What have been the implications of Covid-19 for states in Africa? Has pandemic accelerated shift from US-led health governance a unipolar world to one where rise China is increasing scope action global south states? it added influence multilateral institutions, most notably WHO and African Union? Internally, capitalised on undermine constitutional orders put place with ‘refoundation’ many perio...

ABOUT LADDER LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutio...

Abstract This study assessed trends in gridded (0.25° × 0.25°) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) precipitation, potential evapotranspiration (PET), and precipitation minus PET (PMP) across the four water management zones (WMZs) Uganda including Kyoga, Victoria, Albert, Upper Nile. The period considered was 1979–2013. Validation of CFSR datasets conducted using observed at eight meteorol...

This chapter analyses the investment trends and dynamics in East Africa (Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania Uganda), with a focus on renewable energy sector. The first shows that investments have been major driver of Africa’s recent growth, but their allocation towards social environmental sustainability remains...

My humanitarian trip to Kenya was spent working alongside the Kenya Red Cross; the purpose of the trip was to understand public health problems in order to develop solutions and integrate research to confirm successful results. I traveled across Kenya for 2 months, experiencing a myriad of public health interventions addressing various issues or situations. Halfway through my trip, I found myse...