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Why performance-based contracting failed in Uganda – An “open-box” evaluation of a complex health system intervention
Ssengooba, Freddie; McPake, Barbara; Palmer, Natasha - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 2, pp. 377-383
Performance-based contracting (PBC) is a tool that links rewards to attainment of measurable performance targets. Significant problems remain in the methods used to evaluate this tool. The primary focus of evaluations on the effects of PBC (black-box) and less attention to how these effects...
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Haunted by ghosts: Prevalence, predictors and outcomes of spirit possession experiences among former child soldiers and war-affected civilians in Northern Uganda
Neuner, Frank; Pfeiffer, Anett; Schauer-Kaiser, Elisabeth; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 3, pp. 548-554
2008 with N = 1113 youths and young adults aged between 12 and 25 years in war-affected regions of Northern Uganda we …
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Does antenatal care matter in the use of skilled birth attendance in rural Africa: A multi-country analysis
Adjiwanou, Vissého; LeGrand, Thomas - In: Social Science & Medicine 86 (2013) C, pp. 26-34
attendance. In this study, we revisit this relation in the rural areas of four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania …
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“They arrested me for loving a schoolgirl”: Ethnography, HIV, and a feminist assessment of the age of consent law as a gender-based structural intervention in Uganda
Parikh, Shanti A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1774-1782
In 1990 women’s rights activists in Uganda successfully lobbied to amend the Defilement Law, raising the age of sexual … in east-central Uganda to examine the impact of the age of consent law at national and local levels, and specifically …
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A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix; Weisdorf, Jacob - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2014
female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We find that the arrival of Europeans in Uganda ignited a century- long … colonial period. But gender inequality gradually declined during the latter half of the colonial era, and after Uganda …
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Consumption bundle aggregation in poverty measurement: Implications for poverty and its dynamics in Uganda
Van Campenhout, Bjorn; Ssekabira, Haruna; Aduayom, Dede H. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single …
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Factors Affecting the Decision and Extent of Rice-milling before Sale among Ugandan Farmers
Nakazi, Florence; Sserunkuuma, Dick - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 03 (2013) 08
The number of rice mills in Uganda increased rapidly during the past decade, in response to increasing demand for …
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Uganda: La encrucijada de la Corte Penal Internacional
Escudero, Ezequiel - Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI)
guerra en el norte de Uganda y la consecuente intervención de actores supraestatales en el conflicto, y el papel que juega …
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Food priorities and poverty in Uganda
POUW, N.R.M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2005
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African decentralisation policies and practices from 1980s and beyond
OLOWU, B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2001
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