Uganda LAWA Fellow 1999-2000 L.L.B., Makerere University, Kampala L.L.M., Georgetown University Law Center Senior Partner Frederick Francis & Associates, Advocates 1st Floor, Suite No. 6, Christeve House Plot 29/29A, Nkrumah Road P.O. Box 27705 Kampala, Uganda Work Phone: 256-41-231161 Work Fax: 256-41-235815 Mobile : 256-772-664492 Email(official): ffassoci@infocom.co.ug Email: sarahlubega@yahoo.com

Affiliations: FIDA-U UWEAL

Profile:

Ms. Lubega is currently a Senior Partner at Frederick, Francis & Associates, Advocates. She is also a Board Member of Pride Uganda, a micro-finance institution; the Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association (UWEAL); the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA); the Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS(UGANET); and the Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST). She recently participated in the Gender and Growth Assessment for Uganda- A Gender Perspective on Legal and Administrative Barriers to Investment (IFC-GEM, Foreign Investment Advisory Services and The World Bank) which culminated in May 2005.

Ms. Lubega is one of three Fellowship alumnae who serve as volunteer alum directors, staying in close contact with the program and serving as a liaison between the U.S. staff and alumni and the LAWA alumnae in Africa.

LAWA Experience:

Ms. Lubega completed her graduate thesis, entitled “Law reform and Effective Implementation, as the means to Economically Empower the Ugandan Woman,” in Spring 2000. For her fellowship internship, Ms. Lubega worked at the World Bank in the Gender Evaluation Division where she researched and reported on the gender sensitivity of existing World Bank projects.

During her fellowship, Ms. Lubega attended a Women Justice and Authority Conference in April 2000, at Yale Law School. She was among the LAWA participants that were invited to the White House by the First Lady, Hillary Clinton. In addition, she attended the Global Business Summit in Washington D.C in 1999 and visited the Supreme Court of the United States of America where she learned about the court’s traditions, procedures and constitutional interpretations. She was among a group of participants that visited with Honorable Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Additional Experience:

Prior to LAWA, Ms. Lubega was a Partner at Frederick, Francis and Associates Advocates, as well as Chairperson of the Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association and Managing Director of Lailah’s Co. Ltd., activities she has kept up since her return to Uganda.

From 1984 to date, she has provided legal counsel to other women through the Federation of Women Lawyers Uganda Chapter (FIDA-U) and beginning in 1997 she has provided free legal counsel to the Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association. In 2001, Ms. Lubega became a member of the Board of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA), a body responsible for procurement within Uganda Public Service, yet another membership she continues to this day.

From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Lubega was a Board Member of Pride Africa / Uganda, a micro-finance institution with a major objective of increasing incomes of entrepreneurs who operate micro enterprises in the informal sector and increasing employment opportunities in the same sector. From 2004 to date, she has been a Member of the Board of the Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST), a Non-Governmental Organization which supports the conservation of biological diversity and poverty alleviation through sustainable natural resource management and livelihood improvement initiatives. Also from 2004 to date, she has acted as a member of the Governing Council of East Africa Law Society.

Recognition:

International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women, 1999.

 Millennium Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World, 2000.

Publications:

"The Impact of Technology and Communication on Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Economy," presented at the IFWE/WASME Sixth International Women’s Conference in Accra, Ghana, 1998.

"The Contribution of Women Entrepreneurs to Economic Development," presented at the Asia Africa Forum on Economic Empowerment of Women in Bangkok, Thailand, 1997.