The Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Chair and Policy Think Tank Centre will be part of the planned MUPSF Home on Plot 52, Edge Road, and Makerere University.
The proposed Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Chair and Centre will comprise of:-
• The Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Endowment Chair
The Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Endowment Chair will support a full-time or visiting Research Professor of Business, Leadership, Strategic Competitiveness, Industry, Research & Development (R&D), etc. The Endowment may also support several research fellows for a specified period as will be determined by the governance of the Chair.
• The Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Scholarship
The endowment fund would also support the “Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Scholarship” to enable scholars’ carryout research and innovations in social, entrepreneurship, business, economic, industrial, technological and private sector development.
• The Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Resource Centre
The Resource Centre will house Mutebile’s biography, his public profiles, information and resources, photographs and mementoes of awards, honours and his achievements nationally and internationally.
Expected Benefits
• There will be a dedicated office space for Professor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile where he can mentor University students as well as lecturers and professors from time to time. This way, he can help impart life skills to undergraduate and graduate students.
• Professor Mutebile as the chief architect of Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) and macro economic growth and stability in the country, so will the Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile Centre continue to promote socio-economic development through policy research, monitoring and Advocacy.
• Thanks to Professor Mutebile’s leadership as Governor, Bank of Uganda, there is monetary stability in the financial sector perhaps the more significant benefits will accrue from close collaborations of Makerere University with the financial institutions in Uganda to consolidate on these achievements.
Makerere Africa Institute Of Sustainability (MAIoS)
BACKGROUND
Makerere Africa Institute Of Sustainability (MAIoS) is envisaged to take three (3) years from 2008/9 to develop, MAIoS will be a dynamic regional academy out of linkages and connectivity stemming from the national hub to be located in Uganda. It will identify, develop and mentor a cadre of leaders in Africa with the knowledge, skills and competences to mitigate the Sustainability Challenge.
Its genesis goes back to the pre-CHOGM 07 Uganda Investors Round Table held in London, UK, in June 2007. This was reinforced by partnerships formed during the Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF) 2007 in Kampala.
It was reviewed at a planning workshop held in London, UK, in April/May 2008, attended by partner Institutes of Sustainable Cities from Thames Gateway, UK, and Dongtan, China.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof Livingstone Luboobi, MUPSF Executive Director, Mr. Nuha Mwesigwa, and other key University officials represented Makerere University at this planning workshop. MAIoS will be developed through a multidisciplinary collaboration of public and private sector partnerships, regional bodies, private sector investments and grants, bequests and endowments, bilateral and multilateral cooperation, community endowments and sweat equity from cultural leaders and communities, local governments, NGOs, and international partners, among others.
Makerere University (Mak) honoured and recognized in perpetuity Professor Ali A. Mazrui, Africa’s illustrious scholar, who is globally recognised as “one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals” on 11th August 2009. He is one of Makerere’s most renowned former Professors and Deans who credits Makerere for being the cradle of his global scholarship and fame. This was conceived by Makerere University Private Sector Forum (MUPSF) a new initiative established to bridge the linkage between the University and the Private Sector in fostering competitiveness in the value chain.
Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile
Governor Bank of Uganda and Chairman of Professor's Consultative Platform
Mak,MUPSF
Planned Activities
Mak launched and will soon inaugurate the “Ali A. Mazrui Chair and Scholarship Endowment” and the East African “Ali A. Mazrui Centre for Global Cultural Studies at Makerere main campus, Kampala”. Both constitute the Makerere-Mazruiana Project (MMP).
Centre for Global Cultural Studies
This will be a multi-storey complex of eight floors constructed at Makerere Main campus. At least two floors will be dedicated to Professor Ali A. Mazrui Resource Centre, to house his entire works and collection in literary and electronic forms. It will also house a comprehensive photo gallery and archives, displays of Mazrui awards, prizes, significant speeches, public lectures and any other academic and professorial narratives. There will be a “Hall of Fame” in the Centre dedicated to all the supporters of and contributors to the Makerere Mazruiana Project. In particular, the Patrons of Science and the Arts, i.e., past and present African Presidents and world statesmen and women—and all others identified by Professor Mazrui as special supporters and contributors, will have a distinctive place in the Resource Centre.
The multi-storey complex will also house strategic faculties and units, namely: (a) East African Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics given its regional programming focus towards strengthening East African Community integration; (b) the Faculty of Arts and its diverse programs with global implications, e.g., development studies, religious studies and philosophy, language and linguistics, literature, conflict resolution and peace studies, etc.; (c) Faculty of Social Sciences, of which Professor Mazrui was dynamic Dean, and its key departments and programs, such as Political Science and Public Administration--Mazrui’s home turf.
The whole complex will have state-of-the-art equipment including latest Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) and other resources for first class teleconferencing.
