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Innovations Committee at Makerere with Rockefeller Vice President Dr. Joyce Mock, Regional Director
Dr. Cheik Mbecki; World Bank Representative Ms Preeti Ahuja, and Dr. David Court. Entebbe,
Uganda
members openly share with them our anxieties and questions about their
moves and suggestions. At no time have I ever left a meeting with the
Rockefeller team feeling resentful or feeling belittled (made to feel like
you are a beggar/pauper and hence lower as a human being). The Rockefeller/
Makerere partnership is more flexible, interactive and empowering than
any other relationship I have directly been involved in. They give us room
and space to shape the process. Rockefeller acknowledge in different ways
the fact that Makerere has taken and suggested proactive and different approaches
in proposal development, consultations, and mobilization of the
Makerere community and in allocating funds.
Although Rockefeller encourage reporting against the project aims and
objectives, and continue to push for more and better evaluations and monitoring,
they have not pushed a particular formula down Makerere’s throat.
This does not in any way minimize their eagerness for quality and concern
for measurable outputs.