Uganda

Entrepreneurship
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How Uganda Could Benefit from a Center for Food Innovation
Michele Abbott, Deborah A. Cohen
May 23, 2017
The RAND Blog
A training and innovation center that trains and certifies street food vendors to address issues related to food hygiene, safety, and quality would accelerate the growth of a new Ugandan cuisine that capitalizes on nutritious local ingredients in a sustainable manner.
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Entrepreneurship
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What Street Food Vendors in Uganda Need to Succeed
Michele Abbott, Deborah A. Cohen
May 16, 2017
The RAND Blog
Street vendors in Kampala, Uganda, would benefit from infrastructure development, food safety standards, rules of hygiene, and greater focus on healthy products. The city's growing population also would benefit from increased access to nutritious and affordable foods.
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Food Supply Security
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A New Ugandan Cuisine: Showcasing Superfood Qualities of Millet and Sorghum
Michele Abbott, Deborah A. Cohen
May 9, 2017
The RAND Blog
The results of a series of cooking contests in Uganda to promote the use of drought-tolerant, nutritious traditional grains—millet and sorghum—signal that a new food trend may be on the horizon.
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Children
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Lessons from Northern Uganda: Post-Conflict Integration of 'Children Born of War'
Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik
Apr 12, 2017
The RAND Blog
Children conceived as a result of sexual violence during armed conflict face socioeconomic marginalization, family rejection, stigmatization, and violence. Grass-roots women's organizations in northern Uganda are helping to integrate these children in post-conflict societies.
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Uganda
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Improving HIV and Mental Health Care in Uganda
Jan 5, 2017
A small team of RAND researchers has spent years working with local clinics in Uganda to help people not just survive HIV, but learn to live with it, and even thrive.
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Social Services and Welfare
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After Decades of Conflict, Learning to Reap the Benefits of Taxes in Northern Uganda
Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik
Mar 17, 2016
The RAND Blog
A women's community organization is trying to get Ugandans to pay taxes while teaching them how to get the local government to spend tax money on improving public services. The post-conflict regions of northern Uganda need more health care, legal services, psychological support, and counseling.
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Uganda

How Uganda Could Benefit from a Center for Food Innovation

What Street Food Vendors in Uganda Need to Succeed

A New Ugandan Cuisine: Showcasing Superfood Qualities of Millet and Sorghum

Lessons from Northern Uganda: Post-Conflict Integration of 'Children Born of War'

Improving HIV and Mental Health Care in Uganda

After Decades of Conflict, Learning to Reap the Benefits of Taxes in Northern Uganda

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