Secretariat

Dr. Moses Isooba

Executive Director

Dr. Moses Isooba is the Executive Director of the Uganda National NGO Forum (UNNGOF) – a sharing and reflection Platform of National and INGOs in Uganda. Prior to joining UNNGOF, Dr Isooba was a Governance Advisor with ActionAid Denmark. He also worked as the Programme Coordinator of the Civil and Political Rights Component of DANIDA’s Human Rights and Good Governance Program in Uganda. He is currently a member of the Re-Imagining INGOs (RINGO) Social Lab – a group of practitioners reimagining INGOs through disruption, innovation and systematic thinking. Under RINGO, Dr. Isooba is the idea carrier of the Language and Lexicon prototype.

Sarah Namulondo Mugerwa

Team Leader, Finance & Administration

Chris Nkwatsibwe

Team Leader - Policy, Governance & Civic Engagement

Ronald Matanda

Team Leader - Results Management, Learning & Communications

Area of expertise: Proficient with leadership, managerial and technical competencies in strategic planning, programming, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, strong people management skills, proposal development, risk analysis and management, organizational capacity building expert, communications and knowledge management.

Experience: 14 years in program quality, program development, Implementation, monitoring, learning and evaluation and management both in humanitarian response and transformational development. With World Vision, DSW (Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung), CARE international and now with Uganda National NGO Forum

Andrew Dushime

Senior Associate, HR & Administration

Robert Ninyesiga

Senior Programme Associate - Civil Society Strengthening

Robert is a development practitioner in Uganda’s civil society sector with over 10 years’ experience. He started his career at the sub national level where he inspired communities to embrace community-based livelihood improvement approaches, like VSLA model that empowers communities socially and financially.

He is a highly service-oriented individual, interested in CSO internal health, humanitarian work and development communication.
In 2014, Robert joined Uganda National NGO Forum as a Programme Assistant, rose to a Programme Officer and is currently a Senior Programme Associate under the Civil Society Strengthening component supporting interventions; membership servicing and capacity building.

He is a trainer for Life skills for lobbying, a certified trainer for Mobilising Support and Local Fundraising under Change the Game Academy in Uganda.

Robert is an entrepreneur, a family man who is very social, loves dancing, travelling and playing volleyball.

Jane Kiyai

Senior Programme Associate - Civil Society Strengthening

Racheal Damba

Senior Programme Associate - Policy, Governance & Civic Engagement

Juliet Akello

Senior Programme Associate - Policy, Governance & Civic Engagement

Juliet Akello has over 12 years’ experience and expertise in Public Policy Analysis; and Economic Research and Management. As a Civil Society actor, she has experience in Gender Responsive Budgeting and is involved in advocating for Public Finance Management in Uganda for effective service delivery, transparency and accountability. Juliet is also a Social Accountability expert with experience in community empowerment, networking and strategic engagements for policy change.  Her public policy research and analysis, and advocacy efforts have informed economic policy formulation and engagement at both national and sub national levels.

Juliet worked as an Economist and Budget Policy Specialist at the Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) and has also worked as the Policy Officer, heading the Policy and Economic Research sub-component while at the Uganda Debt Network (UDN). She holds a Master of Arts in Economic Policy Management, a Bachelor of Arts in Education and a Certificate in Administrative Officers’ Law Course, all from Makerere University.

Rebecca Ariokot

Senior Associate - Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

Ruth Namara

Senior Associate- Communications

Abel Kugonza

Senior Associate, Finance

Rashidah Namatovu

Senior Associate, Finance

David Alfred Idoru

Senior Associate, IT

Moses Mulindwa

Senior Programme Associate- Policy, Governance & Civic Engagement

Mercy Awino

Programme Associate- Policy, Governance & Civic Engagement

Derrick Baluuku

Programme Associate- Policy, Governance & Civic Engagement

Elizabeth Kantono

Administration Associate

Haawa Nakalema

Office Assistant

Phillip Katongole

Driver/Logistics Assistant

Fred Mutumba

Driver

Emmanuel Mwanika

Driver