Thesis--University of Chicago. / Bibliography: p. 202-208.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1980. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-116).

Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2005. Dept. of History. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-57).

Hydrological responses vary from one catchment to another, depending on the nature of land use and cover changes. Modelling the hydrological responses to changes in land use and cover at different catchment spatial scales was the major focus of this study. This study assessed the hydrological responses attributed to changes in land use and extreme weather events resulting into increased sediment loading/concentration, rainfall-runoff generation/volume, streamflow fluctuation and modification of the river channel in the Malaba River Catchment, Eastern Uganda. The hydrological responses were assessed using hydrological models (IHACRES, SCS CN, and SHETRAN) to examine the effect of land use on soil physio-chemical properties susceptibility to rainfall-runoff generation and volume, frequency and severity of extreme weather events, changes in streamflow variations, sediment loading/concentration and river channel morphology. The preliminary study results showed that the frequency of extreme weather events reduced from 4-10 to 1-3 years over the catchment. The performance of the IHACRES model with a Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) of 0.89 showed that streamflow comparatively corresponded with the results obtained the drought indices in predicting the recorded events of severe drought (2005) and flood (1997). Changes in land use and cover types showed that the highest change in the gain of land was experienced from the agricultural land use (36.7 percent), and tropical forest (regeneration) (2.2 percent). The biggest losses in land were experienced in the wetlands (24.6 percent) and bushland and thickets (15.3 percent) land cover types. The SHETRAN model calibrated period had a NSE of 0.78 and 0.81 in the validation period showed satisfactory fits between the measured and simulated streamflow. The agricultural land use (crop growing) had a higher influence on the rainfall-runoff generation and increase in the streamflow than the tropical forest, and bushland cover types in the simulated period. Similarly, the curve number model estimated a comparatively higher surface rainfall-runoff volume generated from the agricultural land use (crop growing) (71,740 m3) than in the bushlands and thickets (42,872 m3) from a rainstorm followed by the tropical forest cover type. This was also reflected in the lower rates of saturated hydraulic conductivity from the agricultural land use (crop growing). The study also showed that human-induced sediment loading due to gold mining activities contributed a much higher impact on the concentration of suspended sediments and streamflow than sediments from rainfall-runoff from the sampled streams. The main contributor of human-induced sediments to the Malaba River were Nankuke River (130.6kg/annum), followed by Omanyi River (70.6kg/annum), and Nabewo River (66.8kg/annum). Human-induced sediment loading had a profound impact on the streamflow variations both in the dry and wet seasons from the sampled tributaries. Lastly, in regard to the effect of land use and cover types on the river channel morphology, tree plantation (cohesion=12, angle of internal friction=27) and bushland and thickets (cohesion=14, angle of internal friction=22) cover types had the most stable river banks compared to the wetland and agricultural land use and cover types that exhibited higher levels of sediment concentration.

The press in Uganda has come a long way right from the colonial days when newspapers sprang up, mainly from missionary activity, through the eras of Obote 1 (1962 – 1971), Idi Amin (1971 – 1979), Obote 11 (1980 – 1985), Tito Okello (1985 – 1986) and the Museveni administration (1986 – to date). For most of this time, the press in Uganda enjoyed very little or no freedom to do its work. The year 1986 saw the ascendancy to power of the Yoweri Museveni as president after a five-year bush war with promised to restore peace, democracy, the rule of law, economic prosperity and civic rights and freedoms. Several achievements in these areas have been registered since 1986. Newspapers have sprouted and the broadcast industry liberalised to allow private ownership that has seen the proliferation of FM stations. However, the relations between the government and the press remain strained with journalists arrested and/or prosecuted mainly for offences relating to sedition, publication of false news and criminal libel. This study was intended to examine why journalists in Uganda continue to suffer arrests and incarceration when the country has been reported to be moving towards democratisation. The study was also aimed at assessing the impact of arresting journalists and arraigning them before the courts of law in the period under study and what this portends for freedom of the press and democratisation. It is recommended, among others, that journalists in Uganda need more unity of purpose to pursue meaningful media law reform that will de-criminalise publication wrongs. The civil remedies available to people who feel offended by the press are sufficient, if not excessive. The efforts already undertaken by the Eastern Africa Media Institute (EAMI) Uganda Chapter in this direction should be pursued to a logical conclusion.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and management, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Sciences. Johannesburg, November 2017. / The conceptualisation of core values indicate that they are guiding principles in shaping organisational culture. Furthermore, values enhance firm efficiency if they are well integrated in all business processes. Despite the fact that core values motivate employees, SMEs in the informal economies of developing countries do not provide a list of core values to employees. The purpose of this study, therefore; was to establish the commonly practiced core values in Uganda’s informal economy and whether such core values could motivate and reinforce behaviour among employees and at the same time, foster entrepreneurial performance. The study adopted a mixed methods approach. In this case, the sample size for qualitative interviews was twenty-five respondents whereas the sample size for the quantitative survey was three hundred and eighty-six (386) respondents. The interviews were guided by a semi-structured interview guide and revealed that the commonly practiced core values in Uganda’s informal economy are; cleanliness, trust, fairness, responsibility and respect. It was established that core values motivate and reinforce employee behaviour. The quantitative survey was done using a questionnaire with a five- point Likert scale. Hypotheses and mediation tests were carried out by way of structural equation modeling, using AMOS and Sobel’s test respectively. Results from all hypotheses’ tests indicated significant positive relationships between predictor and outcome variables. However, the relationships of; motivation and entrepreneurial performance and legitimacy and entrepreneurial performance were positive, but insignificant. In addition, it was discovered that the reinforcement theory is applicable in Uganda’s informal economy. Based on the results of this research, it is recommended that SMEs should seek to acquire skills on how to fully turn legitimacy and motivation into business advantage and how to use core values as tools for advertising and marketing the business. Finally, the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, with help from local governments, should design a policy to tempt SMEs to voluntarily engage in community service, especially cleaning up water and drainage channels to improve cleanliness in the communities as well as improving on business legitimacy. / GR2018

Thesis (Ph.D.) Wits Business School University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa December 2016 / Employee psychological capital (PsyCap) is described as employee belief in performing one’s work well (efficacy), in succeeding now (optimism), succeeding in the future (hope), and in persevering amidst challenges or opportunities (resilience) in the workplace. A body of research knowledge provides empirical evidence that PsyCap is linked to positive individual, team and organisational outcomes. A review of literature found a few studies that have explored determinants of employee psychological capital; particularly, no study had examined the relationship between positive organisational emotional intelligence (OEI) theory and PsyCap. OEI is the emotional and social climate of an organisation. Thus, the purpose of this study was to test a model fit of the influence of OEI on PsyCap. A positivist quantitative methodology approach was used to establish whether there was a significant positive relationship between OEI and PsyCap. A cross-sectional survey quantitative research design was adopted for the study. From a population of about 295,100 employees in the public sector, data was collected voluntarily from 668 participants, randomly sampled from employees in public sector organisations. A self-administered questionnaire adapted from previously validated instruments for OEI and PsyCap was used to collect data. The pre-test supported the psychometric scales of the constructs, demonstrating reliability, validity and relevance in the workplace. This non-experimental study adopted structural equation modelling (SEM) and Average Moments of Structures (AMOS) for data analysis. The analysis established a model fit, implying there was a positive association between OEI and PsyCap among public servants in Uganda. However, out of the eight dimensions of OEI specified for the model, only four dimensions, namely job happiness, supervisory leadership, organisational responsiveness and positive impression, were significantly associated with employee PsyCap. The other four OEI dimensions, namely, compensation satisfaction, organisational cohesiveness, work–life balance and diversity management, were not significantly associated with workplace PsyCap. The study thus recommends that, in Uganda, the OEI model by Stein (2005), particularly the dimensions of job happiness, organisational responsiveness, supervisory leadership and positive impression, can be applied to enhance employee PsyCap. The other dimensions of Stein’s OEI model, which do not have significant association with employee PsyCap, require further investigation to understand whether they can be applied. The study makes a theoretical contribution by linking the organisational emotional intelligence and PsyCap theory. It makes an empirical contribution to psychological capital theory by highlighting OEI dimensions that could develop PsyCap in organisations. Testing a theoretical model of OEI and PsyCap and establishing a model fit suggests that managers of public sector organisations in developing countries such as Uganda need to improve their OEI stance, in order to enhance employee PsyCap for positive individual and organisational outcomes. Further research can base on the study findings to advance knowledge in PsyCap. / MT 2018

Thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Architecture (Professional) to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017 / Uganda is one of the most ethnically diverse countries on the planet. Under half a century of colonialist rule, the country was subjected to a loss of identity through a painful process of demoralizing propaganda and subordination that sought to create of it a consistently dependent market. Over 50 years after independence, the country is still suffering the repercussions of our recoded identity. The colonial code ensures a people that are constantly subjugated to a foreign, imperialist power, and only through recoding the colonial will we be able to take back the power of self-definition that has defined our post-colonial, neo-colonial state. The soil in which I root is an investigation into the origins and influence of the colonial in the development of national identity in Uganda within the context of Sub-Saharan African states. This research will be investigating appropriate influences, in terms of contextual relation and monumentality, which have been employed in the development of identity: looking particularly into two approaches to national identity generation – the personality cult and the anti-monument. This is conducted in order to determine an appropriate response to a Ugandan “museum” of political history – designed to contradict the existing, colonial, introspective building – within the context of Kampala city. With 70% of the population under the age 24 and the highest ethnic diversity in the world there is an urgent need to recognize Uganda’s identity as a post-independent society, in order for the development of a national self-efficacy and self-determination determination. / XL2018

Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2008. / Vita: p. 67. Thesis director: Suzanne Scott. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 2, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-66). Also issued in print.

Oil is one of the most valuable resources. For a country like Uganda, which is one of the least developed countries in the world with more than one third of the population still living below the poverty line; the discovery of this valuable resource has the capacity to radically alter the economy of the country. But on the other hand, oil exploration, mining and refining are complex, costly, long duration projects with many challenges that require sophisticated financial management, planning, scheduling and cost control. The project management profession is charged as a single point of responsibility for initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling projects in order to meet stakeholder’s needs and expectations. The research objectives were: 1. To identify and examine the challenges and risks associated with the oil industry in Uganda. 2. To investigate the effectiveness of project management practices in the Ugandan oil industry in terms 1 above. 3. Identify how project success can be measured in the Ugandan oil industry. A case study was the research technique adopted and interviews were conducted with the major stakeholders in the Ugandan oil industry. The research findings reveal the challenges and risks that continue to plague the Ugandan oil industry and the role of project management in the exploration phase of the project. The research findings were used to evaluate the role, responsibility and service that project management professionals are expected to render and the actual role, responsibility and service that the professionals have been rendering to the stakeholders in the Ugandan oil industry. The research then concludes by proposing ways of improving the chances of project success in the Ugandan oil industry.