Project – WOSFER Climate Adaptation and Resilience Initiative (CLARE) Uganda research project entitled: “Building Women Smallholder Farmers’ Empowerment and Adaptive Capacities: A Pathway to enhancing women’s Resilience to Climate Change in Uganda (WOSFER),” is a collaboration between Makerere University School of Women and Gender Studies and the Association of Uganda Professional Women in Agriculture, and […]
Introduction: The School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University in collaboration with the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice(hereafter FCRJ), SOAS, University of London invites applications for two funded split site PhDs in Gender Studies. The School of Women and Gender Studies is Africa’s oldest and biggest School of Gender Studies with a mission of providing intellectual leadership for mainstreaming gender in […]
Uganda, 5 September 2023 – A transformative research project is set to take root in Uganda’s cattle corridor, focusing on enhancing the adaptive capacities of women smallholder farmers. Entitled “Building Women Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptive Capacities in Uganda,” this initiative aims to tackle the gender-based constraints that make rural women farmers particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. As Uganda experiences […]
Andama Fred. Pursuing Masters of Arts in Gender Studies has made me look at life in a more accommodative, compassionate and empathetic lens. I joined the masters class in Makerere University School of Women and Gender studies in 2022 afterbeing admitted in the 2021/2022 academic year. The hungerand desire to learn from the richness that the School provided in terms of dedicated and experienced lecturers, Library resource and open minded course mates helped me shape […]
The Sarah Ntiro Annual Public lecture is this year presented by the School of Women and Gender Studies in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.This will be held at Makerere University Central Teaching Facility 2 (CTF2) Main Auditorium starting at 2pm to 5pm A panel of discussants has been constituted moderated by Prof. Sarah N. […]
I am Victoria Flavia Namuggala, Lecturer, School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. I received the ISO-LOMSO Fellowship in 2022 having submitted my application which successfully went through the selection process. Iso Lomso means ‘the eye of tomorrow’ in isiXhosa: seeing towards the future, laying the foundations for tomorrow. Iso Lomso fellowships provide a three-year attachment to Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study […]
Call for Applications for 2 Master’s Degree ScholarshipsTenable at Makerere University, School of Women and Gender Studies Makerere University, through the School of Women and Gender Studies, is implementing a six-year project funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) through the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED II). The project title is Gender and digitalization […]
Strengthening Women Smallholders’ Resilience to Agricultural Shocks for Enhanced Income Diversification and Empowerment in Uganda Makerere University received a funding from USAID Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN) program, Markets, Risks and Resilience Innovations Lab at the University of California Davis and the International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) Nairobi, to strengthen […]