Prof. Anna Sikira

Associate Professor

Deputy Principal – Academic,
​​​​​​​Mizengo Pinda Campus College,

Sokoine University of Agriculture,
P.O. Box 82, Mpanda, Katavi, Tanzania.
Email: sikira@sua.ac.tz

SUMMARY

Prof. Anna Sikira is the deputy principal of SUA’s Mizengo Pinda Campus in Katavi. She is specialized on gender and development; and rural development.  Her PhD research was focused on Gender Based Violence. Her research Interests are Women empowerment and Gender based violence and gender and HIV/AIDS.

ABOUT ME

Education 

  • PhD in Rural and Development – Sokoine University of Agriculture ( 2010)
  • Msc in Agricultural Education and Extension – Sokoine University of Agriculture (2001)
  • BSc in Home Economics and Human Nutrition – Sokoine University of Agriculture (1999)

She had had an opportunity to attend to various courses in Organizational development practitioners Formation programme in Ghana 24th August-14th September 2004 offered by Olive and OD Training –South Africa, funded by VECO-Tanzania. Anna attended workshop on Women in Management Luleo University in Sweden phase 1- from 21 August-15 September 2006, phase 2 from 23rd -30th June 2007-offered by CENTEK. She has also attended various courses in Development studies at UMB-Norway from 2nd August-21st December 2008

Courses and Teaching

She teaches  undergraduate and postgraduate courses including;

  • Rural conflicts;
  • Introduction to gender and development;
  • Regional and rural development planning development administration;
  • National products polices,
  • Gender and ethics.

She has supervised a number of Doctorial, master and bachelor research projects/dissertations. She has conducted various researches on gender related issues, HIV/AIDS, sustainable utilization on ecosystem integrated urban agriculture.

RESEARCH

Research Interest
  • Women empowerment and Gender based violence
  • Gender and HIV/AIDS.
Research Projects

as gender specialist she was assigned a role of mainstreaming gender in University Projects and to promote Actors empowerment in the University projects which were under EPINAV

PUBLICATIONS

She has published a number articles/papers in International and Local journals. She has also published number of chapters in different books. Some of her full list of publications can be accessed at Google Scholar.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NXwQQaEAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna_Sikira2

CONTACTS

Sokoine University of Agriculture,

Mizengo Pinda Campus College,

34 Barabara ya Sitalike,

50318 Kibaoni, Mlele, Katavi, Tanzania.

P.O. Box 82, Mpanda, Katavi.

Email: sikira@sua.ac.tz

Alternative Contacts

Department of Development studies,
College of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA),
P.O.BOX 3024 Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania