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Item Challenges Facing the Push and Pull Hybrid System in the Supply of Essential Medicines in Gulu, Northern Uganda(Science and Education Publishing, 2015-05-07) Okello, Tom Richard; Maghanga, Mshilla; Olido, KennethEssential medicines are supplied to the public health facilities using the pull and push system. In many countries the decision to use the pull, push or combination of both is a policy decision, but Uganda has used each of the supply system individually in past and currently is using a hybrid despite the rampant out-cry of essential medicines stock out. Challenges facing the hybrid supply system need to be examined to advise policy makers on the how efficient the system supplies medicines. A cross-sectional study was carried out in the public health facilities in Gulu to examine the major challenges affecting the hybrid system of medicines supply. A sample of 131 health workers filled a pretested coded questionnaire as respondents and the data were then entered and analysed using SPSS version 15. Approximately 27.7% (n=131) of the respondents reported that the store management in the hybrid system is unsatisfactory and inadequate. Quality of essential medicines supplied in the hybrid system to the public health facilities is unsatisfactory and inadequate as reported by 46.5% of the respondents. Collaborative linkages with the National Medical Stores (NMS) the mandated supplier of essential medicines in the country, is weak (42.9%) and quantification of essential medicines by health workers under the hybrid system is poor (33.3%). Furthermore support supervision in weak and inadequate under the hybrid system (37.6%); and personnel who dispense essential medicines are inadequate (44.3%). Approximately 30.3% patients have poor access to essential medicines. The current hybrid system is riddled with a number of challenges which requires re-dressed in order improve access and availability of essential medicines to the public.Item Exploring Transition in Higher Education: Engagement and Challenges in Moving from Teacher-Centered to Student-Centered Learning(JPBLHE, 2021) Awacorach, Judith; Jensen, Iben; Lassen, Inger; Olanya, David Ross; Zakaria, Hanan Lassen; Olok Tabo, GeoffreyThe overall purpose of this study is to prefigure the feasibility of Problem Based Learning (PBL) for building research and employability capacity of MA-students in the context of Gulu University. Following a description of the basic tenets of PBL, we explain how PBL was used in experimental community outreach workshops for MA-students between 2016 and 2019. More specifically we identify traces of traditional learning practices and discuss to what extent the new learning approach might change the student-teacher power relationship. Methodologically and analytically, our study draws on a practice theory model developed by Kemmis and Mutton (2012). Although our findings indicate subtle traces of a traditional student-teacher relationship, the analyses indicate that the PBL learning mode is a promising candidate for strengthening research capacity in view of preparing students for post-graduate employability and community transformation. The workshops were organized collaboratively as part of the Danida-funded programme Building Stronger Universities.Item International Capital, Inclusive Planning and Post-War Recovery: The Case of Acholi Land, Northern Uganda(2015-06) Mpisi Sulayman*, BabiihaAs people of Uganda’s Acholi sub region struggle to rebuild their livelihoods after more than two decades of armed insurgency and internal displacement, they remain suspicious of the government’s motive to allocate their land to foreign investors. By taking Amuru District Land Board to court for allocating their land to Madhvani Group’s Amuru Sugar Works in 2007, the local community has underlined its distrust of the government and its institutions. They hold that the idea of promoting large scale agro-based industrial production through Madhvani sugar project was a falsehood and that Madhvani was merely a smokescreen to disguise land grabbing by big people in government. The findings of this study highlight deep suspicion of government motive in allocating 1,200 hectares of land in Amuru district to Madhvani Group which, to them, strongly revives the historical perception of marginalisation of northerners (who include the Acholi). The conclusion from the study is that although international capital is vital for the recovery process, where it involves natural resources such as land, its effectiveness is likely to be affected negatively unless local communities are included in the planning process; which calls for an inclusive rather than a top-down recovery strategy.Item COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF PARENTS-TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATIONS (PTAs) IN KASESE DISTRICT(Gulu University, 2010) Mpisi Sulayman Ramadhan, BABIIHA; Development Studies (UMU);, MA EthicsItem Corporate Governance and Nonfinancial Performance in Financial Institutions in Uganda(SAS Publishers, 2016) Biryomumeisho, Justus; Nkote, Isaac N,; Ocaya, BrunoThis study investigates the influence of corporate governance on non-financial performance in financial services sector in Uganda. Corporate governance mechanisms examined included ownership concentration, board composition, CEO tenure and CEO turnover through multi-theory lenses of agency theory, stakeholder theory, resource-based theory and institutional theory. Non-financial performance was measured using employee satisfaction, social performance and environmental performance. The study objectives were to examine the relationship between ownership structure and nonfinancial performance, examine the relationship between board composition and nonfinancial performance, to assess the relationship between CEO tenure and nonfinancial performance and to determine the relationship between CEO turnover and nonfinancial performance. To accomplish the research objectives, a survey design using a questionnaire and secondary data was adopted. Secondary data were obtained from the annual reports and websites of 36 regulated financial services firms for the period 2008-2014. The data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 in which correlation and ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression tests were performed. Results showed that the relationship between corporate governance and non-financial performance is positive (r = 0.1397, p = 0.0514).Item We shall secede…’ - narratives of marginalisation in post war participatory recovery of Acholi, northern Uganda(A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, 2018) Sulayman Babiiha, MpisiSet in a remote part of Acholi, on the northern side of Murchison Falls National Park, northern