This study examined the role of social work in the management of refugee settlement in Uganda, with reference to Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement. Uganda hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world, and social work plays a central role in supporting refugees and managing the settlements in which they live, yet its contribution has been under-examined empirically. The study investigated how case management, psychosocial support, community mobilisation, and advocacy and referral relate to effective settlement management. A cross-sectional survey design with a mixed-methods approach was adopted, and data were collected from 165 respondents comprising social workers, settlement officials, community leaders, and refugee representatives using structured questionnaires and interviews. Descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, Pearson correlation, and structural (path) analysis were used. Factor analysis confirmed the construct validity of the social work role dimensions, which loaded onto coherent factors and explained 69.1% of the variance. The results revealed a strong positive and significant relationship between social work roles and effective settlement management (r = 0.68, p < 0.01), with the dimensions jointly explaining 66.0% of the variance in settlement management (R² = 0.660). Psychosocial support (β = 0.32) and case management (β = 0.30) emerged as the strongest path predictors. The study concludes that social work significantly enhances refugee settlement management and recommends strengthening psychosocial support, case management, and social work capacity.

This study examined the relationship between tourism marketing strategies and destination promotion at Pamoja Tours and Travel in Entebbe, Uganda. In an increasingly competitive tourism market, the marketing strategies employed by tour operators are central to promoting destinations and attracting visitors. The study investigated how digital marketing, product and packaging, pricing strategy, and branding and promotion relate to destination promotion. A cross-sectional survey design with a mixed-methods approach was adopted, and data were collected from 180 respondents comprising tourists, marketing staff, and tourism stakeholders using structured questionnaires and interviews. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and regression-based path analysis were used. The results revealed a strong positive and significant relationship between tourism marketing strategies and destination promotion (r = 0.66, p < 0.01), with the marketing dimensions jointly explaining 64.0% of the variance in destination promotion (R² = 0.640). Digital marketing and branding and promotion emerged as the strongest predictors. The study concludes that effective tourism marketing strategies significantly enhance destination promotion and recommends investment in digital marketing, strong branding, and attractive product packaging.

This study explored youth involvement in forest management of Omo Forest Reserve, Ogun State, Nigeria. The study used multistage sampling to select 120 respondents between 18 and 35 years from five enclave communities in Area J4 of the forest reserve using a structured interview schedule. The analysis of data included frequency counts, percentages and means with ranking being used for analysis as well as hypotheses testing using Chi-square, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Student's t-test at a five per cent level of significance. They are mostly males (65.0%), single or educated to secondary school levels (75.0%); their mean age is 28.4 ± 4.9 years; they were more likely than not to be non-indigenes resident in the enclaves. The forest resources most commonly identified were timber species (95.0%), bushmeat (81.7%), banana and plantain (75.8%), snails (73.3%) and medicinal plants (70.0%). The highest level of participation was in the reporting of illegal activities (mean = 1.62), while the lowest was membership of forest management committees (mean = 0.41), with 57.5 per cent of respondents reporting a low level of participation. The most common top strategy for these managers was the decision-making style (mean=3.22), and it posed them their greatest challenge: exclusion from decisions making (mean = 3.38). The results showed that participation in planning is significantly associated with educational attainment, primary occupation of respondents as well as indigene status membership of a community association were found to be significantly related to years of residence, monthly income, age and awareness on forest resources management strategies difference between challenges faced versus strategies used by managers. The study concluded that youth participation in the Omo Forest Reserve was more focused on labour-supplying tasks than on decision-making, and recommended that youth representation be constituted on forest management committees, that targeted training be provided, and that credit access be tied to forest-based enterprise