CEO, Uganda


Situka Alliance Initiative (SAI) culminated from a number of events. One of the events was Kelly Gonzaga Kyagaba visited rural village to implement child protection activities. While there, a need arose which required the participation of the father who was the head and decision maker of that particular household. But he was absent and the women were unable to proceed with further necessary interventions crucial to their own lives and those of the children. This and many other examples like this one motivated Kelly Gonzaga Kyagaba to think about how easy it would have been if the household head had been involved in the education sessions on maternal and child health. This is when the idea for Health Research and Advocacy was ignited in 2014. With time it became a fully blown passion which has led to health promotion in Ugandan grassroot communities.


Pensive Chief Executive Officer SAI, Uganda Looking Forward to the Future 
Kelly Gonzaga Kyagaba holds a Bachelor's Degree in Counselling from Kyambogo University, Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Uganda Management Institute and a Masters in Organizational Psychology from Makerere University. Currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Health whose skills will be leverage to stimulate theory development and methodologies to catalyse translational knowledge development. Additionally Gonzaga holds a number of qualifications in other areas such as: Participatory Learning Methodologies (PLM), HIV prevention and care Community Leader, Generation of Data to inform programming and policy, Management of Opportunistic Infections (OIs) and general care of HIV/AIDs patients, Palliative Care, Human Rights and HIV in the Workplaces, Adherence Counselling for HIV/AIDs patients awarded by Foundation for professional Development South Africa (FPD).

The drive to initiate and Implement Situka Alliance Initiative – SAI goals is derived from Implementing SDGs at grassroots in Uganda. The interest in SDGs is as a result of leaders across 193 countries who had the desire to end Famine, drought, plague and poverty occurring across their communities.  The need to rid communities of such, propelled the enactment of the SDGs. SAI believes in the bigger part it is to play in realising these goals through the use of its strategy “MEN INVOLVED.”  Men Involved is an important aspect that will lead to the RMNCAH outcomes as highlighted in the Ministry of Health sharpened plan of action, but also become champions of change in promoting Sexual Reproductive Health Rights for young people, Join the fight against Gender based Violence and Violence against Children. When men are involved in enabling their spouses seek health care and protecting their loved ones against acts of Violence, they subsequently enable billions of people worldwide to embrace the shared hope and future of the SDGs towards thriving Humanity.
                                                                        
Gonzaga’s tremendous experience in both social and health research which stretches over years involves working with government and private Institutions in health and social Impact including Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU), Educate! Uganda, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and Small to Medium Economic (SME) Turnkeys/Incubators known as Tugende Limited. Currently Gonzaga is supporting WHO and MoH in health research while at the same time as a managing partner at Mentors HUB International (MHI). MHI, is a private owned company whose goal is to provide a competitive edge for organizations through Institutional Development and Excellence Customer Service Experience. It is against this background that SAI was created.


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  1. UnknownSeptember 2, 2020 at 1:29 AM

    Excellent initiative. For Africa at large once we have men involved in Reproductive Health,maternal and neonatal child and adolescent health, sexual and reproductive health rights, HIV and AIDS prevention and control we shall have solved the effects caused by Sexual and Gender Based Violence, reduced maternal deaths, improved the life hoods of families and have a peace community.

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