Introduction: Malaria infection during pregnancy has remained a major public health concern in tropical and subtropical countries with notable risk for the pregnant woman and her fetus. According to the estimated yearly report, the number of pregnant women who were at risk of malaria was about 25 million. It has been reported that in sub-Saharan Africa malaria can cause as many as 10,000 cases of malaria-related deaths in pregnancy per year, usually due to severe maternal anemia. More so, each year, malaria in pregnancy is responsible for 20% of stillbirths and 11% of all newborn deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. World Health Organization, (2018) Uganda is among the ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa that contribute to approximately 70% of global malaria cases and deaths. Uganda is a malaria endemic country with active transmission in 99% of the country. Whereas all people in Uganda are at risk of contracting malaria, children under-5 years of age and pregnant women are the most vulnerable group. MOH- Uganda malaria annual report, (July 2017- June 2018) Objectives: The main objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of malaria in pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Nsinze Health Centre IV, Namutumba district. Methodology: The study design was cross sectional laboratory and descriptive and the objectives were to determine the prevalence of malaria in pregnant women and to identify the most prevalent species of plasmodium. Approximately 230 women were tested for malaria using both RDT and Microscopy from which the species of malaria parasite were identified and a drug susceptibility test of the plasmodium was carried out to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of the parasite. The data was analysed by Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and presented as graphs, tables and percentages. Consent was sought from the pregnant women before they participate in the study.

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic is argued to have originated from a sea food market in Wuhan city, Hubei Province of China, Due to the contagious nature of the Covid-19, people had to social distance to contain the spread of this novel virus. In order to achieve this measure of social distancing, schools were closed so that children are well distributed among the very many household in Uganda. This school closure affected over 15million learners in Uganda, in order to ensure that there is continuity in their learning process, remote learning was adopted. This meant that learners had to study from home using platforms like TVs, radios and e-platforms like zoom. This study was to analyze the determinants of the adoption of remote learning under Covid. Results: At 5% level of significance, the age of the household head, household size, gender of the household head, regional location of the household, residence of the household (rural/Urban), Nutrition status of the household’s meals, fear for Covid-19 and Education level of the household head were revealed to be significant determinants of the adoption of remote learning during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Conclusion: The analyses on the effect of region and residence on the adoption of remote learning, it was discovered that the rate at which remote learning was adopted across regions and residences (rural/Urban) was not the same. This could be attributed to inequalities in access to electricity and internet. So I recommend that there should be efforts to ensure that the percentage of people connected to the national electricity by reducing the cost of electricity especially during this period where it is a necessity for education access by learners. Different remote learning delivery channels should also be adopted in accordance to the characteristics of the area in which the leaners accessing education from. For regions where the electricity distribution is low, small groups of learners should access tutors their teachers to guide them.

Mulago hospital receives about 80% of all casualties due to boda boda accidents in and around Kampala. This amounts to about 260 casualties being brought in on a monthly basis according to Mulago hospital’s Accident and Casualty Ward’s records. This figure indicates that at least 8 accidents happen every day. According to eyewitnesses of these accidents (mainly boda boda riders, even casualties), many people die due to the lack of timely medical attention. Casualties of these accidents often lose their lives because the emergency response provided doesn’t arrive on time. The emergency response, often provided by police stations around the scene of the accident, doesn’t get information about the accident quickly enough to react in a reasonable amount of time. The Crash Detection Helmet with Automatic Emergency Alert comes as a solution to the long response times by emergency alert towards accidents around the city. The helmet will be designed to detect that the wearer has got into a severe accident that requires quick medical attention. Then, notifications will be sent to both the nearest hospital and police station informing them that an accident has happened. The details of that notification include the location of the accident to allow the emergency response to get there quickly.

