PhD Candidates
Rose Mwebaza
My area of research is public participation in environmental decision making and Natural resources management and i am focusing on a comparative study on public participation of indigenous people in environmental decision making and natural resources management in Uganda and Australia .
I am a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda currently on leave to pursue my PH.D at Macquarie University . I obtained my Masters in Comparative Law from the University of Florida , U.S.A (with a certificate of Outstanding Academic Performance), in 1997 and my Bachelor of Laws Degree (with Honours) from Makererere University Kampala, Uganda in 1995. I spent the winter and spring of the year 2002 as a visiting research fellow at the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Environmental Law Centre in Bonn , Germany , where i published an article on public participation in environmental decision making. As an academic, i have published some articles with both local and international journals.
I have served as a consultant on several local and international projects such as Abridging the Land Act 1998, for the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment in Uganda, Land Reform and Management for the Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture for Uganda, Gender and Poverty: Learning from the Poor, a project for the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in Uganda for the Uganda Poverty Participatory Assessment Project (UPPAP) which was funded by the World Bank, I have worked on Projects for the Uganda Law reform project which included reform of commercial Laws in Uganda. I have also worked as a consultant for the British Department for International Development (DFID) and the Rural Development Institute (RDI) in Washington U.S.A.
I have been very active with the civil society organisations in Uganda that are involved in public participation and advocacy on issues relating to natural resources and environmental management. I was the founding co-ordinator of Uganda Land Alliance a consortium of over 30 local NGO's lobbying and advocating for the Land rights of the poor and minorities groups in Uganda from 1997 to 2000 and then Co-director and research fellow at Advocates Coalition for research and development (ACODE) a local think tank funded by USAID and WRI to support lobby and advocacy on environmental issues in Uganda.
My supervisor is Professor Donna Craig of the Centre for Environmental Law.