May 17, 2023

Firewatch

Student-Intern

The AWAMU HIV Awareness Campaign

May 17, 2023

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Training Peer Educator Champions to spread HIV prevention and awareness information among key populations in Uganda.

May 17, 2023

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Carbon Offsets: A Primer

May 17, 2023

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Over the past two decades, the practice of carbon offsetting has been met with both examples of success and failure. Academic literature and media coverage gives a plethora of examples of cautionary tales on these projects…

May 17, 2023

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A Way Forward for Global Livingston Institute's Sustainability

May 17, 2023

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A Way Forward for Global Livingston Institute's Sustainability

Strategies to Measure Carbon Footprints for Carbon Offsetting.

May 17, 2023

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N-PACT Cost Effectiveness Presentation

May 17, 2023

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The GLI non-communicable disease prevention program in Uganda addresses hypertension and diabetes in rural areas.

February 8, 2023

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Mental Health Services: A Needs Assessment in Northern Uganda

February 8, 2023

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Mental Health Services: A Needs Assessment in Northern Uganda

Having access to reliable, convenient, and quality mental healthcare services is critically important, more so following the COVID-19 pandemic.

December 23, 2022

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GLI Final Presentation

December 23, 2022

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Distributing a questionnaire to randomly sampled households in Kigali, Rwanda. The research did not seek to generalize the entire population: it looked at the case of Kigali city.

December 8, 2022

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Assessing Factors for Increasing Plastic Collection in Kabale

December 8, 2022

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Assessing Factors for Increasing Plastic Collection in Kabale

This research study was undertaken as a capstone project for the Global Livingston Institute. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that are associated with plastic recycling in Kabale, Uganda, to enable the client to make changes to increase collection rates.

September 14, 2022

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Recommendations for Global Livingston Institute’s Mental Health Facilitator Program

September 14, 2022

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Recommendations for Global Livingston Institute’s Mental Health Facilitator Program

The following brief will present two recommendations for GLI’s Mental Health Facilitator program. Recommendations were conceptualized after analyzing statistical information collected on Lake Bunyonyi June-July 2022.

August 26, 2022

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How COVID has Impacted Lake Bunyonyi's Education System

August 26, 2022

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How COVID has Impacted Lake Bunyonyi's Education System

In the effort to learn how COVID-19 impacted education in communities around Lake Bunyonyi in southwestern Uganda, this project collaborated, evaluated, and constructed outcomes that are for and by the people.

August 18, 2022

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Phase 4 Evaluation

August 18, 2022

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This literature review aims to provide the history behind the term "former child soldiers", non-profit organization projects in Uganda, and the creation of GLI's current agricultural project in Lira, Uganda.

November 9, 2021

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WASH Project for Bwama Primary School

November 9, 2021

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WASH project in Bwama Primary School is crucial and in need of immediate implementation given the current practices and impacts of COVID-19.

August 27, 2021

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Efficacy of Mobile Health in Uganda

August 27, 2021

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How can Mobile Health (mHealth) be used to Help Lower the Infant and Maternal Mortality Rate in Uganda?

July 16, 2021

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Team PlastiX Recommendations

July 16, 2021

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Educate and sensitize the waste generators about the impacts of their waste on the environment and its livability as well as what they can do or change to achieve the sustainable development goal of their community.

July 12, 2021

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Consequences of Conservation-Induced Displacement: A Case Study With Batwa Participants in Southwest Uganda

July 12, 2021

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Consequences of Conservation-Induced Displacement: A Case Study With Batwa Participants in Southwest Uganda

This thesis explores the inadvertent consequences of conservation-induced displacement utilizing a case study of Batwa, who were forcefully displaced from their ancestral forest lands…

June 21, 2021

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Improving the Education and Living Situation of Children Born in Captivity

June 21, 2021

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Improving the Education and Living Situation of Children Born in Captivity

What measures can school and society take in response to the social stigma and unfair treatment that children born in captivity have suffered?

May 15, 2021

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Three Year Sustainability Plan

May 15, 2021

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In this sustainability plan, I first detail pertinent macroeconomic trends, as it mostly relates to agriculture and the implications of COVID-19. Then, I highlight development challenges and solutions in Uganda in two industries that largely impact Uganda's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate: agriculture and energy.

May 12, 2021

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Plastic Bottle Recycling in Uganda

May 12, 2021

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Industry in Uganda consumes up to 600 metric tons of plastic waste a day and only about 6% of that waste is collected (Planet Buyback, 2021).

May 6, 2021

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Colorado School of Mines Hand Pump Final Design

May 6, 2021

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Colorado School of Mines Hand Pump Final Design

Farmers around Lake Bunyonyi rely on rainfall to water their crops. When the rainfall is not sufficient or it is dry season, the farmers must hand-deliver water from Lake Bunyonyi to their crops.

May 5, 2021

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Entusi Model Farm Irrigation Initiative

May 5, 2021

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Lake Bunyonyi, located in Southwestern Uganda, is situated below a vast expanse of hilly terrain. Climate change has made rainfall patterns in the area incredibly unpredictable and thus unreliable for farmers whose livelihood depends on their crops.

January 18, 2021

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Agricultural Cooperatives: From Subsistence to Commercial Farming

January 18, 2021

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Agricultural Cooperatives: From Subsistence to Commercial Farming

Without a doubt, agriculture - farming, forestry, fisheries, and livestock - remains essential to the economic development of the world, generating USD 3.4 trillion in 2018.

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