Phase 4

This project will strengthen Makerere University’s Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (HDSS) to become a stronger research support platform for community-based research, and for research training for students and members of staff at Makerere University and other stakeholders.

A plan to transform the legal status and organizational structure of the HDSS is currently under review, and final approval is expected by early 2015. The primary objectives over the coming funding phase will be:

This project proposes to provide cross-cutting higher education and research information support to all the academic programmes within and outside Makerere University, addressing the factors affecting access to library and information resources, facilities and services.

The primary objective of the project is ‘to increase access to library and information services for higher education, research and innovations in Uganda by 2020.

The proposal focuses on five components, namely:

The graduate training process at Makerere University and other Public Universities in Uganda is riddled with a number of constraints inhibiting the smooth production of required higher degree graduates and other research outputs necessary for the Social Economic Transformation of the country.

This subprogram will minimize the hurdles along the research and graduate training at Public Universities in Uganda.

The Directorate of Research and Graduate Training has coordinated the Makerere-Sida bilateral research program since inception in 2000. This program has been by far the largest research support in the history of the University.

This project is a collaboration aimed at developing an effective Information and Communications Technology (ICT) support within the Directorate for Information and Communications Technology (DICTS) that is responsive to academia, research and administrative functions of the University, and also to promote effective and appropriate utilization of ICT resources.

Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the nature of geographic phenomena and information. It attempts to provide theoretical foundations for modeling of space, time and process and for development of geospatial technologies including geographic information systems (GIS).

The research training programme will entail supporting 5 post-doctoral research fellowships, 7 PhD fellowships and 24 Masters of Arts and Science fellowships, 35 competitive faculty grants, training staff in research supervision, enhancing staff's scholarly writing skills in the gender discipline and increasing staff’s capacity to publish.

The primary objective of the research training programme is to enhance staff’s capacity to conceptualise and execute gender focused research. The research training will be conducted through local research training in Makerere University.