David Kaawa-Mafigiri Author & Editor

Dr. David Kaawa-Mafigiri is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Social Work and Social Administration, School of Social Sciences, Makerere University where he lectures in the health and health care track including an urban health course. Dr. Mafigiri is a medical anthropologist with public health training and served as the Associate Director of the Center for Social Sciences Research on AIDS (CeSSRA) a collaborative effort between the departments of anthropology, epidemiology and biostatistics and bioethics at Case Western Reserve and social and medical researchers at Makerere University and the Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) in Kampala. Dr. Mafigiri has published book chapters, journal articles, working papers and policy briefs including in the area of child wellbeing.

Dr. Eddy J. Walakira lectures at Makerere University in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, School of Social Sciences. He holds a PhD from the University of Vienna in Social and Cultural Anthropology. He obtained a Masters in Development Studies and a Postgraduate Diploma in Children and Youth from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, Netherlands. He holds a Bachelor in Social Work and Social Administration from Makerere University. He lectures and researches mostly on issues of vulnerable children and youth. He has offered advisory services to several international organisations and local NGOs in Africa working with Children and Youth particularly on themes linked to child rights, child protection, social protection, child labour, HIV and AIDS, youth empowerment, programming for children and youth, and upward policy analysis and advocacy.  He has been instrumental in leading teams in the development of national action plans on Orphans and other vulnerable children, and the development of practice focused curricula for mid-career and long serving professionals in the field of child protection, and alternative care for children.