Summary of my efforts setting up a new ICRAF office in Entebbe, Uganda.

I was employed by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) 1 September 2002 and sacked 31 January 2004 (1 February 2004 I was contracted as a consultant with ICRAF).

During 17 months at ICRAF I set up and established a new office in Entebbe, Uganda. I crated several research networks and raised funding for 3 pre-studies and 2 full research project (on Lake Kyoga and the Mara River Basin). The three pre-studies included one project funded by GMFZ, and two projects for the Challenge Programme for Water and Food (CPWF). The GMFZ application was, after initial acceptance, handed over to a senior researcher who completely changed the projects (that subsequently did not get funded). CPWF was a programme developed within the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), with the aim of strengthen the research and co-operation. I was the only researcher within ICRAF (one of 16 CGIAR centers) that managed to get a project accepted by the CPWF - despite being the latest employed. Yet, in the re-organization that followed economic turmoil in 2003 I was sacked.

But I had met the mother of my daughter in Entebbe, so I accepted the very economically attractive consultancy, and stayed in Entebbe until march 2005 while working for ICRAF as a consultant. I also, voluntarily and unpaid, administrated the Lake Kyoga project that I had created as a co-opeation between Uppsala University and water and fisheries organizations in Uganda.