Anna is an experienced and self-motivated gender and policy analyst with extensive knowledge of academic work, development, and research. Anna has done extensive research; consultancies and capacity building in Gender, policy analysis, Gender and governance, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, among others. Anna’s post-doctoral research was funded by NORHED on a collaboration between Agder University Norway and Makerere University. She holds a PhD in Gender and Diversity from the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, 2016-2019, and a Master of Philosophy from Bergen University Norway. Anna has taught Gender Studies and Development Studies at Makerere University since 2008. She has coordinated course programs, supervised/marked students (undergraduate, Masters and PhD). Anna is part of the college committee implementing (with Gender mainstreaming Directorate) the gender policy and sexual harassment policy at Makerere University.
Courses
MGS 7102: Gender and Economics of Developing Countries
MGS 7205: Gender and Development Management
MGS 7207: Gender, Institutions and Social Transformation
DGS 6206: Gender, Poverty Analysis and Women’s empowerment
GAD 1105: Gender, Culture and Society
GAD 2105: Gender, Politics and the State
Research Projects Engaged in:
Gender expert on a project; Learning together to advance Evidence and Equity in policymaking Some of the Projects Anna has worked on include; for achieving the SDGs (LEEPS): Anglophone African Hub with Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia;
Archiving, Memory and Method (Andrew Mellon Foundation) through CHUSS.
Gender Equality Seal for Public Institutions Advisor: Implemented at Makerere University
Publications
On Decolonizing Feminist Studies: Makerere University in perspective; Mawazo (The Journal of College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University (2024).
The Role of Extension Training in Enhancing Participation of Women Smallholder Goat and Chicken Farmers in The Livestock Vaccine Value Chain, Sembabule District, Uganda (2023).
Resilience amidst Turbulent Waters: Humanities at Makerere in the Era of Neoliberal Orthodoxy; Book chapter in Historicizing humanities at Makerere University (2023)
Ninsiima, Anna B., et al. "Poverty, gender and reproductive justice. A qualitative study among adolescent girls in Western Uganda." Culture, Health & Sexuality (2020): 1-15.
Anna B. Ninsiima, et al (2019): Institutional and contextual obstacles to sexuality education policy implementation in Uganda, Sex Education, DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2019.1609437.
Ninsiima, A.B., et al., 2018: “Girls have more challenges; they need to be locked up”: A qualitative study of gender norms and the sexuality of young adolescents in Uganda. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 15. ttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15020193.
“Adolescents’ Sexual Wellbeing in Southwestern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Assessment of Body Image, Self-Esteem and Gender Equitable Norms" Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018, 15(2),72; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15020372
Sexual health of very young adolescents in South Western Uganda: a cross-sectional assessment of sexual knowledge and behaviour; Reproductive Health 201815:148 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0595-3
Associations
International Association for the study of Religion and Gender (IARG)
Human Development and Capability Association