Paper to cover How Covid-19 has had an impact of Uganda; politics : election held during the pandemic.
COVID19 Testing in Uganda, communication, Internet shutdown/blocking ahead of election day. Please
organize the paper in subjections by tackling the questions (1-4) below. Use all sources provided below plus
any additional if necessary. Paper to use footnotes only – Language : American English
1. Politics
a. Did the virus become a contentious issue in the politics of Uganda?
b. What was the government’s approach? did it have to amend its plans as events unfolded?
c. Was the medical community central to the response?
d. Did the government try to use its response to the virus to achieve other political ends?
2. Particularities
a. Are there any geographic, historical or cultural particularities that affected uganda’s response? – eg does
Uganda have greater control over borders?.is the previous SARS episode or Ebola relevant?.
3. Lessons learned
a. Were there any lessons learned announced by the government or other actors?
b. Were there any criticisms of the government response?
c. identify any lessons to be learned from the response of Uganda?
4. Conclusion
a. Identify the issue of democracy and autocracy
b. which government type performed better? focus on government type as one possible factor in judging the
success or otherwise of the response.
c. other conclusions to explain the handling of the pandemic in Uganda during elections.
Sources
· https://thinkwell.global/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Uganda-COVID-19-Case-Study-_18-Sept-20201.pdf
· https://www.afro.who.int/news/who-supports-uganda-mitigate-risks-covid-19-transmission-during-electionperiod
· https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/01/1081662
· https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1081072
· https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/01/1082012
· https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1074272
· https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/08/1070102
· https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305948
· https://www.uhc2030.org/blog-news-events/uhc2030-blog/an-effective-response-to-covid-19-is-an-inclusiveresponse-the-case-of-uganda-555370/
· https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/uganda-rapid-response-to-covid-19.html
· https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55572903
· https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/world/africa/uganda-elections-bobi-wine-museveni.html
· https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/foresightafrica2021_fullreport.pdf
