CURRICULUM VITAE
Mohamed Bukenya Fredskorpset 2007-8
Birth: 13, December, 1973, Mukono District, Uganda Citizenship: Ugandan
Address in Uganda
Assiatant Lecturer: Department of Forest Management
Faculty of Forestry and Nature Nonservation, Department of forest management, Makerere University, P.O.Box 7260, Kampala Uganda +256-772-893233 (Mobile) Fax: +256 41 533574, [email protected] & [email protected]
Address in Norway:
Norwegian University of Life sciences (UMB), Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) P.O Bos 5003, N-1432, ÅS, Norway, Tel.. +4764965340.
[email protected] & [email protected]
Education Qualification
2001 - 2003 MSc. Management of Natural Resources and Sustainable Agriculture (MNRSA) of Agriculture University of Norway (NLH)
1995 - 1999 BSc. Forestry of Makerere University, Uganda
Other Academic and Professional qualifications Other Professional qualifications
25th - 27th August 2004. Certificate Integration of Hands-on and Experiential learning at Continuing Agriculture Educational Centre (CAEC) Kabanyoro
23rd – 27th Febuary, 2004. Certificate Basic Pedagogic Skills for Teachers of Higher Institutions of Learning. School of Education, Makerere University, Kampala.
8th – 12th, March, 2004. Certificate Basic principles of decentralisation in Uganda at Uganda Management Institute (UMI)
Professional Experience
Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry & Nature Conservation, Makerere University (August 2005 up-to-date).
Teaching Assistant in the Department of Community Forestry & Extension, Faculty of Forestry
& Nature Conservation, Makerere University (October 2003 to August 2005).
Visitng Lecturer Kampala University, Department of Environment (October 2004-6).
Development of Forest Business Plans / management plans to private forest tree farmers in Uganda 2004-to date
Researcher: Poverty and Protected Areas in Africa (PAPIA) 2007-2011 from May 2007 to date
Publications
Buyinza, M., Bukenya, M and Nabalegwa M. (2007). Economic Value of Bujagali Falls Recreation Park, Uganda. Journal of Park and Recerational Adiministration, Vol 25 (2): 12-28
Namirembe S, Agea J G, Bukenya M, Waiswa, D & Zziwa A (eds.) (2007). Agroforestry In- Service Training Manual: Design of Appropriate Agroforestry Interventions in Uganda. Fountain Publishers, Kampala Uganda, ISBN 978-9970-02-677-7.
Buyinza M., M. Bukenya, M. Nabalegwa (2006). Financial Efficiency of Improved Fallow Agroforestry Technology for Bean Production in Kakoonge Sub-county, Nakasongola District, Uganda. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences. Vol. 12 (1). 45-56.
Zziwa A. M. Bukenya, O. Sseremba and R.K. Kyeyune (2006). Non-traditional tree species used in the furniture industry in Masaka district, central Uganda. Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences. Vol. 12 (1). 57-66.
Buyinza M., M. Nabalegwa, M. Bukenya (2005). Information-Communication Technology Use Pattern by Women Tree farmers in Buzaya County, Kamuli district Uganda. Uganda Journal of Agric. Sc. Vol. 11: 26-33.
Bukenya, M. 2003. Cost-benefit Analysis of Eucalyptu Woodlots in Mukono District Uganda.
MSc. Thesis , Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Bukenya, M. 1999. Profitability of Private tree Nurseries in Mukono district, Uganda. Special Project Report. Makerere University, Faculty of forestry and nature conservation
Selected Manuscripts
Mohamed Bukenya, F. H. Johnsen and W. S. Gombya-Ssembajjwe, 2005. Appropriation of Environmental and Exchange Entitlements from Eucalyptus Woodlots in Mukono District, Uganda.
Agea, J., Waiswa D, Bukenya. M., Zziwa A., Namirembe, S. 2005. Agroforestry Extension Manual Funded by I@mak. In print by Makerere University Printery
Joyce Adokorach, Hannington Oryem-Origa and Mohamed Bukenya, 2006. Plants used to treat Malaria in Masindi District, Uganda. Manuscript submitted to African Health Sciences, Uganda Medical School Mulago.
