Covid-19 propelled a total lock down of 2020-2022 as well as years of economic fails in the world. The study was aimed at examining the influence of broadcast media toward the mitigation of the spread of covid-19 in Uganda. The study based on three objectives namely: to examine the influence of social media programs of the mitigation of covid-19 in Uganda, to examine the influence of news on the mitigation of covid-19 in Uganda and to examine the influence of social distancing on the mitigation of covid-19 in Uganda. The study sample 138 respondents who included 30 board members, 1 C.E.O, 10 executive committee, 23 editors, 52 presenters, 5 security officers and 17 casual workers and they were sampled by purposive, cluster and simple random sampling techniques. The study found out that males were the most sample than females; most of the respondents were youths. The study found that social media programs help in Maintaining communication with friends, its availability of online tools easy and inexpensive access to the internet helps to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 and news influence the public with health tips, daily updates and elicit positive behavior. The study made some recommendations which are the government of Uganda to make through research on the kinds of different drugs used by different doctors and physicians in treating covid-19 patients and to construct permanent laboratories in different regions of the country to spread up on the mass testing process

This study aimed at examining the relationship between stakeholder engagement, capacity building and performance of HIV prevention projects within Rwenzori Region, Uganda. It was a comparative cross-sectional research design along with a quantitative research approach. The sample size constituted 48 HIV prevention projects out of 55 HIV prevention projects. Data was obtained using two structured questionnaires from two categories of respondents who were categorized as project beneficiaries (local leader, community member) and project members (project manager, M&E officer). SPSS (v25) was used to analyze the two datafiles to obtain frequency tables, correlation and regression analyses to interpret results. This study found a positive relationship between stakeholder engagement performance of HIV prevention projects. Furthermore, there was a positive relationship between capacity building and performance of HIV prevention projects. It was also established that capacity building is a partial mediator in the relationship between stakeholder engagement and performance of HIV prevention projects. This study concludes that projects which embrace stakeholder engagement will perform to their expectation. It also notes that projects which boost capacity building will performance. The study recommends HIV prevention projects to enhance capacity building to achieve the desired performance. It further recommends projects to incorporate stakeholder engagement as a core value to streamline their operations. This research suggests a comparative study examining the relationship between stakeholder engagement, capacity building and performance of projects; and mixed research examining the relationship between stakeholder engagement, capacity building and performance of HIV prevention projects. research.miu.ac.ug/publications 1197 METROPOLITAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ISSN: 1813-4270 Vol. 2 Issue 4, July - 2023, Pages: 1197-1218