MAKERERE-sida BILATERAL
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMME
(2010-2014)
Presented at the Annual Review Meeting
18 th November, 2013

AN OVERVIEW OF MAKERERE-SIDA BILATERAL COLLABORATIVE
RESEARCH PROGRAM
ANNUAL REVIEW REPORT 2013

Mak’s Strategic Objectives
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• Health and Health systems
• Agricultural (crop & Livestock) transformation , Food
Security, nutrition and value addition
• Sustainable environment, Natural Resources Governance and Climate Change
• Governance, Culture, Social Justice and Sustainable development
• ICT for development
Cross-cutting areas
• Biotechnology
• Knowledge transfer
• Gender
• Human Resource Development
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SWEDISH COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS
Makerere University

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• To produce qualified lecturers motivated to do more research and building research teams around themselves
• To increase the number of potential PhDs at supported units
• To enhance research throughout the whole university
• To enhance the capacity for research coordination and programme administration at
Directorate of Research & Graduate Training
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• Support to individual units
– Provide an environment conducive for research and research training
• Slogan: “To support the supervisor to supervise”
– through collaboration with universities in Sweden or elsewhere
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• Directorate of Research & Graduate Training (formerly the School of
Graduate Studies)
• Directorate of Information and Communication Technology Services
(DICTS)
• Gender Mainstreaming (now Gender Mainstreaming Directorate
• The University Library
• Faculty of Agriculture (now College of Agriculture and Environmental
Sciences - CAES)
• Faculty of Technology (now College of Engineering, Design, Art and
Technology - CEDAT)
• College of Health Sciences (CHS)
• Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences (now College of
Humanities and Social Sciences)
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PHASE
Preparatory Phase
(2000-2001)
Phase I
(2001 – 2005)
Phase II
(2005 – 2009)
Phase III
(2010 – 2014)
Exchange rate – 1 USD ~ 7 SEK
AMOUNT (SEK)
(millions)
15.0
104.11
181
181.0
AMOUNT
(USD $) (millions)
2.1
15.0
25.9
25.9
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• PhD training (tuition and research costs)
• Support to supervisors to link with their counterparts in Sweden
• Conference attendance by PhD students and supervisors
• Faculty research funds
• Supporting competitive research grants, cross cutting courses, Demographic surveillance site
(DSS)
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• Support to Geographical Information System (GIS) and
Cross Cutting Biomedical Laboratory
• Support for ICT Infrastructure and Library resources
• Independent univ-wide research fund at DRGT
• Supporting dissemination strategies / conferences, publications
• Admin & Coordination of the programme (DRGT)
• Supporting regional collaborations and networks
• Providing for an overhead of 6%.
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• 102 (61 Male, 41 Female) Ph.Ds ( 15 have graduated ), 77 (67 graduated) Masters , 20 postdoc research teams
• Research projects by supervisors in partnership with Swedish
Faculty
• ICT and Library services (email, internet, online journals)
• More quality publications coming out (Improved University
Rankings)
• More linkages: CARTA, DRUSSA, CAPREX, Carnegie, NORHED,
Wellcome (Competitive grants)
• Faculty small grants to support junior researchers from Social sciences, Agriculture, Technology and CHS.
• Supporting thematic research by providing for purchase of equipment, consumables, travel, subsistence and guest lecturers
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• To improve the human resource capacity and the environment for conducting and disseminating the research findings
– Human resource development (Masters, PhDs, postdocs, independent research, guest lecturers)
– Infrastructure and facilities (ICT, library, labs, field sites
– Research Management and Coordination (national and international networks, joint courses, administrative reforms, research Agenda & policy development in other universities
– Strategies for dissemination of findings and adoption of technologies
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• Demographic Surveillance Site (DSS)
-Site now fully operational and data collection continues in an area of over 72,000 people
(old area) involving 16,000- households and another 90,000 people (new area for TB study)
• Biomedical Laboratory
- Dept of Pharmacology in CHS
- Laboratory now fully functional and can be accessed by students and researchers
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Geographical Information System
Laboratory
• State of the art GIS unit set up in the CEDAT
• Laboratory now fully functional and can be accessed by interested researchers & students
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• Optical fibre network covers main campus,
Medicine, MUARIK, MUBS
• 132 computers and LANS set up in supported faculties
• 12 student kiosks with 165 computers set up in various units
• All (100%) Colleges/units have web presence compared to 5% in 2000
• More than 30,000 e-mail users registered on the local mail system compared to 50 in 2000
• Internet connectivity is well maintained to provide a rich global research resource
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• 171 data points (computers) installed in the main library and 28 points at Albert Cook Library
• A functional Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
• More than 15,000 (end of 2012) journals on-line giving countrywide access to recent literature
• Now (2013) 40 e-journals databases, 22,000 titles subscribed & 16 free ones accessed
• With Bergen University, Library staff and EASLIS have trained University of Juba staff and supporting library automation (spin off)
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• Increased visibility , acceptability and upward movement of women into leadership positions
– 5 full professors cf to 1 in 2000 (as of April 2011)
• Commitment to Gender Mainstreaming by the university e.g. increased representation on various committees, transformed to a Directorate
• Continued implementation of Gender plan in the new strategic plan (2008/09-2018/19)
• Gender Policy and Policy & Regulation on sexual harassment, and to engender the human resource manual
• Makerere is still recognised as a pace setter in gender mainstreaming in Universities in sub Saharan Africa

