Publications

The Story: Five years ago, Tinfayo recruited a farm manager, one Magezi. Magezi managed the farm according to his own wishes and aspirations – largely side linning Tinfayo. However, it is now recruitment time for workers on the farm: Mr. Magezi (current farm manager) travels to seek contract renewal from Mr. Tinfayo; Mucunguzi has learnt for the last 5 years on how the farm has been managed and wants to compete and take the job of the farm manager from Mr. Magezi. …What will happen… …. Click to Access Document

This paper draws from a broader study on citizenship education in Western Uganda to explain how civic education knowledge translates into civic engagement through people’s lived experiences. The paperaddresses two questions, that is the contextual understandings of civic education and civic engagement by the partner NGO. Secondly, what explains people’s decision to engage or not to engage. We employed critical research methodologies with multiple data collection methods as a means of empowering rural community members to dialogue with stakeholders in civic education. We present the findings based on three themes, that is rationality, power dynamics, and mutual interests. We draw on Rational Choice Theory to theorise reasons for civic engagement. We particularly argue that drivers for and against civic engagement are largely individual and driven by assumed benefits and losses. Individual assumptions can also translate to group or larger social conclaves based on common drivers, beliefs and interests. We conclude by noting that actors in civic education and awareness programmes ought to note that civic engagement is rooted in individual rationality albeit contextual. Click to Access Full Report

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This is a report of the Conflict Mapping for the Network for Peace: Preventing and ResolvingConflicts through Early Warning Mechanism in Africa Project being implemented in Kaseseand Ntoroko Districts located in the Rwenzori Sub Region of Western Uganda. The projectis jointly implemented by Community Development Resource Network (CDRN) and KabaroleResearch & Resource Centre (KRC Uganda) in Ntoroko and Kasese Districts respectively,with financial support from the UK aid in partnership with Minority Rights Group International(MRGI) …Click to access Full Report

Kabarole Research Center (KRC), with funding from Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), is implementing a three year Civic Education Project in the Rwenzori region under the title “Enhancing People Power for Transformative Leadership in the 8 Districts of the Rwenzori region”. The project aims at achieving a civically competent citizenry with ability to demand for a more responsive and accountable state; to increase citizens’ knowledge on civil and political rights and to increase government capacity to respond to citizens demands. To achieve these aims, KRC conducted researches on pressing governance issues in order to generate evidence that can be used by citizens and leaders to make appropriate choicesand decisions in planning, policy formulation and effective implementation of development programs for effective service delivery at community levels. In this context, this research sought to interrogate the claim that decentralization and the creation of new administrative units have brought services closer to the people and empowered them through participation on the governance landscape. This is against the backdrop of the immense criticism leveled against the creation of new administrative units which pundits argue has laid a heavier burden onto the tax payer … Click to access The Full Report

The profiling study was conducted to document the status of marketing cooperatives andassociations in Rwenzori region with an objective to improve understanding of their scope andscale, the range of services they receive and offer with the associated terms and conditionsand in turn, determine how best to support them while improving the synergy of BD partnersand the food cluster members of the Rwenzori regional Development Framework …Click to access Full Report

The Rwenzori region consisting of 7 districts (Kabarole, Kyenjojo, Kamwenge, Kasese, Kyegegwa,Ntoroko and Bundibugyo) of Western Uganda has for decades been characterized by conflicts associatedwith cultural and ethnic differences that exist among the people of the region. The conflicts betweencultural groups have always raised questions about governance; leadership and fairness in the sharingand use of natural resources e.g. land. Although the recent conflicts could have some connection withhistorical incidents in the region, they possess a distinguishable character of their own. The currentconflicts between ethnic groups have been triggered by the recent reintroduction and recognition ofcultural leadership. This recognition and facilitation by the government of Uganda resulted into there awakening of historical conflicts, the feeling of inequality between ethnic groups and the fearsthat certain cultural groups will have little or no share in the natural resources including the recentlydiscovered oil and gas. … Click to access Full Report

The Rwenzori Regional Think Tank initiative brought together Rwenzori regional agriculture stakeholdersthat reflected on the challenges facing agriculture sector in the region. Research was seen as oneof the mechanisms through which knowledge can be generated to inform decisions and actions forimproving agricultural productivity. It was against this background that study to identify constraintsand opportunities in the maize grain value chain in Ruwenzori region was done. This research onmaize trade was conducted to provide a precursor for in-depth value chain analysis. A survey of buyersin the districts of Kyenjojo, Kabarole, Kamwenge, Kasese and Bundibugyo as well as Buyers inKampala was conducted. Data about trade volume and prices from 2007 to 2009 was collected. A totalof 399 buyers (stores and traders) in Rwenzori region and a total of key buyers in Kampala wereestablished. This big numbers of buyers include both small and large scale operating in the districtsof Kyenjojo, Kabarole, Kamwenge and Kasese. …. Click to access The Full Report

The East African highland banana (Musa spp. AAA-EA) is a primary food and cash crop in Uganda. Despiteits importance, yields on farmer’s fields remain poor in the region compared to that on research stations.Quantitative information on the status of soil fertility in banana land use, banana management practicesand their adoption and the sources of social capital in Rwenzori region have been scanty. Therefore,what follows below is a summary of research results, from a research that was carried out in traditionalbanana growing districts of Rwenzori region. The study was carried out by the Rwenzori regional ThinkTank, to find out the reasons for the declining productivity of bananas and suggest banana managementtechnologies that can be adopted by farmers with the purpose to increase banana productivity at smallholder farmer level. A sample of 357 banana farmers drawn from five districts of Rwenzori region andsurvey with a participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Diagnostic Survey (DS) research design was usedto collect the data. … Click to access The Full Report

The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) insurgence that took place in Western Uganda wasone of the more than forty violent conflicts that concurrently decorated the world map atthe turn of the century. The 180,000 people of Bundibugyo were part of a family of twomillion people world-wide who were displaced from their homes, but lived inside theborders of their homelands. The Bundibugyo Internally Displaced People (IDPs) thatlived in camps during the ADF war were the subjects of this study. Click to access The Full Report