An in-depth view of the challenges that many Ugandan women face when running enterprises and the often ingenious ways in which they have overcome these - all against a backdrop of trade liberalisation, economic and environmental change, drought and disease. Margaret Snyder's previous book, WOMEN IN AFRICAN ECONOMIES: From Burning Sun to Boardroom (Fountain Publishers, 2000), first tapped into this hitherto under-researched area. ABOVE THE ODDS revisits some of these women years later, giving a unique account of how they have coped since. 232pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Highlights the little-examined marginalisation of domestic workers in human rights covenants and other legal instruments, and examines the various ways in which the human rights of most of these workers are infringed. Draws attention to the fact that the circumstances under which most domestic workers perform their tasks, which are crucial to the stability of many urban households, are usually a blatant breach of human rights and often constitute a gross social injustice. 160pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Examines and evaluates development policies or interventions intended to promote Africa's graduation from poverty and vulnerability to prosperity and security, using Uganda's experience as basis for generalisation of critical challenges and lessons. Figs, tables, notes, bib, index, x, 204pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Using interviews with the elders of Kikole, a Ugandan community, the author looks at the livelihoods of rural elders in East Africa. 272pp, UK. ASHGATE.

Comprehensive survey of the various strategies for managing and developing increased and sustainable crop production. BNS, col ill, 594pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Addresses the challenges and prospects of managing and developing Uganda's livestock and fisheries resources. BNS, 401pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN.

The main goal of the OSSREA project on Poverty Reduction Strategies in sub-Saharan Africa, from which this book is derived, was to analyse the ongoing poverty reduction strategy processes (PRSP) and provide guidance to policymakers and advocacy groups in selected countries. The specific objectives were: i) To assess the core elements of the poverty reduction strategies with respect to the desired targets; ii) To analyse the feasibility of envisaged ap-proaches in implementing the strategies and sustainability of outcomes; iii) In relation to the above, to assess the monitoring and evaluation indicators as well as the institutional aspects of the implementation of strategies; and iv) To analyse the role of IMF conditionalities and other regional and global issues relevant to the process, including debt reduction, market access and foreign investment. 108pp, ETHIOPIA. OSSREA.

Argues that scholars too often assume that the state is the most important force behind change in local political communities in Africa. Studies look to the state, and to the impact of government reforms, as ways of understanding processes of development and change. Using the example of Uganda, regarded as one of Africa's few success stories, Jones chronicles the insignificance of the state and the marginal impact of Western development agencies. Extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan village reveals that it is churches, the village court, and organizations based on family and kinships obligations that represent the most significant sites of innovation and social transformation. Index, bib, apps, 202pp, UK. EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.

The last geography textbook on Uganda was Brian Langland's, published in 1975. Since then, Uganda has undergone numerous changes: its population has trebled from 10 to 30 million; district boundaries have changed and the number of districts increased; economic productivity has also shifted dramatically. Furthermore, new and emerging diseases have surfaced in Uganda. This book addresses the need for a completely updated text. Maps, tables, figs, illus, 304pp, TANZANIA . MKUKI NA NYOTA PUBLISHERS.

Uganda’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has used credit as one of the policy strategies to reduce poverty levels. This study examines the effectiveness of that policy. It traces the ascendance to power of NRM in 1986, when the country was in crisis, devastated by years of political turmoil and economic mismanagement; and illustrates how the NRM, with the assistance of the World Bank and the IMF, embarked on a multi-pronged strategy to reconstruct the economy and improve living conditions. Issues explored are the extent to which the sweeping reforms impacted on the welfare of the rural poor; the extent to which credit programmes have economically empowered the rural poor; and further examines whether credit initiatives created economic sustainability for the beneficiaries. 328pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

The design of appropriate agro-foresty intervention in Uganda has the potential to improve farmers livelihoods in line with the national Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture; and district forest services within the decentralised government framework, enable service providers to promote appropriate agro-forestry interventions depending on local conditions. It was against this background that this manual was developed. 121pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Uganda has 4.9 million hectares of forest resources, which cover 24 percent of the land area. Most of these forests resources have been controlled under customary tenure without clear management schemes. However, in recent years Collaborative Forest Management (CFM) has come to see local communities cooperating with government or its agencies in the management of gazetted forest reserves. Organized in Communal Land Associations (CLA), community members enter into a Memo-randa of Understanding/Agreement with the National Forestry Authority (NFA) to manage part or whole of a gazetted forest reserve. This study seeks to examine this process in Budongo Sub-county in Masindi District to assess: the level of transaction costs households faced in community forestry and to gauge their effects on community forestry initiatives; and determine the distribution of community forestry transaction costs across households with diverse socio-economic characteristics and gauge their effects on community forestry initiatives. 96pp, ETHIOPIA. OSSREA.

Examines the role of cultural and social capital in the efforts of individuals, communities and other networks to overcome poverty and achieve a sustainable way of life. Moving beyond the familiar poverty indicators as from a conventional development-economics perspective, argues that culture plays a major role in development, as the psychological attitudes that determine human behaviour and interaction are usually rooted in the cultural environment. 179pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Agricultural extensions systems were introduced in Uganda by the colonial administration, in the early twentieth century. It has been a key part of its agricultural development strategy, albeit with changes and innovations in approaches, institutional arrangements, methods, and strategies. There has been a dearth documented information on the subject, and this study now provides a systematic documentation and analysis of these changes and innovations, with a view to drawing lessons to inform theory and practice, and to avoid repetition of past mistakes. The book is organised in three parts: Uganda's Experiences with a Privatised contract Farmer-owned Extension Approach; Innovative Extension Methodologies; and Training and Capacity Development for Innovation and Reform in Agricultural Extension. 190pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

The realities of the status of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Africa are frequently misunderstood, misrepresented and generally susceptible to that cliche about Africa's 'backwardness'. This book attempts to document the actual state of affairs in Uganda, one of the first African countries to liberalise the communications sector, which led to an explosion in access to mobile phones, the Internet and other advanced technologies. 103pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Results of research, carried out among banana-farming households in the districts of Masaka and Kabarole in Uganda, focused on the identification of critical factors in the development of relevant policies for HIV/AIDS-affected agriculture-based households or those that are at risk. While in the overwhelming majority of the affected cases the effects of AIDS are negative and lead to increased impoverishment and vulnerability, for some households HIV/AIDS-related effects are manageable, concluding that a households socio-economic status and demographic characteristics influence the magnitude of HIV/AIDS-related impacts experienced and capacity to cope. 372pp, NETHERLANDS. WAGENINGEN ACADEMIC PRESS.

An account of post-colonial social and economic change among pastoral peoples of Uganda in response to development initiatives promoted by the government. It examines the tension between local production systems and development initiatives. In the Ankole region policy has focused on the commercialisation of livestock production through the introduction of cattle ranching. Lack of success is due in part to political and economic crises, but also to a failure to understand the special problems faced by different groups of cattle keepers. Maps, tables, notes, bib, index, 192pp. NETHERLANDS. INTERNATIONAL BOOKS.

Untreated mental illnesses impair the social and economic lives of affected individuals significantly. In the eyes of the public in Uganda any individual who suffers from mental illness is not expected to regain his/her normal senses and return to normality. Contrary to this widely held belief, however, people have adequately recovered from severe mental illness and regained good productive lives after receiving proper treatment. This book has been written to foster quality health care and a good quality of life for the mentally ill in Uganda. 256pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

This study looks at the impact of liberalisation on the development and direction of the milk industry in Uganda. More widely, the study considers the economics and politics of the milk sub-sector and the relative influences of the state and private sectors on the industry. Finally, it analyses the institutional rigidities that are impeding the progress of the industry and its contribution to development in the southwest of the country. BNS, 136pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS..