Uganda

Research and activites

Book

2023

Land, rights and the politics of investments in Africa

Ruling elites, investors and populations in natural resource investments
Journal Article

2022

Money in politics in Africa – insights from Tanzania

Rich people and large companies fund election campaigns in exchange for tax exemptions.
Journal Article

2021

‘Pockets of effectiveness’ to tax mining multinationals do exist

Political incentives have to be right - as in Tanzania and Uganda
Book

2020

Governing African Oil and Gas

Boom-Era Political and Institutional Innovation
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DIIS Comment

2020

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nine Months into the Pandemic with No End in Sight
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Journal Article

2017

Total’s power play

After buying Maersk Oil, French oil major Total now dominates Africa’s upstart oil industries
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Web Article

2017

The missing East African oil boom

Domestic and regional politics upset oil development
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Journal Article

2017

Navigating regional risk in East Africa

New African oil producers can maximize potential only through cooperation
Working papers etc.

2017

A belated boom in East Africa

Prospects and risks for oil in Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan
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21 September 2016

AIDA research team is complete

Four new PhD candidates join the AIDA team in Tanzania and Uganda
New book

Foreign aid to authoritarian regimes on the increase

Donors' fatigue with democracy in Africa
Journal Article

2015

Oil gas and mineral exploitation creates economic growth but few jobs

Job creation depends to a great extent on local politics
DIIS Report

2016

Climate action in Uganda: Need for local funding

DIIS Report suggests the need for a mechanism that channels funding directly to local governments
DIIS Working Paper

2015

A poverty reduction programme changing lives to lesser well-being

Beneficiaries and benefactors’ clashing ideas of valued life in Uganda
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Working papers etc.

2015

Disputes block Ugandan oil boom

Hard bargaining, complex politics and regional challenges in East Africa
Book

2015

Job creation in sub-Saharan Africa

a comparative perspective
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Web Article

2015

What goes boom must go bust

Low oil prices cast doubt on good governance model in Africa
DIIS Policy Brief

2015

Climate change adaptation in Uganda: Local governments should be strengthened

Policy brief points to grossly inadequate funding
DIIS Policy Brief

2015

Development initiatives challenge livelihoods of pastoralists

Policies based on wrong assumptions about pastoralism means ill-fitting interventions
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Journal Article

2015

Will oil sink civil society in East Africa?

Article in Financial Times' publication explores challenges but also new possibilities
Thesis

2015

Enhancing well-being among urban youth in pastoral Uganda

PhD dissertation on urban Karimojong youth between security and development
DIIS Report

2014

Towards "good enough" climate and disaster governance

Emerging lessons from Zambia, Nepal, Viet Nam and Uganda
DIIS Report

2013

Report: Social Accountability Mechanisms and Access to Public Service Delivery in Rural Africa

The ability of citizens to make claims and hold those who exercise power to account
DIIS Working Paper

2013

Frameworks for climate change adaptation

New Working Papers on Nepal, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia
DIIS Policy Brief

2013

How to protect land tenure security for current land holders in Uganda?

Recommendations for how development cooperation may contribute

Book Chapter

2023

Conclusion for Land, rights and the politics of investments in Africa

Lars Buur & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Land, rights and the politics of investments in Africa. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing

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Book Chapter

2023

Introduction to Land, rights and the politics of investments in Africa

Lars Buur, José Jaime Macuane, Faustin Maganga & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Land, rights and the politics of investments in Africa. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing

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Book

2023

Land, rights and the politics of investments in Africa

Ruling elites, investors and populations in natural resource investments

Lars Buur, José Jaime Macuane, Faustin Maganga & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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Journal Article

2022

Democratisation in Tanzania: no elections without tax exemptions

Ane Karoline Bak & Ole Therkildsen

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Journal Article

2021

When ‘pockets of effectiveness’ matter politically

Extractive industry regulation and taxation in Tanzania and Uganda

Anne Mette Kjær, Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur & Michael W. Hansen

The Extractive Industries and Society, 8

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Book

2020

Governing African Oil and Gas

Boom-Era Political and Institutional Innovation

Luke Patey, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira & Nelson Oppong

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Journal Article

2018

Professional and Personal Transformation of Extension Workers through Nonformal Agricultural Education Reform

Esbern Friis-Hansen, Edward W Taylor & Deborah Duveskog

International Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2018

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Web Article

2017

Whatever happened to East Africa's oil boom?

Luke Patey

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Working papers etc.

