The Faculty is engaged in a number of collaborative research and academic activities with different Universities in Uganda and around the world. In the table below is a summary of both ongoing and prospective projects:
Sn. |
Project Name/Description |
Funding Agency |
Collaborating Institutions |
Timeframe |
1 |
‘Mitigating adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes through a comprehensive primary school sexuality education program in South-Western Uganda’ |
Flemish University Development Cooperation (VLIR-OUS) Euros 270, 000 |
University of Ghent, Free University of Brussels and Uganda Martyrs University |
2015/18 |
2 |
Understanding How Very Young Adolescents Grow Up in Uganda: A Situational analysis of the local socioecological context of Southwestern Uganda |
University of Virginia, School of Nursing $ 10,000 |
University of Virginia |
2016/17 |
3 |
Study Abroad – Minority Health Programme |
University of Virginia – Centre for Global Health |
University of Virginia |
2016/17 |
4 |
“Exploring opportunities for partnership and initiating joint research on the topic: Intra-household and gender analysis to address food and health insecurities among rural communities in south western Uganda” |
Flemish University Development Cooperation (VLIR-OUS) Euros 71,000 |
Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp |
2014/15 |
5 |
English Language Fellow |
USA Government English Language Fellowship |
USA Embassy in Uganda |
2015/17 |
6 |
Teacher Effectiveness Training |
USA Government English Language Fellowship |
USA Embassy in Uganda |
2016 |
7 |
Costs benefit analysis of Cash Transfer Programmes and Post Trauma Services for Economic Empowerment of Women in Northern Uganda’ |
WOTRO (Science for Development), Netherlands Euros 150,000 |
University of Tilburg, Netherlands |
2015/17 |
8 |
“Grounding Land Governance Research: Land Research Must Component” |
WOTRO (Science for Development), Netherlands Euros 150,000 |
Africa Studies Centre, University of Leiden; the Netherlands |
2011/15 |
9 |
Involvement of Women in Integrated Conservation and Development (ICD) Policy Implementation and Governance |
Conservation International and Birdlife International $ 10,000 |
Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation (ITFC), Uganda |
2015 |
10 |
Overseas Study Experience for University of Reading BSc International Development |
University of Reading £10,000 |
School of Agriculture Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK |
2015/17 |
11 |
Natural Resource Management in the Northern Albertine Rift Landscape, Western Uganda: Agent–based Modelling of Household Land Utilisation for Conflict Reduction |
USAID $15,000 |
School of Agriculture Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK |
2016/17 |
12 |
Occasional Students hosted at MUST, MSc. Scholarships and Staff Exchange |
Linnaeus-Palme-Program, Sweden |
Linnaeus University |
2011/17 |
13 |
European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR) – students and staff exchange |
European Union |
Oldenburg university, Germany, Makerere, Ahfad University for Women Sudan, The University of Nova Gorica-Slovenia, University of South Bohemia- Czech Republic and The University of Stavanger, Norway. |
2011/2016 |
14 |
Menstrual cup project to promotion and improve menstrual health hygiene and management in northern Uganda. |
WoMena |
WoMena |
2015/16 |
15 |
Stabilisation Agriculture – Aquaculture and Aquaponics for vulnerable communities’ food security. Targeting refugees and the urban poor |
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, University of Coventry, UK |
Proposal under development |
2016 |