Bio
Monica Namanya is currently enrolled in the Structured PhD in the College of Business, Public Policy and Law at the University of Galway, having recently completed her LLM in International Migration and Refugee Law and Policy at the same. Her PhD mainly focuses on the relevance of free movement frameworks in responding to climate-induced migration in the East and Horn of Africa regions. She is also particularly interested in refugee law and protection, human rights, and international humanitarian law.
She has also previously worked on projects geared towards legal aid for refugees, including at the Refugee Law Project (School of Law, Makerere University), where she previously worked in three refugee settlements in Uganda, offering legal aid to over 600 refugees from over five countries, organizing information-sharing sessions on refugees’ access to justice and human rights, and building the capacity of over 300 officers from Uganda Police, Prisons, Immigration Services on refugee protection. She also worked with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), supporting different justice institutions in Northern Uganda to develop and implement justice plans responsive to the needs of refugee women, children, and youth.