The crime reporting system (CRS) enables open communication between police and citizens. The project was developed because in various communities in Uganda, citizens go through lengthy and many paperwork procedures in reporting and following up on criminal reports. These procedures limit the time for justice to prevail as well as to access information about the case under investigation. This leads to police officers and other security agencies taking more time to work on cases thus increasing congestion and long queues. The researchers used interviews and questionnaires to get information from the respondents. They issued 62 questionnaires to randomly selected residents while 6 security agency staff within Nansana Municipality. Of the distributed questionnaires, 55 were successfully filled and returned by the residents while 7 questionnaires were not returned, which gave the response rate of 88.7%. The collected data was analyzed using excel spreadsheets. The project was designed using Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) for the process model and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) for the data model. It was implemented using technologies such as; Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for the interfaces, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for styling the interfaces, bootstrap for responsiveness, Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) for connecting the database and the interfaces and MySQL for the database. In conclusion, the project met all the objectives intended. It is, however, recommended for use by all citizens and security forces.

This research sought to examine the applicability of the RICS valuation standards for valuing petrol stations in Uganda. Valuation is distinguished via property attributes, markets and investor or owner, including cash flow and potential rental income, tax benefits and perceptions about future growth in the market value. The attributes of the property being valued are parts of what determine the process, methods and basis of valuation exercise. Currently in Uganda, there are over 30 brands of fuel stations and over 131 oil registered companies whose attributes are enormously changing. This tend to alter the process, methods and basis of valuation exercise. The study aimed at assessing the attributes or factors affecting the value of petrol stations, appropriate valuation method for valuing petrol stations and the problems valuers are facing when undertaking petrol station valuation exercise. It administered both open and closed ended questionnaires to 52 registered valuers in Uganda to achieve the main objective and the specific objectives. The research revealed that 64% of the valuers are using profits method of valuation and 36% of the valuers are using other methods of valuation to value petrol stations. There is a 60% strong relationship between the attributes of petrol stations and their market value. Valuers are facing a considerable number of problems when undertaking petrol station valuation exercise which include; apportionment of net profit, books of accounts, methodology, capitalization rate and others. It concluded that the attributes of the property being valued determine the process, methods and basis of valuation exercise as stated under the RICS valuation standards for valuing petrol stations.

Back ground: External debt stock is a fundamental variable in understanding the dynamics of financing public sector investment across the world hence its implications on economic growth are an ever-growing concern in macro-economic policy. Uganda is no exception with her external debt stock increasing by over 238% in the last six years to stand at UShs. 47 trillion as of 2018. Thus, this study empirically analysed the relationship between External debt stock and economic growth in Uganda over the period 1989-2018 to determine whether Uganda's rising external debt stock affects Uganda's economic growth. The study also aimed at ascertaining the individual relationship of the use of IMF credit, long-term and short-term external debt components with economic growth. To that effect, the study performed a stationarity test and specification tests of Heteroscedasticity (Breusch Pagan-Godfrey test), Multicollinearity, and Autocorrelation (Durbin Watson test) on the model to determine its viability. Results: The results generated using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation technique show that external debt stock has a negative but insignificant relationship with economic growth in Uganda. All the individual components of external debt stock that are the use of IMF credit, long-term and short-term debt, also exhibited a negative relationship with economic growth thereby aligning with the general result. Conclusions: The study concluded that the government's increased external borrowing over the study period has not played a significant role in Uganda's recent recorded economic growth. Therefore, the study recommends that the Ugandan government consider taking a keen note not to rely upon external debt as an engine for capital accumulation to spur economic growth.

The growth performance of C. gariepinus larvae in pond and concrete tank has been well documented. However, the challenges of shooters and economy of available space changed the focus of fish seed producers to the use of happas in both systems. This study therefore focused on the growth performance and survival rate of C. gariepinus larvae cultured from happa-in-pond in a bid to access growth performance. 500 larvae of 0.04 ± 0.005g weight and 7mm body length were stocked in happa (0.75m3) with three replicates. Commercial diet of 45% crude protein was administered four times daily in split-rations at 10% body weight for 30days post hatching. Unconsumed feeds were removed by weekly washing of the happa after sampling. The Specific Growth Rate (SGR), Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER) and Survival Rates (SR) were determined weekly for a period of thirty days. The C. gariepinus larvae performance when raised in happa-in-pond prior to pond stocking was then compared with the pond and tank culture system. The SGR, FCR and PER (1.59±0.12and 1.65±0.11) was significantly different and better than that of both the pond (1.78 and 1.84) and tank obtained from secondary data. The survival rate (89.53±1.48%) was also high in the happa-in-pond system. The results of this study revealed that, rearing of larval fish from happa-in-pond is considered better for seed production if the target is to attain faster growth of the seed, and easy size grading to curb cannibalism.

Primate habitats are degrading at a drastic rate, the forest habitats are being replaced either by plantations or secondary forests. This create need to study vegetation patterns (tree diversity) of different habitats inhabited by primates so as to provide information relevant to conservation of these habitats. The goal of the study was to examine composition and diversity of tree species in home ranges of Redtail monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in selected forest habitats in Uganda. The study took place in three selected forest patches Mabira, Rwengobe and Kibale National Park (Ngogo). Tree species diversity and composition were studied within home ranges of three groups of red-tailed Guenons, found in one of the above forest patch. Twenty five plots of dimension 20 x 20 were installed in each of the home ranges. All trees with diameter at breast height DBH ≥ 12.5 cm (5 inches) were identified and measured. A total of 1932 trees representing 129 species and 38 families recorded from a total area of 2.68ha. Moraceae was dominant family with 15 species, followed by Fabaceae with 14 species. Species were enumerated in Ngogo were 61, 76 species in Mabira and 36 species in Rwengobe. Diversity of trees found in Ngogo was 1.95056 (0.4608 evenness), Mabira 2.78817 (0.6438 evenness) and Rwengobe 2.478342 (0.6916 evenness). Diversity was found to vary from one site to another. The diversity in Ngogo differed significantly from that of Mabira (t= 12.0330, p< 0.05) and that of Rwengobe (t= 3.4371, p< 0.05). Additionally, diversity between Mabira and Rwengobe (t= 5.880, p<0.05). Also relative density, species richness and relative dominance differed for the three home ranges. The research can provide insight on species richness and diversity of plants which information can potentially be applied to understand forest ecology. In addition, the information on tree species composition and structure can provide baseline data for conservation of the biodiversity of the selected patches and overall habitat.