This research is about the challenges of physical planning in newly gazatted town councils in Uganda via case study of Katabi town council in Wakiso district. Through a review of various sources of literature backed up by empirical evidence from the case study. This study results show the reasons as to why newly gazatted town councils in Uganda are facing physical planning challenges and suggests the recommendations on what to be done to overcome them. Physical planning in Uganda became paramount in 2010 with the declaration of the entire nation a planning area as stipulated in section 3 of the Physical planning act 2010 that replaced the town and country planning act of 19…this had begun in 1902 with the inception of modern planning ideas in Kampala as a starting point and later spread to other parts of the country. The introduction of Physical planning in Uganda was a form of colonial imperialism of countries from the North over Africans. Hitherto, Uganda has been grappling with a number of challenges regarding Physical Planning in newly gazetted town councils due to decentralization policy as a political move to extend services nearer to people. However due to inadequate planning for the newly gazatted town Council, a number of challenges ranging from inadequate capacity, staffing position, absence of Physical Development Plans to un coordinated physical developments. Therefore, this research provides answers to; What is the planning status in newly gazatted town councils? What challenges are they facing and What are the solutions to the problems? The research is engulfed in five chapters and each chapter details a specific theme based on the research objectives. The chapters stand on their own though intertwined to give a chronological flow of the research findings, recommendations as well as conclusion.

MFI sector plays an important role in poverty reduction in the economy especially of the less developed countries. This research focused on the contribution of the microfinance sector on poverty reduction efforts among women in Kabale Municipality. Poverty reduction was looked at using four major variables namely; household income, access to start-up capital/employability, domestic savings and assets ownership by female entrepreneurs. Thestudy employed three objectives which were; to examine the impact of MFI loan schemes towards women’s household incomes, to assess the impact of MFI loan schemes towards women’s saving initiatives and to establish the extent to which MFI loans affect women’s assets creation. In order to analyse the contribution of the microfinance institutions on the above-mentioned parameters, primary data were collected through questionnaire from 90 respondents. The study employed the use of a self-administered questionnaire to collect data from the respondents. The study considered microfinance loans as the independent variable. Empowerment was measured through factor analysis of four variables; being able to save profits from businesses, increased household income, and ownership of assets obtained through profits, and reported creation of jobs among women. The findings revealed that 92% of the clients accepted that they have been making savings from the income they are earning from their business which are greatly financed by the loans. Findings also revealed that 77.7% of the respondents noted that loans have significantly helped them to improve their household incomes largely from their business activities while over 90% of the sampled clients self-reported that loans from FINCA have made it possible for them to own their personal assets. It is recommended that the microfinance sector should invest in advertising its services so that more poor people are recruited by them. Again, there is a need for them to expand their services to rural areas where the rate of poverty is higher rather than concentrating in urban areas.

Coffee is one of the most tradable commodities globally in most of the developing countries with high foreign exchange earnings. In Africa, Uganda was the second largest coffee exporter after Ethiopia in the year 2017 with 4.19 million bags of 60 kg, of which 3.19 million bags were Robusta. Primary coffee processing plays an important role in quality and price determination of coffee beans. In Uganda, coffee is dry and wet processed with Arabica being the wet processed variety. The wet processing method involves a series of unit operations such as sorting, pulping, washing and hulling, each handled at different stages. Although this process yields coffee of high quality and has higher market price, it’s very laborious noting that most of these unit operations are done manually. Pulping is done using hand cranked or motorized coffee pulpers of different pulping chamber designs such as disc pulpers and rotating drum pulpers. Such machines are imported and require high initial running costs for those which are motorized. The research focused on design of a pedal operated coffee pulping machine (drum type) that can reduce drudgery, time wastage due to use of hand-cranked coffee pulper, taking consideration of anthropometric study with 30 participants. Other design considerations include cost of construction, availability of materials, and gender groups that carry out this process. The coffee pulping machine designed has a capacity of 315kg per hour but can pulp 175kg/hr when hand-cranked. The fabricated coffee pulper has a pulping efficiency of 93% and a percentage mechanical damage of 0.49%. The machine was tested to evaluate its performance against a hand cranked coffee pulping mechanism to determine the significance in time saving using a 2×3 factorial experiment with three replications. A subjective assessment to users was conducted and their responses to the use of the machine obtained. Based on the feedback from users, the overall machine preference was over 90% especially for women, this indicated that the machine can be adopted. The machine was designed to enable replacement of the pedaling mechanism with a hand wheel depending on operator’s convenience. There was a significant difference in machine performance when powered by pedal power and hand-cranking power. The difference was more pronounced as the quantity of coffee was increased. The machine constructed was economically justified. It is recommended that a manual gear box maybe used in the power transfer mechanism to further reduce the energy requirement from the operator. Keywords: ergonomics, gender, human-machine interaction, coffee pulper, anthropometric, pedal.

