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Factors affecting establishment of household enterprises in Uganda
(Kyambogo University (Unpublised work), 2024-07) Owere, Andrew
The study investigated the factors affecting the establishment of household enterprises in Uganda. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the effect of Socio-demographic and Socio-economic characteristics on establishment of household enterprises in Uganda. The study used data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2019/2020. The study estimated the logit model that was identified as the most appropriate model. The key findings from the study were establishment of household enterprises in Uganda was positively and significantly influenced by Rural/Urban location of household head, Access to informal financial services, and household income while on the other hand, household enterprise establishment was negatively and significantly influenced by Post secondary education, Senior Citizen Grant (SCG) and Age of household head. The policy recommendations from the study were that government should integrate conditional elements into the Senior Citizen Grant, that can harness the positive behavioural incentives as identified by Blattman et al. (2014) of requiring recipients to participate in business training or use the funds for specific entrepreneurial activities. This approach will aim at encouraging beneficiaries to reduce their reliance on the grants, thereby promoting sustainable economic growth among senior citizens. Secondly increase funding of informal financial institutions like Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCA’s), Accumulative Savings and Credit Associations (ASCA’s), Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA’s) that would provide financial resources to aspiring entrepreneurs at household level.
Determinants of import demand for rice in Uganda
(Kyambogo University (Unpublised work), 2024-05) Kamugasha, Ian
This study uses a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) framework to analyze the factors influencing Uganda's import demand for rice. The study focuses on the causal effects of the average price of imported rice, GDP, domestic rice production, real effective exchange rate, domestic consumption of rice, and domestic production of maize on the demand for imported rice in both the short-run and long-run. The findings reveal a significant relationship between GDP and demand for imported rice both in the short and long run and also indicate that the average price of imported rice and domestic rice production have significant long-run effects on import demand for rice. These findings offer valuable insights that can guide policymakers and stakeholders in shaping strategies to reduce reliance on imported rice by promoting domestic rice production. Results shed light on the need to put in place measures to promote domestic rice production by supporting domestic rice producers through providing support to farmers, such as access to improved seeds, subsidies, improved access to credit, fertilizers, and agricultural technologies, as well as training programs to increase productivity and competitiveness of the domestic rice industry.
Teachers’ music performance skills and the implementation of the new lower secondary school performing arts curriculum in selected schools in Bushenyi, Uganda
(Kyambogo University (Unpublised work), 2024-11) Niwenyesiga, Enid
This study was about how Music teachers’ performance skills would influence learning of Performing Arts in secondary schools in Bushenyi district, Western Uganda in ways that are prescribed in the New Lower Secondary School curriculum. The study was guided by three objectives: To find out the teachers’ music performance skills that affect the effectiveness of teaching different components of new Lower Secondary School Performing Arts curriculum as required to implement the new Lower Secondary School Performing Arts curriculum, to find out the specific challenges that music teachers face when teaching specific components of the new Lower Secondary School Performing Arts curriculum, to suggest practical solutions to the challenges faced by the teachers of Performing Arts when teaching specific components of the new Lower Secondary School Performing Arts curriculum. The researcher incorporated both Phenomenological and Ethnographical research designs to collect qualitative data using documentary analysis, observation, interview and focus group discussion. The study used the thematic content analysis to analyze data. This involved summarizing and noting the frequency of participants’ responses and observed accuracies.
It was found out that teachers of performing arts need to have a combination of competences in order to implement the new Lower secondary School Performing Art curriculum. These, among others include pedagogical skills such as knowledge to interpret the curriculum, ability to structure the teaching and learning processes well, practical competences of reading staff and solfa notes, writing melodies, organizing learners to compose their own melodies, engaging learners, demonstrating to the learners. Besides inadequate music skills, limited instructional resources, serious lack of support from school management to teachers, lack of practical performance skills were some of the major challenges teachers of Performing Art.
