This project would not have been possible without many others who are not listed as authors. Thank you to Professor Laurie Miller and our Teaching Assistant, Amal Ghazalein, for reviewing each deliverable with detail-oriented eyes. Thank you to the MPA program and the Brooks School of Public Policy for providing us with the opportunity to work on this project as our capstone project.

A Wirtz pump uses a spiral tube to create air pressure in the spirals. This pressure pushes the water up the tube, so the more that it is pushed, the more water that it is able to push up.

Health care in rural Uganda is multifaceted. It becomes evident, through reviewing the vast amount of literature covering the subject, that a comprehensive understanding of the health beliefs, barriers to healthcare access, and the intricate interplay of traditional medicine is essential to reduce the disparities in health outcomes currently seen in the region.

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

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…

Strategies to Measure Carbon Footprints for Carbon Offsetting.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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…

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

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.

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).