RUFORUM Secretariat Staff

Mr. Ombima Wilson: Is a Kenyan. He has been appointed the new Finance Manager of RUFORUM. He is a qualified Accountant with over 9 years experience in accounting and audit work. He is also a trained teacher with a Diploma in Business Education, and is currently pursuing Masters in Business Administration specialising in Finance at Kenyatta University, Kenya through an open learning programme. He is a registered member of Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya where he actively participates in seminars, retreats and conferences. Wilson’s career stems from a humble beginning as a book-keeper. He has risen through the ranks in different organisations improving on his career and gaining more experience. He has worked for Kassim Lakha Abdulla & Co (now PKF International) as an Auditor, Mumias Out Growers Co (1998) Ltd as an Accountant for 3 years, a Financial Accountant for the same company for 3 years, and shortly as a Chief Accountant at Mayfair Holdings-Imperial Hotel before joining East African Educational Publishers Ltd as an Internal Auditor. Wilson was eager to gain more audit experience hence spared time to work as an auditor on part-time basis for James Aggrey & Associates, CPA (K) for over 6 year. Mrs. Claire Akun Ntwali: Is a Ugandan. She attained Bachelors of Social Work and Social Administration (Makerere University -Uganda) and a Master of Science in Development Management (Open University - UK) degrees, she now specializes in the management and implementation of development oriented projects/programmes. Her uniqueness stems from her ability to conceptualize and analyze complex development issues and problems and experience in designing pro-poor strategies. Claire has for the seven years been managing as well as implementing social development projects for different categories of the population among them children, youth and women affected by HIV. Among her most pertinent achievements is the design and management of a development project which led to the enhancement of the livelihoods of disadvantaged women in four districts of Uganda. Sub-granting funds for development activities at the local government level exposed her to the nitty gritty of grants management and supervision. Claire now is working as a Programme Assistant for Grants Management at the RUFORUM secretariat. Mrs. Agnes Akwang Obua-Ogwal: Is a Uganda national. She is currently working as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the RUFORUM secretariat. Agnes completed her Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at Makerere University, Uganda then immediately pursued a Graduate Diploma and Masters Degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of New England, Australia. She joined the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) in Uganda and worked in the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Department, and concurrently led teams and/or participated in the planning, design and implementation of over 10 needs assessment and evaluation surveys with scientists from NARO and other countries.   Agnes was one of the officers that worked with the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program since its inception in 2001. As an M&E Officer at NAADS, she worked with two other officers to spearhead the design, implementation and institutionalization of planning, monitoring and evaluation systems. Agnes gained experience in planning and implementing new and innovative agricultural programs; participatory planning, strategy development, enterprise development, and quality assurance of advisory services. Agnes has also acquired skills in workshop facilitation, training and ICT. Ms.Sylvia Chindime:

She is working as the Programme Assistant for Training and Quality Assurance. She graduated with BSc. in 2005 majoring in Animal Science at the University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture. She obtained a RUFORUM MSc. scholarship to study at Bunda College from September 2005 in a hybrid programme of Animal Science/ Agricultural Economics which she finished in 2007. In her MSc research she evaluated different dairy schemes in Malawi. Sylvia has worked as a Staff Associate in the Department of Animal Science at Bunda College since 2005. In 2007, she was confirmed as a lecturer in the same department, where she taught undergraduate students dairy production and introduction to livestock farming systems. Since 2005 she has also worked as a training consultant at Natural Resources College where her duties and responsibilities included teaching Agriculture Diploma students research methods, project monitoring and evaluation, goats and sheep production. She has attended a number of short courses on project development and management in Japan and Malawi. She has participated in several consultancies such as Land O’ Lakes Inc. /Malawi, an American NGO funded by USAID for dairy business development in Malawi where she was responsible for baseline surveys on Dairy Business Management, Milk bulking Group Assessments, training needs assessment and Training farmers on Dairy Production. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Agriculture Economics and Agricbusiness at Makerere University. 

Mrs Irene M Birungi Lubega: is a Ugandan National. She is currently working with RUFORUM Secretariat in Kampala - Uganda as the Office Manager. She holds a Second Upper Bachelors degree in Social Sciences of Makerere University, a first class Diploma in Secretarial Science of Kyambogo University and is currently finalizing a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology at Makerere University. She has worked with various NGOs with high positive impact levels in health and education sectors e.g African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Uganda as an Administrative Assistant and Developing Human Resources for Health Project (DHRH), a European Union funded Project first as a Project Administrator and later as a Program Officer. She has several certificates in the areas of Management, Procurement, ICT, and vast experience in the fields of procurement, administration, events management, public relations, stores management and human resource management.

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