Presidents
Michael Byamukama
Ntanda,
Current President
He is the current president of the National Association of Social Workers Uganda-(NASWU) from 2017 to date. Michael is a social worker by profession and a global child and social services workforce advocate. He has more than 20 years’ experience in networking and partnership development, social protection programming, psychosocial support programming, child policy review and formulation, and social service workforce advocacy at global, regional and national levels.
Michael is a member of global, regional and national child protection and mental health learning initiatives. He has reviewed and contributed to development of global and national policy documents and frameworks. He was part of the core team that developed and reviewed the national para social worker training curriculum, psychosocial and child safeguarding curricula. Michael is also a member of the National Council for Higher Education Steering Committee that developed the minimum
Charles Dracebo,
Former President
Currently he is employed as a National Country Coordinator and Head of Education for UNESCO Project Office in Uganda. As a team member of UNESCO Nairobi cluster office, he is responsible for UNESCO programmes support for all UNESCO projects in Uganda and member designate of UNESCO in the UN Country Team in Uganda.
He is a graduate of Master of Arts in Social Sector Planning and Management and a bachelor’s degree holder in Social Works and Social Administration. He is currently pursuing master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA).
For the last 21 years, he has worked progressively; 11 years with United Nations (UNICEF and UNESCO) and 10 years with 4 different International NGOs. 12 years of his work career focused on projects and programmes that support Social inclusion and equitable access to Social
Charles Tuhaise,
Former President
After our SWSA class of 1987 completed the course in 1990 and graduated in January 1991, some of us were eager to join NASWU, the professional Association of Social Workers in Uganda, but were told NASWU had been inactive for over 10 years. We decided to take the challenge of its revival and embarked on a 20-year process.
A series of events and activities were undertaken, including writing a new Constitution, holding quarterly fellowships, participating in regional events, re-linking with International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and other national Associations and eventually NASWU was able to host the 7th Pan-African Social Work conference in 2007.
In 1999, NASWU hosted a delegation from the Danish Association of Social Workers (Aalborg) branch and later, 2 NASWU officials visited Aalborg in 2000.
Prof. Jon Muzale,
Former President
Currently he is employed as a National Country Coordinator and Head of Education for UNESCO Project Office in Uganda. As a team member of UNESCO Nairobi cluster office, he is responsible for UNESCO programmes support for all UNESCO projects in Uganda and member designate of UNESCO in the UN Country Team in Uganda.
He is a graduate of Master of Arts in Social Sector Planning and Management and a bachelor’s degree holder in Social Works and Social Administration. He is currently pursuing master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA).
For the last 21 years, he has worked progressively; 11 years with United Nations (UNICEF and UNESCO) and 10 years with 4 different International NGOs. 12 years of his work career focused on projects and programmes that support Social inclusion and equitable access to Social