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• Workshop for Winners of Young Scholars Research Grant Competition
• Winners of the 14^th Gender Issues Research Grant Competition
• Winners of the Sixteenth Social Science Research Grant Competition
• Winners of the 2002 Senior Scholars Research Grant Programme
• 7^th DHP Regional Workshop
• DHP Uganda: Study Tour on Bush Encroachment
• Training in Social Science Research Methodology

Workshop for Winners of Young Scholars Research Grant Competition

A workshop for winners of the Sixteenth Social Science and Fourteenth Gender Issues Research Competitions was held from 25-28 September 2002 at the headquarters of OSSREA in Addis Ababa. The grant winners presented their revised proposals, on which they received useful comments and suggestions from the jury and from their fellow winners. The list of the winners that participated in the workshop and their research topics are indicated as follows.

Babiker, May Ali. The gender specific impacts of economic adjustment in Sudan: The case of employment dismissal. Sudan.

Chemngetich, Maru Loice. Linking small-scale farming and off-farm micro and small enterprises for food security among rural women in Kenya: A case study of Vihiga District. Kenya.

Elias, Madzudzo. Gender relations in Zimbabwe’s smallholder agriculture. Zimbabwe.

Kathuri, Lucy Njoki. HIV/AIDS information (re)sourcing and utilisation among housemaids: A study of Nairobi. Kenya.

Kefale, Zinach and Shimelis Tsegaye. Opening access to opportunities of post-employment training and continuous professional education for women public employees: A strategy for cracking the ‘glass-ceiling’ and engendering empowerment. Ethiopia

Madanda, Aramanzan. Commercialisation of gender roles in the fisheries sector: A case of Lake Victoria shore communities. Uganda.

Mueni, Nyama, Joy. Probability of a female farmer benefiting from public agriculture sector expenditure: Case of Blantyre Agricultural Development Division (BLADD). Malawi.

Mugalava, Violet Kasdenyeka. The informal food sector – Trends, coping strategies and related gender issues: Focus on Eldoret Municipality. Kenya.

Rossette, Atukunda. Women survival strategies in the periphery capitalism: the performance of micro-firms in Kampala slums. Uganda.

Teklay, Belaynesh. The effect of non-governmental organisation’s projects in rehabilitating street girls in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia.

Too, Bellah C. C. Technologies used, needs and policy interventions for women’s micro and small firms: The case of agro-food processing enterprises in Uasin-Gishu District. Kenya

Wokabi, Mwangi S. Annualizing gender issues in urban governance: examples from localizing Agenda 21 processes in Nakuru Town. Kenya.

Zeleke, Kifle. Determinants of individual fertility and family planning behavior: A psychological approach. Ethiopia.

Zimba, Benigna. Clothing, consumerism and women’s role in cultural development in Mozambique. Mozambique

Abate, Deribssa. Decentralisation and the management of ethnic conflicts in Ethiopia: Handling ethnic conflicts between Oromiya and neighboring Regional States. Ethiopia.

Bekele, Genanew and Alebel Bayrau. analysis of households’ willingness to resettle and investors’ willingness to pay for urban land: The Case of Addis Ababa city. Ethiopia.

Eshete, Akalewold. Factors affecting female teachers’ morale and job satisfaction in Ethiopia. Ethiopia.

Eshetu, Hussen. Problems and prospects of the non-formal route of girls’ basic education in South Wollo. Ethiopia.

Getao, Carolyn M.. Flood management in the Kano plains, Kenya: Impacts, people’s perception and coping mechanisms. Kenya.

Jenipher, Twebaze. Interface between communication and quality of care: A case study in Tororo and Busia Districts. Uganda.

Maina, Newton Kahumbi. Religious women leaders as actors in ethnic conflict management and resolution in Kenya. Kenya.

Mandivengerei, Stephen. Attacking poverty through participatory governance of natural resources: The case of Zimbabwe’s CAMPFIRE Programme in Mashonaland West. Zimbabwe.

Mironga, John Momanyi. Human impact on wetland ecosystems and its implications on the environment: A case study of Kisii District. Kenya.

Mwaijande, Francis Aron. Cultural approach to Information, Education and Communication (I.E.C) Programmes on sexual behavior change: The role of clan heads and traditional healers in Mbeya and Kagera. Tanzania.

