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    The COVID –19 Pandemic effect on Agriculture and Food Security in Uganda
    (Islamic University Journal of Social Sciences, 2022-08-22) Nabukeera, Madinah
    Agriculture is one of the drivers of economic development since Uganda is predominately an agricultural economy and being less developed, its key to transform agriculture in order to achieve economic growth. The growth in COVID-19 cases led to limited movement from one place to another due to the stringent measures put in place to deter the further spread of the virus and this in turn could have affected agricultural activities and food security in the country due to high costs of food distribution and access to inputs. The purpose of the study was to investigate how COVID-19 pandemic has affected agriculture and food security in Uganda. The study used a descriptive design with only quantitative approaches and the data used in this study was extracted from Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). The analysis involved running Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), pairwise correlation matrix and descriptive analysis. Results indicated that there was asignificant mean difference between prices of rice, sugar, milk and eggs from March to June during the COVID-19 (P-value< 0.05), the actual percentage mean difference between prices of agricultural products during COVID period at 5% level, it also discovered that between March and June, price of rice recorded the highest increase with an average of 4.8%, followed by that of eggs (3.5%), Sugar (3.4%) while price of milk recorded an average decline of negative 6.1% during COVID period. Results further exposed that transportation costs had a negative and insignificant relationship with the prices of agricultural products during the COVID period (r=-0.734, P-value>0.05). It is observed that after the outbreak of COVID-19, the transportation cost declined exponentially to negative 0.6%, 0.7%, and 0.4 in March, April, and May respectively which was far below the transportation costs recorded in 2019 and the price of rice persistently increased from 0.3% to 8% respectively due to its increased household demand during the lockdown. Therefore, it is concluded that since the prices of core agricultural food stuffs increased during the COVID-19 period, this affected the availability of food in homes, thus reduced on food security
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    EFFECT OF COVID –19ON MOBILE MONEY IN UGANDA
    (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,Islamic University in Uganda, 2022-08-22) Nabukeera, Madinah
    During the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020 in Uganda, government came up with tough measures to restrain the continuous spread of the Virus in the country. Among the measures put in place included total lockdown where most of the people were limited from moving from one place to another. As a result of the total lockdown, many people could not access their banks/ATM machines to withdraw money to meet their demands at home and were only left with Mobile money transactions. During the period of COVID-19, 15 transactions per month were made by every active mobile money account. Among the transactions made included mobile money-bank transfers, mobile money deposits, and merchant payments among others. Thus, this paper analyzes how the outbreak of COVID-19 affected Mobile money performance by comparing the period before and after the outbreak of COVID-19 in Uganda. A descriptive survey design was used in this study to examine how COVID-19 affected the performance of Mobile money in Uganda. This design concentrated on only quantitative approaches. The study focused only on secondary data which was obtained from Bank of Uganda from October 2019 to September 2020. The findings reveal that mobile money number of transactions had a positive insignificant effect on the value of transactions before COVID-19 period in Uganda (B coeff=18.73, P-value>0.05). However, since the effect was not significant, this implies that before the outbreak of COVID-19 (Oct 2019-Feb 2020), the growth in MM number of transactions had no influence on the value of MM transactions. The study recommended the telecommunication companies should lower the cost of their services like cost of MBs and voice bundles during the period when government imposes lockdown. This is based on the fact that most people were using mobile phones and internet to conduct their businesses and communicate with others during COVID-19
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    The Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Economic Growth Of Uganda
    (Islamic University Journal of Social Sciences, 2022-08-21) Nabukeera, Madinah
    As of September, 2020 Uganda had registered 5,380 cases of COVID-19 with 60 fatalities. The number of deaths is presently low compared to other countries in the world. This is attributed to the government measures to lessen the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic like countrywide curfew, sports club and bar closure, closing the airport, school closure at all levels of education in country this controlled the spread of the pandemic. With numerousCovid-19 associated deaths reported so far, fairly high numbers of confirmed cases and a high rate of recovery, Uganda’s tightly-controlled response to the Covid-19 pandemic looks to have had more helpful results than its neighbours. Nevertheless, while the strategies have thrived in containing the pandemic so far, they have also triggered numerous damages to the economy. This is expected to affect most the deprived and most helpless groups of society. As a consequence, the economic results of Covid-19 are expected to seriously overshadow the encouraging efforts in health sector in Uganda.
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    The Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Tourism Sector In Uganda
    (Islamic University Journal of Social Sciences, 2022-08-21) Nabukeera, Madinah
    This paper assesses the existing debate concerning the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism sector in Uganda. The paper offers a reflection and recommendations on what the future might hold for the industry when it recommences. A combination of descriptive design with quantitative approaches and online resources were used to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and provided a commentary. The paper draws from relevant research-based emphasis on the relevant standing of tourism industry in Uganda. The findings indicated that the average number of tourist arrivals in 2020 were far below the arrivals recorded in 2018, hotels made losses in accommodation cancellations between March and April 2020 and Uganda was expected to record a significant loss in the tourism revenue averaging to 71.6% from different tourism areas in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper suggests a synthesis of assessments that nurtures understanding of the prospect damage on tourism industry on the economy. The idea offered in this manuscript delivers the possibility for a quick assessment of the existing status of the tourism industry, its effectsaccommodation, visitors and revenue during COVID-19 period
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    EFFECTS OF COVID – 19 ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE IN UGANDA
    (Islamic University Multidisciplinary Journal (IUMJ), THEMES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2021-12-14) Nabukeera, Madinah
    To fight the continuous spread of the Corona Virus in Uganda, many measures were put in place by the government which involved total lockdown where movements of people were restrained, businesses were closed, schools and institutions of learning were closed among others. The lockdown significantly disrupted the systems of the local government especially service delivery and revenue mobilization which consequently affected the development, health, and people’s livelihoods. Therefore, this paper makes a critical analysis on how COVID-19 has affected the local government revenue and expenditure in Uganda. The design used in this study was descriptive in nature and utilized only quantitative approaches. The study used secondary data obtained from published research by UN and Government of Uganda. An independent sample t-test was employed to assess whether there was a significant difference between variables. There was a significant difference between Local government annual per capita OSR during planned and during COVID-19 period in different regions in Uganda (UGX) as indicated by a p-value (0.0001) which is less than 0.05 level of significance. The study concludes that the outbreak of COVID-19 affected the LG revenue mobilization and expenditure in Uganda. The study recommended that there is need for emergency measures by the government to ensure that local governments economically recover from the recession. This may help to increase on revenue collection to cater for the expenditure needs in the districts.
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    PERFORMANCE OF THE TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANIES IN UGANDA DURING COVID – 19 TIMES
    (Islamic University Multidisciplinary Journal (IUMJ), THEMES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2021-12-14) Nabukeera, Madinah
    As most of the countries globally battle with the effects of COVID-19, telecommunication companies have emerged as critical entities in providing connection between businesses and people. In Uganda, the telecommunication companies recorded a 3.3% year on year growth between the period of Sept 2019 and Sept 2020 in the subscription level despite a 3 million decline in subscribers between March 2020 and June 2020 attributed to the outbreak of COVID-19. Therefore, this study presents a comparative analysis to ascertain the performance of telecommunication companies before COVID-19 in 2019 and during COVID-19 in 2020. The comparative study utilized a descriptive design with only quantitative approaches. The study was based on only secondary data sources which involved online document review from Uganda Communications Commission (UCC). The documents reviewed included market performance quarterly reports published by UCC in 2021 and 2019. The analysis involved descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, and correlation analysis. An independent sample t-test was used to find out if the observations on the variables were significantly different between the two periods and Pearson’s correlation test was used to establish the strength, direction, and the significance of the relationship between the variables. Results indicated that there was a significant difference in the number of Fixed line subscriptions between 2019 and 2020 (mean difference=70147 subscriptions, P-value (0.0429) <0.05). The study concluded that there was a remarkable improvement in the performance of telecommunication companies during the period of COVID-19 despite some challenges. During the period of 2020, most of the telecommunication companies in Uganda registered an increase in mobile subscription, growth in fixed and mobile internet subscription, and increase in smartphone and featured phone users among others. The study suggests that the telecommunication companies should lower the cost of their services like cost of Mobile data and voice bundles during the period when government imposes lockdown.
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    THE STATE OF COVID – 19 IN UGANDA
    (Islamic University Multidisciplinary Journal (IUMJ), THEMES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2021-12-14) Nabukeera, Madinah
    The cases and deaths of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan African countries have been recorded to be few compared to other countries outside the continent. However, the countries in the region are vulnerable to the pandemic because of the health system which is weak and the poor health conditions of the people due to HIV/AIDs, malnutrition, and chronic respiratory conditions. As of April 2021, 40,751 cases and 335 deaths of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Uganda which is estimated to be a burden to the weak health system in the country. Thus, this paper analyzes the state of COVID-19 in Uganda. The study was based on descriptive design which employed only quantitative approaches. The study used secondary data extracted from the website of the Ministry of Health (MoH) in 2021. The Regression analysis and independent/two sample t test were used to examine the casual effect and compare the average prevalence of cases between male and female in different age categories respectively. The results indicated that the growth in weekly new COVID19 cases had a positive significant effect on weekly new COVID19 deaths in Uganda (β=0.004, P-value<0.05). The study suggested that more stringent measures should be put in place to curtail the growth in the cases ofCOVID19, the health centres handling patients with COVID-19 should be well equipped to help reduce on mortality related to the pandemic and Health workers need more training on how to treat COVID-19 patients.