Insecticidetreated nets are the most powerful malaria control tool if used correctly. Yet up to date, utilization is still unacceptably low: only 3 percent of African children are currently sleeping under an ITN, and about 20 percent are sleeping under any kind of net. Worse still, malaria continues to be the leading cause of child mortality and morbidity. The aim of this study was to investigate the intra-household factors that affect the utilization of ITNs in households with children under five. The study specifically sought to identify the intra-household practices that affect the use of ITNs among the under-five; examined the knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and beliefs of caregivers towards the usage of ITNs; and lastly analysed the affordability of ITNs by households with children under five years. This study was conducted in villages from Kawempe which were randomly selected and used a cross sectional design. The study findings show that first; there were intra-household factors that affected utilization of ITNs in households with children under five. These factors that affected utilization include; type of household structure, number of people sleeping in the household, intra-household gender relations, sleeping arrangements, disruption of sleeping patterns due to visitors and cultural rituals and functions. These factors affect consistency in utilization of ITNs and proper deployment. Secondly, knowledge on ITNs was found to be low though general knowledge about mosquito nets was found to be high. Utilization was also affected by poor perceptions, beliefs and attitudes that discourage caregivers from using the ITNs. Access to ITNs was very inadequate and unavailable within the study community. The majority of the people being peasants, there were insufficient incomes and therefore ITNs were not a priority given the level of poverty. This study concluded that financial inadequacies at the household level, poor perceptions of caregivers and intra-household dynamics impact negatively on effective utilization of ITNs among the under-fives. I would therefore recommend that; public-private partnership be adapted to ensure availability of ITNs and insecticides in local shops and other outlets including arrangements at village level to re-treat the nets, the economic level of caregivers should be boosted to counteract the financial inadequacies, adoption of a behaviour change strategy to transform caregivers‟ perceptions, beliefs and attitudes; and massive education of the community.

The study examined the Tax policies and tax compliancy of Vision Africa. The study shall assess the tax policies in Vision Africa, examined out if tax payers are aware of all their tax obligations and policies and to analyze the problems affecting tax payers and their business. A case study research design was employed and a sample size of seventy (60) staff was used. The study also employed a self-administered questionnaire to employees in the tax collection and Vision Africa department as the primary data collection tools. While data analysis conducted with the aid of SPSS software all objectives for the study were explained using a scale ranging from those who strongly agreed, agreed, to those who strongly disagreed, disagreed and then those who are not sure. Key finding reviled that tax compliance significantly influences the performance of tax policies which coincided with the qualitative results which indicated that members within the tax policies sector have been able to enhance their knowledge on taxation and tax administration had a strong positive association with performance of Vision for Africa. The researcher therefore recommends tax administration should use current tax reform to reduce tax complexity with Tax authorities should focus and help taxpayer during filing taxes returns information and tax assessment should be low in order to avoid business out of the market, the rates should also be well known by the tax payer.

The study aimed at the evaluation on the role of social and economic infrastructure in the promotion of business activities with a case study of smes in nansana municipality and it was guided by the following objectives; To determine the influence of infrastructural development on the promotion of business activities and growth of small and micro enterprises in Nansana municipality, to find out how infrastructures influence the promotion of business activities and growth of SMEs in Nansana municipality and to draw conclusion on whether infrastructural development influences business activities and growth of SMEs in Nansana municipality. Small and micro enterprises, located in Nansana town along Kampala-Hoima Main Road were the target population in this study. These include SMEs in Ganda, Masitowa, East one and East two. In the year 2010, there were about 120 SMEs in Nansana east one, 145 in Ganda, 112 in nansana east two and 220 in Masitowa. Although Nabweru is located in the Nansana municipality, it will not be included in the study because the area is also served by other roads like Kampala-Bombo Road. Therefore, this study’s sample size was 179 SME owners. Simple random sampling was employed to select the sample from the target population. The findings of the study indicated that there was a positive relationship between road related factors and growth of SMEs in Nansana Municipality along Kampala-Hoima highway (r=0.561, p-value=0.000). The results also shown a positive relationship between water and sewerage factors and growth of SMEs in Nansana Municipality along Kampala-Hoima highway (r=0.421, p-value=0.000). In addition, there was a positive relationship between telecommunication and growth of SMEs in Nansana Municipality along Kampala-Hoima highway (r=0.361, p-value=0.000). water and sewerage as way of ensuring SMEs growth in the country. This study recommends that Interruptions of water supply should also be minimized. The national government together with the local governments should work hand in hand to ensure that water is made available in all the regions where SMEs are located. This will therefore enhance production activities in the SMES thus leading to an increase in growth and development of the state’s economy.

