Dr. Peace Musiimenta was recently awarded a fellowship for an OKP (Orange Knowledge Programme) fellowship for the short course: “Professional Development Programme for Gender Trainers (PDPGT)” at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam the Netherlands.

The fellowship will take place from 22nd/October/2018 to 3rd/May/2019. The course is divided into three modules, of which two; module 1 and 3 are face-to-face and will be held in Amsterdam:

• Module 1: face-to-face workshop in Amsterdam (NL), October 22-26, 2018
• Assignment 1: virtual networking, October 26 – March 1, 2019
• Module 2: moderated online sessions, January 21 – March 1, 2019
• Assignment 2: individual assignment, March 1 – April 29, 2019
• Module 3: face-to-face workshop in Amsterdam (NL), April 29 – May 3, 2019

Dr. Musiimenta is currently a lecturer in the School of Women and Gender Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University. She is also a trainer and a field mentor (research trainer) with Gender Responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT). GREAT is a Makerere University – Cornell University certificate program delivering applied gender training for agricultural researchers to offer tailored skills development in gender-responsiveness along the design, implementation, evaluation, and communication of agricultural research, focusing on gender training linked to practice, building communities and effecting change within institutions.

Dr. Musimenta has won many awards form Carnegie Corporation of New York (2015), Directorate of Research and Graduate Training (2010), AHP/ACLS, (2011) NUFU- Norway (2007), CODESRIA(2010) and in April 2018, she won Andrew W Mellon Competitive Mentorship-Oriented Research grant worth 72 million Uganda shillings to conduct a research project tilted “Masculinity revisited: change, continuities and fractures in Kigezi”.

Congratulations Dr. and thank you for making the School Proud!