Early Childhood Education
From this survey, we hope to be able to provide data informing a plan of outreach through further GLI efforts with trusted groups in the Lake Bunyonyi region to increase the role of parents in formulating their children’s educational success.
Plastic Recycling Opportunity
Address UN Sustainable Development Goals to build a regional collation of UN, NGO, Global Bottlers and Local Governments to invest in an rPET facility.
Africa Recycling Feasibility
The focus of this paper is on replicating a successful Bottle-to-Bottle recycling plant that currently exists in South Africa. We believe the best solution is to build the same plant in a central location in East Africa to serve as a regional solution to the processing of plastics collected across multiple East African countries including those collected in Uganda.
Social Media Content for Children in Uganda
Objective: To create social media content for children grades K-3 in Uganda to continue learning beyond the classroom (and during the pandemic).
Public Health & Music Recommendations
Each month, across Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 95 million people access Facebook, with 97% on mobile. The future of the iKnow Concert Series is strongly recommended to look into expanding as a virtual model.
Cultural Exchange & Impact Research Paper
Capitalism has paved the road for multiple states of development in the world. In hindsight, capitalism has motivated the usage of exploitation as a tool to build capital at the dismissal of humanitarianism. The temptation of building capital has inherently concentrated wealth and created cultural immersion. Eastern Africa, however, has untapped cultural immersion activity and development.
Policy Recommendation Public Health & Policy Group
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on communicable diseases, HIV, and gender-based health.
GLI Public Health and Policy Presentation
A study of how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted Uganda. Tasked with creating recommendations and a proposal for how Uganda can build capacity with local communities in response to Covid-19.
Off-Grid Solar Pilot Program for Lighting the Villages Around Lake Bunyonyi in Southwestern Uganda
Off-grid solar systems will provide affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy to rural households, help residents reduce or cease the hazardous practice of indoor kerosene/paraffin/candle use, and promote social and economic development.
GLI Food Storage Facility Project
The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs team was tasked with creating a food storage facility for the Entusi Resort and Retreat Center operated by Global Livingston Institute located in the Lake Bunyonyi region of Uganda.
Ugandan Crop Storage
Agriculture employs nearly seventy percent of the workforce in Uganda, but many farmers lose up to forty percent of their harvest due to improper food storage practices.
Entusi Model Farm Final Report
The Entusi model farm, located in the Lake Bunyonyi area of Southwestern Uganda, serves as an outdoor, hands-on classroom for local farmers to learn new farming techniques and practices.
Sustainable Energy for Rural Uganda
The project goal is to provide a sustainable energy solution for smallholder farmers surrounding Lake Bunyonyi in rural Uganda. The project focused on a sustainable, environmentally friendly, and reliable solution to provide villagers with access to electricity for phone charging and lighting.
Entusi Model Farm Pamphlet
The design presented in this brochure will illustrate the steps that need to be taken to properly design a robust and functioning check time on your farm.
World Down Syndrome Day
World Down Syndrome Day was celebrated all over the world on the 21st March, 2019. Although not the first time in Uganda, it was the first time a staggering 380 people were in attendance, 180 more than initially anticipated.
Africa - a Year in Review
As 2020 begins, it is important to reflect on the top developments that occurred in Africa, in U.S.-Africa relations, and in Africa's role in the global arena over the past year.
Global Health Conference Midwest 2020 Global
New HIV infections in Uganda rose 21% between 2003-2013. Since 2014, Global Livingston Institute works with community partners to produce the "iKnow" Concert Series in rural Uganda. This annual, free concert series brings musicians/celebrities to stress that people can live long, healthy lives while being HIV-positive, aiming to decrease stigma.
Kampala Social Impact Remuneration Survey
During the spring semester of 2019, a capstone team from the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) partnered with staff from the Global Livingston Institute (GLI) and Staffable Africa on designing a remuneration survey for organizations working in the sectors of social impact and social enterprise 1n Kampala, Uganda.
Music as a vehicle for reducing HIV stigma and increasing fo testing in rural Uganda
Through working partnerships with community stakeholders, music was identified as a potential mechanism to deliver messages about sexual health and HIV given its cultural significance in rural communities throughout Uganda. We have hypothesized that an event-based HIV awareness and testing initiative can reduce stigma and increase the acceptability of testing in rural Uganda.