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| Paul Kibwika is one of
the founder members of PICOTEAM and is the Team Leader of PICO-Uganda
Ltd. Since five years ago, Paul Kibwika has extensively and intensively
engaged in facilitating and documenting learning and change processes
in organisations. He engages in such processes of organisational
transformation as an action researcher who seeks to see the impact of
his engagement. Broadly, capacity building is a major focal area of his
professional practice. His recent book on Learning to make change:
developing innovation competence in recreating the African University
of the 21. century explains efforts to make the African university more
innovative and responsive to community needs and the challenges posed
by sustainability. Paul Kibwika obtained his PhD in 2007 in Social Science at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is also a senior lecturer and researcher in the Department of Agricultural Extension/Education, Makerere University, Uganda where he has served for over thirteen years now. His research interest is in the social dimensions of agrarian development particularly, local organisations development and empowerment; agricultural innovation systems; and transformative learning. In pursuance of these interests, he believes in people’s capabilities to solve their own problems as a core value. Accordingly he applies facilitative approaches to enhancing people’s space and confidence to act as they respond to challenges and opportunities in their environment. | |