2017

A Belated Boom

Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, and prospects and risks for oil in East Africa

Luke Patey

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DIIS Report

2016

Local government engagement with climate change adaptation in Uganda

Esbern Friis-Hansen, Bernard Bashaasha, Charles Aben, John James Okiror & Godfrey Suubi

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Journal Article

2015

The economics and politics of local content in African extractives

Lessons from Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique

Michael W. Hansen, Lars Buur, Ole Therkildsen & Anne Mette Kjær

Forum for Development Studies

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DIIS Working Paper

2015

Clashes of Well-Being

a paper on the strangeness of a poverty reduction programme

Marianne Bach Mosebo

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Working papers etc.

2015

Oil in Uganda

Hard bargaining and complex politics in East Africa

Luke Patey

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Book

2015

The politics of African industrial policy

a comparative perspective

Lindsey Whitfield, Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur & Anne Mette Kjær

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Journal Article

2015

From crisis to development

the policy and practice of agricultural service provision in northern Uganda

Winnie Wangari Wairimu, Ian Christoplos & Dorothea Hilhorst

Agriculture and Human Values

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Journal Article

2015

Civil society faces uphill climb in East Africa’s budding oil economies

Luke Patey

This is Africa (Financial Times)

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Thesis

2015

Enhancing Well-Being

Urban Karimojong Youth between Security and Development in Uganda

Marianne Bach Mosebo
DIIS Report

2014

Towards "good enough" climate and disaster governance

Emerging lessons from Zambia, Nepal, Viet Nam and Uganda

Ian Christoplos, Charles Aben, Bernard Bashaasha, Hari Dhungana, Esbern Friis-Hansen, Mikkel Funder, Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, Dil Bahadur Khatri, Lily Salloum Lindegaard, Carol Emma Mweemba, Le Duc Ngoan, Imasiku Nyambe, Adam Pain & Le Thi Hoa Sen

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DIIS Report

2013

Social accountability mechanisms and access to public service delivery in rural Africa

Esbern Friis-Hansen & Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

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DIIS Working Paper

2013

Decentralization and implementation of climate change policy in Uganda

Esbern Friis-Hansen, Bernard Bashaasha & Charles Aben

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DIIS Working Paper

2013

Land tenure under transition

tenure security, land institutions and economic activity in Uganda

Helle Munk Ravnborg, Bernard Bashaasha, Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Alice Turinawe

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Journal Article

2013

Land and property rights and economic behaviour in Uganda

results from a questionnaire survey conducted in Amuru, Masaka and Pallisa

Helle Munk Ravnborg, Bernard Bashaasha, Michael Kidoido, Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Alice Turinawe

Journal of peace and security studies, 1

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Journal Article

2012

Elections and landmark policies in Tanzania and Uganda

Anne Mette Kjær & Ole Therkildsen

Democratization, 20

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DIIS Working Paper

2012

Land tenure and economic activities in Uganda

a literature review

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen, Sarah Alobo & Michael Kidoido

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Journal Article

2011

Developing agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

organic cocoa in rural Uganda

Sam Jones & Peter Gibbon

Journal of Development Studies, 47

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DIIS Comment

2020

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nine Months into the Pandemic with No End in Sight

Dane Fetterer

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DIIS Policy Brief

2015

Climate change adaptation lacks local government funding

Decentralized climate change responses in Uganda

Esbern Friis-Hansen, Bernard Bashaasha, J. J. Okiror, Charles Aben, Godfrey Suubi, Stella Rosset, Peter Chelli & Isaac Nakendo

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DIIS Policy Brief

2015

Livelihood of pastoral peoples is challenged by wrong assumptions

Development among pastoralists in Uganda

Marianne Bach Mosebo

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DIIS Policy Brief

2014

Social accountability and public service delivery in rural Africa
DIIS Policy Brief

2013

Land tenure security and development in Uganda

Helle Munk Ravnborg, Bernard Bashaasha & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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DIIS Policy Brief

2011

Elections in Africa

mixed blessings for growth and poverty alleviation

Anne Mette Kjær & Ole Therkildsen

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21 September 2016

AIDA research team is complete

Four new PhD candidates join the AIDA team in Tanzania and Uganda
Livestreaming

Large-scale investments, conflicts and rights in Africa

Auditorium

Natural resource investments and their consequences

DIIS Experts

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Helle Munk Ravnborg

Sustainable development and governance

Senior Researcher

+4525471657

hmr@diis.dk
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Jethro Norman

Peace and violence

Postdoc

jeno@diis.dk
Luke Patey

Foreign policy and diplomacy

Senior Researcher

+45 9132 5479

lpa@diis.dk
Ole Therkildsen

Sustainable development and governance

Emeritus Researcher

+45 3269 8714

oth@diis.dk
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Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Sustainable development and governance

Senior Researcher

91325504

rhp@diis.dk
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Sarah Seddig

Peace and violence

PhD Candidate

ssed@diis.dk