Prof. Gorettie Nabanoga

Program Director

Profile

She is the Principal of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at Makerere University and the Director of the Africa Climate Collaborative. With over three decades of academic and leadership experience, she has dedicated her career to advancing climate resilience, gender-responsive natural resource governance, and inclusive livelihood transformation in Africa.

Through teaching, research, mentorship, and institutional leadership, Prof. Nabanoga has supported shaping generations of scholars and practitioners, mobilized significant research partnerships, and translated evidence into action that improves livelihoods and ecosystems.

As Director of the Africa Climate Collaborative, she provides strategic leadership to a pan-African program that is building institutional capacity and empowering Africa’s next generation of climate leaders through graduate training, postdoctoral fellowships, youth skilling, transformative research, policy engagement, and the establishment of a Climate Resilience Centre at Makerere University. Her work is grounded in inclusive scholarship, mentorship, and community engagement, driven by a vision of sustainable, equitable, and climate-resilient futures for Africa.