Mohamed Bukenya, Mukadasi Buyinza, Willey Bbale and Peter Ndemere; 2005, Effectiveness of Group and Individual Extension Methods: a case study of Vi agroforestry project in Masaka district Uganda. Manuscript submitted to Uganda Journal of Agricultural sciences (UJAS).
Mohamed Bukenya and Ruth Nansamba, 2007. Marketing of agroforestry tree products in Mukunge Sub-county in Masaka District Uganda. Manuscript
Professional growth and Positions of responsibility
Guest Research under Fredskorpset-Exchange for Sustainable Development, Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2007-2008.
Member National Steering Commitee of Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources (PMA-ENR) 2004-2007.
Faculty Examination Co-ordinator, Faculty of Forestry & Nature Conservation, Dec. 2005–.
May. 2007.
Faculty Representative to University Gender Main Streaming Commete Makerere University:
2004-2007
Research and Development projects Conducted
Team Leader: Contribution of selected forest foods to poverty alleviation and household food security in Uganda - I @ Mak.com project (2005)
Team Leader: Small scale Business management, funded by Makerere University – John Hopkins University, USA. To train HIV Women in Small-Scale Business Management. March – May 2007.
Research Assisstant: Protected Areas Development for Poverty Reduction, 2007 - 2011: A joint research-Development project involving research teams from Uganda, Tanzania and Norway.
Teams from INA, NORAGRIC, FFNC, and Sokoine University of Agric. Tanzania (SUA).
Research Assisstant: Tree farmers sensitization under NAADS framework, June 2005 – June 2006. Funded by FAO/UNDP through Uganda Forestry Working Group (UFWG), covered 5 districts of Busia, Luwero, Masindi, Mukono and Wakiso.
Core team member: In-Service Training of District Service Providers in Appropriate Agroforestry Intervention (Innovation at Makerere University), 2003 - 2007. Co-Coordinated and participated in the development of training modules for service providers under decentralized district structures.
Team member for In-Service Training of District Service Providers in Appropriate Agroforestry Intervention (Initiative at Makerere Community Project), June 2005 up-to-date
International Conferences Attended
8th – 12th May 2006 Attended a training workshop on Modelling for Integration of Socioeconomic and Biophysical Processes in East Africa, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania organised and conducted by Cornell University, New York.
18.10.2007 Social Performance Management: The second half of the bottom line story in Microfinance. Kreftforeningen, Tullinsgate 2, Holbergsplass, Oslo
14 November 2007: Second Poverty and Pearce (POVPEACE) Conference at, Oslo, Norway.
Organised by the Norwegian Research Council
On-going reasearch work
Protected Areas and Poverty in Africa (PAPIA)- in collaboration with NINA, UMB/NORAGRIC, FFNC-SUA, FFNC-MAK and University of East Anglia, UK. (2006-2008)
Privatization Reforms in Forestry Sector: Potentials and Challenges for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development- NORAD/NUFU. (2006-2008)
Membership to professional Bodies
Common Wealth Forestry Association (CFA), 2006 -present
Uganda Group of the African Network of Ethnobotany / Ethnoecology (UGANEB): 2005 – Present
Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) 2000 - Present Uganda Forestry Association (UFA), 2004 - Present
Nature Uganda
Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA) Provisional Rotary Club of Makerere, 2007
Community service
Managing Director Forest masters Uganda Limited (FMUL): forest company that gives plantation forest services in Uganda, 2006 - present
Voluntary Member FINDP based in Mukono, 2003 – present.
Research Interest(s):
Forest Business and markets
On-farm forestry for sustainable rural livelihoods
Production, processing and Marketing of forest products Poverty and Environment
Institutional, environment and organizational economics
Undergraduate Courses taught Forest Economics
Economics of Forest Product Industries Marketing of Forest Products
Land use policy and laws in Uganda Environmental Impact Assessment Natural Resources Management Wetalnds and Acquatic Resources
Postgraduate Courses taught
Advanced Forest Business Management: MSc Forestry & MSc. Agroforestry
Students Research Supervision
Supervised twenty two (22) students of Bachelor of Forestry and 20 students of Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Management
Special Interests
My proffesional interests are Institutional and Environmental Economics, Plantation Forest Business, On-farm forestry and sustainable rural livelihoods, Production, Poverty and Environment, and processing and Marketing of forest products.
Hobies
Sports (football), reading Christian literature and learning new cultures
