Deborah Kasente

Deborah Hope Kasente is a Ugandan writer and academic who focusses on women's rights. She is the co-founder of the School of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University.

Education Kasente has degrees in education and English from Makerere University and obtained a PhD from Kenyatta University where she studied educational psychology.

Career Kasente works as an associate professor of women and gender studies at Makerere University and is the chair of the Uganda Association of University Women.

Action for Development remains the largest organization for women in Uganda.

Selected publications

Institutionalizing Gender Equality in African Universities: The Case of Women’s and Gender Studies at Makerere University Feminist Africa, 2002 Gender studies and gender training in Africa, Development in Practice, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 50–54 (5 pages), Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., Deborah Kasente (2012) Fair Trade and organic certification in value chains: lessons from a gender analysis from coffee exporting in Uganda, Gender & Development, 20:1, 111-127, Chapter 2 (Gender and Expansion of Nontraditional Agricultural Exports in Uganda) of Shifting Burdens Gender and Agrarian Change Under Neoliberalism published in 2002 by Kumarian Press ISBN 9781565491434