Research Papers
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2024-03-29T06:38:51ZTHE PERFORMANCE OF THE FREE ELECTRICITY CONNECTION POLICY IN UGANDA
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THE PERFORMANCE OF THE FREE ELECTRICITY CONNECTION POLICY IN UGANDA
Nabukeera, Madinah Sebyala
This study provided an analysis of the free electricity connection (FEC) in Uganda’s household and to describe how electricity reforms in Uganda will enhance the country to achieve universal electricity. Ugandans on the electricity grid in the country is still low in spite of the policy due to high costs experienced during house wiring, acquiring a wiring certificate and inspection paid to Umeme as the electricity distributor in the country. The study used an exploratory research design to explore the level of access to electricity in both rural and urban areas given the growth in population in Uganda. The data used was secondary and it was obtained from UMEME and World Bank development indicators. The analysis involved descriptive statistics, an independent t test, correlation, Spearman’s rank correlation, and Pearson’s correlation. The results indicated that, Rural Electrification Agency (REA) strongly managed to make more connections (138,895) at a rate of 231.5 USD, under REA, it took 94 waiting days to make 138,895 connections, the number of electricity connections made through the no pole and pole services had different variances from January to July 2020 as indicated by a P-value of 0.000 which is below 0.05 level of significance, access to rural electricity increased to 38.02% in 2018 from 24.41% in 2017 recording a percentage of increase of 13.61%, the growth in population has a strong positive and significant association with access to electricity in rural areas of Uganda (r=76.9%, P-value<0.01), there is a significant and positive strong relationship between population growth and urban access to electricity (r=85%, P-value<0.01). The findings indicate that the free connection policy has played a significant role towards improving access to electricity in Uganda.
This study provided an analysis of the free electricity connection (FEC) in Uganda’s household and to describe how electricity reforms in Uganda will enhance the country to achieve universal electricity. Ugandans on the electricity grid in the country is still low in spite of the policy due to high costs experienced during house wiring, acquiring a wiring certificate and inspection paid to Umeme as the electricity distributor in the country.
2020-09-01T00:00:00ZThe Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Tourism Sector In Uganda
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The Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Tourism Sector In Uganda
Nabukeera, Madinah
This paper assesses the existing debate concerning the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism sector in Uganda. The paper offers a reflection and recommendations on what the future might hold for the industry when it recommences. A combination of descriptive design with quantitative approaches and online resources were used to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and provided a commentary. The paper draws from relevant research-based emphasis on the relevant standing of tourism industry in Uganda. The findings indicated that the average number of tourist arrivals in 2020 were far below the arrivals recorded in 2018, hotels made losses in accommodation cancellations between March and April 2020 and Uganda was expected to record a significant loss in the tourism revenue averaging to 71.6% from different tourism areas in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper suggests a synthesis of assessments that nurtures understanding of the prospect damage on tourism industry on the economy. The idea offered in this manuscript delivers the possibility for a quick assessment of the existing status of the tourism industry, its effectsaccommodation, visitors and revenue during COVID-19 period
This paper assesses the existing debate concerning the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism sector in Uganda.
2022-08-21T00:00:00ZThe Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Economic Growth Of Uganda
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The Effect Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Economic Growth Of Uganda
Nabukeera, Madinah
As of September, 2020 Uganda had registered 5,380 cases of COVID-19 with 60 fatalities. The number of deaths is presently low compared to other countries in the world. This is attributed to the government measures to lessen the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic like countrywide curfew, sports club and bar closure, closing the airport, school closure at all levels of education in country this controlled the spread of the pandemic. With numerousCovid-19 associated deaths reported so far, fairly high numbers of confirmed cases and a high rate of recovery, Uganda’s tightly-controlled response to the Covid-19 pandemic looks to have had more helpful results than its neighbours. Nevertheless, while the strategies have thrived in containing the pandemic so far, they have also triggered numerous damages to the economy. This is expected to affect most the deprived and most helpless groups of society. As a consequence, the economic results of Covid-19 are expected to seriously overshadow the encouraging efforts in health sector in Uganda.
As of September, 2020 Uganda had registered 5,380 cases of COVID-19 with 60 fatalities. The number of deaths is presently low compared to other countries in the world.
2022-08-21T00:00:00ZThe COVID –19 Pandemic effect on Agriculture and Food Security in Uganda
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The COVID –19 Pandemic effect on Agriculture and Food Security in Uganda
Nabukeera, Madinah
Agriculture is one of the drivers of economic development since Uganda is predominately an agricultural economy and being less developed, its key to transform agriculture in order to achieve economic growth. The growth in COVID-19 cases led to limited movement from one place to another due to the stringent measures put in place to deter the further spread of the virus and this in turn could have affected agricultural activities and food security in the country due to high costs of food distribution and access to inputs. The purpose of the study was to investigate how COVID-19 pandemic has affected agriculture and food security in Uganda. The study used a descriptive design with only quantitative approaches and the data used in this study was extracted from Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). The analysis involved running Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), pairwise correlation matrix and descriptive analysis. Results indicated that there was asignificant mean difference between prices of rice, sugar, milk and eggs from March to June during the COVID-19 (P-value< 0.05), the actual percentage mean difference between prices of agricultural products during COVID period at 5% level, it also discovered that between March and June, price of rice recorded the highest increase with an average of 4.8%, followed by that of eggs (3.5%), Sugar (3.4%) while price of milk recorded an average decline of negative 6.1% during COVID period. Results further exposed that transportation costs had a negative and insignificant relationship with the prices of agricultural products during the COVID period (r=-0.734, P-value>0.05). It is observed that after the outbreak of COVID-19, the transportation cost declined exponentially to negative 0.6%, 0.7%, and 0.4 in March, April, and May respectively which was far below the transportation costs recorded in 2019 and the price of rice persistently increased from 0.3% to 8% respectively due to its increased household demand during the lockdown. Therefore, it is concluded that since the prices of core agricultural food stuffs increased during the COVID-19 period, this affected the availability of food in homes, thus reduced on food security
Agriculture is one of the drivers of economic development since Uganda is predominately an agricultural economy and being less developed, its key to transform agriculture in order to achieve economic growth.
2022-08-22T00:00:00Z