ABSTRACT
Throughout my professional career my primary area of interest has been applied policy research with an emphasis on the intersection of gender, education, and development policies in developing countries. One of my recently completed projects was a collaboration with Busitema University of Science and Technology (BU). We designed a Gender Mainstreaming Program (GMP) to meet Uganda’s mandate for all development practitioners to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. Since gender mainstreaming is a process and a strategy for making the concerns and experiences of both men and women an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs so that they benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated, its effectiveness depends in large measure on institutional capacity and commitment.
