The districts and Communities the Center has worked with in the past

• Greater Tororo, including Butaleja, Busia, and Nakapiripirit Districts, through TORCH (Tororo Community Health project).
• Southwestern districts monitored by the Nutrition and Early Childhood Project (NECDP) - Mbaraara, Ntungamo, Bushenyi, Rukungiri, Kanungu, and Bundibugyo).
• Kapuwai, Pallisa District, through PACODET (Pallisa Community Development Trust)
• Kiyeyi through the Kiyeyi Health Centre.  
• Zirobwe in Luwero District, Kisiizi and Nyakibale communities in Rukungiri District, through the piloting of a community health financing and insurance scheme.
• Gulu District – collaboration with Gulu University
• Nakasongola
• Ibanda

Multi lateral and Bilateral International development agencies

This has enabled the CHDC to continue enjoying its multi-disciplinary approach by working with its collaborators from various fields such as medicine, nutrition, economics, education, anthropology, demography, sociology, public health, computer science, bio-statistics, etc.    Through collaborations, CHDC has taken on big projects both within and outside the country, taking roles right from planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, as well as training.   Below are some of the recent collaborations: 

PREPARE – The project on Promoting sexual and reproductive health among adolescents in southern and eastern Africa-mobilising schools, parents and communities, is a collaborative research project involving the University of Bergen, University of Cape Town, University of Limpopo, Makerere University, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Maastricht University, University of Oslo, and University of Sussex.   Funded by the EU and coordinated University of Bergen, CHDC is the project’s implementing organisation in Uganda.   The objectives of the organisations are:

• To carry out a formative study among adolescents to develop specific intervention components.
• Design and implement more focused interventions on parent-child communication and parental support for healthy sexual behaviour.
• To revise existing scales and instruments for data collection and develop new ones to meet the evaluation needs of the focused efficacy studies.
• To evaluate the intervention programmes through a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches.
• The project is being implemented in government-aided day schools in the central region of Uganda, particularly Kampala and Wakiso districts, and is utilizing both qualitative and quantitative research strategies.  The project is employing well-trained staff who can be useful in facilitating any other big Randomized Clinical Trials.  The project that started in February 2010 ended in August 2014. 

The Children and Medicines Project (Child Med)

This is a five year collaborative project (2010-2015) project under Child Health and Development Centre/Makerere University; Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.   Overall objective of the project is to improve the quality of medicine use and management for Children in Uganda through research and training.

A baseline study for information on medicine use for children in Uganda both at national and district level has been conducted purposely to provide foundation for more specific studies that will be conducted in the Child Medicine project at the CHDC.  Through training, the project has recruited four PhD students now doing data collection and also in the process of recruiting masters students.  Details of the PhD research studies can be found in the RESEARCH section. 

International Universities

• University of Amsterdam, AIDS and Social Science Research (ASSR)
• University of Copenhagen, Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• University of Aarhus, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Denmark
• University of Stockholm, Institute of Anthropology, Sweden
• Karolinska Institute, International Health Care Research (IHCAR), Sweden
• University of Copenhagen, Institute of Anthropology, Denmark
• University of Aarhus, Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Denmark
• University of Stockholm, Institute of Anthropology, Sweden
• University of Hull
• African University Consortium (AUC)
• Rockslide University – South Africa
• University of British Columbia

National Universities

• Makerere University, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
• Makerere University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Makerere University, Department of Sociology
• Makerere University, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health
• Makerere University, Department of Food Science and Technology
• Makerere University, Department of Psychology
• Makerere University, School of Public Health
• Makerere University, Institute of Adult and Continuing Education
• Makerere University, Makerere Institute of Social Research
• Makerere University, Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics
• Gulu University

Government Ministries

• Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
• Ministry of Gender, Labor, and Social Development
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Local Government
• Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
• Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES)

Multi lateral and bilateral organizations

• DANIDA
• SIDA
• BTC
• USAID
• Department For International Development (DFID)
• PATH,
• GOAL (Ireland),
• GTZ
• Save the Children
• OXFAM,
• Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA/AED),
• UNICEF,
• WHO/TDR,
• Women Infant Nutrition (WINS/AED),
• World Bank
• Pacific Institute for Women’s’ Health, USA
• Commonwealth Regional Health Secretariat (CRHCS) for East Central and Southern Africa
• Canadian Institute for Health Research