There has been an increase in death as a result of drought worldwide. A good drought early warning system cannot actually stop the drought, but can help in reducing the adverse impacts of drought on human life, livestock, and nature. Most of the consequences that are faced due to drought particularly for Kyankwanzi district are as a result of food shortage and water. However, a good drought early warning system could guide farmers and policy makers in preparation for this hazard for example by changing the types of crops grown particularly throughout the drought period to enable them sustain themselves throughout the drought. The main objective of this study was therefore to assess the performance of using the Vegetation Health Index (VHI) in forecasting drought with Kyankwanzi district being the case study. In this study, Landsat images (Landsat8 OLI) from 2015 to 2018 were used in carrying out the analysis. The time period was divided into four equal quarters each year and used to generate actual VHI (Vegetation Health Index) values which were classified according to drought classes for all quarters. This actual data was used in a time series model to generate predicted VHI values using the seasonal and trend components for all quarters but in addition the first quarter of 2018 (January to March). The predicted VHI values were critically analysed using graphs to generate a correlation that was the basis of conclusions and recommendations. Results show that the first quarter of 2018 had a VHI value of 38.04% which according to drought classes developed by (Kogan, 2002) indicate a mild drought for Kyankwanzi district. The true value computed from the satellite images was 37.81%. A correlation factor was however generated to make the relationship between predicted values over the years and actual values more understandable generating a value of +0.763. This correlation factor showed a strong positive correlation between predicted and actual VHI values which implied that the method was a very accurate and reliable one.

The study presents an investigation into the effect of human settlement activities on the wetlands and took a case study of Kinawataka wetland in Kampala. The study concentrated on identifying the human settlement activities on kinawataka wetland; effects of human settlement activities on kinawataka wetland; and to propose the sustainable management practices to improve on kinawataka wetland. The study adopted a descriptive study design and used both qualitative and quantitative approaches to gather the information and achieve the goals. It consisted of 40 respondents who were cell leaders, NEMA environment officers, KCCA physical planners and the community members. These were selected with the use of both purposive and simple random sampling through the help of lottery method. The data was obtained through the use of secondary and primary sources for instance observation, interview and questionnaire while analysis included the tabulation and coding of the statistics. The study results obtained revealed and found out that the main activities carried out include cattle keeping, crop farming, human settlement and Urbanisation, firewood gathering and cutting, brick making, construction, herbal medicine making and forestry. To this the study concluded that wetlands support human water demands for agriculture. The study further revealed that these activities have affected the environment and human beings through leading to flooding, prolonged drought, scarcity of wetland resources The study recommended conducting physical planning of the wetland areas involving of Planning preparation of structural and detailed plans indicating various land uses; Planning and demarcate boundaries for the wetlands; formulation of land use plans with eco-zoning of wetlands and adjoining areas and develop strategy for implementation of land use plan and guidelines for environmental impact assessment of wetlands; monitoring of all water abstraction permits and ensure obedience to the water abstraction regulations; sensitization about the need to preserve wetlands.

The purpose of this study was to assess the economic contribution of video Jockeying to the film sector in Kampala basing on the following objectives; to find out the businesses affiliated to video jockeying in Kampala; to investigate the challenges faced by consuming content produced by video jockeys and to assess the possible solutions to the challenges faced by consuming content produced by video jockeys in Kampala. The study was descriptive in nature involving quantitative methods of data collection which were administered through questionnaires to guide the collection of data. The total sample comprised of 40 respondents of which 20 were film distributors and 20 were final film consumers. Simple random sampling was used whereby the researcher went to Kampala district and administered questionnaires to selected film distributors and final film consumers of content produced by video jockeys. Primary data was obtained from class notes, library materials, News Papers, textbooks, film brochures, internet and journals. Data analysis was carried out through concentration on content and narrative analysis of the data that was obtained from the field. Findings revealed that the preference of translated film materials is on the rise in Kampala and capital is a big challenge affecting the distribution and expansion of the film businesses. It was concluded that improvement in business skills, acquisition of low interest loans and enactment of a law governing the distribution of film content would increase the performance of the film business and economically contribute to the film sector in Kampala.

The study was on organizational culture, work stress and employee performance at Arua Public Schools. The main purpose of the study was to examine whether organizational culture, work stress and employee performance are inter-related. The study adopted a correlation research design and collected data from a sample of 79 respondents. the result of the study revealed that there is a significance relationship between organizational culture and work stress, there is a negative relationship between work stress and employee performance and lastly there is a significant relationship between organizational culture and employee performance.