Makerere University will hold the Third Annual Research and Innovations Dissemination Conference to showcase research critical to the development needs of Uganda.

Makerere University will hold the Third Annual Research and Innovations Dissemination Conference to showcase research critical to the development needs of Uganda.This two day conference which will take on 11th – 12th April, 2011, at Hotel Africana, Kampala Uganda is expected to attract over 300 participants from Makerere, other public universities in Uganda, policy makers, civil society and researchers from national and international collaborating institutions.

The conference under the theme, “Transforming society through Research and Innovations” therefore provides an opportunity for Makerere to showcase her research outputs and innovations that are advancing knowledge, impacting society and contributing to national development.

In line with the priority research areas of the university, the conference has been organised in both plenary and five parallel scientific sessions, namely;

• Health and Health Systems Research for National Development
• Natural Resources Utilization, Conservation and Environmental Sustainability
• Agricultural Productivity, Food Safety and Security, and Value Addition
• Governance, Human Rights, Conflict and Disaster Management
• Technology for Socio-economic Transformation

According to Professor Katunguka-Rwakishaya, the Director, Directorate of Research and Graduate Training , this year’s conference has attracted over 100 prominent researchers who will make oral and poster presentations on research that has contributed to policy change or development, benefited society/improved livelihoods and the environment.

Professor Katunguka-Rwakishaya added that the Directorate of Research and Graduate Training has accrued these successes in research because of the substantial support from Sida, NORAD, NUFU, nuffic, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation among other development partners.

The Chancellor, Makerere University, Prof. George Mondo Kagonyera will be the Chief Guest at the opening ceremony, where Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research will also present a keynote paper.

A list of some of the papers to be presented during the conference may be found below 

Key paper – Advances in Health Systems Research – Prof. David Serwadda

My partner wants a child: Across sectional study of the determinants of the desire for children among mutually disclosed sero-discordant couples receiving care in Uganda – Dr. Jolly Beyeza Kashesya

Gender, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Development: The Politics of Condom Use – Dr. Consolata Kabonesa

To use or not to use a condom: A prospective cohort study comparing contraceptives practices among HIV infected and HIV negative – Dr. Jolly Beyeza Kashesya

Occupational stress, job satisfaction and job performance among hospital nurses in Kampala – Rose C. Nabirye

Key Paper – Advances in Governance and Conflict Conciliation – Prof George Kanyeihamba

Lessons for the July 11 Bomb attacks in Uganda – Jacob Waisswa

Key Paper – Advances in Natural Resources Utilisation and Conservation – Prof Joseph Obua

Tourism Revenue sharing policy at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: A policy Arrangement Approach – Wilber Manyisa Ahebwa

Use of mayflies as total replacement of Rastineobila argentea in diets for catfish in Lake Victoria – Andrew Tamale

Performance of growing pig fed cereals processing by products from Maize bran or wheat bran – R. Mwesigwa

Key Paper – Advances in Agricultural Production and Food Security – Prof Adipala Ekwamu

Nutrition Analysis and Innovative Approaches in the Value Addition of Ruspolia nitidula (Nsenene Grasshoppers) for income Generation in central Uganda, Masaka Districts – Dickson Biryomumaisho

Conception rates of indigenous Ugandan goats cervical/artificial dissemination – G. Nadiope

Effect of feeding sun processed brewer’s yeast on growth and cost/gain of growing pigs – S. Kabugo

Is social poverty more acute near protected areas? An assessment of social capital formation around Queen Elizabeth National park in the Albertine Rift, Western Uganda – Akankwasa Barirega

The effects of urbanization on the Housing conditions of the urban poor in Kampala. Uganda – Stephen Mukiibi

Estimating Area Rainfall of the Lake Victoria and its Basin using Ground-based and Satellite date – Dr. Michael Kizza

Local content in the Oil and Gas Industry: implications for Uganda – Dr. Jackson A. Mwakali

Hybrid E-learning for Rural Secondary Schools in Uganda. Co-evolution in Triple Helix Processers – Dr. Peter Lating

Reducing Plastic Waste in the Urban Environment: A search for sustainable options – Dr. Robert Kabumbuli