Catherine Pauline Anena
(PhD) is a Gender and Rural Development Specialist and Lecturer at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, Kampala. She is also a Gender and Development consultant supporting government and non-governmental/humanitarian agencies including the World Bank, East African Community, Unicef, the FAO, the SIHA network, War Child Holland, Canadian Lutheran World Federation, Lutheran World Federation, among others. She is also a Fulbright scholar attached to the University of California in Los Angeles and was a CAPREX research fellow attached to Cambridge University (UK).
Catherine Innocent Abalo
is a gender expert with over 10 years of experience providing consultancy services to NGOs in the areas of capacity building on gender and human rights/protection issues; Gender Based Violence (GBV) and protection concerns in humanitarian and development contexts; as well as capacity building of security personnel for gender mainstreaming in UN security operations. She has been part of various research projects for agencies including East African Community, Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), United Nations Peace Corps, Canadian Lutheran World Federation, Lutheran World Federation, among others.