Re-imagining Women Leadership Through Inclusive Community Engagement

This book illustrates an imaginative leadership model. Based on the mission and accomplishments of HERS-EA, this book provides examples of how the HERS-EA's leadership model empowers women to take on leadership roles, transforming educational institutions and ensuring inclusive community engagement.

Women in higher education institutions (HEIs) in East Africa and elsewhere face unique challenges in the workplace. These women need to be equipped with the right tools to succeed in both their professional and personal life while also lifting other women at multiple levels of society. This book delves into the mission and accomplishments of the Higher Education Resource Services-East Africa (HERS-EA), an organization dedicated to advancing gender parity in leadership roles within higher education and significantly increase the number of girls and women completing their education. The authors discuss barriers faced by women in higher education that limit their progress to career advancement and leadership positions and offer innovative solutions for addressing the challenges using evidence-based strategies for reimaging leadership for sustainable community engagement and development.

Autorentext

Naomi Lumutenga is the Executive Director, and Co-Founder, HERS-EA, with extensive experience and expertise in higher education leadership and gender equity initiatives. Lumutenga has held leadership roles in educational and religious institutions and is a champion of equity, diversity, and inclusion of minoritized communities for development.

Margaret Khaitsa is a professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at Mississippi State University, USA, with a distinguished career in academia in Uganda and USA for over 30 years winning several awards and honors. As Founder and Board Chair HERS-EA Khaitsa is passionate about advancing gender equity in Sub-Saharan Africa and globally for development.

Inhalt

Dedication

Foreword

Julie Jordan

Introduction

Margaret L. Khaitsa, Naomi W. Lumutenga, & Judith S. White

Section I: Instigating Innovative Women Leadership Through Inclusive Engagement

Chapter 1 - Higher Education Resource Services-East Africa: A Women Leadership Model for Inclusive Engagement and Institutional Change

Margaret L. Khaitsa and Naomi W. Lumutenga

Chapter 2 - Reimagining Women's Leadership Through Feminist Instigation and Inclusive Excellence: Drawing on HERS Foundations

Judith S. White

Section II: Contextualizing Cultural and Family Barriers to Gender Equity in East Africa

Chapter 3 - Quality Education: A Pathway to Leadership for Women in Africa

Martha R. L. Muhwezi, Teresa Omondi-Adeitan, Rose Atieno Odhiambo, and Shem Osomo Ongai

Chapter 4 - The Role of the Family in Shaping Women Leaders: Insights about Positive Fathering and Male Role Models in Uganda

Deborah Kaddu-Serwadda

Chapter 5 - Breaking Barriers Using Education for Empowerment: A Case of Ethiopian Women in Academic Leadership

Gennet Zewide

Section III: Interrogating Current Interventions for Gender Equity in Higher Education Institutions

Chapter 6 - Promoting Gender Equity in Higher Education Through a Gender Mainstreaming Strategy: An Autoethnographic Review of Progress at Makerere University

Euzobia M. Mugisha Baine

Chapter 7 - "Normalizing" Inequity: The Case for East African Higher Education Institutions to Change Their Culture-Not the Women

Rhoda K. Wanyenze

Chapter - 8 Engendering Change Through Critical Academic Development

Dina Zoe Belluigi and Tom Parkinson

Section IV: Catalyzing Leadership for Institutional Change in Higher Education

Chapter 9 - "Through us You are Changing Many Lives": HERS-EA Academy, An Innovative Platform for Institutional and Community Transformation

Naomi W. Lumutenga

Chapter - 10 Engaged Instigators: Evidence-Based Strategies for Inclusive Scholars and Institutional Transformers in STEM

Margaret L. Khaitsa

Chapter 11 - Inclusive Governance Using the Principles of Consensus Building: Elevating Women's Voices in Higher Education

Meghan Millea

Chapter 12 - Advocacy and Allyship: Concepts and Models for Men Faculty Pursuing Gender Equity in East African Universities

Dr. Kevin Brooks

Section V: Modeling Inclusive Women Leadership for Engaged Community Development

Chapter 13 - Advancing Engaged Scholarship with the HERS-EA Multi-tier Model: A Case Study of the HERSpad Initiative

Naomi W. Lumutenga and Caroline Kobia

Chapter 14 - Applying the HERS-EA Multi-tier Model of Leadership to Empower Women Through Poultry Production and Flexible Education

Margaret L. Khaitsa and Naomi W. Lumutenga

Conclusions: Lessons Learned, Looking Forward

Margaret L. Khaitsa and Naomi W. Lumutenga