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THE PERFORMANCE OF THE FREE ELECTRICITY CONNECTION POLICY IN UGANDA
(Sematic Scholar (https://www.semanticscholar.org/), 2020-09-01) Nabukeera, Madinah Sebyala
This study provided an analysis of the free electricity connection (FEC) in Uganda’s household and to describe how electricity reforms in Uganda will enhance the country to achieve universal electricity. Ugandans on the electricity grid in the country is still low in spite of the policy due to high costs experienced during house wiring, acquiring a wiring certificate and inspection paid to Umeme as the electricity distributor in the country. The study used an exploratory research design to explore the level of access to electricity in both rural and urban areas given the growth in population in Uganda. The data used was secondary and it was obtained from UMEME and World Bank development indicators. The analysis involved descriptive statistics, an independent t test, correlation, Spearman’s rank correlation, and Pearson’s correlation. The results indicated that, Rural Electrification Agency (REA) strongly managed to make more connections (138,895) at a rate of 231.5 USD, under REA, it took 94 waiting days to make 138,895 connections, the number of electricity connections made through the no pole and pole services had different variances from January to July 2020 as indicated by a P-value of 0.000 which is below 0.05 level of significance, access to rural electricity increased to 38.02% in 2018 from 24.41% in 2017 recording a percentage of increase of 13.61%, the growth in population has a strong positive and significant association with access to electricity in rural areas of Uganda (r=76.9%, P-value<0.01), there is a significant and positive strong relationship between population growth and urban access to electricity (r=85%, P-value<0.01). The findings indicate that the free connection policy has played a significant role towards improving access to electricity in Uganda.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
The Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic and theHealth Sector in Uganda
(Quest Journals, 2021-01-10) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala
The cases of Coronavirus disease are on the raise in Uganda, to make matters worse there is increased community transmission of the COVID-19this increases the spread of the disease since there is carelessness within community members in reference to implementation of standard operating procedures.This paper aimed at investing the experiences during COVID-19 in the health sector in Uganda. Specifically,how Uganda health sector managed COVID 19pandemic, the lessons learnt from COVID-19, challenges encountered in the health sector during COVID -19and the impact of COVID 19 on the health sector and way forward. The study used secondary data mainly newspapers to answer the objectives of the study.Findings indicate that Government adhered to WHO guidelines, Ministry of Health designed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), designated health centers for handling COVID-19patients, quarantine centers, government turned to private hospitals to support in the treatment of coronavirus patients, continued updates from WHO, a taskforce on COVID-19, lockdown of the entire country, quarantines, NGOs in health supported Training of Trainers (TOTs), rapidly mobilized the external and domestic resources to finance the response to COVID -19.
Insecurty In Maska District
(Quest Journals, 2018-11-03) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala
This article examines the problem of insecurity in Uganda in areas of Masaka district in the western part of the country. It provides a typology of the insecurity incidents which occurred in areas of Bukomansimbi, Lwengo, Rakai, Sembabule, Kalungu, Nyendo, Lyantonde districts and Kingo sub-county and examines the steps which government and other stakeholders have taken to address the problem. Using a qualitative approach, interviews were conducted in the affected areas with LCI chairpersons, locals and area members of parliament together with library research to explain why these measures have failed to reduce the high level of crime that takes place in and around the country. The article focuses on three related issues: the political economy of the Uganda state;catalysts for insecurity and the manner in which the government and other actors have sought to manage the country's insecurity situation.
An Exploration Of Students’ Lived Experiences In Females’ Campus In Uganda
(Quest Journals, 2018-11-03) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala
The purpose of the transcendental phenomenological study is to describe the lived experience of female students in Islamic University in Uganda Females’ Campus (IUIU FC). A qualitative method was used specifically exhausting Moustakas’ methods, framework and data analysis guidelines, coupled with interviews and focused group discussions used Seidman’s three-interview process. Thus, the study was based upon the results of interviews of 12students from different under graduate courses in IUIU FC and three (3) focused group discussions who collaboratedovera period of fourmonths. It was important to capture this phenomenon, as it occurred within the university at a time of broad educational reform, strategic planning,uncertainty that would allow others to understand howstudents respond to the lived experiences to understand how their stay impacted on their learning and intended to increase on the students’ royalty in the university. This research examined the following objectives: (a) establish the challenges that students encounter while at IUIU FC (b)explain the factors that determine the choice to study at IUIU FC (c) to examine the policies of IUIU FC and (d) identify the benefits of studying in such environment. The fundamental textural-structural synthesis revealed six common themes aswell as a variety of sub-themes across all participants. Themes like; policies, social life, professionalism and reduced communication plus external circumstances as well as internal conditions they encountered.The insights from this study may inform management of the perception of students on university policies, policy implementers to accept amendments, address the challenges and forecast on where they want to see the university in future.
