I am called Rosemary Adong Okech. I come from Nebbi District-Westnile. I am an Alur by tribe hailing from the Luo ethnic.

I have 12 years working experience in the NGO world. I started working with ACORD in 1992 as a rural development worker - living in a grass thatched hut, riding a brand new phoenix bicycle. My role was to mobilize communities and conscientise them to better understand the causes of their predicament and plan how to get out of it. This I did for two years.

I was then promoted to the position of Training Center Manager of the ACORD training center. Later I became the Training Coordinator ACORD for another two years. I was responsible for a project called Institutional development of Community Based organization. By then I had Diploma in Adult Education.

In 1997 I left and joined CDRN as Trainer in PRA and capacity building of CBOs. At around the same time I went back to Makerere University for a degree course (Bachelor of Adult and Community Education)-combining both work and studies. I was also sent by CDRN for an OD course in Arusha and attended a series of capacity building courses under the Transform programme. This marked the genesis of my OD work with a series of NGOs in Uganda.

After completing the degree course I was immediately promoted to the position of Training Coordinator CDRN-a management position. I then enrolled for an MSC Development Management course with Open University of the UK which I have now completed. I am currently the Director of CDRN.

I am quite radical with strong values for a fair and just society. My interest is to critique the current order and promote alternatives. I am behind the thinking around African perspectives to gender.

• The current procedures and policies dominating the disbursement of aid: are they building strong relationships and enabling NGOs to meet their stated aims? A report on research carried out in Uganda between 2000-2004:
  
  
  • Chapter 5: Reflections on some critical concepts dominating development discourse in Uganda: some contextual notes (Rosemary Adong, CDRN)
    
    
  • Chapter 6: Three case studies exploring the impact of Western management tools on SNGOs (Rosemary Adong, B. Mboizi, S. Basemera, A. Kasingye, A. Nanafuka (CDRN).