The purpose of the study was to assess the livelihood security of the elderly in Mbuya and Kiswa parishes. The study was guided by the following objectives; to identify the main income generating activities the elderly in Kiswa and Mbuya parishes were involved in, to identify the extent to which the elderly were accessing government livelihood programs, and to find out the assets accumulated by the elderly and how they contributed to their livelihood. The study used both qualitative and quantitative research methods which helped to gather information on the livelihood security of the elderly in the study area. The sample of the respondents was 50 including 10 key informants bringing the total to 60. The study findings highlighted that there were a number of economic activities the elderly were involved in some of which included; crop production, dairy farming, shopkeeping, among others. The study further highlighted that the elderly were aware of a number of livelihood programmes such as NAADS, SAGE/SCG, UWEP, and Operation Wealth creation. Finally the study concluded by recommending Government and other stakeholders should sensitize the elderly on the importance of saving in order to accumulate assets which will enable them to secure their livelihood. The government should also advertise current livelihood programs to increase the number of elderly accessing these programs.

The main aim for this report, was to analyze labor utilization for maize crop production in Mubende district. The specific objectives were: i) to describe the social economic characteristics of the farmers involved in maize crop product, ii) to describe the constraints faced by farmers in ensuring adequate labor supply for maize crop production and iii) to describe the different sources of labor used in maize crop production. Using the snowball sampling technique, I was able to collect data from 180 farmers across Mubende district. With the help of the DAO of Mubende, we were able to identify a prominent maize farmer in each sub county and the farmer led us to the next farmer until the 15th farmer in each sub county. A set of structured questionnaire was administered to each and every farmer in order to obtain the desired answers. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics i.e. frequencies, percentages and mean. In the data analyzed it showed that more men (70.6%) than women (29.4%) where the head of most farm. Most of the farmers (38.6%) used both family and hired labor as sources of labor for maize crop production. And only 1.1% used mechanization on their farms. This shows that maize crop production highly depended on human labor. The most serious constraints faced by farmers are level of farm/family income, high wage rate, age composition of family, lack of timely/adequate supply of labor and, aging of farm labor supplier. These lead to a decrease of maize output. The study recommended the use and improvement of technology to be used on farms in order to increase efficiency and less dependency on human labor. It also recommended that wage rate policies should be reviewed so has to make it affordable to hire workers. Farmers should engage in other income generating activities in order to supplement farm income.

This project aims at developing an app that is intended to ease on the access of internet services through tracing nearby hotspots and pinging the location to a user, with Makerere as a case study to help and enable students enjoy better internet connectivity at convenient and affordable rates. It is intended to address the current problems encountered in using internet services from the various service providers around makerere.