Assoc. Prof. Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi

Assoc. Prof. Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi
Assoc. Prof. Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi
Senior Lecturer

An Associate Professor of women and gender studies and Senior Researcher in the fields of gender and social development. She has extensive experience in gender and feminist research in areas including education, sexuality, reproductive health and rights, sexual and gender-based violence, women’s economic empowerment and climate change. She has vast experience in both quantitative and participatory qualitative research with experimental designs that engage Randomized Control Trials approach (RCTs) and policy engagement. She has published widely in refereed journals and books on issues on girls’ and young women’s wellbeing, sexuality and climate change. She is a gender trainer, activist and passionate about empowerment of adolescent girls and women. 

Courses:

  1. Social Research Methodology 1
  2. Social Research: Ethnographic Methodology
  3. Sexuality Concepts and Perspectives
  4. Feminist Perspectives of Sustainable Development

Research projects engaged in:

  1. Anga Center for Climate Justice, Health Equity, and Community Wellbeing hosted by the Columbia Global Center in Nairobi, Kenya (collaborative initiative between Columbia University, USA and Makerere University) funded by National Institute for Health (NIH).
  2. Measuring Socially Inclusive Resilience and Nutritional Capabilities through Crop Improvement Research in Agri-food Systems of the Global South funded the USAID Feed the Future Innovations Lab for Crop Improvement – collaboration between Makerere University, National Agricultural Research Organizations Uganda (NARL & NaSARRI): Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Cornell University and University of Texas at Austin, USA.
  3. Cities of Youth Project: The gendered impact of climate migration on health and well-being of youth migrants, and system capacity in secondary cities of Uganda’ a collaborative project between Makerere University (School of Public & School of Women and Gender Studies), University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and TUFS University, USA, funded by DANIDA
  4. Assessing the Economic Empowerment of Migrant Women Returnee domestic workers in Uganda and Kenya; under the Joint AUC/ECA International migration in Africa: Shaping a positive narrative and removing barriers to mobility by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  5. Strengthening Women Smallholders’ Resilience to Agricultural Shocks for Enhanced Income Diversification and Empowerment in Uganda; USAID supported project under the Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN) program, University of California Davis, USA.
  6. Gender and Utilization of Briquettes as a Replacement Fuel for Charcoal and Firewood in Uganda, – a partnership with the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology – supported by Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund, Makerere University, Kampala.
  7. KISH Project (Whole University Approach: Kicking Sexual Harassment out of Higher Education Institutions in Uganda) – supported by Makerere University Innovations Fund.

Publications:

Unpublished research reports

  1. Tumushabe J., C.A. Barasa, F.K. Muhanguzi and J.F. Otim Nape (1999) Gender and Primary schooling in Uganda, MOES/IDS London UK.
  2. Baguma P. and F.K. Muhanguzi (1999) Gender Inequalities in Education, Education Policy and the Budget in Uganda, Gender Budget Project  FOWODE.
  3. Muhanguzi, F.K 2011. Gender and Sexual Vulnerability of Young women in Africa: Experiences of young Girls in Secondary Schools in Uganda, Journal of Culture, Health and Sexuality, 13: 6, 713 – 725.
  4. Muhanguzi, F.K., Bennett J. H.R.D Muhanguzi 2011. The Construction and Mediation of Sexuality and Gender Relations: Experiences of Girls and Boys in Secondary Schools in Uganda, Feminist Formations, 23:3, 135 – 152.
  5. Muhanguzi, F.K. and Ninsiima, A. B. 2011. Embracing Teen Sexuality: Teenagers’ Assessment of Sexuality Education in Uganda, Agenda, 25:3, 54 – 63
  6. Ahumuza, S. E., J.K.B. Matovu, J. B. Ddamulira and F.K. Muhanguzi 2014. Challenges in accessing sexual and reproductive health services by people with physical disabilities in Kampala, Uganda. Reproductive Health, 11 (59), 1-9.
  7. Muhanguzi, F.K. 2015. “Sex is sweet” Women from low-income contexts in Uganda talk about sexual desire and pleasure. Reproductive Health Matters, 23(46), 62-70
  8. Muhanguzi, F.K., 2017. Governance of Social Protection Initiatives to address gendered poverty in Uganda: Beyond mere tokenism of women on governance committees, Policy in Focus, 14 (1), 18 – 20
  9. Muhanguzi, F.K., G. Bantebya Kyomuhendo and C. Watson, 2017. Social institutions as mediating sites for changing gender norms: Nurturing girl’s resilience to child marriage in Uganda. Agenda,112/31(2), 109 -119
  10. Mootz, J.J., F. K. Muhanguzi, P. Panko, P. M. Onyango Mangen, Milton L. Wainberg, Ilana Pinsky and Kaveh Khoshnood, 2018. Armed conflict, alcohol misuse, decision making, and intimate partner violence among women in North-eastern Uganda: a population level study. Conflict and health, 12 (37), 1-11.
  11. Kikooma J, Kyomuhendo GB, Muhanguzi FK and Babalanda S (2023) Engaging men in gender transformative work in institutions of higher learning: A case of the men’s hub at Makerere University. Frontiers in Sociology, 7:901049. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.901049
  12. Muhanguzi F. K, B. Boonabaana, L. N, Sanya, S. N.      Kavuma, G. B.      Kyomuhendo, N. Ludgate & L Meinzen-Dick (2023). The meanings of resilience in climate justice: women smallholder farmers’ responses to agricultural shocks in Uganda under the spotlight. Agenda pp1-18. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PVXDEH34F37SECGDXZU6/full?target=10.1080/10130950.2023.2245844
  13. Mukisa A., Muhanguzi F. K, &  B. Boonabaana (2023). The effects of climate change on gender roles among agro-pastoral farmers in Nabilatuk district, Karamoja subregion, North Eastern Uganda. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 5:1092241. doi: 10.3389/fhumd.2023.1092241
  14. Mukisa A., Muhanguzi F. K, &  B. Boonabaana (2023).Gender and the use of technologies in the face of drought among smallholder farmers in Karamoja sub region, North Eastern Uganda, KKU International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12(2): 51-76
  15. Muhanguzi, F.K; J. Ahikire, S. Gerrad and L. Nordbroend, 2014. An Introduction: Partnerships and Social Justice: Research and Academic Collaboration between North and South on Gender, Poverty and Social Transformation, in Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi, Josephine Ahikire and Sirri Gerrad (eds), Gender, Poverty and Social Transformation: Reflections on Fractures and Continuities in Contemporary Uganda. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.  
  16. Muhanguzi, F.K., 2014“Sex Is Sweet”: Low-Income Women in Uganda Talk About Sexual Desire and Pleasure, in G. Bantebya Kyomuhendo, J. Ahikire, F.K. Muhanguzi and Sirri Gerrad (eds), Gender, Poverty and Social Transformation: Reflections on Fractures and Continuities in Contemporary Uganda. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.
  17. Muhanguzi F. K., 2018. Governance of non-state social protection initiatives for addressing gendered poverty in Uganda: Beyond counting of women on Governance Committees. In Awortwi Nicholas and Gregor Waltter-Drop (eds) 2018. Non-State Social Protection Actors and Services in Africa: Governance Below the State, Routledge: London.  117 – 134
  18. Watson, C. G.B. Kyomuhendo, and F.K. Muhanguzi, 2018. “The paradox of change and continuity in social norms and practices affecting adolescent girls’ capabilities and transitions to adulthood in rural Uganda.” In C. Harper, N. Jones, A. Ghimire,R. Marcus and G.B. Kyomuhendo (eds) Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries: Gender Justice and Norm Change, Routledge: London. 83-101
  19. Kyomuhendo, G.B, F.K. Muhanguzi and C. Watson, 2018. “From national laws and policies to local programmes: obstacles and opportunities in communications for adolescent girls’ empowerment in Uganda.” In C. Harper, N. Jones, A. Ghimire,R. Marcus and G.B. Kyomuhendo (eds) Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries: Gender Justice and Norm Change, Routledge: London 102-119

