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Dr. Mary Theopista Wenene serves as the Deputy Head of Public Service and Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, a position she assumed on 1st October 2024. Prior to this, she was Secretary of the Health Service Commission and has held numerous roles in Uganda’s Public Service since she joined in 1990 as a Personnel Officer. Rising through the ranks, she became Permanent Secretary in December 2014 after serving in various ministries. |
| Dr. Wenene holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, where her research focused on improving performance management in Uganda’s Public Service, specifically examining public servants’ perspectives on implementing Results-Oriented Management (ROM). She also earned a Master of Arts in Management Studies from Uganda Management Institute, a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Social Administration from Makerere University, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Uganda Management Institute/Makerere University. She has further enhanced her expertise through various professional courses in Personnel and Human Resource Management.
With a broad skill set, Dr. Wenene’s experience spans institutional reviews and restructuring, management of redundancies, planning and budgeting, performance management, recruitment, and selection. She has led several notable assignments, including heading an East African team to introduce Results-Oriented Management at the East African Community Secretariat (2003-2007), coordinating the development of a paper on public sector efficiency for the National Development Plan (2010/2011-2015), leading the 3rd National Service Delivery Survey (2008), reviewing the implementation of Client Charters (2010-2011), and serving on the task force that developed monitoring and evaluation frameworks for the National Development Plan (2015/16-2019/20).
Outside of her government role, Dr. Wenene serves as a Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Centenary Bank Uganda Limited. She is also an accomplished writer, having authored and co-authored several papers, including one presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of International Schools and Institutes of Public Administration on tools to enhance efficiency in Uganda’s Public Service, and another exploring civil servants’ perspectives on citizens’ roles in public service delivery in Uganda. |
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