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Kristof Titeca is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and works primarily in the field of Social Sciences. Their research focuses extensively on Sociology and Political Science, with additional contributions in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Economics and Econometrics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Finance.

The main topics covered by their work include Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance; Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology; Global Maternal and Child Health; Political Conflict and Governance; Corruption and Economic Development; Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life; and Healthcare Systems and Reforms.

Their research outputs include multiple publications in prominent venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • BMJ Global Health
  • Health Policy and Planning
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • World Development

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Kristof Titeca include:

  • Who depends on whom? Uganda's refugee 'success story', corruption and the international community, 2021, Third World Quarterly
  • Multisectoral action for health in low-income and middle-income settings: how can insights from social science theories inform intragovernmental coordination efforts?, 2021, BMJ Global Health (co-author)
  • 'Writing budgets for meetings and teas?': a multitheoretical analysis of intragovernmental coordination for multisectoral action for health in Uganda, 2022, BMJ Global Health (co-author)
  • What are the tools available for the job? Coordination instruments at Uganda's national government level and their implications for multisectoral action for health, 2022, Health Policy and Planning (co-author)
  • Indigenous forest destroyers or guardians? The indigenous Batwa and their ancestral forests in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, DRC, 2024, World Development (co-author)

Kristof Titeca has also contributed to book publications, notably with a title published by Zed Books:

  • War, Women, and Post-conflict Empowerment, 2021

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Kristof Titeca consist of:

  • Raúl Sierra
  • Albert Malukisa Nkuku
  • Aimable A. Lameke
  • Aloysius Ssennyonjo
  • Sara Van Belle

Best Publications

  • Real governance beyond the 'failed state': negotiating education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Kristof Titeca;Tom De Herdt

  • Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economy

    Tom Goodfellow;Kristof Titeca

  • REGULATION, CROSS-BORDER TRADE AND PRACTICAL NORMS IN WEST NILE, NORTH-WESTERN UGANDA

    Kristof Titeca;Tom De Herdt

  • The dynamics of social capital and community associations in Uganda: linking capital and its consequences

    Kristof Titeca;Thomas Vervisch

  • Unravelling public authority: paths of hybrid governance in Africa

    Kate Meagher;Tom De Herdt;Kristof Titeca

  • The spiritual order of the LRA

    Kristof Titeca

  • Tycoons and contraband: informal cross-border trade in West Nile, north-western Uganda

    Kristof Titeca

  • Rebels without borders in the Rwenzori borderland? A biography of the Allied Democratic Forces

    Kristof Titeca;Koen Vlassenroot

  • The Changing Cross-Border Trade Dynamics between north-western Uganda, north-eastern Congo and southern Sudan

    Kristof Titeca

  • AN LRA FOR EVERYONE: HOW DIFFERENT ACTORS FRAME THE LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY

    Kristof Titeca;Theophile Costeur

  • 'Hybrid governance', legitimacy, and (il)legality in the informal cross-border trade in Panyimur, Northwest Uganda

    Kristof Titeca;Rachel Flynn

  • Illegal Ivory Trade as Transnational Organized Crime? an Empirical Study Into Ivory Traders in Uganda

    Kristof Titeca

  • Deals and Dealings: Inconclusive Peace and Treacherous Trade along the South Sudan-Uganda Border

    Mareike Schomerus;Kristof Titeca

  • In the Name of the Father? Christian Militantism in Tripura, Northern Uganda, and Ambon

    Jeroen Adam;Bruno De Cordier;Kristof Titeca;Koen Vlassenroot

  • Walking in the dark: informal cross-border trade in the great lakes region

    Kristof Titeca;Kimanuka Célestin

  • Uganda's decentralised primary education: musical chairs and inverted elite capture in School Management Committees

    Gerard Prinsen;Kristof Titeca

  • The ‘Masai’ and miraa: public authority, vigilance and criminality in a Ugandan border town

    Kristof Titeca

  • When revolutionaries grow old: the Museveni babies and the slow death of the liberation

    Anna Reuss;Kristof Titeca

  • Social Capital and Post‐Conflict Reconstruction in Burundi: The Limits of Community‐based Reconstruction

    Thomas Vervisch;Kristof Titeca;Koen Vlassenroot;Johan Braeckman

  • Blood cigarettes: cigarette smuggling and war economies in central and eastern Africa.

    Kristof Titeca;Luk Joossens;Martin Raw

  • Bridging community associations in post-conflict Burundi : the difficult merging of social capital endowments and new 'institutional settings'

    Thomas Vervisch;Kristof Titeca

  • The many faces of a rebel group: the Allied Democratic Forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Kristof Titeca;Daniel Fahey

Frequent Co-Authors

Koen Vlassenroot
Koen Vlassenroot Ghent University
Reinhart Ceulemans
Reinhart Ceulemans University of Antwerp
Lieven Bervoets
Lieven Bervoets University of Antwerp
Ronny Blust
Ronny Blust University of Antwerp
Sara Vicca
Sara Vicca University of Antwerp
Bart Criel
Bart Criel Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

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