Microfinance and Financial Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Rukiga District: A Case Study of Muhanga Town Council Rukiga District. by Aturinda, Betas

“…The study concluded that while microfinance services such as loans, savings, credit, leasing, insurance, and cash transfers are available to SMEs in Muhanga Town Council, they do not consistently lead to improved financial performance for small businesses. …”
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Credit Financing and Profitability of Small-Scale Enterprises in Kabale Municipality: A Case Study of Selected Enterprises in Southern Division. by Nasasira, Gerald

“…The study revealed the determinants of Profitability in Small-scale Enterprises in Southern Division Kabale Municipality and these included Credit financing, age of small-scale enterprises in operation, location of the business, customer care of the business owner, the degree of competition, and strength of demand. Lastly, that the study revealed that there is a relationship between Credit Financing and the Profitability of small-scale enterprises in Southern Division Kabale Municipality the results included credit financing provides access to capital for the business, credit financing helps in the sustainability of the business, credit financing helps in increasing investment opportunities, helps to compete favorably with other businesses, it helps the business to continue expanding and enables the sales volumes of the business always to increase. …”
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Supervision and Employee Performance: A Case Study of Lyamujungu SACCO Kabale District. by Atukunda, Emily

“…The study revealed the factors that affect employee performance were employee technical training, goals and expectations of an employee, goal setting at work, morale and company culture, supervisor interaction, experience at work, tools, and equipment at work. Lastly, the study revealed that there is a relationship between supervision and employee performance as supervision is an extremely vital part of a workplace, poor supervision leads to limited responsibility for taking action for the prevention of problems, mistakes, accidents, and injuries, poor supervision also opens the door for unethical behaviors within a company, effective supervision in workplaces acts as a motivating factor and increases job satisfaction, offering employee’s feedback on their work is an effective way of monitoring their progress, individual meetings between supervisors and their employees, poor supervision doesn’t only mean that there isn’t enough supervision, supervision entails overseeing the activities of the junior members to ensure that they are in line with an organization’s policies, supervision for subordinates increases employee productivity and overall performance. …”
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Credit Management and Performance of selected financial Institutions in Kabale District, Uganda by Joshua, Muhumuza

“…Through client appraisal techniques, Character, Capacity, Collateral, Capital and Condition of the client will be better matched to loan size and terms .The financial institutions will be able to know credit worth of clients and thus reduce their non-performing loans and improve loan and overall bank performance. Lastly financial institutions should adhere to the requirements of the Central Bank as failure to do so may lead to their closure; they should also always recapitalize so as to match deposits. …”
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Advertisement and Sales Performance in Mtn Uganda, Kabale Branch. by Mwebesa, Acleo

“…The results further revealed that there is no significant relationship between media advertisement and sales performance (r = 0.511, p = 0.663), there is a significant effect of billboards and sponsorship of events on sales performance (r = 0.003, p = 0.412), and lastly, there is no significant relationship between advertisement and sales performance of MTN Uganda Kabale district (r = 0.610, p = 0.713).Based on research findings, the following recommendations were made: there is a need for MTN Uganda to conduct a customer communication needs assessment and be in a better position to design a clear and dependable medium to reach out to the public with services and products; there is a need to hire marketing professionals with the ability to package advertisement messages; and there is a need to choose the right people and approach to deliver messages. …”
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Compensation and Retention of Civil Servants in Uganda: A Case of Rubanda District Local Government. by Tubenawe, Akileo

“…On the effect of performance incentives on the retention of civil servants, the majority 100% of the respondents agreed that they had been responsible for their activities at the district; 69.4% agreed that they had been respected to perform their activities; and 30.6% disagreed. Lastly, 93.1% of the respondents agreed that they used fellow workers to motivate others, compared to 6.9% of the respondents who disagreed with the statement during data collection. …”
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Financial Inclusion and Refugees’ Self-Reliance: An Assessment for Women’s Economic Empowerment at Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Southwestern Uganda. by Mugisha, Abbas, Kaaya, Siraje

“…Many displaced populations failed to fi nd long-lasting solutions for rebuilding their lives. Most refugees live in temporary camps established as an institution to give people protection in cases of emergency (Dela Chaux & Haugh, 2014).…”
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Adoption of Electronic Records Management System in Managing Patients Records at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital. by Musiimenta, Lucky

“…Participants gave the challenges as low service quality due to lack of qualified staff, followed by inadequate knowledge, Lack of security and privacy, technological changes, unstable power supply, additional operating costs, computer viruses, and lastly information hacking and misuse Possible ways of improving electronic records in Kabale Regional Referral Hospital were installation of anti virus soft wares which was ranked highly by the Participants followed by regular change of passwords, using only trained personnel, Restrictions on access to records, have stable power supply, Records be maintained in its Cycle, have a backup system and more workshops be provided to all records keepers at Kabale RRH for proper maintenance of records. then finally the study recommended that there is need for the hospital to increase its training programs or workshops in electronic records keeping to the record managers, recruit trained personnel and the records and information keeping department should keep viruses monitoring soft ware's updated…”
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Distance Learning and the Quality of teacher Education in Rwanda: A case Study of Byumba. by Anastase, Mvuyekure

“…It also suggested that Distance Training Centres should be increased in number in order to enable a greater number of beneficiaries to have access to the programme. Lastly, attempts should be made to use Information Communication Technology (ICT) to deliver the Distance Learning Programme…”
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Employee Compensation and Retention of Civil Servants In Uganda: A Case Of Rubanda District Local Government. by Tubenawe, Akileo

“…On the effect of performance incentives on the retention of civil servants, the majority (100%) of the respondents agreed that they had been responsible for their activities at the district; 69.4% agreed that they had been respected to perform their activities; and 30.6% disagreed. Lastly, 93.1% of the respondents agreed that they used fellow workers to motivate others, compared to 6.9% of the respondents who disagreed with the statement. …”
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Adverse Maternal Outcomes and Associated Factors Among Mothers of Advanced Age delivering at a Tertiary Hospital, Southwestern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study. by Masembe, Sezalio, Migisha, Richard, Turyasingura, Godwin, Aheisibwe, Hillary, Nzabandora, Emmanuel, Lule, John C.

“…Factors associated with adverse maternal outcomes were precipitate labor (adjusted prevalence ratio [aPR]=1.95, 95%CI: 1.44–2.65), prolonged labor, lasting>12 h (aPR=2.86, 95%CI: 1.48–3.16), and chronic hypertension (aPR=2.01, 95%CI: 1.34–3.9). …”
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