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MakRun 2019: 5Km and 10Km Route Maps Released

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#MakRun2019 Updates

As we gear up for the Third Edition of MakRun, the Organising Committee has released route maps for the 5Km and 10Km distances of #MakRun2019.

5Km Route (Numbers correspond to points on Map)

  • Runners proceed from Flag Off at Freedom Square to Main Gate (1)
  • Turn Left at Makerere Hill Road, proceed to Wandegeya Traffic Intersection (2)
  • Turn Right to Bombo Road (3), past Wandegeya Police Station, then turn Left at YMCA (4)
  • Proceed up Wandegeya Road, Turn Left onto Buganda Road (5)
  • Cross Nakasero Hill Road (6) and take Lourdel Road past Ministry of Health
  • At Italian Embassy, turn Left and slope to join Yusuf Lule Road (7)
  • Turn Left at Yusuf Lule Road (8), proceed to Mulago Roundabout
  • Connect to Binaisa Road (9) and proceed past next Roundabout (10) to Kubiri Roundabout
  • Turn Left onto Bombo Road (11) and at Shell, turn Right onto Muganzi Awongererwa Road (12)
  • Proceed uphill past Rugby Grounds, Boda Boda stage (13), onto Campus and turn Left at Africa Hall Warden’s Residence (14)
  • At Northcote Road, turn Right (15) and proceed past Nsibirwa Hall to the Roundabout
  • Continue uphill past CTF2, Main Library up to JICA Roundabout (16)
  • Turn left onto University Road and proceed past Main Building to Freedom Square
  • End of 5Km Route (17)

#MakRun2019 5Km Route Map

10Km Route (Numbers correspond to points on Map)

  • Runners proceed from Flag Off at Freedom Square to Main Gate (1)
  • Turn Left at Makerere Hill Road, proceed to Wandegeya Traffic Intersection (2)
  • Turn Right to Bombo Road (3), past Wandegeya Police Station, then turn Left at YMCA (4)
  • Proceed up Wandegeya Road, Turn Left onto Buganda Road (5)
  • Cross Nakasero Hill Road (6) and take Lourdel Road past Ministry of Health
  • Connect to Muwafu Road (7) and at next intersection, turn Left onto Kyadondo Road (8)
  • At next intersection, turn Left onto Kafu road (9) and continue past DFCU Towers
  • Take the next Right onto MacKinnon road (10), proceed to next intersection
  • Turn Left onto Sezibwa Road (11) and at the Embassy of South Sudan, turn Right onto Kagera Road (12)
  • At the intersection, turn Left onto Shimoni Road (13) and at Tanzanian High Commission, turn Right onto Clement Hill Road (14)
  • Continue along Clement Hill Road, cross Corydon Road (15), proceed past Office the Prime Minister and Uganda Media Center
  • At the intersection, turn Left onto Nile Avenue (16) and proceed to Garden City Roundabout
  • Turn Right onto Access Road (17), proceed past Oasis Mall, Centenary Park to Jinja Road
  • Turn Left onto Jinja Road (18) and at Airtel Roundabout, turn Left onto Wampewo Avenue (19)
  • Proceed uphill past Hotel Africana, Housing Finance Bank, Kololo Independence Grounds
  • At Kololo Traffic Intersection (20), connect to York Terrace, proceed past Makerere University Residences
  • At last intersection, turn Right onto Princess Charles Drive (21) and proceed past North Korean Embassy and Chinese Embassy (22)
  • At Lohana Academy, turn Left onto Sturrock Road (23), proceed downhill to Kisementi/Acacia Mall
  • At last intersection, turn Right briefly onto Acacia Avenue at City Oil (24) and then Left onto Kiira Road (25)
  • Proceed along Kiira Road to Mulago Roundabout (26) and turn Right onto Binaisa Road
  • Follow Binaisa Road until the First Round about before Kubiri Roundabout opposite Dwaliro Road (27)
  • Turn Left onto the Katanga Pedestrian Path (Murrum road) to Bombo Road
  • Turn Right onto Bombo Road (28) and Left into the Eastern Gate (29)
  • Proceed uphill past Estates & Works Department to the Roundabout/Makerere Police Post (30)
  • Turn Right onto Northcote Road, proceed past Nsibirwa Hall and Nkrumah Hall to the Roundabout (31)
  • Continue uphill past CTF2, Main Library up to JICA Roundabout
  • Turn left onto University Road (32) and proceed past Main Building to Freedom Square
  • End of 10Km Route (33)

#MakRun2019 10Km Route Map

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The results for the 2025/2026 special entry examination for the Diploma in Performing Arts held on Saturday 17th May, 2025. Candidates who scored a final mark of 50% and above passed the Examination and have been recommended to the university’s Admissions Committee for consideration.

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Mature Age Scheme Exam Results for 2025/2026

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The Office of Academic Registrar, Makerere University has released full results for the Mature Age Entry Scheme Examinations for the Academic Year 2025/2026 held on Saturday 14th December, 2024.

