Prof. Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo
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Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo is a Professor of Women and Gender Studies and an advocate for gender equality, social transformation and respect for women’s rights. She is a board Member of the Makerere Rotary Center, where she is the Chairperson of the Academic Programs Committee. Grace was the Head of Makerere University Grants Administration and Management Support Unit from 2021 to 2023. She has served on numerous policy organs, including Makerere University Council and SENATE.
She is a distinguished social anthropologist with a wealth of experience in gender/ feminist and social norms research. Prof. Bantebya’s recent projects include the “Whole University Approach: Kicking Sexual Harassment out of Higher Education Institutions in Uganda” (KISH Project) and “From Promises to Actions: Shifting Gender Norms and Public Perceptions about Unpaid Care Work in Workplaces and Families in Uganda.” She has published widely, most recently in 2021, Teenage Pregnancy and Social Inequality: An impediment to achieving schooling for all in Uganda, Routledge, and in 2018, Empowering adolescent girls in developing countries: gender justice and norm change, Routledge.
Prof. Bantebya is a member of the Vice-Chancellor’s one hundred (100) eminent member Committee for investigating Sexual Harassment (SH) at Makerere University. Prof Bantebya has recently been appointed to the Taskforce Management Committee to Establish Bunyoro University as a Public University (Schedule of Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs )