Dr. David Mugambe Mpiima

Dr. David Mugambe Mpiima
Dr. David Mugambe Mpiima
Senior Lecturer

David Mugambe Mpiima holds a PhD in Gender Studies and is a Lecturer in the School of Women and Gender Studies. He researches gender, technology, energy, agriculture, youth, and development issues. He also researches gender norms and gender-based violence. He has published and supervised students in the same areas. David is an ILO-certified gender auditor, and a certified gender and equity budgeting trainer and assessor for the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development. In 2024, he conducted a profound study that provided the cost of GBV to households and the Ugandan economy. 

Courses

  1. Gender, Politics and the State-GAD 2105
  2. Gender Analysis in LED-DGS 6102
  3. Gender and ICT
  4. Gender and Globalisation-GAD 3211
  5. Gender and Information Communication Technology in Society DGS 6207
  6. Gender and Society-BDK 3205
  7. Introduction to Gender (UV 1002)

Research projects engaged in:

NORHED SET Project

Publications:

  1. Mugumya.F., Mpiima. D.M., & Odyek.J.B. (2024). Representation, voice and empowerment: Towards gender outcomes in Uganda’s Local Government Decision-making Processes. Mawazo Vol.16(1). Pp. 139-165
  2. Tushabomwe. D & Mpiima. D.M (2024). The Gendered Impact of Agricultural Market Reforms on Financial Bene-fits in Uganda’s Smallholder Farming Households. Advanced Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. 14(1). Pp.18-38.
  3. Tushabomwe. D & Mpiima. D.M (2024) Agricultural Value Chains and Gender in the Post-reform Era: A Review. Advanced Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. 13(1). Pp.71-87
  4. Nestor Basemera & David Mugambe Mpiima (2023) The Impact of Microfinance on Women Borrowers’ Livelihoods: A Case Study of BRAC Kabarole District, Western Uganda. International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research (IJFMR) Vol. 5(6). https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i06.8839
  5. Lydia Namukwaya, Evelyne Lutwama Rukundo & David Mugambe Mpiima (2021) ‘You are Not Man Enough! How Can You Be Beaten by a Woman?’-Masculinity at Crossroads. In M. Espling & Mwaka, J (Eds.). Gender and Socio-Economic Change: Everyday Lives of Women and Men in Uganda. Kampala. Fountain Publishers. PP. 230-254.
  6. David Mugambe Mpiima; Kabonesa, C; Manyire, H & Espling, M (2019) The New Normal? Framer Groups, ICTs, and Empowerment in Apac District, Lango Region in Northern Uganda. In J. Wieland & D. Fischer (Eds.). Transculturality and Community Learning from the Hope Development Initiative in Uganda. Marburg, Metropolis-Verlag.
  7. David Mugambe Mpiima, Henry Manyire, Consolata Kabonesa & Margareta Espiling (2019) Gender analysis of agricultural extension policies in Uganda: informing practice?, Gender, Technology and Development, 23:2, 187-205, DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2019.1657610
  8. David Mugambe Mpiima., Manyire, H., Kabonesa, C. and Espiling, M. (2019) Crop Production, Gender Roles and the Use of Mobile Phones and Radios for Agricultural Information by Farmers in Apac District, Northern Uganda. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 7, 89-111. doi: 10.4236/jss.2019.73007.
  9. David Mugambe Mpiima (2017) Political Party Primaries: Was There Method to the Madness? In O. Onyango and J. Ahikire Controlling Consent: Uganda’s 2016 Elections. Kampala, Africa World Press.
  10. David Mugambe Mpiima (2018) Whose interests do we represent? The nexus of Ugandan Diasporas, Social Media and the 2016 Elections. In Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo & Hameed Tunde Asiru (Eds.). When "Home" Means More than One Country: the Discursive (Re) Construction of Identities in Trans-national Migrant Communities. Hansjakobstr, LINCOM.
  11. David Mugambe Mpiima; Kendagor, R & Ndung’u, S. W (2017) Likes and Comments: The Untamed Facebook Sex Education in Uganda and Kenya for Emerging Adults. In Mitchell Wright (Ed.). Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships Among Emerging Adults In the Digital Age. Hershey, PA, IGI Global.
  12. David Mugambe Mpiima (2015) I Cannot Leave Power to Wolves: The Politics of S-Elections and Election Violence in Uganda. In OSSREA’s book on Electoral Systems, Electoral Administration and Election Violence in Eastern and Southern Africa (Coming in September 2015).
  13. David Mugambe Mpiima (2015) The Effects of Multilayered Political Systems on Engendered Service Delivery in Uganda: A Case of Apac District Local Government. In an IGI book titled Political Discourse in Emergent, Fragile, and Failed Democracies (November 2015).
  14. David Mugambe Mpiima (2014) Access to Agricultural Information: Changing Gender Roles and Decision-Making Patterns in Nakaseke District, Uganda. In G.B, Kyomuhendo et al Gender Poverty and Social Transformation: Reflections on Fractures and Continuities in Contemporary Uganda: Kampala; Fountain Publishers.