The study sought to analyze the role of social media as a tool of enlightenment of the youth about moral values in Uganda. In the woke of emerging new and sophisticated technology in the world, youths have increasingly adopted the use of social media as a tool thus enlightening of their moral values in the positive and negative ways according to how each youth embraces social media. Social media platforms have become a source of discussion, idea sharing and connection. Young generation more so the youth in particular are the most common users of social media. The study is conducted to elaborate on how social media has enlightened the moral values of the youth in Uganda. The objectives which guided the study were to find out the impact of social media on the youth's moral values, identity the contributions of social media towards moral values among the youth. It was established by the literature that social media is important to the for shaping their physical, emotional, economic, social and mental state. It was also established by literature that social media develops the youth better on social skills. Literature also established that social media develops real world skills to help them become more independent. It was also established by literature that teaches the youth about the world events and current affairs outside of the immediate environment. It was also established by literature that through social media youth learn about new cultural and societal ideas and issues. It was also established by literature that social media enables the youth to increase on their visibility. It was concluded that social media is important for it keeps the youth alive. It was also concluded that social media enables partnering with influencers. It was also concluded that social media helps the youth in sharing expertise with other people connected on the network. It was concluded that social media builds better conversion rates among the youth. It was concluded that social media accesses the competition that is how they view and then understand situations of life. It is recommended that social media should provide more of the educative and constructive material unto the youth to keep the morally upright. Youth should take in more of the positive and useful ideas from social media than the immoral side of it. It is recommended that social media should motivate ideas to enable them grow physiologically, socially and emotionally. As they became better and incredible persons in the society very develop mental, constructive, helpful on addition to respectful to the people they stay within the society.

The study was about Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) and Poverty Reduction among youths in Sheema District, Western Uganda. It was guided by the following objectives; to examine the indicators of poverty reduction among the Youths in Sheema District and to determine whether there is a relationship between youth livelihood programme (YLP) and poverty reduction among the Youths in Sheema District. The descriptive survey design was also adopted since it encourages the use of cross-sectional approach that is useful in obtaining an overall picture as it stands at the time of the study. This study utilized Krejcie& Morgan (1970) sample size table to come up with an adequate sample 272 size and the sample size table allows the researcher to determine the sample size for a given population with 95% certainty. The quantitative data from this objective was analyzed using descriptive statistics formulae provided by the statistical packages for social science SPSS v.16. The analyzed results were tabulated appropriately using frequency Tables and percentages and sample percentages to illustrate the responses to the questionnaires. The findings revealed that Youth Livelihood Programme trainings are adequate to all group members as indicated by 60(23%) who strongly agreed, 36(14%) who agreed, 97(37%) who were not sure, 33(12%) who disagreed and 97(37%) who strongly disagreed. The study revealed that Youth livelihood programme groups are involved in income generating projects in sectors like Agriculture trade, service industry, vocational skills, agroindustry (value addition), creative industry, agroforestry and ICT as indicated by 57(22%) of those who strongly agreed, 73(28%) who agreed, 51(19%) who were not sure, 25(10%) who disagreed and 56(21%) who strongly disagreed. The researcher concludes that Money should be put at parish level to avoid delays in giving the money to the youths.

Beekeeping is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising practice to boost the livelihood of people that combines goals of sustainable agricultural development for resource-poor tropical farmers with greater environmental benefits than less diversified agricultural systems, pastures, or monoculture plantations. Among these expected benefits is the conservation of a greater part of the native biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes that retain substantial and diversified tree cover. Although the protection of natural habitat remains the backbone of biodiversity conservation strategies, promoting agro forestry on agricultural and other deforested land could play an important supporting role, especially in mosaic landscapes where natural habitat has been highly fragmented and forms extensive boundaries with agricultural areas. Bee keeping is receiving greater attention in many countries to protect the land from various types of degradation. The study then shown that 30% strongly agreed, 41% agreed, 4% were not sure, 20% disagreed and 5% strongly disagreed to the fact that availability and improper use of harvesting equipment. Poor harvesting methods Rudimentary harvesting methods, for example, using too much smoke or burning the hives, leads to destruction of the bee colonies as well as to contamination of the honey harvest and quality control challenges. Farmers annual incomes from honey can be improved through increasing the adoption of improved bee hives. The higher income also motivates the beekeepers to adopt the technology more intensively.

