interrelated factors around them, from seemingly “distant” factors such as laws and policies down to more “proximal” factors such as their immediate living situation. We explored the interplay of these factors, mainly the range of laws, policies, and regulations...
(2017). Homosexuality, pornography, and other “modern threats”—The deployment of sexuality in recent laws and public discourses in Uganda. Critique of Anthropology, 37(1), 93–111 Article Google Scholar Weeks, J. (1981). Sex, politics, and society: the regulation of sexuality since 1800...
Presence of functional byelaws, ordinances, and enforcement committees help in preserving natural resources such as wetlands, range lands, and community water sources, which are buffer zones that help reduce vulnerability of farmers in difficult times such as droughts. In addition to having the right...
Governance challenges are also apparent and include conflict between the local bye-laws and the national policy and national laws and between the environmental law and the local government Act. Whereas the environmental law is aimed at conservation, the local government Act is looked at as a legal...
Similarly, another non-member FGD 3 mentioned that: “some of us have had to sell part of our banana plantations to settle hospital bills when our wives or daughter in-laws go for delivery”. Further still, key informant 9 also stated that: “most people borrow funds from money lenders ...
Governance challenges are also apparent and include conflict between the local bye-laws and the national policy and national laws and between the environmental law and the local government Act. Whereas the environmental law is aimed at conservation, the local government Act is looked at as a legal...
Assessment is required of the ecological and social impacts of fire, in order to determine optimal fire regimes and amendment of laws that ban the use of fires, so as to promote prescribed burning in rangelands. Achieving all these will require reforms that clearly delineate policy and legal ...
The study sought to establish the necessity of women on boards following the affirmative action of at least one-third of female representation of public sector organizations in Uganda. There is scanty literature about women on boards in Uganda and a grounded theory methodology was applied. Twenty-...
‘Even though I work hard every day, I still feel like I’m not accepted. The memories of what we went through haunt me’, shared one male refugee in Bidi Bidi. This highlights that their involvement in manual labour does not shield them from discrimination or the psychological impacts of...
On one hand, Picard (2006) has described media economics as “a specific application of economic laws and theories to media industries and firms, showing how economic, regulatory, and financial pressures direct and constrain activities and their influences on the dynamics of media markets” (Picard...