Expanding and strengthening Science cafe in local languages in rural communities in Uganda. (360G-Wellcome-091220_Z_10_Z)

The overall supervision, guidance and oversight of the project will be provided by the Project Advisory Board (PAB), comprising five members. The PAB will responsible for appointing the national coordinator, who will coordinate all the local language cafés in Uganda. He/she will organize national meetings and media publicity. He/she will write reports to the relevant ministries and the funding agency. He will also link café in Uganda to other cafes in Africa. The national coordinator will also ensure that operational research is done. An assistant national coordinator will be recruited and he/she share the responsibilities of national coordination and research with the national coordinator. There will be district level branch coordinators who will coordinate science café activities at the district i.e. he/she will identify venues, set up cafes and link all local language cafes in the district. He/she will identify facilitators, for the groups. He/she will report to the national coordinator. Every local language café site will have a chairman whose role will be to organize his members; they will choose their own topic and ask the district coordinator to identify a facilitator. The idea is that every local language café group will meet once every month. However, based on our experience so far, members usually like to have café discussions weekly and should this happen, they will be allowed to do so but with their own resources. The organization will produce quarterly reports. This report will be distributed to funding agency, the line ministries in Uganda, and a feedback report will be given to the members of the café group. Reports will also be produced whenever the funding agency requires one.