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Deborah KADDU-SERWADDA, MANAGING PARTNER
With a multidisciplinary educational and professional practice background
in Non Profit Management, Education and Career Guidance and Counselling
Psychology, Debbie has also accumulated more than 10 years of experience
in civil society operations. Her expertise is in general policy-related
development issues in the broad areas of participatory development, monitoring
and evaluation, human rights programming, fund raising, managing donor relations,
management in culturally diverse settings, education/capacity building,
project design and management, organizational development, women's empowerment,
gender and non-profit governance. She has exceptional experience and skills
in the design, management, monitoring and evaluating of programs that
focus on the relationship between individual's empowerment and wider community
development.
She is also the founding Chairperson of Empower Children and Communities
against Abuse (ECCA) www.eccauganda.org
an indigenous organization that aims to facilitate the proactive
participation of men, women and children to work together against all
forms of gender based violence. This organization has pioneered a community
based multi-sectored male and self-help focused gender-based violence
prevention model in Uganda .
She is a pioneer Global Women in Management (GWIM) Coach ,
with the Leadership and Capacity Building Division, Centre for Development
and Population Activities (CEDPA) Washington , DC . She provides on-going
online and teleconferencing coaching support to middle and upper level
women leaders who graduate from CEDPA's Global Women in Management Program:
Building Leaders for Development. Debbie is a CEDPA alumnus. www.cedpa.org
Debbie is also a core member of the African Gender and Development Evaluators
Network (AGDEN). AGDEN is a Special Interest Group (SIG) under the umbrella
of the African Evaluators Association (AFREA), and Africa wide network
through which gender and rights evaluators seek to influence development
through participatory evaluation practice on the continent and the world.
www.afrea.org
GERALD KIKOYO Partner, Finance
Gerald’s specialization is 8 years experience in local and international
non profit organizational financial management and financial capacity
building support of non profit institutions.
Specific areas of competence include effective budgeting and management;
development and implementation of financial policies and procedures; providing
input for identifying, attaining and maintaining organizational financial
objectives and strategies; and assessment and review of financial management
and internal control accounting systems. Gerald trains non-profit finance
staff in all these areas.
Examples of his experience include his role as Financial Management Consultant
of Uganda Self Help Group Approach a concept supported by Kindernothilfe
(KNH) Germany. www.self-help-approach.com
Gerald also provides similar support to Ashoka Innovators for the Public,
a global citizen sector organization. www.ashoka.org
- Gerald is also a Finance Committee member of non-profit organizations
like:
Platform for Labor Action (PLA) a Ugandan indigenous organization founded
in 2000 to promote labour rights of people in employment in both the
formal and informal sector. www.pla-uganda.org
- The Private Education Development Network (PEDN) another indigenous
organization in Uganda established in June 2004 to promote entrepreneurship
and business Education both in schools and out of school communities.
www.pedn.org
- Empower Children and Communities against Abuse (ECCA) an indigenous
organization in Uganda that aims to facilitate the proactive participation
of men, women and children to work together against all forms of gender
based violence. www.ecccauganda.org
IRENE MUTUMBA Partner, Marketing
Irene is a graduate teacher by profession and a social entrepreneur.
Irene has worked as business development support consultant, with considerable
hands on experience in business management, leadership and support services.
She has over 12 years working with local and international organizations
of business development services, grant management and monitoring, entrepreneurship
and business skills training. She has taken a leading role in helping
individuals and youth start small scale business, non profit organization
and social community projects in Uganda.
Irene is also the founder of a Ugandan non-profit organization, Private
Education Development Network (PEDN), www.pedn.org
. Through this organization Irene is challenging the traditional educational
system in Uganda by creating a new learning environment where young people
are encouraged to think and act like entrepreneurs. Through her youth-led
and community supported clubs, Ugandan youth get the opportunities to
be creative, demonstrate initiative, and approach learning in new ways.
Irene sits on several Institutional Boards such Uganda Gatsby Trust (UGT),
Gatsby Uganda Limited (GUL), The Enjuba – USA, Empower Children
and Communities against Abuse (ECCA), Uganda, Uganda Women Entrepreneurs
Association (UWEAL), Single Parents Association (SPAU) among others. Irene
is also an ASHOKA Fellow.
Values: Creativity, Competence and Achievement, Independence, Change
and Variety.
Nassir Katuramu, Information Technology, Future
Link Technologies
Harry Drier, Career Education and Training Associates
Henry Emoi Gidudu, Social Development Worker, Tropical Business
Research
Danstun Bagenda, Business Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, HIV/AIDS,
Human Rights, Legal Reform, Micro Finance, Governance, Human Resource
Development, Organizational Development
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