Promoting SDGs through community engagement: the case of Uganda Martyrs University

Abstract

Community engagement at Uganda Martyrs University (UMU), one of the three traditional pillars, alongside teaching, learning and research, serves as a vehicle for providing mutually beneficial services to the UMU community, either as a single group or in collaboration. This paper presents an account of some community engagement interventions at Uganda Martyrs University and the lessons drawn from these over the last three decades. With examples, the paper shows how the University, through community empowering interventions, has promoted and demonstrated activities contributing toward social and economic development of the communities and the realization of Sustainable Development Goals and targets.