Dr. Willy Ngaka is the National Coordinator, Makerere University Centre for Lifelong Learning and lectures various course in Adult Learning and Community Education Programmes of the College of Education and External Studies. He holds a PhD and M.Ed..
Dr. Willy Ngaka is the National Coordinator, Makerere University Centre for Lifelong Learning and lectures various course in Adult Learning and Community Education Programmes of the College of Education and External Studies. He holds a PhD and M.Ed with concentration on Adult Learning and Education from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN); and MPA and BA from Makerere University. He has received skills training in Pedagogy, Project Management, International Development; International Public Health; and HIV/AIDS Management. He is in his final semester of a PGD in Monitoring and Evaluation at Uganda Technology and Management University (UTAMU). Previously, he served as a Lecturer of Project Management in the Department of Community Education and Extra Mural Studies and Coordinator for Project Management course within a NORAD-funded MSc in Natural Resources Management for Sustainable Agriculture and Development Studies under Makerere University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences from 2002 – 2010. He was a visiting research scholar at Centre for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, Iowa State University in 2007 and a postdoctoral fellow at UKZN in 2013. He is currently finishing a book on Modernizing Agriculture or Reproducing Poverty in Uganda: An ethnographic study of subsistence farmers’ literacy practices. His interests are: qualitative research; literacies; adult education and lifelong learning, gender issues in adult education, rural livelihoods, development management, capabilities, community mobilization; and peace studies and research. He received certificate of merit from University of Natal for excellent academic performance in 2003 and the prestigious Elva Knight Research award from the International Reading Association (IRA) in 2006. He is an External Examiner with Uganda Management Institute, UTAMU and UKZN. He led a consultancy that developed policy briefs and pronouncements on socio-cultural norms, values and practices impacting prevention of gender based violence, maternal ill-health, teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDS among the Lugbara People completed in 2014 and is currently a leader for the Ugandan team working with a team of researchers from the American Institute of Research conducting UNICEF sponsored study to evaluate the impact of gender socialization in education teacher training curriculum in Karamoja, Uganda. He is a member of the Consortium of Senior Scholars in Africa at the University of Lusaka, IRA, International Association for Community Development, LiteracyAfrica, Learning for Empowerment through Training in Ethnographic Research (LETTER), a life member of Uganda Red Cross Society and invited member of Golden Key International Honour Society. He is the convener of the annual national cross cultural, multilingual and intergenerational literacy learners’ conferences in Uganda. He is a peer reviewer and associate editor with several Journals under Common Ground Publishing.
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