Ms Margaret Kakande
Mrs. Kakande is the head of the budget monitoring and accountability unit in the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development. She holds an MD in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia in the UK; a Bachelor of Statistics from Makerere University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Feminist Development Economics from the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands. Kakande has lectured at Makerere University and served the government as a Social Infrastructure Economist and Social Policy Advisor. Her strengths pivot on poverty analysis; monitoring and evaluation; national budget processing and mainstreaming gender and equity issues into development projects.