus imperative to seek innovative avenues of supporting interested unemployed youths to grasp opportunities in the coffee value chain. Therefore, the general objective of this paper is examination of youths targeted agriculture programmes intended to address youth unemployment in Uganda. Subsequently, three specific three objectives were set out to identify: (i) growth prospects of the coffee sub-sector in the Uganda; (ii) Youths’ competences and capabilities in the coffee value chain activities and (iii) Avenues through which interested unemployed youths can be supported to engage in coffee value chain activities. Beside, three research questions were generated namely: (i) What are the growth prospects of the coffee subsector in Uganda? (ii) Do youths have the competences and capability to engage in coffee value chain activities? and (iii) What can be done to support interested unemployed youths to engage in the coffee value chain activities? A mixed-model research design applying both quantitative and qualitative approaches was employed both in data collection and analysis. Online sources were employed to obtain the relevant data and information. Objective one involved evaluation of: Uganda‟s total production, domestic consumption and export of coffee data from 2010/11 to 2016/17, performance of the top ten formal Agricultural export commodities and the gross value added by the different actors in the coffee value chain. In objective two, the key competences and capabilities for each stage of the value chain, challenges faced, the recommended solutions, the missing chain links and the constraints that prevent youths from coffee value chain engagement were identified and a SWOT analysis was used as interpretive filter. Under objective three, two key existing interventions for youth employment namely: The Youth Capital Venture Fund and the Technical, Vocational Education and Training (BTVET) programmes were evaluated and strategies were accordingly proposed. Study findings under objective one revealed that 93 percent of the average annual coffee produced is exported and the export value of coffee is more pronounced than all the other formal agriculture export commodities over the 7-year horizon which is quite significant. The annual domestic consumption of coffee averaged at 6 percent only and this is still too low. In addition, the volume of coffee produced is quite unstable and its quality is still poor across the value chain notwithstanding the obtaining low level of value addition. Besides, the coffee brand is still not yet known in key coffee consuming countries and it is still used as a blend despite its superior quality. These present growth prospects for production expansion, revenue expansion and domestic consumption expansion through value addition and effective engagement of youths with relevant skills across the entire value chain. Under objective two, findings show that youths are quite competent to engage in the sub-sector given their ability to adapt fast to new and advanced technologies; proficiency in using ICTs, vast knowledge and skills and strong team work skills. However, they have notable weaknesses of higher preference for: white collar jobs; work in urban areas; quick money, inadequate knowledge, skills and financial constraints. Besides, youths face quite a number of threats including: the negative perception by Financial Services Providers (FSPs); limited access to information; climate change and extreme weather conditions, prevalence of pests and diseases and fluctuation in the prices of coffee. But there are outstanding opportunities that they can exploit namely: availability of unexploited and underutilized land, coffee value addition, availability and increasing demand for coffee and its value-added products and availability of Technical, Vocation Education and Training (TVET) institutions for bridging the technical know-how gap. Lastly, findings in objective three revealed that the available interventions do not suit and are not tailored to the unique specificities of the unemployed youths, the unique attributes of coffee as a perennial and yet a major cash crop and the seasonality component of the agriculture sector as a whole. To this end, a number of strategies have been proposed basing on the key constraints for youth engagement and these include: development of suitable land reforms and financial products; tailoring education and training systems to the specific needs of the sub-sector and creation of a more positive image of the sub-sector. In addition, effective engagement requires modernization of the sub-sector and calls for collective responsibility and close cooperation by the key stakeholders in the coffee subsector. (Key words: Youths, Unemployment, coffee, value chain)