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Call for Application: 2025 SNRM session 4 Summer School

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Participants in focused group discussions. Leiden-Delft-Erasmus East Africa Research Network (LEARN) in collaboration with the Urban Action Lab at Makerere University a workshop to deliberate strategies for mitigating the impacts of climate change in urban centres in the East African Region, Theme: “Resilient Urban Futures: Adapting Livelihoods to Climate Change”, 4th-5th September 2024, School of Public Health Auditorium, Kampala Uganda.

Context:
Natural resources in Africa are being depleted at an alarming rate due to several factors, including unsustainable human activities, climate change, and population growth. A primary condition of sustainable development is to ensure that the pressures do not exceed the environmental limits, and that demand for the resources does not exceed levels that can be sustainably provided by nature. Therefore, there is a pressing need for transformative, systems-thinking approaches and tools that can tackle the diverse challenges facing these systems. In Africa, this need is compounded by a lack of data and monitoring, which significantly hinders sustainable decision-making.

Investing in young scientists who are committed to take lead in sustainable management of Africa’s natural resources is very important. Capacity building of young scientists will enhance their knowledge and skill on sustainable natural resources and their involvement for implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDG’s) in Africa. To this effect, SNRM summer schools have been implemented in three sessions in 2019, 2020, and 2022 with support from Volkswagen Foundation; to build a critical mass of skilled and competent young natural resource scientists in Africa through training, capacity building and mentorship. Session 4 (2025) will target competent young scientists (MSc and PhD students) in Africa and Germany to further develop their knowledge and skills in systems thinking, advanced data collection and analysis, and application of emerging digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), internet of things (IoT), and embracing transdisciplinary approaches. In addition, we include an ideation workshop where students can work on real problems to come up with solutions for sustainable transformations in natural resource use.

Organizers: Leibniz Universität – Hannover (Germany), University of Antananarivo, University of Abomey Calavi (Benin), Makerere University (Uganda), University of Ghana (Ghana), University of Parakou (Benin), The Technical University of Kenya, with financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany).

Venue and dates: Nairobi, Kenya, 16-28 November 2025

Target: MSc and PhD students, early in the program of less than 35 years of age from any university/research institution in either sub-Saharan Africa or Germany with an interest in natural resources management.

Participants and Scholarships: The course is fully funded and open to 20 MSc and PhD students from Africa, and 5 from Germany. Funding will cover the costs of air ticket, accommodation, meals, visa, and transportation. However, participants will cover the cost of their travel health insurance.

Topics

SNRM Summer School Session 4: Transformative pathways in biodiversity management and conservation.
This summer school is designed to deliver four modules over a two-week period. The modules are designed to enable the students to acquire new ways of designing data collection protocols and analysis for transformative sustainable natural resources management.

Module 4.1: Data collection I
Skills in data collection for a transformative and sustainable management of natural resources (water, wildlife, forest, land, livestock, crops) monitoring and data collection techniques; remote monitoring tools, earth observation system data, e.g. satellite data sources, LIDAR, and UAV aerial images. Collect and analyse In-situ data on biotic and abiotic parameters, map and analyse data using R or Google Earth Engine, field data collection and retrieving data from online databases.

Module 4.2 Data management and processing
Introduction to tools and methods of managing large and diverse data sets of natural resources such as time series, spatial, directional, and multivariate data. Practicals will include data storage, organization and conversion into various formats using databases such as PostgreSQL and statistical programming software such as R and Python; scripts.

Module 4.3 Ecological monitoring, modelling and management
This module aims to teach participants how to anticipate and validate trends that can be observed in various ecosystems. Lectures include ecological monitoring and its design; population monitoring studies; metrics in population monitoring; methods for monitoring and assessing marine ecosystems; human ecology to socio-ecological systems; climate change impact of ecosystems; suitability assessments; overview of the principles underlying wildlife monitoring and prediction systems for climate change adaptation. Practicals will include field data collection (individual and group); ecological data analysis using R or PAST; modelling and experiencing the behaviour of complex systems using Vensim.

Module 4.4 Natural habitat restoration ideation lab
This module is designed to spur students’ innovation and creativity, and to help students comprehensively identify interdependencies across the 17 SDG goals. Participants will be trained on ideation processes for solutions and intervention for transformative natural resource management. They will work collaboratively in small groups on case studies and develop pathways of transformative sustainable natural resource management. Examples of projects include forest (mangrove) ecosystem and habitat restoration, improved technologies for agricultural production, nature-based solutions for improving water quality, and reversing land degradation.

Language: The course will be delivered in English. Participants are expected to be fluent in writing and speaking the English language.

How to apply

Applicants are kindly requested to fill in the application form available from https://snrmafrica.com/ and submit the following documents in English through the system.

  • a curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages)
  • a letter of motivation (maximum 1 page)
  • a confirmation of university enrolment
  • a reference letter from the academic supervisor
  • project summary of MSc/ PhD project (1 page including objectives, methodology
    and key findings or expected outcomes).

Important dates
Application deadline: 30th June 2025.
Announcement of accepted applicants: 15th August 2025.
Confirmation of attendance by selected participants: 12th Sept 2025.
Summer school held: 16 – 28 Nov 2025.

Further information is available from

The secretariat info@snrmafrica.com
Dr Lydia Olaka lydiaolaka@tukenya.ac.ke
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Stuetzel stuetzel@gem.uni-hannover.de

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