"Better Together; The effect of timed and targeted counselling by community health workers on pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women and newborns in rural Uganda." Promotor: Prof. dr. S.P.J. Kremers. Co-promotores: Dr. J.S. Gubbels, Dr. S.M.P.L. Gerards. In Oeganda ondervinden veel zwangere en zogende vrouwen moeilijkheden om hun gezondheid en die van hun pasgeborenen te waarborgen, wat uiteindelijk kan leiden tot een hoger sterftecijfer onder deze groep. De gezondheidswerkers op het platteland van Oeganda geven zwangere en zogende vrouwen op bepaalde tijdstippen advies en gezondheidsvoorlichting aan huishoudens om ervoor te zorgen dat zij levensreddende handelingen verrichten en naar de gezondheidsinstelling gaan voor diensten voor henzelf en hun pasgeborenen. Dit draagt weer bij tot de overleving van zwangere en zogende vrouwen en hun pasgeborenen. Bovendien zal het ministerie van Volksgezondheid in Oeganda en andere Afrikaanse landen de uit dit onderzoek voortgekomen kennis gebruiken om de gezondheidszorg en effectieve counseling voor hun gemeenschap te verbeteren.

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PhD candidate     Esther EM (Esther) Kihoro. Promotor: Sietze dr.ir. SR (Sietze) Vellema. External copromotor: Dr T.A. Crane: Principal Scientist, Sustainable Livestock Systems (ILRI), International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya & Dr G.C. Schoneveld: Senior Scientist, Value Chain, Finance & Investments, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Nairobi, Kenya. Summary: How can global policies on low emission development (LED) align with local realities? This thesis investigates this issue using the dairy sector in Tanzania as a case study. Global emission reduction strategies often follow a technocentric view of intensification to reduce emission intensities and commercialization. However, emission reduction is not, the primary goal for farmers. The technocentric approaches on LED are often implemented using a “one-size-fits-all” approach, failing to recognize how farmer heterogeneity affects the uptake of new practices, the unequal distribution of intensification benefits and how distinct socio-institutional systems result in different types of market rules that create various typologies of economic organization with potentially different outcomes on LED. This thesis employs a multi-level approach to analyse the socio-economic, and institutional aspects that shape the alignment. In doing so this research demonstrates the need to; situate LED strategies within socio-institutional contexts and allow plural implementation pathways, establish local innovations that work and understand that agency is grounded in performance.

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PhD candidate: KO (Kwame) Ogero, Organisation: Wageningen University, Laboratory of Virology. Live broadcast PhD defence - in the EVENTS box (upper left of the screen) the link will appear five minutes before the start of the defence.

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