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Gender, HIV/AIDS Transmission and Impacts: A Review of Issues and Evidence

Illustrated with case studies on Bangladesh, Brazil and Uganda, this report highlights that there are gender differences in vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.

Household Coping Strategies in Response to the Introduction of User Charges for Social Services: A Case Study in Uganda

Published by: IDS

This study examines approaches to health care seeking and financing by households living in communities in two poor rural districts of...

Financial Repression and Financial Reform in Uganda

Published by: IDS

The banking system in Uganda is among the weakest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its liabilities comprise less than 10 per cent of GDP, it is highly oligopolistic and inefficient in performing many basic banking functions, and the largest bank and several smaller banks are insolvent.

Economic Reform and Political Liberalization in Uganda

Published by: IDS

Uganda has been implementing simultaneous economic and political reforms since 1986. The interaction between these two sets of reforms is considered in this report which argues that political liberalization has not had a significant influence on the progress of economic reform.

Non-Governmental Organizations and Rural Poverty Alleviation

This book brings together the results of 16 evaluations in four countries (Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Zimbabwe), to provide a detailed assessment of the contribution that NGOs make to rural poverty alleviation.

The Design of Economic Reforms in the Context of Economic Liberalization: The Experience of Mozambique, Senegal and Uganda

Published by: IDS

This paper presents the main conclusions from research into the experience of economic policy reforms in African countries that are undertaking political liberalization.

The Role of Commercial Banking in Recovery from Economic Disaster in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia

Published by: IDS

Gender and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Cases of Uganda and Malawi

Published by: IDS

This report discusses the gender dimensions of the impact of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on Uganda and some reference to Malawi.

Providing for the Rural Poor: Institutional Decay and Transformation in Uganda

Published by: IDS

After 1971 state-dominated rural services collapsed in Uganda. This study sets out the reasons for that collapse and the recent transformation of service provision under the National Resistance Movement government, and evaluates the performance of local government, the private sector, cooperatives and voluntary agencies over the past six years.