Hilda M. Tadria is a Ugandan women's rights activist, a gender and social development specialist, and the executive director of the

Mentoring and Empowerment Programme for Young Women in Uganda Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the personal and p ...

(MEMPROW). She has advised NGOs worldwide on gender, institutional management and social development, and has been an associate professor at

Makerere University Makerere University, Kampala (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of ni ...

Early life

Tadria has a bachelor's degree in sociology from

, a master's degree in social anthropology from

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sid ...

, England, and a PhD in social anthropology from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, US.

Career

Tadria has worked as a consultant on gender, institutional management and social development for the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

UNDP The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

UNIFEM The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, french: Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme, ) was established in December 1976 originally as the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women in the International ...

, the Ugandan government, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and

NOVIB Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. History Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Co ...

. Tadria was an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at

, and while there founded the non-governmental organisation (NGO),

Action for Development Action for Development (ACFODE) is an indigenous (Ugandan) non government Women Association founded by women academicians; Dr Joy Kwesiga, Dr Hilda Tadria and Dr Ruth Mukama with the help of Maxine Ankra with the aim of incorporating ideas discus ...

(ACFODE). In September 2017, she led a workshop for a group of "leading African feminists" at the South African organisation Masimanyane Women's Rights International, together with

Dorcas Coker-Appiah Dorcas Ama Frema Coker-Appiah (born 17 August 1946) is a Ghanaian lawyer and women's rights activist, and the executive director of the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre, also known as the "Gender Centre", in Accra, Ghana. She ha ...

, the executive director of Ghana's

Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre The Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre (Gender Centre) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that strives to address the issues of gender inequality in Ghana. Based in Accra, Ghana, the Gender Centre has conducted studi ...

, and provided a "powerful workshop unpacking the patriarchy system".

References

Living people Ugandan feminists Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Makerere University alumni University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni Academic staff of Makerere University Year of birth missing (living people) {{Uganda-bio-stub