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Position: |
Team Leader |
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Organisation / institution: |
Rwenzori Center for Peace Initiative (CPI) Uganda |
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Bio: |
Bwango Issa is a community development practitioner, peacebuilding advocate, and transitional justice champion from Fort Portal, Uganda. Grounded in both professional training and lived experience, he has devoted his career to the pursuit of reconciliation, social justice, and sustainable peace focusing on the Rwenzori region, whose communities have endured cultural and ethnic divisions since the 1880s.
He holds a Bachelor\'s Degree in Social Work and Community Development from Mountains of the Moon University, a foundation that has informed a career spent working closely with vulnerable communities, conflict-affected populations, and young people in search of opportunity and direction.
Since 2023, Issa has served as Team Leader at the Rwenzori Center for Peace Initiative, where he leads programs spanning youth empowerment, community dialogue, peacebuilding, and mentorship.
He engages directly with the intergenerational trauma and ethnic mistrust that have long fractured communities across the Rwenzori region, drawing on transitional justice principles to create spaces where truth can be spoken, accountability can be pursued, and genuine healing can begin.
Before assuming this leadership role, Issa worked with Tugende Together Organisation Uganda as an Assistant Sponsorship Coordinator, providing consistent support to vulnerable children and families through education sponsorship, community assessments, and family outreach. He also volunteered with Rwenzori Forum for Peace and Justice, where he contributed to research, dialogue facilitation, and reconciliation work in communities marked by conflict and social division.
Issa carries a firm and personal conviction that peace in the Rwenzori region, and across Uganda broadly, cannot be achieved through silence or avoidance. It must be pursued deliberately through honest dialogue, meaningful youth participation, cultural understanding, and transitional justice processes that place affected communities at the center. This conviction is not incidental to his work. It is the foundation of it. |
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Skills and expertise: |
Over the years, Bwango Issa has developed strong skills in community engagement, leadership, youth mentorship, and programme coordination through hands-on experience working with organisations in western Uganda. His ability to connect with people from different backgrounds has enabled him to lead community dialogues, facilitate trainings, and coordinate programmes focused on peacebuilding, sponsorship, and social transformation.
Issa is skilled in research, report writing, documentation, and monitoring community projects. He has experience collecting field data, conducting assessments, and preparing both narrative and financial reports for organisational planning and accountability. His communication skills have also allowed him to contribute to storytelling initiatives, script development, and organisational awareness campaigns.
In addition to his field experience, he is proficient in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as internet communication and mobile technologies across Android and iOS platforms. He is recognised as a dependable team player who can work under minimum supervision while remaining organised and results-oriented.
His work around youth empowerment and transitional justice has strengthened his ability to listen, mediate, and engage communities in constructive dialogue. Above all, Issa is passionate about using leadership, creativity, and practical solutions to create lasting social impact. |
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Reason for membership: |
To network and learn more about Transitional Justice for effective policy advocacy efforts |
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Location: |
Fort Portal, Uganda |
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Social Media: |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bwango-issa-63364b98/ |