MAKERERE RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME SUPPORTED BY SIDA Eli Katunguka-Rwakishaya Director, Directorate of Research and Graduate Training. 1.

MAKERERE RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME

SUPPORTED BY SIDA

Eli Katunguka-RwakishayaDirector, Directorate of Research and Graduate

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OVERALL GOAL

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• To assist Uganda in its endeavour to promote research

• To support Makerere University to build capacity for Ph.D training

Overall Capacity objectives

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• 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).

Levels of support

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• 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

Units/Faculties supportedTechnology, Agriculture, Social Sciences, Arts, Veterinary Medicine, Gender mainstreaming,Library, DICTS, Quality AssuranceCross cutting GIS, Biomedical laboratory, Demographic surveillance site Directorate of Research and Graduate Training (formerly SGS)

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Forms of support

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• 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

Forms of support (cont-d)

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• 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

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

• 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?

Achievements• 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

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• 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

LIBRARY

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• 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

Improvement of research environment

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• 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

Enhanced research culture

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• 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.

Reducing degree of brain drain

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• 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

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

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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 Manual and Organisation handbook

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Impact

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• 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,)

Impact (cont—d)

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-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

Impact (cont-d)

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• 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.

Economic

management

GENDER MAINSTREAMING: •Ph.D & masters training for female staff

•Gender awareness

Production, competitiveness and incomes

Security, conflict-resolution and disaster

Governance

Human Development

AGRICULTURE:•Livestock, Nutrition & husbandry •Urban crop solid waste facilities

•Integrated pest management •Socio-economic implications of market

waste utilisation

MEDICINE:•Malaria Programme

•Reproductive health/HIV•New therapies

•Degenerative diseases/humanpapiloma Virus

•Mental health projects of depressive illness

TECHNOLOGY:•Sustainable energy & rural power systems

•Water quality management & pollution control•High ceramic materials

•.Appropriate architecture •Performance of high way pavements

PEAP PILLARS

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

Achieve UPE

Develop a global partnership for development

Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger

Promote gender equality & empower women

Reduce child mortality

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases

Ensure environmental sustainability

AGRIC:

•Livestock, Nutrition & husbandry •Urban crop solid waste facilities

•Integrated pest management •Socio-economic implications of market

waste utilisation

MEDICINE:•Malaria Programme

•Reproductive health/HIV•New therapies

•Degenerative diseases/humanpapiloma Virus

•Mental health projects of depressive illness

TECHNOLOGY:•Sustainable energy & rural power systems

•Water quality management & pollution control•High ceramic materials

•.Appropriate architecture •Performance of high way pavements

ICT & LIBRARY:•Makerere university network

•End user training project •E-mail and Internet services Project

•Makerere University Library Information System

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

Gender Mainstreaming:•Ph.D & masters training for female staff

•Gender awareness

MDGs

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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