This study is about the employee capacity building programs in terms of coaching and employee productivity in the current changing world and particularly in corporate organizations in Uganda. It is aimed at examining capacity building programs (coaching) on employee productivity in corporate organizations in Uganda, a case of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. The study adopted both descriptive and cross-sectional survey research designs with both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and was carried out at Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. The study population was 256 out of which a sample of 168 respondents was selected as study sample and it was randomly and purposively selected. Questionnaires and interviews were used as data collection methods. The content validity index was 0.800 while the reliability value was 0.825. Out of the 168 questionnaires administered to the respondents, 140 respondents filled and returned the questionnaires thus creating 83.3% response rate and the feedback rate was concluded to be excellent. Therefore, based on the arguments of Mugenda and Mugenda (2009), the feedback rate in this study of 83.3% is excellent. The results of the study revealed a moderate positive relationship between coaching and employee productivity in Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (r= 0.627, p=0.000). The study concluded that, coaching is an important or influential factor on employee productivity at Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. It was recommended that; Management of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation should organize training and seminars for the employees to increase employee skills, loyalty and competence making them more willing to work harder for the success of the university and that management of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation should consider instituting career counseling programs which will assist employees in exploiting their strengths and potential and avoiding mismatches between individual aspirations, capabilities and organizational opportunities.

Despite the fact that NAADS is contributing a lot towards transforming the agricultural sector in Uganda through provision of services and agricultural inputs to improve agricultural productivity and hence modernization; It is failing to change hitherto subsistence agriculture. Farmers have continued to become poor, agricultural output has not found market; diseases and pests have continued to hit farmers living them impoverished. Little is known as to why farmers keep on becoming poor yet NAADS is providing services to the same farmers in the rural areas. Agriculture has failed to take off to be an enterprise of choice, it has remained static as it has previously been and poverty appears to persist at household level in Adjumani District and in Adropi Sub County in particular. Therefore, the researcher was compelled to find out why farmers have continued to remain poor despite the existence of NAADS. The study found that the role of farmers in NAADS program in Adropi Sub county are to directly enjoy the benefits that NAADS brings, participate in the NAADS trainings and joining a farmers’ group; that the performance NAADS in Adropi sub county was found to be good due to the fact that it has transformed the agricultural sector of Adropi sub county on through providing quality Advisory Services provided to farmers, promoting adoption of new crop and livestock enterprises that is evidenced by the improved yields and increase in the numbers of goats and pigs per household in Adropi sub county. The study also found that introduction of modern farming methods, improvements in crop production, improved extension delivery systems topped as the major achievements of NAADS in Adropi Sub County. The study recommends that the government should increase funding the NAADS program since it is impacting positively in improving the standard of living of people in Adropi sub-County.

The study was to investigate the effects of corruption on service delivery in social institutes for example health and education in Bwalasi sub county, Sironko district. It was guided by three specific objectives namely; to establish the relationship between corruption and social service delivery, to establish the negative impacts of corruption on social service delivery, and to identify the different measures put in place to combat corruption in Buwalasi sub county. The study involved fifty respondents and five key informants picked from the Buwalasi sub county community and the Buwalasi sub county headquarters staff. Questionnaires, interview schedule and observations were used in data collection. There w a s abundant evidence of embezzlement and diversion of public funds in the district. Approximately 46% of respondents surveyed reported the embezzlement, diversion and misuse of public money within the public institutions as a common practice, while 27% indicated the" interference of procurement process to be a common form of corruption affecting public institutions. Where corruption i s systemic and entrenched, b o l d n e s s i s required-an incremental approach is unlikely to work. In these cases, an anticorruption strategy must also go beyond first piracies, such as adopt market-friendly policies, red u ce red tape or provide training, helpful though these actions may be.

The study assessed the effect of corruption on health service delivery at Buyende sub county Centers. The objectives of the study included; to find out how bureaucratic corruption affects service delivery at Buyende sub county centers, to examine how causes of corruption in local government affects service delivery at Buyende sub county Centers and to find out how bribery and extortion affects the delivery of services at Buyende sub county Centers. A case study research design was adopted employing both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Out of the targeted sample size of 161 respondents, 126 respondents participated in the study, which was equivalent to a response rate of 78.2%. The quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Spearman correlation and regression analysis techniques. Qualitative data was summarized and presented using verbatim statements. The findings showed that, bureaucratic corruption affected service delivery by 23.9%, causes of corruption in local government had 38.9% effect on health service delivery while bribery and extortion affected health service delivery by 18.9%. The results therefore mean that causes of corruption in local government had the greatest effect on service delivery. In conclusion, the researcher observed that bureaucratic corruption which results into low morale among the health workers significantly contributes to poor health service delivery. Causes of corruption in local government contributed to poor service delivery since it compromises the recruitment process and cheats the health centers of would-be competent and committed staff. Solicitation for bribes from the patients was also contributed to poor service delivery. The study recommended that Buyende sub county should come up with strategies to motivate its workers, especially in the health department; streamline the recruitment system to minimize causes of corruption in local government and seriously revise and emphasize the work ethics and code of conduct.