Ester Obaikol (Executive Director)

The officer is a lawyer by profession and at the secretariat she is responsible for the following:

• She is the coordinator of the Alliance
• The overall manager of the organizations resources
• The overall contact person for all the Alliances correspondences
• She is the secretary to the Alliance board and the executive committee
• Lobbying and advocating for the Alliance at both national and international levels
• The overall coordinator of the implementation of the Alliance programmes
•  The overall action  research and policy analysis officer
•  The overall resource mobiliser for the secretariat

Hilda Akabwai

The programme officer Advocacy and Capacity Building is a social development expert and at the Alliance, Ms. Aciro is responsible for the following:

• Programme development,
• Organization Management
• Implementation and monitoring of the programmes,
• Capacity building of Alliance stakeholders,
• Coordinating of the Land Rights information centers
• Lobbying, advocating and Networking

Mr. Mpalanyi Michael

The programme officer LandNet East Africa and documentation officer is a social scientist and at the Alliance he is responsible for the following:

• Running LandNet East Africa network planned activities.
• Documenting and disseminating the Alliance publications and research work
• Running the Alliance resource center and the Website
• Communicating with the members and marketing / promoting the Alliance and its activities.

Ms. Agnes Awori
The organization senior accountant and she is responsible for all the Alliance’s accounts related issues.
The programme officer Accounts department is a an accountant by profession and at the secretariat she is responsible for the following:

Mr. Mukhwana Njaya David

The programme officer Advocacy and Communications is a social Scientist majoring in Development expertise and at the Alliance; Mr. Mukhwana Njaya David is responsible for the following:

• Design, programs in the advocacy and communications department.
• Initiate, design strategies to implement activities to meet the set objectives of the program.
• Supervise and monitor activities in relation to the objectives of the program.
• Interact and Coordinate all media engagements in relation to the advocacy campaigns.
• Interact with other like minded organizations, activists, researchers to inform ULA’s advocacy agenda.

David Mukwana

Lydia Kisekka

Sam Tumugarukire

John Mwebe

Tumusiime Kabwende Deo (Communications Officer)

A graduate with a B.A (Honours) in Mass Communication and Public Relations from the Uganda Christian University, Mukono. He has previously worked as Correspondent with then Weekly Observer media group, read news for then Radio Uganda (Now UBC Radio), contributed stories to the Daily Monitor, worked briefly as Operations Manager for WBS, and worked for three years as Communications Officer for the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project.

He has co-authored Defending human rights: a resource book for human rights defenders published by the Kampala-based organisation, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project; researched and compiled profiles of countries within the sub-region in regards to the situation of human rights defenders. Full details of this work can be found on: Website: http://www.yorku.ca/crs/AHRDP/index.html co-produced and edited a report “Journalists at the frontline of human rights defence”; co-produced and edited the report “Defending the defenders-a human rights defenders conference”; was a Note-Taker during the Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons, organized by the USA-based Africa Centre for Strategic Studies, Imperial Royale (2008); and wrote the Annual Report for the African Field Epidemiology Network (2008).

As a commentator on contemporary African and international issues in both printed media and on the www, Deo writes regularly for the Daily Monitor, the New Vision and Africa Files, All Africa.com, Civicus, Global Integrity Commons, among other publications.