Team – kisa & associates

Our team is a carefully selected group of experts of all ages that complement one another and provide the right mix of seniority and daring that we require to keep on innovating and adapting.

Paul Kalumba

Director Advisory Services

Paul holds a Masters of Business Administration from University of South Wales, Master of Science in Procurement and Strategy, University of Glamorgan, UK and Bachelors of Commerce (First Class degree) from Makerere University, Uganda He is also a Member of The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, UK and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

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Oscar Daniel Mwesigwa

Managing Director

Oscar holds a First-Class Bachelor of Commerce Degree with a major in Accounting and Audit from Makerere University – Uganda; and a Master of Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University, UK.

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Ritah Lutalo Nakibuka

Senior Associate

Ritah holds a Master of Business Administration, a Professional Diploma in Procurement & Supply, and Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Economics and Bachelor of Commerce in Economics & Supply Chain Management Expertise • External Audit, Internal Audit and Compliance reviews, Procurement Audits, Audit and Assurance services.

Our Consulting Team

Andrew Kaggwa

Consultant-Training and Capacity Building.

Holds a PGD Procurement & Supply Chain Management from Uganda Management Institute, Uganda, Graduate Diploma of Procurement & Supply from Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply UK, Bachelor of Commerce (Upper Class) –Finance from Makerere University Uganda. He is a member of Institute of Procurement Professionals of Uganda

Ronald Bbosa

Consultant-Training and Capacity Building

Masters of Organisational Psychology Makerere University Uganda, Bachelors of Arts Makerere University Uganda.
Expertise: Human Resources areas such as change management, Organizational Development, conducting strategic HR reviews, job evaluation, Performance management, Training, Career counselling/development, Occupational psychometric testing and Executive recruitment, Competence analysis and profiling/ management , Performance Management training and Human Resource Audits.

Emmanuel Nume

Consultant- Organisational Development

Masters in Business Administration from the University of Wales Aberystwyth Bachelors of Law Makerere University, Kampala.

Expertise: organisational review and design, organisational restructuring, Design of HR policies manuals, Job analysis and evaluation, Design of human resource policy manuals, Manpower planning, Salary surveys and design of remuneration structures; and recruitment.

Esther Agwang

Consultant-Communication Advisor

Master’s in Business Administration Edinburgh Business School Heriot-Watt University Scotland, Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing (DipM) Chartered Institute of Marketing, Professional Diploma in Marketing (ACIM), Chartered Institute of Marketing – UK, Bachelor of Arts in Arts, Makerere University
Expertise: Strategy Development, Brand Communications, Media Engagement and Management, Digital Marketing and Communications, Digital Marketing and Communications, Managing Organisational Change

Jalia Nabukalu Packwood

Business Sustainability Expert

Jalia Nabukalu Packwood is a business sustainability practitioner with over 17 years’ working experience, working in the private sector, academia and with international development partners in Uganda, UK, Europe, and the USA.

Jalia holds an MBA from the University of South Wales-UK, and a BA in sciences Makerere University-Uganda. She has a CPD certified Certificate in Business Sustainability Management from Cambridge University

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and CPD certified Certificate in Business Sustainability Leadership from Imperial College London with a focus on green financing. Jalia has extensive experience in supporting SMEs and large businesses to improve business strategies and incorporate sustainability in their business strategy.

Through her role as the International Sustainability collaborations projects coordinator at Bangor University, Jalia led several collaborative sustainability research projects between Uganda and the UK aimed at supporting Ugandan agribusinesses to adopt environmentally friendly technologies, that use biobased waste/materials to create new products; and use environmentally friendly processes in Agri-processing and agricultural production.

Among these were: A collaborative pineapple value addition project between the Bio-Composites Centre-Bangor University, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the Pineapple business cluster under the Innovations Cluster Program at Makerere University, which works with pineapple farmers in Uganda. This project explored value addition opportunities to Ugandan pineapples by using the whole plant and waste to make new products like environmentally friendly shoe parts, internal car upholstery parts as well as products like glucose, pharmaceutical products, and flavourings from fruit waste. Hence reducing waste while creating new value.

Jalia also worked on the “Stover Pack Project” funded by Innovate UK and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), aimed at creating a new value proposition for waste maize stover in Uganda. This project maize farmers in Uganda as well as academia and businesses from Uganda and UK. As a result, environmentally friendly packaging, an alternative to plastic was created from waste maize stock, and the potential for agricultural sector to embrace this technology with financial support was established.

She worked with the Low Carbon Energy and Environmental Research Network Wales, a nationwide program supporting research institutions to support low carbon energy and environmental research, required to meet current business and domestic energy needs and has supported collaborative projects with Africa including technologies that foster carbon capture, industrial processes and energy efficiency by turning waste energy and carbon into new energy sources and using agricultural waste to create low carbon energy, including gas from farm waste as well as fertilisers

She worked on collaborative projects that promote regenerative agriculture and circular economy principles in Uganda and the UK which promote adoption of environmentally friendly farming methods. She consulted for IFC-World Bank Group, department of Trade and Competitiveness -SME Growth & Productivity, to Conduct research aimed at Identifying Opportunities and Challenges of Boosting Productivity and Market Access of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) In Agribusiness – Linking SMES to Technology and Markets for Growth in Uganda. She also consulted for IFC-World Bank Group on the “Africa Schools Project” in Uganda that provided private schools with business advisory services to attract loans from commercial banks.

She was the Lead sustainability officer for the North Wales Business Academy (NWBA) and ION Leadership program in North Wales, which were EU and Welsh Government funded projects providing business and sustainability support to SMEs in North Wales-UK. Jalia’s versatile skills and experience in academia and business, uniquely positions her to provide green financing expertise to Financial Institutions and the agricultural sector in general.

Eileen Walusimbi Oloya

Performance and Learning Expert

Eileen is a Performance and Learning Expert with over 15 years of experience in the public and private sectors, as well as business management consulting. As a business advisor, she provides fi nancial support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Her experience with SME lending and passion for supporting small businesses to grow through loan optimization drives her work.

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She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of South Wales and a CPD certifi cation in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge. She also has other training from Imperial College business school. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), The League of East African Directors (LEAD), and The Learning and Performance Institute -UK, as a TPMA-certifi ed trainer and facilitator. She is also a certifi ed executive coach and Sustainability Practitioner.
Eileen has provided business advisory services for several SMEs through the International Finance Corporation IFC-World Bank Business Edge program. This was designed to support SME business leaders to increase their knowledge of running effi cient businesses in several industries like Education, Health, Agriculture, Construction, and manufacturing. She has offered consulting services to the United States Agency for International Development USAID, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Offi ce (FCDO) formerly (DFID) funded projects, the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET/Africa) CDC program, British Council Uganda, NSSF Uganda, Uganda Clays Ltd, the Ministry of Finance- Uganda, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), ABSA Bank Uganda, Coca-Cola, Makerere University Infectious Disease Institute among others.
Achievement: In her capacity as Program Analyst (STC), at IFC World Bank, Eileen provided primary liaison services to the government, the World Bank, several national commercial banks, such as DFCU Bank, Stanbic Bank, and Uganda Development Bank, as well as private schools in Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, and Rwanda. A total of over USD 5 million was provided as access to fi nance to schools through the Education SME portfolio. In order to accomplish this, the International Finance Corporation and local banks negotiated a risk-sharing facility and agreement
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Eileen has worked in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, and remotely in the DRC Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Tanzania. Eileen is passionate and creative about inspiring individuals and organizations to build strong, resilient mindsets by developing belief in their self-worth and contribution to the world.