Katunku Edith Mary

Date of Birth
Naula Katunku Edith Mary (born in 1945) was a Ugandan Agriculturalist, Environmentalist, politician and wife of Katunku Nicholas. She was the first elected Woman Resistance Council V (RC5)member representing Budaka at Tororo District and she served in that capacity since 1987-1989. Before that, she served as the Assistant Agricultural officer from 1970 until 2005.
Education
She was born in Budaka District on 20 May 1945. She attended Naboa Primary School in Budaka District from 1954 until 1959. She then studied her (J1-J2) at Bubulo Girls High School in Manafwa District from 1960 until 1961. In 1962, she entered Nabumali High School together within Beatrice Wabudeya, Mbale to pursue her O-Level (S1-S4) education and sat her Cambridge English exams graduating in 1965.
Qualifications
She graduated from Bukalsa Agricultural College with a Diploma in General Agriculture from 1966 until 1970 and the same college sarah kataike graduated from the same. In 1990, she obtained a Certificate in General Horticulture from Mukono District Farm Institute. In 1990, she received a Certificate in Soil Conservation and Community Forestry from Bulegeni District Farm Institute. In 1998, she received Certificates in Marketing Management and Financial Management from Mbale District Private Sector Development Promotion Center. In 2000, she received a Certificate in Environmental Education and Community Training for the District and Sub-County Trainers from Salem Brotherhood Uganda Mbale District.
Posts Served
Naula served as Assistant District Agricultural officer of Mbale District from 1970 until 1982. In 1971, she served as head of home economics, nutrition catering, and horticulture outreach programme of Bulegeni District Farm Institute. In 1972 until 1981, she served as head of home economics section of Mbale District. She went to exile in the Republic of Kenya from 1982 until 1986. She then served as Farm manager of Bulegeni District Farm Institute from 1993 until 1997. In 1993, she served as the extension Agricultural officer of women and youth activities of Bulambuli County.
In 1998, she served as extension officer of Muyembe sub-County in charge of training women groups and nutrition, home hygiene, sanitation, energy saving fuel stove, mobilization, training of farmers on food security and resource mobilization. In 1999, she then went on to training farmers in modernization of Agriculture, organic farming, soil and water conservation, tree planting, nursery establishment for fertility management, farming record keeping, crop management preservation and storage, practical skills in establishment of backyard and kitchen gardens.
From 1999 until 2000, she served as in charge Sisiyi Sub-County training environmental committees on environmental programme to implement District Environmental Action Plan, mobilizing women groups for grant facilities to increase house hold income, dissemination of new technologies in organic farming practices, use of animal urine, practical skills in compost making, making pesticides, fungicides using local materials, coffee establishment and management, banana establishment and management, energy conservation techniques in cooking and practical skills in project proposal write up.
In 2001 until 2002, she served as extension officer of Muyembe Sub-County trained farmers in improving quantity and quality of coffee, improve quality of banana, establishment and management practical skills, mobilized, soil fertility improvement, planting napping grass along contour bunds, contour planting in Bukibologoto parish, compost making, tree nursery establishment, tree planting and initiated Masaba Integrated Widows Association,.

In 2003, she served as the production officer of Bulegeni Sub-County training famers in farming as a business, cost benefits analysis, improved nutrition, oil crops utilization, sun flower products, soya beans, cotton production, sun flower production and control of HIV/Aids prevention under CHAI project in addition to his other responsibilities.
Naula Edith Mary and Kabasa Grace were the first women in Bukedi to graduate in Agriculture in 1970.
Exile
After elections of 1981 in Uganda, Katunku Edith Mary went with her family into exile in the Republic of Kenya and lived at Karuri Banana Hill Kiambaa, Kiambu District.
Political Office
Her first foray into national politics was in 1987, when she contested and become the first Woman Resistance Council V (RC5)member representing Budaka in Tororo Resistance Council.

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