Hybrid Green Energy Research
Researchers from the Department of Energy Science and Technology under the Faculty of Economics, Energy and Management Science at Makerere University Business School (MUBS) recently won a grant of $56,000 from the UNESCO-TWAS programme, “Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators” financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The programme aims to support early-career scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa to undertake high-level promising research projects across various fields of science.
ICT-4MRPQ Project
About the Project
The Strengthening Capacity for ICT Usage and Policy Reforms for Relevant and Quality master’s Research Process Management in Uganda’s HEIs Project (ICT-4MRPQ) is project funded by the European Union. It is aimed at strengthening Uganda’s Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) capacity to use ICT in Masters’ research journey quality management processes and devise Policy reforms for relevant high-quality research outputs. The project is implemented through 5 Universities (3 from Uganda – MUBS, MAK & MUST; 1 Portugal – ULisboa; 1 Netherlands – VU, Amsterdam). Uganda HEIs counterparts will benefit from demonstrated increased knowledge, mobility & adoption of new technologies while the European partners will benefit from knowledge and internationalization.
NORHED II NORAD Project
Makerere University Business School (MUBS) has since 2016 been supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), under the Norwegian Programme for Capacity-Building in Higher Education and Research for Development project (NORHED I) to grow capacity in energy economics and governance.
In collaboration with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), MUBS has been able to establish and run the PhD and Masters academic programme in energy economics and governance. To date, the enrollment on these programmes has been phenomenal. The University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania joined the NMBU-MUBS partnership, with a focus on capacity building in energy economics and governance under the NORHED II. This subsequently motivated the establishment of the Uganda Association for Energy Economics (UAEE) that provides a regional framework for coordinating research and training in energy economics. The UAEE sought to affiliate to the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) under a specific framework. This was launched at MUBS with prominent officials from the Norwegian Embassy in Uganda, Prof. Roula Inglesi-Lotz, the IAEE Vice President for Membership and Affiliate Relations, Norad/NORHED Officials, NMBU faculty and staff, NTNU faculty and staff, UDSM faculty and staff, Makerere University faculty and staff, UAEE members and MUBS faculty and staff. representatives from Electricity Regularly Authority (ERA), National Environmental Authority (NEMA), Parliament of Uganda, Uganda Petroleum Authority (UPIK), Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda Petroleum Authority, Vivo Energy and students of both economics and energy economics.
Entrepreneurship , Innovation and Incubation Centre
Generating Growth Opportunities & productivity for Women Enterprises (GROW) Project
The project aims at empowering Ugandan Women Entrepreneurs . Together with the World Bank, the project facilitates women in business to help them advance to another level.
The US $ 217 million (about UGX900billion) five-year GROW Project skills women engaged in business before allocating them grants and credit after a screening to be done by the Uganda Private Sector Foundation. The curriculum development and training modules for the women entrepreneurs among other activities are being conducted at Makerere University Business School.
The Grow project is a Government of Uganda project funded by the World Bank
NSSF Hi Innovator Program
The NSSF Hi-Innovator drive is supporting Small and Growing businesses through advancing of seed funding, providing technical support and capacity building in entrepreneurship and working with financial institutions offering affordable range of products and services.
The Program supports businesses in Agribusiness and Light Manufacturing businesses. Participants receive seed funding to boast their
businesses from Hi-Innovator, a program jointly run by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) together with the Mastercard Foundation, the MUBS Entrepreneurship Innovation and Incubation Centre(EIIC) and Out Box.
MUBS Economic Forum
Regional Maize production Project
More Research Projects at the MUBS Economic Forum
- Study on Food security
- Study on Market Resilience
- Study on Tea given its poor performance that has led farmers to uproot the crop that has been a core source of their livelihood for decades.
- Evaluation of Uganda’s Strategy on Infrastructure Development, Maintenance, Sustainability of Manufacturing in Uganda.
- Research on policies, planning and strategies for increased production and productivity in industry and manufacturing by Uganda Development Cooperation (UDC) and partners.