Uganda, this paper focuses on the efforts of the local community in Pabit Parish as they rebuild their agricultural livelihoods in the aftermath of the 20-year civil war. Their struggle to recover, however, hung in the balance as problem animals started to destroy their crops. Their recovery became even more uncertain when their efforts to dialogue with the government about the unfair wildlife policy remained unheeded. Meanwhile, the Acholi Culture and Tourism Centre project set up by Purongo Sub County Local Government to supplement the people’s agricultural livelihoods was marred in conflicts that threatened its very existence. What had started as a post war participatory development thus turned out to be an arena of conflict.Using ethnographic methods of data collection integrated within a case study, this study focuses on the tourism centre project. Premised on principles of participation, the project had been considered instrumental, not only in the protection of wildlife in Murchison Falls Park which would attract more tourists, and thus more revenue to the community from commercial tourism, but also through promoting agricultural livelihoods, the mainstay of the local economy. However, the reluctance of wildlife officials to engage communities in policy discussions, and internal weaknesses in the governance structural systems, combine to frustrate efforts in the local community to recover their livelihoods for a better standard of living.Item Governance and Human Development in Gulu District: A Case Study of Gulu Municipality(Scientific Research Publishing Inc, 2016-04-28) Akena, Denis Uma; Biryomumeisho, Justus,The study aims at examining governance in the promotion of human development in Gulu District with particular reference to Gulu Municipality. The research was conducted using 387 participants in Gulu Municipality and adopted a quantitative design with random stratified sampling technique. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, regression and descriptive statistics. The study indicated that 200 (51.7%) were male and 187 (48.3%) were female. The study finds that greater levels of accountability, participation and absence of corruption are associated with greater levels of human development. Correlation analysis results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between accountability and human development (r = 0.351, p = 0.000). There is a significant positive relationship between government efficiency, participation and control of corruption and human development (r = 0.317, p = 0.000; r = 0.378, p = 0.000; and r = 0.416, p = 0.000) respectively. The relationship between bribery and human development is very low and insignificant. Overall, there is a significant positive relationship between good governance and human development (r = 0.477, p = 0.000). The regression analysis shows that good governance explains 24.4% of the variations in human development (Adjusted R2 = 0.244, Sig. F change = 0.000). The study findings indicate that the best predictors of human development were accountability, participation and control of corruption. The worst predictor was government efficiency. The study concludes that bribery is neither associated with human development nor any attributes of good governance.Item “When elephants come…” - Narratives of marginality in post war Acholi(’s) Murchison Falls National Park, northern Uganda(2016-12) Mpisi Sulayman, BabiihaSet in post conflict northern Uganda, this paper analyses the challenges facing local communities living adjacent to Murchison Falls National Park in Acholi land as they grapple with efforts to restore their livelihoods, in view of costs and losses inflicted on them by problem animals. Their return to their villages after 20 years of the war between insurgents of Lord’s Resistance Army and the government of Uganda held a lot of promise. The state sponsored Peace, Recovery and Development Plan; donor funded projects; multinational agricultural companies setting up in the area; and the tourism revenue sharing fund; all pointed to an empowering recovery process for the local community to achieve self-reliance. However, the pain of consistent destruction of their crops by wildlife, an unfair policy on compensation of damage caused by problem animals, worsened by the government refusal to plan with the affected communities made them feel left out. This paper focuses on the Tourism Revenue Sharing Fund as a tool to analyse the costs and losses incurred by local peasants who continue to lose their agricultural livelihoods but whose appeals for dialogue continue to be ignored by the state. Data for this paper were collected using ethnographic methods that included in-depth interviews of key informants, observation, as well as both formal and informal interactions with members of the local community in Pabit parish of Purongo in Acholi sub region, and government documents.Item Community Participation and Service Delivery in Local Government-The Case of Amuru District, Uganda(Gulu University, 2013) Oola Donato OlamThis study examines community participation and service delivery m local government (LG) taking Amuru District operations as a case study. Amuru is one of the LGs located in the Acholi sub-region, northern Uganda East Africa. The research principle objective was to explore relationships between planning and budgeting, resource mobilization, and between monitoring and evaluation and service delivery. A relevant review of related literature was carried out in line with identified objectives and research questions. The data were generated from scholarly journals, government publications, and text books among other sources. Relevant comparisons were made to establish relationships and gaps as the main methods guide upon which questionnaire, interviews and documents review were developed to help in data collection. The study employed a sample of 82 participants picked from a population constituting different employee categories of the district. Various findings were obtained but the most salient ones included: that the district's ability to deliver services falls short of the expected central government requirements in light of the decentralization policy. The research also found a gap in the planning and budgeting process in view of service provision considerations. The study also found resource mobilization strategy quite weak thus rendering the provision of essential services somehow difficult. Basic services expected to be rendered to communities were found largely inadequate. Monitoring and the level of community participation are low leading to poor service delivery. Conclusion and recommendations were drawn based on the gaps identified during the study process. Recommendations are addressed to policy makers, the government and other stakeholders.