Kabonesa Consolata

Consolata Kabonesa is an Ugandan gender activist with a specialised experience in the women and gender programming, gender training, project and research within the decentralized system. She is also an Assoc. Prof at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University.

Background and education Stonehill College, Mass., USABA (Hons), 1984Liberal ArtsUniv. College DublinMA, 1985Modern English & American LiteratureUniv. College DublinH. Dip. Ed, 1986EducationUniv. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign M.S.1994Human Resources and Family Studies Gender Roles in International DevelopmentUniv. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign PhD1998Human & Community Development Gender Relations in International Dev't

Career

Academic experience In 1984, Consolata worked as a student teacher at Pearse Vocational College in Dublin, Ireland. She then became a part-time lecturer for Literary Criticism in the department of literature at Makerere University between 1989 and 1991.

Administrative experience

Awards Consolata won the Meritorious award and Cash Award, American Embassy, Uganda in 1988 and 1990 respectively. She again in 1993 won the John W. Price, International Understanding Award, UIUC and in 2005, she was nominated and won the Outstanding Lecturer award, at the Faculty of Social science, Makerere University.

She won The Role Model Diva Awards in 2011 and went straight to win two more in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa: unspoken grief. Gender analysis of agricultural extension policies in Uganda: informing practice? Reflections on a collaborative experience: using ICT in a trans-cultural women's health module