Nahar, Awatif Ahmed. The impact of socio-economic factors on maternal mortality: A case study of Omdurman City. Sudan.

Okwi, Paul Okiira. The economic value of Lake Wamala: Analysis of the impact of mosquito infestation. Kenya.

Ranga, Dick Roger. Rebel. conflicts, constraints and gender issues in the adoption of smallholder irrigation technology: A case study of a demand-driven and a supply-driven scheme in Shamva District. Zimbabwe

Shiferaw, Michael. Farmers’ local land management practices for sustainable land management: The case of Digil watershed, Northwestern Ethiopia Highlands. Ethiopia.

Yawe, Bruno. The prospects for refugee self-reliance: A case study of Nakivule Refugee Camp in Western Uganda. Uganda.

Winners of the 2002 Senior Scholars Research Grant Programme

A total of 21 applications were received for the 2002 Senior Scholars Research Grant Competition. The profile of the grant applicants is as follows.

Out of the 21 applications, a total of four applications by six researchers were selected by a jury composed of senior scholars from the region. The jury met from 10-11 March 2003 at the OSSREA headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and screened the research proposals of the applicants carefully before making their final decision. The selected grant winners and their research topics are the following.

1. Kangalawe, Richard Y. M., Amos Enock Majule, and Eliho K. Shishira, (Tanzania). An analysis of the influence of Man on the landscape and natural resources management under agricultural systems in the Great Rift Valley, Central Tanzania.

2. Mijere, Nsolo J. N., (Zambia). Southern African Development Community (SADC): A study of informal cross-border trade and job creation.

3. Ondimu, Kennedy Nyabuti, (Kenya). Sexual behaviour and networking among large-scale tea plantation labour migrants in Kericho District: Its implication to spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

4. Wamue, Grace Nyatugah, (Kenya). Religion and social healing in contexts of victims of armed conflicts in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa regions.

7^th DHP Regional Workshop

Some 40 Dryland Husbandry Project (DHP) participants from Uganda, Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia met in Aba’ala, Afar Regional Sate, and in Mekelle, Tigray, from 16^th to 19^th October 2002. The opening of the meeting was done in Aba’ala, the DHP Ethiopia area. Pastoral and agro- pastoral community members received the guests and explained and showed them what they had been doing with DHP Ethiopia. What was unique in this workshop was that female participation was 25% and pastoralists and agro-pastoralists also took part in the meeting.

The Afar community members, DHP participants from the region, local administration staff and Mekelle University staff visited the various activities of DHP Ethiopia at the demonstration site and fruit trees adaptation at the household level. Reports of DHP activities from all the participating countries were presented and discussed. This was followed by a discussion on the future of DHP. It was generally felt that DHP activities have shown positive results at the grassroots level. The National Co-ordinators of DHP in the four countries informed the participants that the Dryland Husbandry Project would continue to operate with Government, University and NGO support. All DHP participants appreciated the support of Sida (Sweden) and hoped that it will continue to support the expanding DHP activities in the pastoral and agro-pastoral areas in the Horn and Eastern Africa.

DHP Uganda: Study Tour on Bush Encroachment

Some members of DHP Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia made a study tour from 6 to 8 February 2003 on bush encroachment in the DHP Uganda site area. The study group included pastoralists and agro-pastoralists, Government staff, veterinarians and experts in forestry and other members from the DHP National Steering Committees. The study tour also visited households and observed the activities and achievements that DHP Uganda had brought about with the community in Kazo County, Mbarara District, Uganda. The study tour included a to discussion of problems of dryland areas at the field level.

Training in Social Science Research Methodology

The Research Methodology Institute of the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) organised the third research methodology training workshop from 7-18 October 2002 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The training workshop focused on sharpening and equipping young African researchers with sufficient skills for the conduct of serious research.

The participants were selected from a list of 125 applicants. The new programme topics for the training were mostly drawn from the Modules for Social Science Research Methodology, which were developed by the Research Methodology Institute. The training covered the following themes:

• Background to Social Science Research Methodology

• Ethical considerations in the social sciences

• Qualitative research design

• Generating and analysing qualitative data

• Gender issues in social science research

• Generating and analysing quantitative data

• Developing research proposals.

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