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Mr. Christopher Kanyesigye defends his PhD

Mr. Christopher Kanyesigye successfully defended his PhD at a Public defense event held at the Conference Hall on Monday 25th November 2024.Thank you for reading this post, don’t forget to subscribe!

The Title of his Thesis was “Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Water Supply Safety Plan Implementation in Small Towns in Uganda.”

The panel’s decision was passed on by Prof. Umar Bagampadde who presided over the public defense event on behalf of the Dean of the School of Engineering, Assoc. Prof. Dorothy Okello.

‘Our finding is that you have a very good level of knowledge as evidenced from the presentation made and the responses to questions raised and the presentation skills exhibited’, said Prof. Bagampadde while announcing the decision of the committee to the candidate. He said that based on the level of engagement and discussions between the candidate and the discussants and his responses to questions raised, the panel established that the candidate’s performance was good and therefore accepted the report subject to some minor corrections in the areas pointed out.

Uganda was among the first countries in Africa that pioneered WSP development and implementation. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the factors influencing the effectiveness of WSP implementation in small towns of Uganda to achieve a sustainable safe drinking water supply

Mr. Kanyesigye expressed his appreciation to his supervisors and the doctoral committee for their guidance and effort in ensuring that he reached that milestone.