Those of us who work in those regions were dismayed by this unfortunate characterization. We worried that such rhetoric could hamper efforts to change international development dialogue.

In 2013 Global Livingston Institute completed work on Entusi, a resort that would serve as a community hub for community development, leadership, research, and the formation of new partnerships. The authors of this paper worked closely with Global Livingston Institute to complete the research described in this paper.

Data collection methodology. Findings and conclusions. Recommendations. Next Steps.

When interviews facilitated by past Capstone teams illuminated former child soldiers’ need and want for a capacity-building initiative centered on enhancing their agricultural proficiency, GLI launched the Sustainable Farming Collaborative/Model Farm initiative in Spring 2018 with a cohort of 60 villagers.

The Global Livingston Institute partners with local organizations in Uganda and Rwanda to provide free health services such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing, cancer screening, and family planning counseling to residents during the iKnow Concert Series and the Tour du Rwanda Concert Series.

From 2014 through 2016, we produced a music festival in rural Kabale, Uganda in order to facilitate HIV testing and reproductive health services offered by NGOs specializing in HIV and sexual health.

Through observational research, surveys conducted at the Rutinda market both before and upon arrival, and interviews with villagers, vendors, the Entusi staff, and Ugandan businessmen and businesswomen, the DMBA team gathered diverse perspectives and a considerable amount of information to digest.

In Spring 2017, the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA) capstone team—Quynh Tong, Yang Li, Rafia Farooqul, and Jazlin Gomez, worked with and provided pro bono consulting services for the Global Livingston Institute (GLI), a non-governmental organization in Uganda dedicated to cultivating global understanding of poverty and fostering healthier communities.

Livelihood approaches have been the mainstay of FCS community reintegration programs (Beard, 2014). These interventions take into account “social ecology” and equip the FCS with subsistence resources and skills beyond psychosocial intervention.

Develop a renewable energy platform that allows Entusi Resort & Retreat Center to be 100% operational on solar power, and to use this platform to electrify the communities around Lake Bunyonyi.

Philanthropy and the private sector are looking to social impact investing as a new approach to international development. Private equity is experimenting with innovative models that engage the nonprofit and public sectors with market investments that make a profit and support a public good.

In the fall semester of 2017-2018 academic year, two student consultants from Cornell Institute for Public Affairs - Enknhzul Altangerel and Carolina Araya Chaves - worked on viability study of bakery business in Lira, Uganda, as part of an ongoing research project on reintegration of Former Child Soldiers (FCS) in Uganda.

Although almost 25 percent of Ugandans live under the national poverty line, little is known about the residents of the Kampala slums, especially pertaining to how conditions compare to other global baselines and how existing conditions affect public policy and service delivery.

New Faces New Voices, an advocacy group that focuses on getting women involved in the financial sector in Africa summed up some of the effects of social impact investing on women specifically. The report stated that “women-owned businesses in Africa are growing at a faster rate than women-owned businesses worldwide.”

Reports show that in order for neighborhoods to thrive well, there is a need to reduce the gap of education between the lower social-economic status students and the higher economic status students.

We collected all data through a survey/interview format. The survey was conducted with 50 Pizza Hut employees and we recorded individual responses by hand by having a dialogue with each employee to ensure the questions were translated correctly.

Establish Entusi as a model microgrid facility & training location.

Our goal was to develop a report on current socioeconomic conditions in Uganda as well as existing programs designed to improve mental health, provide vocational training, and increase opportunities for participation and increase earning potential in the agricultural sector to improve the lives of Former Child Soldiers (FCS) in Lira, Uganda.

Managing menstrual hygiene in low-income countries is difficult due to lack of access to feminine hygiene products and few adequate sanitary facilities. Studies in Uganda have found that many girls struggle to attend and do well in school due to inadequate resources to manage their periods.

The purpose of this project was to interact with community members in East Africa to discern problems facing the community and how the Global Livingston Institute and other organizations can be of assistance. In order to meet the needs of a community, it is crucial to determine what those needs look like.