Focus: Grounding Land Governance (Uganda)
Telephone: +31 71 527
E-mail:
d.n.kobusingye@ascleiden.nl
Doreen Nancy Kobusingye is a Ph.D researcher under the ‘
Grounding
Land Governance’ Programme, based at the African Studies Centre in
Leiden, the Netherlands. This programme is a collaborative effort of the
African Studies Centre Leiden, the Centre for International Conflict
Analysis and Management at the Radboud University, and the Faculty of
Development Studies of the University of Science and Technology in
Mbarara, Uganda. Within this programme, Doreen is responsible for a
research project in Uganda.
In 2011 Doreen attained her MA degree in development studies
specializing in decentralization and local governance at the faculty of
development studies at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. Her
MA thesis is entitled: The Efficacy of Creating New Districts as a
Channel of Service Delivery in Uganda: A case study of Kayunga District.
In 2005 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in development
studies from Makerere University Kampala. Her dissertation is entitled:
An Assessment of the Challenges of Rural Electrification in Enhancing
Development: A case study of Mafubira Sub-county, Jinja District,
Uganda.
Doreen worked as a teaching assistant in the faculty of development
studies, Mbarara University of Science and Technology teaching Non
Governmental Organizations and Development, and as a research assistant
at KIN Development and Management Associates, Kampala.
The programme ‘Grounding Land Governance’ is funded by WOTRO Science for
Global Development, a division within NWO, The Netherlands Organisation
for Scientific Research
http://www.wotro.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6UB9S8_Eng