CURRICULUM VITAE

For
Nayinda A.K. Sentumbwe
Social Anthropologist

 

 

Personal Data

Names:

Nayinda Sentumbwe, Ahmadh Karim

Address:

Micheletveien 38 I, N-1053 Oslo, Norway

Phones:

Land-line: +47 2230 7914, Mobile: +47 907 20 786

E-mail:

nayinda.sentumbwe@getmail.no; Nayinda@resource-access.com

 

Birth date / place:

08.10-1955; Masaka Uganda

Marital /social status:

Married & father to two daughters

Medical Status:

Visually impaired at age of 5.

Mobility:

White-cane user. Independent traveller by efficient use of Travel Support Services.

Academic Qualifications:

Cand. Polit. Degree - Social Anthropology

Occupational Interests

Human Development
Working within programmes / initiatives that create processes for improving the life quality of marginalized / vulnerable groups by providing them with opportunities for empowerment through effective and meaningful social, cultural, economic and political inclusion and participation.

Organisational
Planning, initiating, coordinating and monitoring of activities; including seminars, workshops, etc.

Research
Identifying, highlighting, understanding and finding practical solutions to the challenges different categories and sub-groups of people with disabilities and members of their families experience.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

PERIOD

EMPLOYER

 

POSITION

RESPONSIBILITIES

2005 – 2010

Enabling Services (U) Ltd / Ablecon A.S.

Co-ordinating Director

Management of ESUL business activities.

2008 – 2009

Hero AS

Call Up Interpreter

 

Interpretation and translation – Norwegian/Luganda

2000 – 2006:

Noricom Nord AS

Call Up Interpreter

Interpretation and translation – Norwegian/Luganda

2001 – 2004

Sentumbwe Resource Access (self-employed)

Disability Issues consultant

Management/coordination of all business activities.

2000-2001

Ablecon AS (Recycled Assistive Technology Project).

Coordinator

Formulation of project description / action plan. Project planning. Co-ordination of activities.

 

1995-2000

Tambartun Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired - Uganda Mobility & Rehabilitation Programme for People with Visual Impairments (MBR).

 

: PRG. Consultant / Ass. Coordinator

Contact & coordinator of activities between European Programme partners/collaborators and

Ugandan Programme partners/Collaborators.

Monitoring of Programme activities at UNAB and UFB.

Advisor / teacher on social and cultural aspects of the Programme.

Formulation of Project proposal and action plan for the Sporting With visual Impairment project.

Planning and co-ordination of the inaugural Uganda Open Games for PEOPLE with Visual Impairments.

Write one chapter of the final report/the MBR textbook and contribute to written articles/papers.

 

1980-1983:

Frydenlund Brygeri AS

Casual worker

Conveyer belt loader; school vacation employment

1977-1978

Uganda Muslim Supreme council

Switchboard operator

 

 

DUTIES

Current
Chairperson     ESUL Board of Directors

Member; Interim Committee, Uganda Association in Norway

Member Founding committee – Uganda Network for the Advancement of Visually Impaired Muslims

Recent
Alternate member; Parents Advisory Committee for Local Primary/Junior Secondary School, Furuset Primary School, Oslo

Alternate member; Parents Advisory Committee for Local Primary/Junior Secondary School, Gran Primary & Juniour Secondary School Oslo
Member; Reference Group, NABP project for integration of migrants with visual impairments.
Member; IBSA Grassroot Sport Development Committee
Technical Adviser; IBSA-Africa·
Board member; Uganda Association in Norway (UAN)
Member; Norwegian Committee Zimbabwe Sports for the Visually Impaired Project
Member; Constitution Committee Uganda Blind Sport Association (Uganda Mobility Prosjekt)
Member;

 

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Languages
Proficiently literate in:
Luganda (mother tongue), English and Norwegian (Bokmål).

ICT
Competent PC-user; (ECDL Certificate-holder)

 

EDUCATION

Academic

Period

Level

Institution

Subject / Details

1986-1990

Cand. Polit. Degree studies

University of Oslo

Social Anthropology.
Thesis on the effects of education and rehabilitation on the life situation of the visually impaired in Uganda.
(Field research in Uganda)

1982-1985

Cand. Mag. Degree Studies

University of Oslo

Sociology: Intermediate Subject
Social Anthropology: Intermediate Subject
Social Economics: Foundation Subject.

1981

University of Oslo

Examen Philosophicum

 

1980-1981

High School

Persbråten Gymnas (Oslo)

Advanced Senior Secondary

1972-1978

OA-Level

Kampala High (Aga Khan Senior Secondary School)

Ordinary Senior Secondary

Courses

Period

Institution

Subject / Details

2002

MediaLT AS

FrontPage

2002

MediaLT AS
(Datakortet AS)

European Computer Driving License (ECDL) 7 modules: Information Technology, Internet, Text Processing, Spread-sheet, Presentation, Data base Windows

1996

Hadley School for The Blind Ill. USA

Intro. to Business Management (correspondence)

1994

Hadley School for the Blind

Orientation (correspondence)

1971-1972

Kireka Rehabilitation Centre - Kampala

Telephone/(switch-board) operation

 

REFERENCES

1.      Mohamed Beghdadi Tambartun Resource Centre
N-7084 Melhus, Norway
Phone: +47 7287 9362 Fax: +47 7287 9310
E-mail: mbeghdadi@eunet.no

2.      Nsereko Mutumba
Uganda Muslim Supreme Council
P.O.BOX 1146, Kampala UGANDA

Phone: +256-772-409504Fax: +256-414-256500

Email: umsc@utlonline.co.ug

 

3.      Francis Kinuubi
National Union for Disabled Persons of Uganda
P.O. Box 8567, Kampala Uganda
Phone/Fax: +256-41 540178
E-mail:nudipu@online.co.ug

4.      Nina Kahrs
Norwegian University Of Sport & Physical Education Pb 4014 Ullevål Stadion
N-0806 Oslo Norway
Phone: +47 2326 2409 Fax: +47 2223 4220
E-mail: nina.kahrs@nih.no