Course Name
ITS code Course name
ITS
LIB 9103 Information Competence &
Management
CCC 9101 Advanced
Research
Methods
ART 9102 Philosophy of Method
WGS 9104
ISE 9106
SOC 9107
Advanced gender Research
Methodology
Advanced Quantitative Data
Analysis
Advanced Qualitative Research
Methodology & Data Analysis
ART 9105 Scholarly
Writing &
Communicat ion Skills
FOM 2087
FOM 9108
FOM 9109
Mechanisms & Epidemiology of Cancer
Clinical Epidemiology
FVM 7201
Genes and Genomes in the
Tropics
Advanced Epidemiology
FOM 9110 Biomedical Research Methods
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Course Males Females Total
Statistical Methods &
Computer Applications
Philosophy of Method
29
Genes and Genomes
85
14
Advanced Gender Methods 47
68 Information Competence &
Management
Research methodology 42
21
54
6
43
45
43
Scholarly writing and communication skills
22 29
Total 307 241
50
139
20
90
113
85
51
548
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CROSS-CUTING COURSE CONDUCTED 2010 TO 2013
Course 2010
F M F
2011
M F
2012
M
Philosophy of methods
Adv. Gender
Research
Statistical
Computer applications
Genes and genomes
Supervision
Research
Management
Scholarly writing & comm skills
Information competence
& mgt
Research
Methodology
Grand TT
8
10
5
11
-
-
19
15
12 13
14 17
5
23
-
-
11
4
8
-
-
25 11
-
17
13
6
14
16
-
-
21
-
17
9
7
6
8
15
13
3
12
25
10
8
10
14
12
9
17
F
2013
M
16
7
5
12
12
16
12
16
F
Total
M
31 54 85
10 43 47
10 21 29
6 14
16 39 65
14 27 28
10 29 22
13 45 68
14 43 42
139
90
50
20
104
55
51
113
85
23
707

Other skills enhancement courses, 2010-2011
Course
Supervision and mentorship
Research management
RBM
Financial Management for
Coordinators, administrators & students on Sida prog
(once a year)
Males Females Total
65 39 104
28 27 55
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• Modern equipment ( GIS lab, Biomedical Lab ,
Technology, Agriculture, Medicine)
• Facilitation to attend meetings/Conferences and present findings
• Research Policy and IPM Policy approved by
Council (2008)
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• Units writing proposals and winning grants
• Biology of Malaria parasites (5 African countries and 20 European institutions by EU)
• Development of capacity for conducting Malaria Vaccine trials
(AMANET) in DSS
• Improving new born health and survival through a community based intervention linked to health facilities by Bill Gates
Foundation in DSS
• EU grant for strengthening Ethics committee , TB Vaccine trials
• MSI funding
• WHO-TDR grant, Wellcome Trust grant
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• Innovative clusters by Rockefeller Foundation
• Up scaling of Innovation systems and Innovative clusters program
East Africa into a Pan African Competitive Forum (PACF)
• Single wire electrification programme by GTZ
• Masters programme in Renewable Energy by NORAD
• Regional Programme in Urbanitization by NORAD
• Establishment of the GIS Institute and a Masters programme in GIS
• Projects under MSI funding by UNCST
• Presidential Innovation Initiative fund
• Six thematic areas (Infrastructure and land management,
Architecture urbanism, Water resources, Eng materials, Renewable energy, ICT GIS
• Cross cutting – Regional Collaboration
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• More partnerships developed and funded
– CARTA, CAPREX, DRUSSA partnerships
– NORHED grant to 8 projects (Appx. $25m) to strength training
– Nurturing & Retention of Next generation of Academics – CCNY
($2.6 million)
– Carnegie Corporation of NY - Ph.D in Social Sciences and competitive grants
• Benchmarking best practices from the collaboration
– Ph.D now by public defence
– Ph.D supervisors cease being examiners
– Candidates can publish their work before graduation
– Thesis can be submitted in form of papers/monographs
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• Health
– Malaria, TB, HIV, Mental health, Reproductive health
• Technology and engineering
– Centre for research in energy and energy conservation (CREEC)
– Innovative systems and Clusters
• Agriculture: Centre for Crop Waste Management
• ICT – regional center
• Library – e-resources
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– Strengthened the position of Makerere as a leading provider of Science education and research
– Enabled the development of centres of excellence i n health, agriculture, technology, social sciences
– Research influenced Gov’t policies (malaria, energy, waste, land, conflict)
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- Contributed to the modernisation of Mak through ICT and library facilities hence increased transparency in governance and efficiency in university operations
(national benefit)
- Improved the quality of academic staff and graduates through support for PhD training , enhanced capacity to supervise, to conduct research and to publish (national benefit)
- Contributed substantially to the attainment of NDP hence reduce poverty levels and attainment of MDGs (nat. &
Intern benefit).
- Reduced the degree of brain drain (national benefit)
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Collaboration with other public universities in
Uganda
• Support through Makerere University
• Institutional collaboration based on MoU’s between Mak and collaborating university
• Support to Masters and/or PD training of university staff at Mak through “ sandwich ”
• Support to development of research policies
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• Supporting competitive research grants, cross cutting courses, field sites (DSS)
• Providing for ICT and Library resources
• Supporting regional collaborations and networks
• Supporting dissemination strategies/conferences, publications
• Providing for an overhead of 6%.
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• Procurement process delays
– Decentralisation may expedite the process
• Scholarship applicants from women
– Sensitization of women
• Audit delays by Auditor General
– Early appointment of auditors
• Consumption of funds by some units
• Delays in submission of Reports
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• Underfunding by the govt hence difficult to recruit and retain staff (50% establishment)
• Inadequate infrastructure including limited bandwidth
• Limited research funds to generate innovations
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• Procurement process delays
– Decentralisation may expedite the process
• Scholarship applicants from women
– Sensitization of women
• Slow consumption of funds by some units
• Delays in submission of Reports
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1 st Call - PhD scholarships for Other Public
Universities
University No of
Applicants
Remarks
Busitema
Gulu
10
11
Kyambogo 10
Mbarara 7
No. Recommended for Award
1
2
Males Females
2 -
1
1*
4** -
Female not admissible in SS now in SPH
2 have absconded
Total 38 9 2*
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2 nd Call - PhD scholarships for Other Public Universities
University No of
Applicants
Busitema
Gulu
2
4
Kyambogo 11
Mbarara
Total
1
18
5
-
5
No.
Recommended for Award
-
Males Females
1
0 0
Remarks
Areas outside recommended, scope
4
1
6
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No. Applicants No. of
Awards
Male Female Male
18 6 5
Female
2
23 14
Comment
To award 13 grants in
2 nd call
2 nd call Peer reviewed awaiting award (13 awards)
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• Sourcing for more research funding and to build a strong environment to support innovations and knowledge translation
• Engage in multidisciplinary research teams/themes with greater focus on postdoctoral training, mentorship and innovations.
• Strengthen scientific corporation with Swedish institutions to compete for research funding
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• Following reforms, university transformed into 9 Colleges (headed by
Principals) and 1 School (Dean)
– Natural Science
– Business and Management Sciences
– Computing and Information Sciences
– Engineering, Design, Art and Technology
– Humanities and Social Sciences
– Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
– Education and External Studies
– Health Sciences
– Veterinary , Animal Resources & Biosecurity
– School of Law
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Council (Grants Committee)
Steering Committee
Implementation Committee
Sub-program
Coordination Unit (Secretariat)
Sub-program Sub-program
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