Mbarara University Faculty of Development Studies
The Faculty of Development Studies – Department of Development Studies
The Department of Development Studies aims at offering community based training with programmes focusing on the pratical applications of physical and social science to the needs of the community.
The department contributes to the inter-disciplinary analysis of development in Uganda by practically focusing on the comparative problems and prospects for Uganda and the Great Lakes region.
The departments’s objective include advancing capacity in development studies by contributing to local, national and inter-national policy making. The department also co-operates with other institutions worldwide for informed perspectives on development through the interrelated pursuit of teaching, supervising, researching, publishing debating and providing policy inputs.