Prior to joining AfrII as a climate scientist on the project, Elizabeth Ahumuza worked with the National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL) as a Research Officer on the Soils, Agro meteorology and Environment Program.  She also worked on various projects including; ‘Enhancing Climate-Resilience of Agricultural Livelihoods’ as an Administrative Assistant; ‘GEF/ Sustainable Land Management project’ as a statistician; ‘Development and Dissemination of Optimum Cropping Calendars for Beans, Millet and Maize Derived for rain-fed Agriculture in four rainfall zones in Uganda project’ as a Statistician; ‘Integrating Modern and Traditional Approaches to Climate Forecasting (IMTAC) Project’ as a Statistician. Elizabeth has been involved in consultancies with several reputable organizations like TechoServe Uganda, Chemonics International, USAID, FAO-Uganda, and Enabling Environment for Agriculture.

She brings to AfrII 4+ years of experience in building resilience in Agricultural systems; development, validation and upscaling of climate smart agricultural technologies, soil and water conservation practices; crop and climate modelling, data management and analysis, research methods, project management, project monitoring, evaluation and survey design.

Elizabeth holds a Bachelors of Statistics from Makerere University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management from Uganda Management Institute.

Mr. Mugarura Michael is an Environmental Scientist and Climate Change professional with 9+ years of experience in climate change mitigation and adaptation, Climate modelling, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions analysis and Inventory. He has been actively involved in the rolling out of Uganda’s REDD+ programme, development of Uganda’s Green Growth Strategy and the National Climate Change Policy.

Before joining AfrII as the GHG Expert on the project, Michael worked with the Ministry of Water and Environment, Climate Change Department as a Senior Climate Change Officer – Mitigation in charge of Uganda’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory management System, and was the National Climate Change Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) focal person. He oversaw the development, review and updates of carbon standard Baselines (SBL) for the country.

Michael has worked with World Vision Uganda and collaborated closely with other regional and International bodies like Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a consultant and member of the IPCC Scoping Working Group.

Dr. Tusiime Felly Mugizi is the CBIT Project Manager.  She has extensive knowledge and a broad work experience in biodiversity conservation, pollution-GHG sources and sinks, climate change-NDC, SDGs, land degradation and environmental management. She has previously worked as the Biophysical Technical Manager and Senior Botanist at AfrII responsible for direct supervision, leadership and management of biophysical data collection under the Vital Signs Uganda project.

Prior to this job, she worked as a part-time lecturer at Makerere, Kyambogo and Gulu Universities. She has also worked as a Research Officer of biodiversity and environment at prestigious institutions in Uganda and abroad and has done extensive biodiversity research in savannah grassland and woodlands, wetlands, forests and afro-alpine ecosystems in Eastern Africa.

She holds a joint Doctorate in Environmental Management from Makerere University Uganda and University of Oslo, Norway, a joint Master of Science in Botany from Makerere University Uganda and Imperial College London UK and a Bachelor of Science degree from Makerere University. Felly has additional training in Bryophyte Taxonomy from NHM London UK, Tropical plants identification from The Royal Botanical Gardens Kew UK, DNA extraction and AFLP analyses-NHM University of Oslo Norway; Basic Principles of Vital Signs Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring by Conservation International and the Earth Institute of Columbia University USA, and Trend.Earth environment monitoring by Conservation International and Lund University USA