Professor Gitile Naituli, professor at the Faculty of Commerce will present a paper at the 'Education for Sustainable Development' workshop to be held at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda on Thursday, 18th April. The paper's title is "Strengthening Capacity to Act: MESA Universities Partnership".

MESA stands for Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability into African Universities. It is an initiative by UNEP (in close collaboration with UNESCO, AAU, UNU/GVU, NBI, SADC/REEP, EFI) to support the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN-DESD).

MESA aims to support the mainstreaming of environment and sustainability concerns into teaching, research, community engagement and management of universities in Africa. It recognizes and builds on a number of commitments made by higher education bodies globally and regionally including the Ubuntu Alliance.

MESA is designed to start a movement at participating universities where ESD issues will be part of all programs over the next 8 years. The programme will be evaluated periodically in the course of the decade.

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