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Dr. Olive Kobusingye, Consultant Trauma Surgeon and Senior Research Fellow, MUSPH, joins us in this episode as we look at Uganda’s healthcare workforce and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected them.

One of the most important points that she highlights is that this workforce is a broad community (beyond the doctors and nurses that are our most common point of contact). And this broad community of individuals, who engage in a plethora of tasks and duties, are at a high risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus. More

This week we are joined by Dr. John Mark Bwanika, Founding Partner and Director of The Medical Concierge Group Limited. We explore the various forms and the value of digital healthcare and telemedical services within the medical community.

COVID-19 has forced us in many ways to rethink and reinvent the ways we do things. In this case it has shone light on technological forms of healthcare services and prompted the medical community to see value in adopting these methods. More

Mr. Brian Kagoro, Pan Africanist, Founder and Executive Director of UHAI Africa Group, joins us in episode 11 as we unpack the ways in which the pandemic has both divided and united us because of collective fear and uncertainty. He describes COVID-19 as a testing of the glue that holds us together. On the one hand, it has revealed how little we know of each other, highlighting and adding to pre-existing prejudices, discrimination and stigma within the African community. More

This week we are joined by freelance photojournalist Sumy Sarduni, whose work is heavily centred around gender rights and women. Through her lens we walk through some of the experiences of the women that make up Kampala's sex work community. This conversation brings to surface the way we see each other, and the way we pick and choose who deserves to be protected within the lines of community. More

In this episode, we continue our conversation on social security amongst the community of workers in Uganda with Dr. Phiona Muhwezi Mpanga, Lecturer at The School Of Law, Makerere University. Focusing more broadly on social protection, which includes but is not limited to pay, she highlights the importance of this protection in maintaining workers' dignity (both in the formal and informal sectors). More

In this special episode, we are joined by Mr. Allan Kasujja, Ugandan Journalist and Radio Broadcaster at the BBC. We take time to reflect on the global community of black people, and in this particular moment the Black Lives Matter Movement. There is power in our dialogue and there is power in owning our narrative. More

This week we continue our conversation on community with Mr. Morrison Rwakakamba, Founding CEO at Agency For Transformation and Global Senior Director of Policy at Fenix International. We discuss the community of workers within Uganda's formal sector and the challenges they are facing during this time, many of which can be traced to the need for social security reforms and protection. More

Dr. Mary Goretti Nakabugo, PhD in Education and Executive Director of UWEZO Uganda, joins us in episode 5 as we continue to delve into the education community.

She uses her own learning experience during Uganda's Resistance War in 1985 as a backdrop to highlight that the key missing point in Uganda's current learning framework is a focus on the basic foundations of learning that allow children to make quality progress. More

In this episode we are joined in conversation by Mr. Solomon King Benge, founder of Fundi Bots(a robotics non-profit that uses robotics training to create and inspire a new generation of students and innovators). He brings the conversation on Education-technology(something various communities are exploring within this pandemic) home, by highlighting what the quality of education and access to ed-tech looks like for various levels of learners within Uganda. More

On this week's episode we are joined by Ms. Hope Chigudu, a Feminist Activist, Leadership Coach and Organizational Development Expert. We delve into the importance of community, as a site of sustenance, connection and healing.

And as the COVID-19 pandemic in some ways has initiated a shift towards the centering of community values and practices, these elements are not new and have been a part of African practices and traditions. Ms. Hope reflects on this rescuscitation, what it might look like for various people in the community, and why it is important.

In this episode, we are joined by CEO, Executive Director and Managing Director of New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Limited, Mr. Robert Kabushenga. He gives insight on how actively participating in the fight against COVID-19 through giving of various resources, has and should make the business sector reflect on the different practices that they engage in. More

In the inaugural episode of comm-UNITY we are joined by Rita Auma, an author, lawyer and mental health advocate. She shares her insight on mental health and wellness in the community, what that means and looks like during the time of COVID-19, what is changing, what needs to change, and what possible outcomes we might see. More

Welcome to comm-unity! A podcast hosted by Jackie Asiimwe CEO of CivSource Africa, following stories and conversations (with a spotlight on Uganda) highlighting the ways in which sharing, supporting and existing collectively during the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed or need to be transformed. Follow our weekly episodes, share your thoughts and engage with us here on Soundcloud or one of CivSource Africa’s various platforms.