Patricia Nakawuka

• Conduct research on best practices in community engagement strategies from other jurisdictions or organizations to inform the design or implementation of new initiatives.
• Provide training for staff members regarding best practices in engaging communities effectively, enhancing overall outreach efforts.
• Assist in budget planning and allocation process by providing accurate information on community needs, priorities or potential impact of funding decisions.
• Assist in grant writing processes for funding opportunities that align with organizational goals and community needs.
• Promote a positive image of the organization to the public through proactive responses to inquiries, complaints, and concerns.
• Boost local engagement with various initiatives through effective communication and collaboration strategies.
• Doing social risk assessments and social receptors in communities we are working on, and finding solutions to the anticipated risks.
• Engaging the communities on some of the social issues that arise during the project like the influx of people people in the community area, HIV/AIDS, recruitment procedures and project activities.
• Kept case files updated, accurate and aligned with requirements.
• Created educational materials to convey important information to service recipients.
• Tracked service activities and outcomes against outlined plans and goals.
• Networked with local organizations, leaders, and consumers, resulting in establishment of new and lasting partnerships and relationships.
• Developed long-lasting partnerships with local leaders, management team and peers with active engagement, exemplary communication and consistent issue resolution.

Worked with Gulu District and power world technical Ltd on a IFAD funded project of rehabilitating lives in Northern Uganda through construction of community access roads, extending electricity and construction of boreholes and my roles included the following;

• Designing an environment and social management plan for the community access roads in Mwoya District.
• Implementing the ESMP for the community.
• Seeking wayleaves in the community access roads to enable the construction since the project is not compensating.
• Sensitize the communities on the benefits of the project in their communities.
• Handling environment issues like the supervision of extracting marrum from the barrow pits and also recreating the extraction areas.
• Capturing GPS coordinates for community access areas.
• Handling grievances arising from the project and drawing the grievance management plan.
• Supervising the destruction of property in the way leaves for the access roads to see that the communities don't lose so much of their vegetation.

• Worked with REA and Modest Associates LTD on a non-get fit project on a project as a sociologist.
• Designing the community engagement plan for the non-getfit REA project.
• Writing the environment and social management plan for the REA non-getfit project.
• Implementing the ESMP and community and communication plan for the project in the project areas.
• Handling the safety issues on the project and carrying out safety inductions on behalf of the safety officer.
• Overseeing the project works in the communities and assessing the impact of the project on peoples' lives.

PROJECT: EASTAFRICAN CRUDE OIL PIPE LINE(EACOP)

Duties/ Responsibilities;

• Identifying affected cultural heritage sites.
• Taking GPS coordinates of the graves and taking pictures of the graves.
• Sensitizing the community about the EACOP project on land acquisition issues.
• Interviewing affected grave PAPs and filling in questionnaires.
• Identifying vulnerable PAPs and finding solutions on how to help them.
• Doing QA-QC on the questionnaires filled in from the field.
• Doing data entry for my questionnaires.
• Coding the data that is got from the field.
• Writing a cultural Heritage report.

• Worked with REA and MBH LTD on the ERT III project as a sociologist.
• Workers induction on social aspects of the project including HIV Aids, Gender sensitivity and company corporate image protection.
• Stakeholder’s engagement meetings as means of maintaining sustainable Relationships with the project affected communities
• Designing the community and communication engagement plan for REA.
• Writing the Environment and social management plan for the REA on the ERT III project
• Grievance verification and redress
• Sensitize the communities about the project activities on going in their communities.
• Writing the ESMP report for the project.
• Seeking way leave for the project in the project areas.
• Negotiate on behalf of the project with the communities.
• Capturing GPS coordinates of all the HV lines in the project areas.
• Capturing some of the environmental data and handling environmental issues arising in the project areas.
• Handling the safety issues on the project and carrying out safety inductions on behalf of the safety officer.
• Writing healthy and safety reports for the project
• Overseeing the project works in the communities and how will the project improve the people’s lives socially.

• Performed statistical, qualitative, and quantitative analysis.
• Participated actively in regular meetings with fellow researchers to discuss project updates, challenges faced, and lessons learned during ongoing activities.
• Organized research materials, maintaining a well-ordered workspace conducive to productivity.
• Gathered, arranged, and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.
• Participated in the collection of information amongst people who stay along the road.
• Provide accurate information from the respondents that will help the organization to plan effectively.
• To meet a daily target of questionnaires and report back to my supervisor on a daily basis.
• To create a good rapport with the respondent in order to get detailed information.
• To keep the respondent’s information confidential.
• To work closely with my team members so that work can be done on time and accurately.
• To manage the organizations resources carefully like questionnaires, clip boards, identity cards etc.

• Increased efficiency in data entry by accurately inputting collected information into the designated database system.
• Maintained accurate records of completed surveys, contact information, and other relevant data as required by the project scope.
• Resolved any discrepancies in collected data by cross-referencing records and following up with · Identifying affected cultural heritage sites.
• Taking GPS coordinates of the graves and taking pictures of the graves.
• Sensitizing the community about the EACOP project on land acquisition issues.
• Interviewing affected grave PAPs and filling in questionnaires.
• Identifying vulnerable PAPs and finding solutions on how to help them.
• Doing QA-QC on the questionnaires filled in from the field.
• Doing data entry for my questionnaires.
• Coding the data that is got from the field.
• Writing a cultural Heritage reportrespondents when needed.

1. Training enumerators on how to answer the questionnaires and handling all the relevant issues about the questionnaire.

2. Doing quality check and quality assurance of all the questionnaires collected by the enumerators from the field.

3. Ensure that open ended data is being extracted and tallied before or after data entry.

4. Writing time sheets for all enumerators.

5. Filling the key performance indicator table everyday e.g. number of questionnaires collected, number of questionnaires that have been quality checked etc.

6. Holding strategy meetings every evening with the enumerators.

7. To ensure that all corrections in the questionnaire are communicated to the enumerators.

8. Participated in stake holder meeting in different villages of and my role was to take minutes for the meetings.