Jonathan Tusubira
Jonathan is a Journalist and Media Development consultant and a co-founder of The Center for Media Literacy and Community Development (CEMCOD). CEMCOD, founded in 2013 aims at transforming vulnerable communities through appropriate and responsible Media and Community Approaches. At CEMCOD, Jonathan led the piloting of the now popular Community Media Project (CMP) which leverages the use of Open data-tools, IVR systems and GSM technology to enable remote and rural communities especially the youth express themselves through Local FM radios. The platform attracted a funding award from DW Akademie and is now being scaled up to other parts of Uganda.
Jonathan has over 10 years’ experience in ICT and Media development work, with CSOs, Donor agencies, government departments, and the Main-stream Media. He holds a Makerere University Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management (Systems Analysis), Certificate in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL Foundations2011), various training in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Project Planning and Management. He previously worked with Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) where he designed strategies to support the strengthening of the organizations’ Women Land Rights Centers’(WLR) ability to develop and manage collaborations with district networks and Local Governments as the lead for Membership, Liaison and Networking. Jonathan also designed and implemented ULA’s Membership and Mapping Strategy with support from the Ford Foundation.
Jonathan who is passionate about Disability Rights also has experience in Disability work and advocacy. In 2013 he coordinated a DRF (Disability Rights Fund) project at United Deaf Women’s Organization (UDEWO), where he designed a Communications Strategy for UDEWO. In 2016, as a consultant for the Finland based ABILIS Foundation, he designed media approaches to support publicizing ABILIS’s past and current donor activities to increase the public social participation of its work. Jonathan furthermore wrote a Concept paper reviewing the impact of modern ICT for Development (ICT4D) strategies on court users while on a research sabbatical at the Supreme Court of Seychelles in 2014, the study was premised on a 2006 research Jonathan carried out at the Uganda High Court on “The Application Of Management Information Systems To Improve Performance In Public Institutions”.
Currently, Jonathan is a 2019 Boehm Senior Media Fellow of the Boehm Gladen Foundation based in California. The Fellowship is awarded to selected media experts around the world at the helm of social innovation with a major focus on poverty alleviation. Working with the Foundation’s staff, Jonathan dedicates 5-10 hours a month of consulting time to support struggling businesses to tell their stories, identify their target audience and get their messages out. Jonathan is also a 2019 winner of the Social Innovation Challenge 2019 by the Civil Society Academy and Welthungerhilfe.
Supervisors: Med Ssengooba, Hon. Egonda Ntende, and James Mukuwa
Address: Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Jonathan has over 10 years’ experience in ICT and Media development work, with CSOs, Donor agencies, government departments, and the Main-stream Media. He holds a Makerere University Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management (Systems Analysis), Certificate in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL Foundations2011), various training in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Project Planning and Management. He previously worked with Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) where he designed strategies to support the strengthening of the organizations’ Women Land Rights Centers’(WLR) ability to develop and manage collaborations with district networks and Local Governments as the lead for Membership, Liaison and Networking. Jonathan also designed and implemented ULA’s Membership and Mapping Strategy with support from the Ford Foundation.
Jonathan who is passionate about Disability Rights also has experience in Disability work and advocacy. In 2013 he coordinated a DRF (Disability Rights Fund) project at United Deaf Women’s Organization (UDEWO), where he designed a Communications Strategy for UDEWO. In 2016, as a consultant for the Finland based ABILIS Foundation, he designed media approaches to support publicizing ABILIS’s past and current donor activities to increase the public social participation of its work. Jonathan furthermore wrote a Concept paper reviewing the impact of modern ICT for Development (ICT4D) strategies on court users while on a research sabbatical at the Supreme Court of Seychelles in 2014, the study was premised on a 2006 research Jonathan carried out at the Uganda High Court on “The Application Of Management Information Systems To Improve Performance In Public Institutions”.
Currently, Jonathan is a 2019 Boehm Senior Media Fellow of the Boehm Gladen Foundation based in California. The Fellowship is awarded to selected media experts around the world at the helm of social innovation with a major focus on poverty alleviation. Working with the Foundation’s staff, Jonathan dedicates 5-10 hours a month of consulting time to support struggling businesses to tell their stories, identify their target audience and get their messages out. Jonathan is also a 2019 winner of the Social Innovation Challenge 2019 by the Civil Society Academy and Welthungerhilfe.
Supervisors: Med Ssengooba, Hon. Egonda Ntende, and James Mukuwa
Address: Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
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This membership development strategy 2014 shows ULA’s current membership and sets out a series of objectives for the Alliance to continue to maintain, grow and engage its membership, including the actions that it will take to meet these objectives. It also describes how the Alliance will evaluate the delivery of the strategy. It should be noted that whilst this strategy is aimed at current members and potential members, the action plan will include staff engagement and involvement.
This membership development strategy 2014 shows ULA’s current membership and sets out a series of objectives for the Alliance to continue to maintain, grow and engage its membership, including the actions that it will take to meet these objectives. It also describes how the Alliance will evaluate the delivery of the strategy. It should be noted that whilst this strategy is aimed at current members and potential members, the action plan will include staff engagement and involvement.