MAKERERE RESEARCH CAPACITY
BUILDING PROGRAMME
SUPPORTED BY SIDA
Eli Katunguka-Rwakishaya
Director, Directorate of Research and Graduate
Training.
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OVERALL GOAL
• To assist Uganda in its endeavour to
promote research
• To support Makerere University to
build capacity for Ph.D training
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Overall Capacity objectives
• To produce qualified lecturers motivated to do more
research and engaged in building research teams
around themselves
• To increase the number of potential PhDs at
supported faculties
• To enhance research throughout the whole
university
• To enhance the capacity for research coordination
and programme administration at School of
Graduate Studies (SGS).
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Levels of support
• Prep. phase (2000-2001)
15.0 million SEK
• Phase 1 (2001-2005)
104.110 million SEK
• Phase 2 (2005-2009)
181.0 million SEK
• Phase 3 (2010-2014)
180 million SEK
• 1USD = approximately 7 SEK
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Units/Faculties supported
Technology,
Agriculture,
Social Sciences,
Arts,
Veterinary Medicine,
Gender mainstreaming,
Library, DICTS, Quality Assurance
Cross cutting GIS, Biomedical laboratory,
Demographic surveillance site
Directorate of Research and Graduate
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Forms of support
• PhD training (tuition and research costs) and
postdoctoral training (competitive grants)
• Support to supervisors to link with their
counterparts in Sweden
• Conference attendance by PhD students and
supervisors
• Faculty research funds
• Independent university wide research fund at SGS
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Forms of support (cont-d)
• Demographic surveillance site (DSS),Support
to Geographical Information System (GIS) and
Cross Cutting Biomedical Laboratory
• Support for ICT Infrastructure and Library
Services
• Other public universities (Ph.d, Masters, skills
enhancement, policy development)
• Administration and Coordination of the
programme (SGS)
• University reform process
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Areas of focus: Technology
• Infrastructure and land management
• Architecture, Planning and Urbanism
• Water resources and Environmental
Engineering
• Engineering material and application
• Renewable energy systems (Centre for
renewable energy conservation)
• Regional collaboration among East African
universities
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Areas of focus: Social Sciences
• Good Governance and Conflict Studies
• Livelihoods Improvement and Services
Provisioning
• Health and Emergent Diseases Intervention
• Faculty Research Funds
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College of Health Sciences
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Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS
Reproductive Health and Child Survival
Cancer and Degenerative diseases
Mental Health Problems of Vulnerable
populations in Uganda
• Clinical Pharmacology and drug development
• Public health
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Areas of focus: Agriculture
• Agricultural waste utilization and
Management
• Production Systems for increased
crop/livestock productivity
• Value Chain systems for sustainable
agricultural productivity
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What has been achieved?
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Achievements
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DSS now fully functional
Biomedical and GIS laboratories functional
Cross cutting courses up and running
Optical fibre network extended to cover the main
campus, MUARIK and MUBS
Over 90% of the university have web presence
Over 8000 email users
Over 20,000 journals online
Online public access catalogue
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Achievements (cont..d)
• Increased gender awareness (gender policy, regulation of
sexual harassment)
• Promotion of research throughout the whole university
• 137 Ph.D students on full scholarship, 62 Ph.D partial
support (research funds) and 38 Msc, (Largest
programme)
• Research programmes by supervisors in partnership with
Swedish colleagues
• ICT and Library services (email, internet, online journals)
• More publications coming out (Rmacs, dissemination
conference)
• More linkages: UVRI, IARCB, UC-LIFE, Carnegie, NORAD
(Competitive grants)
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Information and
Communication Technology
• Optical fibre network extended to cover 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
• Over 90% of the university units have web presence
compared to 5% in 2000
• More than 12,000 e-mail users registered on the
local mail system compared to 50 in 2000
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LIBRARY
• 171 data points (computers) installed and main
library and 28 points at Albert Cook Library
• Online Public Access Catalogue now functional
• More than 14,000 journals on line giving
countrywide access to the most recent literature
• With Bergen University, Library staff and EASLIS are
training University of Juba staff and supporting
library automation (spin off)
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Gender
• Increased visibility, acceptability and upward movement of
women into leadership positions
• Commitment to gender mainstreaming by the university e.g
increased representation on various committees
• Prioritisation of Gender in the new strategic plan (2008-2018)
• Policy and regulation on sexual harassment, Gender policy to
engender the human resource manual
• Makerere University now recognised as a pace setter in
gender mainstreaming in Universities in sub Saharan Africa
• Gender mainstreaming units under the Academic registrar
now transformed into a Directorate of Gender Mainstreaming
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Improvement of research
environment
• Modern equipment (GIS lab, Biomedical Lab,
Technology, Agriculture, Medicine)
• Facilitation to attend meetings and present findings
• More opportunities for researchers to present their
findings through dissemination conferences
(Medicine, Technology, Directorate of Research and
Graduate Training)
• Many research teams in Makerere competing and
winning large grants. More than 12 out of 20 grants
by MSI won by Makerere teams
• Research Policy and IPM Policy approved by Council
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Enhanced research
culture
• Benchmarking best practices from the
collaboration with Swedish institutions
– Ph.D by public defence
– Joint degrees with KI and KTH, Uppsala, Bergen
University
– Joint supervision of Ph.D candidates
– Thesis can be submitted in form of
papers/monographs
– More Ph.Ds graduating, 20 in 2008, 36 in 2009, 46
in 2010.
