| Name: |
Dr.
Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe |
| Address: |
Office
of the Vice President
P. O. Box 7359, Kampala
|
| Date
of Birth: |
July
1, 1955 |
| Place
of Birth: |
Iganga
District, Eastern Uganda |
| Marital
Status: |
Married
to Engineer Charles Kazibwe with four children |
| Education: |
Makerere
University, Kampala, Uganda |
| Graduated
with: |
Bachelor
of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB, CH.B), 1979
Master of Medicine, 1987 |
| |
|
| Political
Life: |
|
| 1979-1980 |
Active
member of the Democratic Party, serving in both the Youth and Women?s
wings |
| 1987 |
Elected
Councillor - Kampala City Council |
| 1988 |
Elected
Woman Representative for Kampala District in the National Resistance
Council (the then Parliament)Appointed Deputy Minister of Industry
and Technology
|
| 1991 |
Appointed
Cabinet Minister responsible for Women in Development, Culture and
Youth (later to become Ministry of Gender and Community Development |
| 1994-1995 |
Elected
Member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted Uganda?s new Constitution |
| November
1994 |
Appointed
Executive Vice President of the Republic of Uganda and Minister of
Gender and Community Development. |
| 1996 |
Chairperson
of Advisory Committee to President Museveni?s Campaign Programme for
the Presidential bid which he won. |
| 1996 |
Elected
Member of Parliament of Parliament for Kigulu South Constituency,
Iganga District |
| July
1996 |
Appointed
Vice President for the second time and Minister of Agriculture, Animal
Industry and Fisheries till April 1998. |
| |
|
| Membership: |
|
| 1994 |
Member
of the the World Forestry Commision |
| 1997 |
Member
of the Advisory Board - International Food Policy Research Institute |
| 1998 |
Member
of the World Water Commission |
| 1998 |
Member
of a High Level Panel of Advisors to the Secretary General of the
UN on the Development of Africa |
| 1998 |
Chairperson
of the African Women Committee on Peace and Development |
| |
|
| Awards: |
|
| 1996 |
Leadership
award from the Centre for Development and Population Activities. |
| 1998 |
Recipent
of the FAO CERES Medal for contribution to food security and poverty
eradication. |