The study recommended that as a matter of solutions to the challenges teachers of Performing Art face, teachers need to be retooled to equip them with relevant Performing Arts skills, school heads need to support Performing Art teachers and students with appropriate equipments and materials.
The study concluded that, a combination of professional pedagogical and performance music skills were necessary for teachers to implement new Lower Secondary School Performing Art curriculum.
The professional skills included; interpretation of the curriculum and structuring teaching, whereas performance skills included playing different music instruments, singing, listening, pitching, rhythm keeping, demonstration, directing as well as music writing in both solfa and staff.
Entrepreneurial skills and financial performance of small and medium enterprises in Nakawa division, Uganda
(Kyambogo University (Unpublised work), 2024-10) Mulinda, Alone
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of entrepreneurial skills on financial performance of small and medium enterprises in Nakawa Division. The study was premised on three specific objectives including; to establish the effect of innovation skills on financial performance of SMEs; to determine the effect of managerial skills on financial performance of SMEs, and to establish the effect of interpersonal skill on financial performance of SMEs in Nakawa Division in Uganda. The study was underpinned by the Social Learning Theory (SLT) to explain entrepreneurial skills and financial performance of SMEs. The study adopted a cross sectional-quantitative research design with a target population of 255 and a sample 175 SMEs which were chosen using stratified simple random selection and the sample size estimated using the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) Table. Data were gathered for the study using a closed-ended questionnaire. By employing factor analysis and the Cronbach Alpha test, the validity and reliability of the data were examined. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to examine the acquired data in SPSS. The correlation results showed a meaningful connection between innovation skills, managerial skills, interpersonal skills and financial performance of SMES. Regression analysis results showed a favorable and statistically significant effect between innovation skills, managerial skills and interpersonal skills on financial performance of SMEs. The study concluded that improving the innovative, interpersonal and managerial skills of entrepreneurs promotes financial performance of SMEs. The study was limited to SMEs in Nakawa Division and therefore future studies can replicate the finding of this study to other settings or even conduct a national study on entrepreneurship and financial performance of SMEs.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Skills, Financial performance of SMEs
Determinants of access to informal credit among households in Uganda
(Kyambogo University (Unpublised work), 2024-07) Kyombo, Moses
Uganda’s credit system is divided into two that is; informal credit and formal credit. Informal credit system happens to be the dominant one. Informal credit involves loans provided by informal financial institutions not under the control of government or bank of Uganda. This dissertation examines the determinants of access to informal credit among households in Uganda. A logit model was used to establish the extent to which independent variables could explain access to informal credit among households in Uganda. Uganda National House hold survey (UNHS) data (2019/2020) was used. The results revealed that informal credit was positively and significantly influenced by; region, education, income, sector of employment and marital status. However, access to informal credit in Uganda was negatively and significantly influenced by residence as well as gender of the household head. The key policy recommendations; evidence showed that education had a positive association with access to informal credit therefore, for better access and utilization of informal credit, government should widen and strengthen its financial literacy programs and preferably translate financial literacy materials to the local languages for better understanding. Government can as well use community based and multimedia platforms like radios, newspapers as well as televisions for promoting financial literacy. On the sector of employment, evidence indicated that informal credit was accessed mostly by people employed in the production sector. In Uganda the production sector is composed of mainly small and medium enterprises (SMEs) Given that SMEs play an important role in production and generation of employment, government should provide tailor made credit specifically for SMEs to boost production. Government can also promote value addition in the small and medium enterprises so that they can generate more income to pay back the credit. Additionally, evidence from the results also revealed that informal credit was accessed more by women. The policy recommendation is that government should widen and strengthen gender friendly policies and programs in support of informal financial sector directed to women financial needs in the economy. Concerning variable income, findings indicated that income had a positive association with access to informal credit. The policy recommendation therefore is that government should strengthen its socio-economic empowerment and livelihood programs to enhance household incomes so that households are able to invest and pay back the loans.