Blogs & Interviews

Partners & Key Stakeholders

From conflict to connection: How the two governments and communities of Uganda and South Sudan are fostering peace and development across borders
From conflict to connection: How the two governments and communities of Uganda and South Sudan are fostering...
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Language translation and mental health services: implications for programming in humanitarian contexts
Language translation and mental health services: implications for programming in humanitarian contexts...
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Depression in the diaspora: insights in researching Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in a Ugandan refugee settlement
Depression in the diaspora: insights in researching Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in a Ugandan...
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Cross-border programming in the context of refugee yoyo movements: what works?
Cross-border programming in the context of refugee yoyo movements: what works? By definition, a “refugee”...
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The value of Interpersonal Group Therapy among displacement-affected populations in Palabek – Lamwo, Uganda
The value of Interpersonal Group Therapy among displacement-affected populations in Palabek – Lamwo,...
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The literal and metaphorical journey towards innovators, champions, and peace ambassadors in Lobone-Magwi, South Sudan
The literal and metaphorical journey towards innovators, champions, and peace ambassadors in Lobone-Magwi,...
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Too many cooks? The plethora of key urban youth actors in Uganda
Too many cooks? The plethora of key urban youth actors in Uganda It is no question that Uganda has a...
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5 priorities for the next decade of humanitarian research
5 priorities for the next decade of humanitarian research Clockwise from top left: Cordelia Lonsdale,...
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5 Things we Learned from Evaluating the Impact of Research
5 Things we Learned from Evaluating the Impact of Research Guest post by Cordelia Lonsdale and Dr Gloria...
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Shifting the power in humanitarian research
Shifting the power in humanitarian research (Part 1) Local actors are broadly invisible as funding recipients...
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My experience as a doctor dealing with non-communicable diseases
My experience as a doctor dealing with young people suffering from non-communicable diseases One of the...
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Uganda’s military: What do we know about HIV programming?
Uganda’s military: What do we know about HIV programming? Growing up I was always fascinated by soldiers....
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Associate Perspectives

Children and overconsumption of sugar, what can we do?
Insight into overconsumption of sugar among children, its negative effects on their health
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Food during the COVID-19 lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on people and communities all over the world, including Ugan...
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Research partnership with academia and policy actors
While the humanitarian community in other parts of the world might have...
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Implementing Partner (IP) lessons from the REFLECT Project
I have previously written about our experience and lessons learnt on...
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REFLECT study: Lessons learnt by the Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health is the probably the biggest beneficiary of this study
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The REFLECT study partnership
I want to say that as ACORD Uganda, it was a pleasure for us to be part of this study because it was...
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What is in our children’s food environment?
What is in our children’s food environment? What are food environments? According to the Food Environment...
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Food Choices
Food Choices Ever heard about the phrase” You are what you eat?”I mean, if it doesn’t taste good then...
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Dealing with Children in the face of COVID:
A Parent’s Perspective
Dealing with Children in the face of COVID A Parent’s Perspective. One afternoon I got a circular and...
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COVID-19: My personal experience with the corona virus
COVID-19: How I experienced it. I wake up one day to a video of a colleague next to whom I had sat in...
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Education experiences of slum communities in COVID-19
Education experiences of slum communities in COVID-19. The continued spread of COVID-19 has virtually...
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COVID-19: The myths, beliefs and falsehoods in Kampala slums
COVID-19: The myths, beliefs and falsehoods in Kampala slums. Given the infectious nature of COVID-19,...
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Violence Against Men
Violence Against Men. “Turning the Tables” in COVID-19: Violence Against Men in Kampala Slums Conventionally,...
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Food adverts targeting children
Food adverts targeting children and childhood obesity, is there a link? Food adverts targeting children...
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Outside my bubble
Outside my bubble. REFLECT and ALERTS, these are acronyms of studies that literally changed my life....
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Refugee Education Experiences in COVID-19
Refugee Education Experiences in COVID-19. School & Community involvement: The master key to effective...
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Separate COVID worlds for adults & children
The separate worlds of adults and children in COVID-19. COVID-19 has flipped the world as we know it,...
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Hunger in Covid-19: The silent war
Hunger in COVID-19: The silent war for refugees in Uganda and beyond. Uganda is home to about 1. 2M South...
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Child protection concerns in Covid-19
Double Jeopardy: Child Protection Concerns amidst Displacement and COVID-19 Control. With over 1.4 million...
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Heartwrenching field experiences in Covid-19
Hope after heartwrenching field experiences in refugee communities! At the start of this year, I heard...
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Lead by example in Covid-19
The need to lead by example in fight against COVID-19! The need to lead by example in COVID-19 The Refugee...
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Interviews

Quick Chat with Hon. Major Evarlyne Asiimwe, UPDF Director D/HIV
Quick Chat with Hon. Major Evarlyne Asiimwe, UPDF Director D/HIV. What are some of the success stories...
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Quick Chat with Col. Cassette Wamundu, UPDF’s D/HIV
Quick Chat with Col. Cassette Wamundu, UPDF’s D/HIV. Q: How important is HIV to the military?Col. Cassette:...
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Q&A with MoH Official: Uganda’s Policy Landscape on Food Advertising
Q&A with MoH Official. What do you know about Food Advertising to children and adolescents in Uganda?...
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A Quick Chat with Brian Luswata (MoH)
A policymaker’s perspective on the REFLECT Study. How important has the REFLECT study been to Ministry...
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A Quick Chat with Jesse Kamstra (LWF)
Quick Chat with JESSE KAMSTRA, Country Representative – LWF Uganda. In your opinion, how badly has COVID...
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Afternoon Chat with George Piwang (Community)
“Refugees” – rethinking the nomenclature that separates us. Mr. George Piwang -Jalobo
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Catherine Nakidde Nzesei

BSc. | MA | MPH | PhD ongoing

Associate Director of Programmes

Catherine Nakidde Nzesei is the Centre’s Associate Director of Programmes – providing leadership and support to the Programmes Unit across all projects, teams and associates.

Catherine is a public health specialist with graduate training in public health, health promotion and international development. A recipient of the 2022 Commonwealth Scholarship, she embarked on a PhD in public pealth at UCL which is driven by her passion for health system strengthening – and building on previous work around Strengthening Health Professional Regulation in Uganda and Kenya. Catherine’s PhD examines systems and processes for continuous quality improvement of healthcare professional training.

Catherine’s professional interests revolve around leveraging impact from effective systems and empowering vulnerable population categories to enable them to fulfil their potential – whether in a professional, community or personal setting. Some of her previous work has focused on understanding the experiences of refugees and slum dwellers in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as health system resilience. Since inception, Catherine has directly supported for several Centre projects including those on Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), refugee health and wellbeing, Quality Improvement (QI) and livelihoods.