Pamela Mbabazi, co-author of the Commonwealth study, is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Development Studies at Mbarara University of Science & Technology in Uganda and currently the Dean. She is a development planner by training and has been teaching various courses in Development Planning and Rural Development at Mbarara University over the last eight years. Her research interests include governance issues, the impact of globalization on third world countries and peace-building.

She is author of Supply Chains and Liberalisation; The Milk Industry in Uganda (Fountain Publishers, 2004) and co-author of The Potentiality of Developmental States in Africa: Botswana and Uganda Compared (CODESRIA, 2005). She has in addition contributed co-authored articles in Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs and New Roles & Relevance: Development NGOs and the Challenge of Change (Kumarian, 2000).

During the workshop in Gothenburg Pamela Mbabazi and Timothy Shaw’s Commonwealth study was discussed by Rajesh Tandon, Participatory Research in Asia and Daisy Cooper, Commonwealth Secretariat. This discussion was chaired by Sylva Frisk, SGS and the outcome of the discussion was used to develop and refine the study which will be published in book form along with all the other case studies in 2009.