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

  1. Muhanguzi, F.K. 2019. Women and Girls Education in Africa in O.Yacob-Haliso and T.Falola (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies. Palgrave Macmillan (1-18).
  2. Kyomuhendo G.B., F.K. Muhanguzi and Chase E. 2019. Children and Young People's Experiences of Managing Poverty-Related Shame in Uganda and the United Kingdom, In K. Roelen, R. Morgan and Y. Tafere (eds.) Putting Children First New Frontiers in The Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart.
  3. Muhanguzi, F.K. and G.B. Kyomuhendo, 2021. “Teenage Pregnancy and social inequality: An impediment for achieving schooling for all in Uganda” In  P. Rose, M. Arnot, R. Jeffery, and N. Singal (eds) Reforming Education, Challenging Inequalities in Southern contexts: Research and Policy in International Development.   Routledge: London. Pp 165-184
  4. Musiimenta, P., Muhanguzi, F.K and J. Ahukire, 2021. At the crossroads: Educated women negotiating marital dilemmas in Urban Uganda. In G. Motsaathebe (ed) Education in Africa: Perspectives, opportunities and challenges. Nova Science Publishers: New York pp 149-177
  5. Kavuma, N.S, Muhanguzi, F.K., Bogere, G. and Cunningham, K. 2022. Entrepreneurial Literacy as a Pathway to Economic Empowerment of Rural Women in Uganda. In Wamboye F.E and Fayissa, B. (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan PP 197-216.
  6. Kavuma, N.S, Muhanguzi, F.K., Bogere, G. and Cunningham, K. 2022. The Untapped Resource: Engaging Men in Supporting Women in Business in Uganda. In Wamboye F.E and Fayissa, B. (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan PP 509 – 529.
  7. Ebila F., and F.K. Muhanguzi 2006. (eds)Women, Culture and Creativity. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.
  8. Kyomuhendo Bantebya, G., F.K. Muhanguzi,  J. Ahikire and S. Gerrad (eds), 2014. Gender, Poverty and Social Transformation: Reflections on Fractures and Continuities in Contemporary Uganda. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.  
  9. Muhanguzi, F.K, Muhumuza, Fred K. and Okello, J., 2016. Governance of Non-State Social Protection Initiatives: Implications of addressing gendered vulnerability to poverty in Uganda. PASGR Working Paper 006, Nairobi.
  10. Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi, Losira Nasirumbi Sanya, Brenda Boonabaana, Namirembe Suzan Kavuma, Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Nargiza Ludgate and Laura Meinzen-Dick (2023). Training Manual for Gender Transformative Agricultural Practices: Strengthening Women Smallholders’ Resilience to Agricultural Shocks for Enhanced Income Diversification and Empowerment in Uganda. Kampala, Uganda

Networks/Collaborations

  1. Association for Professional Women in Agriculture and Environment (AUPWAE)

Associations:

  1. National Association for Women’s Action in Development (NAWAD)
  2. Action for Development (ACFODE)