Governance Of Electoral Processes In Uganda
(Quest Journals, 2018-11-03) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala
This article offers the continuation of election systems but sets beginnings of understanding electoral management in Uganda specifically designing an election management model, electoral governance, electoral commission, election management body, legal framework, constitutional changes, major developments, challenges, continuous improvements, and post-election, democratization. The historical lack of a comprehensive framework for Electoral administration bodies have indebted election spectators and managers to make declarations on the basis of imperfect evidence, regularly collected on the day of the vote and count and on the basis of political convenience rather than the facts on ground. The intent in this article is the new framework provided for electoral management bodies to support them to perform their duty effectively. A qualitative method of analysis was used through library research. The framework delineated here will make it possible to identify arrangements for the success and failure in the fairness of elections. It should enable all stakeholders to focus on the challenging areas of election administration, where the government might then choose to focus its efforts to improve the quality of subsequent elections.
The Role Of A Teacher In Developing And Implementing A Holistic Model In Youth Personality Development At Higher Education
(Quest Journals, 2018-11-03) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala
The paper analyzed the role of a teacher in developing and implementing a holistic model in youth personality development at higher education. Using literature review as a method of analysis, the results indicate that, Young people are living, learning and negotiating transitions to adulthood and independence in an increasingly complex and challenging world, in which they face greater levels of choice and opportunity, but also unprecedented uncertainty and risk. This calls for youth empowerment, support, understanding, care, empathy, involvement if the dream of training a holistic child will ever be reached in higher education.
Sustainable Management of KCCA Mpererwe Landfill
(IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT), 2014-11) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala; Boerhannoeddin, Ali; Noriza, Raja
Approximately 1500 tonnes are dumped at Kitezi landfill presently in Uganda, due to increased daily generation of solid waste. Although this state of affairs calls for improvement of the practices at the landfill in a sustainable manner to safeguard the environment and uphold public health, the required technology for the landfill is yet to be attained. The aim of this paper is to ascertain and assess the growth and tendencies in landfil utilization in Uganda. In 1970s management of solid was characterized by the use of the traditional open dumping sites normally found in the suburbs of the city, an approach that was suitable since the population was still low. The period from 1986 embraced a decentralized system of management that was accompanied with rapid construction of residential structures and a reduction in spaces for open dumping. This called for a more organized system for solid waste management. Thus waste management became a responsibility of the five divisions under Kampala Capital City Authority. In early1990s, outsourcing of solid waste management services in all divisions of KCCA was witnessed and in 1996 the first sanitary landfill was launched at Kitezi as the only engineered landfill (called ‘Kitezi Landfill’) for municipal waste. In 2005 the landfill became a nuisance because of bad odour, vermin and this was made worse by scavengers who scattered waste in the neighborhood. In 1999 the National environment regulation for Uganda was implemented for municipal waste to enable cleaner production methods, licenses and to devolve power for inspecting the environment. Although implementation of the regulations is yet to yield modest results, it is clear that it was big step towards a positive foundation establishing a sustainable disposal and solid waste management system in Uganda. Key
Division Solid Waste Generation and Composition in Kampala Capital City Authority, Uganda
(IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT), 2014-10) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala; Boerhannoeddin, Ali; Noriza, Raja
Recognition of waste generation trends and composition is a significant phase towards planning, policy making, budget allocation, management and improving the state of solid waste for any particular country. The objective of this paper therefore was to discover the generation of waste by the five divisions of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and private sector as a quick fix to guide policy makers to make informed decisions in proper management of waste in Kampala. In this paper, a qualitative method was used mainly observation and a few available documents. The researcher and research assistants recorded every refuse truck that off loaded at Kitezi Sanitary Landfill 24 hours a day for a period of one financial year (from July 2012-June 2013). The aim was to determine the number of tonnes per vehicle since the weigh bridge was nonfunctional. The waste tonnage was determined on the basis of the weigh bridge’s archived information and with this information, the total waste produced by each division (daily, weekly and monthly) was quantified. Results indicate that KCCA, a government representative body entrusted to manage Kampala, collects the biggest percentage of waste (64.36%) generated compared to private sector (35.64%), Furthermore, Central Division generates the highest tonnage of waste (64.171 tonnes) per year compared to other Divisions. In conclusion we propose that government allocates funds according to percentage generation of waste and on this basis, KCCA needs to place emphasis on reducing waste generation by encouraging sustainable reuse and recycling as well as addressing key success factors that include expertise, awareness of the public, strengthening partnerships to pool resources and promoting advanced technology
Experiences, associated capabilities and responsibilities of Landfill Management in Kampala Capital City authority Uganda
(Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT), 2015-10) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala; Noriza, Raja; Boerhannoeddin, Ali
Landfills are common dumping places for garbage in many poor and developing countries.Even thought they are associated to environment risks, they remain the preffered means of waste due to their economic factor. Semi structured interviews were conducted with 19 employees of Kitezi landfill between June and November 2013 and they shared their lived experiences of the landfill daily tasks, sustainability ,achievements,mainteanance of infrastructure, control, treatment and monitoring of leachate, quality control, achievements of landfill under KCCA ,continued challenges and recommendations. Results show relatively high pH, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Conductivity and extremely low Oxidation-Reduction Potentials (ORP) for Leachate and its path through Bitarabeho’s Farm.Though proud of their contribution for a period of over 10 years, , they were concerned about their long term health outcome.The lived experiences provided rich insights into the experiences of landfill management and exposed the pending challenges for poor developing country like Uganda.
Recentralization of Kampala City Administration in Uganda
(Sage, 2015-09) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala; Bwengye, Micheal; Boerhannoeddin, Ali; Noriza, Raja
The government disseminated a new constitution in 1995 with the provision on decentralization of Article 176 2 (b) that acted shortly before the rebirth of the local government act in 1997. Devolution as a form of decentralization transferred both political and administrative powers from the center to lower local councils specially to handle the responsibility of service delivery. Following the approval of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Act 2010, the city’s administration reverted to the central government. Detractors of decentralization allege that the conveyance in the policy and legislation for change of Kampala city administration was timely because decentralization failed to deliver desired services to residents. This article contends that recentralization of Kampala city administration was a necessary evil, it decreased the autonomy of sub-national governments in civil service administration, eroded accountability to the electorates, and transferred the allegiance of the accounting officer from local governments with and for which they work to the central government that designates and positions. To inflame accountability in local governments, the article champions for the reexamining of the KCCA Act 2010 to allow power sharing between the mayor and executive director to enhance bottom-up accountability, checks and balances, and for participation of central government in appointing of executive director to allow financial and security support. It additionally requests for a reconsideration of the 9th Parliament to lobby for the amendments owing to challenges in its implementation and impact on accountability
Challenges and Barriers to the Health Service Delivery System in Uganda
(IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science (IOSR-JNHS), 2016-04) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala
This paper summarizes the barriers of the health service delivery system in Uganda including but not limited to policy matters, medical staff, transport, distance and referral mechanism, drugs and medical facilities, costs and financing of services, corruption and bribery, culture and attitudes.;the manuscript summarizes with future recommendations to government of Uganda in terms of improving the referral mechanism, encourage community financing health schemes, adopt collaborative practices, conceptualize and implementation of the Alma-Ata-Declaration of 1978, recognize the importance of informal providers of healthcare to the poor, sensitization of health workers on infection control and post exposure prophylaxis, government should develop strategies to enhance public hospital management and awareness of threats related with expiry medicines.
Population Growth and Economic Development
(SCHOLINK INC., 2020-07-16) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala
Much of the anxiety concerning the harmful consequence of a hasty population growth on economic development is grounded mainly on the understanding that in developing countries its linked on numerous challenges such as; poverty, unemployment, high infant mortality, hunger, inadequate social services and poor infrastructure. Secondary data analysis claimed that this view is erroneous implying that unemployment might be as a result of unfortunate education system in Uganda which produces job seekers than job creators, limited experiences, lack of awareness of the prevailing jobs and nepotism. The paper recommended major intervention in skills development for young people and proper implementation of policies and increased Investment in agriculture and other subsequent sectors while offering quantity but low productivity jobs and building skills and equipping labor with requisite knowledge and setup capital will lead to job creation
The Gender Issues in Uganda
(SCHOLINK INC., 2020-07-23) Nabukeera, M. Sebyala
This manuscript analyzed Gender disparities in Uganda including asset ownership and employment as well as Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV)and their persistence in Uganda.The study used a descriptive design with secondary data obtained from Uganda Bureau of Statistics UBOS (2019). The study established that women are going through alot of physical and sexual violence,and few of them are owning assets inspite of the efforts made by Government of Uganda and development partners.The study recommended need to increase on awareness in order to fight gender discrimination within the Uganda.

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