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Ms. Anke Weisheit

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Organization: Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)
Country: Uganda
Field(s) of expertise:
I am working on:
- Enterprise Development & Innovation: SME incubation, start-up grant management, and agribusiness/value chain development. - Agriculture & Rural Development: Food security, post-harvest management, and sustainable agriculture programming. - Project Leadership: End-to-end project management, feasibility studies, needs assessments, and workshop facilitation. - Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E): Designing frameworks and conducting impact assessments.

With over 20 years of experience in private sector development, business planning, and project management, I specialize in transforming research into tangible impact driving livelihoods, green jobs creation, biodiversity conservation and income security across Africa. As a leader in innovation incubation and business development, I bridge the gap between science and market-ready solutions, focusing on agro/natural product value addition and ethical entrepreneurship.

What I Bring to the Table:
✅ Strategic Leadership – Spearheading initiatives that enhance capacity building, foster research collaboration, and engage communities to scale sustainable solutions.
✅ Start-up & Grant Management – Successfully managing start-up grants and incubation programs to accelerate the commercialization of natural products.
✅ Ecosystem Building – Strengthening value chains, academia-community partnerships, and advocacy for medicinal plant conservation and domestication.
✅ Thought Leadership – Co-authoring influential publications on medicinal plant use and conservation, recognized with multiple awards for contributions to the field.

My Mission:
To advance science-driven, ethical entrepreneurship in natural medicine, empowering communities, improving health outcomes, and shaping a more sustainable future.

Let’s Collaborate!
I’m passionate about connecting with professionals in innovation, natural resource valorisation, and sustainable development. Whether you’re looking for a strategic leader, a research collaborator, or a partner in scaling impact, let’s explore opportunities to drive change together.

#ProgrammeManagement #Innovation #Agribusiness #NaturalProducts #SustainableDevelopment #StartupIncubation #ValueChains #AfricaDevelopment

This member contributed to:

    • Comments on Global Core Set of forest-related indicators:

      Indicator 5: Include Non-Timber Forest related jobs (Honey, resin, herbal medicine etc. related jobs)

      Indicator 8: include Academia

      Indicator 12: Relevant to forest health/cover is how much wood is harvested by the area of forest, not per forest worker

      Indicator 14: Agree with b. as forests have more diverse products than wood and unsuitable harvesting of those can damage the forest (e.g. tree bark for medicine, mushrooms, honey, stakes, firewood)

      Indicator 16: Agree on the percentage of total livelihood depending from forest-related services (food, shelter, habitat, medicine, building materials, energy, recreation etc.) - suggestion minimum 70% will indicate high dependence on forest-related services and products. This will enable this indicator to be measurable.