This research study was conducted in Mbarara City, Uganda located in the Western region of Uganda. The main objective of the study was to assess the factors responsible for the performance of mobile money business in Uganda using a case study of Mbarara City. The study majorly investigated the effect of transactional tax, mobile banking, withholding tax and number of transactions on the performance of mobile money businesses. The study employed a cross sectional study design and using a sample of 291 respondents determined using Krejcie and Morgan table of 1970 and applying simple random sampling to select the mobile money agents. The study indicated that 68% of the respondents were females and only 32% were males, 32% of the respondents were aged 23 – 27 years, 29% were aged 18 – 22 years and 25% were aged above 32 years and 43% of respondents had attained secondary education, 27% had primary education whereas 23% had acquired university education. The study findings indicated that 81.3% agreed that withholding tax increases the cost of doing business, 85.2% agreed that withholding tax discourages people from doing MM business. However, the study found out that withholding tax has no effect on performance of mobile money business (p-value>0.05). Findings also indicated that 72.9% of the respondents have ever heard about mobile banking, 63.4% disagreed that they transact with mobile banking. The study found out that mobile banking influences performing of mobile money business (p-value<0.05) and adoption of mobile banking is likely to increase performance of mobile money business by 0.291 units. The study findings indicated that 95.1% agreed that they handle more of the deposit transactions while 89.8% agreed that they handle more of the withdraw transactions. The study found out that number of transactions influence the performance of mobile money business (p-value<0.05) and a unit increase in the number of transactions increases the performance by 0.301 units. The study findings also indicated that 88.0% of the respondents disagreed that customers tell them they don’t feel the tax burden of paying it. The study found out that transactional tax has an impact on performance of mobile money business (p-value<0.05) and a unit increase in transactional tax is likely to decrease performance of the business by 0.114 units. The study concluded that number of transactions, transactional tax and mobile banking influences the performance of mobile money business whereas withholding tax does not. The study recommended that government should reduce or remove completely transactional tax since it discourages people from using mobile money.

Farmers have continued to engage in Agricultural production (farming activities) despite loses realized. This could be due to the non-farm activities that they could be carrying out. This study was conducted to determine the efficiency and sustainability of non-farming activities on agriculture and livelihood on rural households in Kalagala sub county, Luwero district. A total of 61 respondents (30 males and 31 female) were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. The results indicated that the farmers in Kalagala sub county carry out non-farm activities; with retail shops (36.1%) as the major non-farm activity. The income from non-farm activities per month was mostly between 100,000 to 500,000 Uganda shillings (77.1%). This income was spent in various ways, including provision of basic needs (26.1%) and further investment into non-farming activities (22.7%). Majority of the respondents (63.9%) said they would not invest into agricultural activities. However, the Chi-square test of association indicated that this response was significantly related (P ≤ 0.1) to education level, source of livelihood and factors influencing participation in non-farming activity. Majority of the respondents (56%) indicated that non-farm activities facilitate farm activities. The Chi-square test of association indicated that this response was significantly related to access to credit (χ2 = 11.980; P = 0.035). Respondents with limited access to credit indicated non-farm activities facilitate farm activities while those with access to credit did not agree to the above. In conclusion, participation in non-farm activities, that is influenced by education level, source of livelihood and factors influencing participation, therefore has an important contribution towards increasing the absolute income of farmers. This is basically through enhancing agricultural production; and thus income diversification which is crucial for sustaining rural livelihoods. In addition, there is an important linkage between farm and non-farm activities among rural households. As a recommendation, education access and access to credit should be availed to the farming communities if non-farm activities is to enhance farming activities and livelihoods of the concerned personnel.

The study focused on the relationship between daily work stressors, burnout and coping strategies amongst humanitarian workers around Kampala. The study sought to examine the relationship between daily work stressors, burnout and coping strategies amongst humanitarian workers around Kampala. The study had three objectives including Examining the relationship between daily work stressors and coping strategies, daily work stressors and burnout and coping strategies among humanitarian workers. The researchers employed cross a correlation study design. The largest number of respondents were females constituting 56.9%, most study participants were between 29-30 years of age constituting 45.1%, majority of the study participants were Christians representing 88.2%, most of the participants were married and single both constituting 49.0%, majority of the participants studied up to the university level constituting 60.8% and the largest number of participants had 3-5 prior assignments constituting 29.4%.The results indicate that there is no significant relationship between daily work stressors and coping strategies, there is a significant relationship between daily work stressors and burnout and that there is a significant relationship between coping strategies and burnout. Therefore, there is need for more research on humanitarian workers especially on daily work stressors, burnout and coping strategies of humanitarian workers in Uganda. A correlation study design was used in the study. It will help establish the relationship between daily work stressors, burn out and coping strategies among humanitarian workers in Uganda. The study population included both male and female humanitarian workers currently employed and active in the field for the past 6 months. The study sample comprised 51 humanitarian workers from various NGOs in Kampala.