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Reducing degree of
brain drain
• Researchers staying and doing work in Uganda
• Since 2000, no student/researcher has stayed in
Sweden. This is due to the sandwich nature of the
programme (model attractive to other
development partners)
• Sida support fairly elaborate and generous.
Enough money for scientists in Sweden and
Uganda to carry out their work keeping them
engaged
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Makerere Reforms
• Started in 2007/8
• Supported by Sida, EDTCP, Makerere
University
• Aim: To reform research coordination and
management including financial and
information management systems (expanded
to include teaching and learning, college
formation and Finance and Administration)
• Committee to conclude its work by June 2011
• Change management committee already in
place
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Achievements
• School of Graduate Studies transformed into a
Directorate of Research and Graduate Training
• 27 faculties/schools/institutes transformed
into 8 colleges and two schools
• Financial reforms to follow college structure
e.g one account per college (reduced 122
accounts to 10, Project accounts not affected)
• Human resource and academic functions to be
vested into the colleges headed by Principals
• Reform committee finalising the Research
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Impact
• Sida support to Makerere IDP has
– Strengthened the position of Makerere as a leading
provider of Science education and research (Change
agent for all institutions of higher learning in
Uganda and neighbouring countries)
Enabled the development of centres of excellence in
health, agriculture, technology and social sciences
and influenced Gov’t policies (health:malaria,
cervical cancer, energy, waste, land,)
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Impact (cont—d)
-Contributed to the modernisation of Mak through
ICT and library facilities hence transparency in
governance and efficiency in university operations
(national benefit). Mak now linked to the global
research community
– Improved quality of academic staff and graduates
through support for PhD training, enhanced
capacity to supervise, to conduct research and to
publish (national benefit). Out of 700 Ph.ds
Country wide, 650 in Makerere, hence resource
for higher education sector in Uganda, Rwanda,
Southern Sudan
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Impact (cont-d)
• Contributed substantially to the attainment of
Poverty Eradication Action Plan (Now National
Development Plan NDP) hence reduce poverty
levels
• Contributed to the attainment of MDGs by the
Government of Uganda.
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AGRICULTURE:
PEAP
PILLARS
•Livestock, Nutrition & husbandry
•Urban crop solid waste facilities
•Integrated pest management
•Socio-economic implications of market
waste utilisation
MEDICINE:
Economic
management
Production, competitiveness
and incomes
Security, conflict-resolution
and disaster
•Malaria Programme
•Reproductive health/HIV
•New therapies
•Degenerative diseases/human
papiloma Virus
•Mental health projects of depressive illness
GENDER MAINSTREAMING:
•Ph.D & masters training for female staff
•Gender awareness
TECHNOLOGY:
•Sustainable energy & rural power systems
•Water quality management & pollution control
•High ceramic materials
•.Appropriate architecture
•Performance of high way pavements
SOCIAL SCIENCES:
Governance
•Conflict & post conflict reconciliation & transformation
•Political economy of diseases in conflict e.g. HIV/AIDS
•Public policy, changing gender relations,
ideologies and identities
ICT & LIBRARY:
Human Development
•Makerere university network
•End user training project
•E-mail and Internet services Project
•Makerere University Library Information
System
AGRIC:
•Livestock, Nutrition & husbandry
•Urban crop solid waste facilities
•Integrated pest management
•Socio-economic implications of market
waste utilisation
MDGs
Eradicate extreme poverty &
hunger
MEDICINE:
•Malaria Programme
•Reproductive health/HIV
•New therapies
•Degenerative diseases/human
papiloma Virus
•Mental health projects of
depressive illness
Achieve UPE
Promote gender equality &
empower women
Gender Mainstreaming:
•Ph.D & masters training for female staff
•Gender awareness
Reduce child mortality
TECHNOLOGY:
•Sustainable energy & rural power systems
•Water quality management & pollution control
•High ceramic materials
•.Appropriate architecture
•Performance of high way pavements
SOCIAL SCIENCES:
•Conflict & post conflict reconciliation & transformation
•Political economy of diseases in conflict e.g HIV/AIDS
•Public policy, changing gender relations,
ideologies and identities
ICT & LIBRARY:
•Makerere university network
•End user training project
•E-mail and Internet services Project
•Makerere University Library
Information System
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria &
other diseases
Ensure environmental
sustainability
Develop a global partnership
for development
How will this be sustained
• Government of Uganda ( 5 million dollars to
Technology, Food Science, Veterinary
Medicine under Presidential Science Initiative)
• Makerere University Staff Development
Programme and University commitment to
contribute 3% of IGF,
• Development partners: SIDA, NORAD,
Carnegie corporation of New York, Bill and
Melinda Gates, WHO, NIH, Wellcome Trust,
NUFFIC, NUFU, New ones to be cultivated
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TACK
THANK YOU
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