CURRICULUM VITAE

For
Nayinda A. K. Sentumbwe
Social Anthropologist

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Personal Data

Address: Micheletveien 38 I, N-1053 Oslo, Norway
Phones: Fast: +47 2230 7914, Mobile: +47 907 20 786 
E-mail: nsentumbwe@online.no
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.

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. perspective).

WORK EXPERIENCE

2000 - 2004:  Call Up Interpreter; Employer: Noricom

2001 - 2004:  Part-time Translator; Employer: Resource Access, Oslo.

2000-2001:  Consultant / Coordinator; Employer: Ablecon AS (Recycled Assistive Technology Project).

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

1995-2000:  Consultant / Assistant Coordinator; Employer: Tambartun Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired - Uganda Mobility & Rehabilitation Programme for People with Visual Impairments (MBR).

Responsibilities
European Partners Ugandan Partners
Norwegian People's Aid Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social Development
Norwegian Association of the Blind & Partially-sighted Ministry of Education and Sport
Norwegian Association of the Disabled Ugandan National Association of the Blind
Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education Uganda National Institute of Special Education
International Blind Sports Federation National Council for Sport
National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda

&1980-1983:  Casual worker/conveyer-belt loading (school vacation employment; employer: Frydenlund Breweries - Oslo.

1977-1978:  Switch-board operator; Employer: Uganda Muslim Supreme Council, Kampala Uganda.

DUTIES

Current
Alternate member; Parents Advisory Committee for Local Primary/Junior Secondary School, Furuset Primary School, Oslo
Member; Interim Committee, Uganda Association in Norway

Recent
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), capable user of mobile phone SMS/MMS etc functions. Able to scan and convert most documents into legible format for own use at workplace. (possesses all relevant ICT equipment)

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. Bengt Elmerskog
    Tambartun Resource Centre
    N-7084 Melhus, Norway
    Phone: +47 7287 9361 Fax: +47 7287 9310
    E-mail: bengt.elmerskog@eunet.no
  2. Bengt Follestad
    Kastellveien 19
    N-1170 Oslo Norway
    Phone: +47 2229 4749 Fax: +47 2241 3637
    E-mail: post@follestad.com
  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
     
  5. Sigurd Johns
    Save the Children Norway (Reddbarna)
    Pb 6902, St. Olavs plass, N-0130 Oslo Norway
    Phone: +47 2299 0878, Fax: +47 2299 0850
    E-mail:    sigurd.johns@reddbarna.no

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