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John Sekajugo

John Sekajugo

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John Sekajugo is a climate change risk management scientist  with over 15 years’ experience and expertise in climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate change risk and vulnerability assessment, Natural resource and environmental valuation, GIS and remote sensing applications in integrated natural resource management, natural resource and environmental planning as wells Water catchment management planning. He is currently a lecturer in the department of Environment and Natural resources at Mountains of the Moon University involved in teaching courses related to climate change risk assessment, Natural resource and environmental economics, GIS and remote sensing application in Natural resource management and disaster risk management

Doctor of science, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Belgium

Master of science degree in climate change and disaster management from, Busitema University (BU), Uganda

Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in natural resource economics of Busitema University (BU), Uganda

Diploma in Biomass energy technology from Nyabyeya Forestry College (NFC), Uganda

Certificate in advanced water treatment and re-use from IHE Delft Institute for water education (IHE, Delft), Netherlands

Certificate in free data and spatial tools to support mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture and forestry’ using QGIS from Katholleke University of Leuven (KULeuven), Belgium

  1. Rodgers Mutyebere, Iris Vanermen, Kato Van Ruymbeke, JeanBosco Nkurikiye, Ronald Twongyirwe, John Sekajugo, Clovis Kabaseke,Violet Kanyiginya, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Matthieu Kervyn and Liesbet Vranken: Disaster risk reduction measures and farmers choices: a discrete choice experiment in Uganda. Environmental hazards (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2024.2414816
  2. John Sekajugo, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Rodgers Mutyebere, Clovis Kabaseke, David Mubiru, Violet Kanyiginya, Liesbet Vranken, Liesbet Jacobs, Olivier Dewitte, Matthieu Kervyn. Exposure and physical vulnerability to geo-hydrological hazards in rural environments: A field-based assessment in East Africa. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 102 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104282
  3. Belayneh, L., Kervyn, M.,  Gulie, G., Poesen, J., Cornelis Stal, C., Kasaye, A., Endale, T., Sekajugo, J & Dewitte, O. Life cycle of gullies: a susceptibility assessment in the Southern Main Ethiopian Rift. Nat Hazards (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-06318-x
  4. Violet Kanyiginya, Ronald Twongyirwe, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, David Mubiru, John Sekajugo, Rodgers Mutyebere, Axel A. J. Deijns, Matthieu Kervyn &Olivier Dewitte. Inventories of natural hazards in under-reported regions: a multi-method insight from a tropical mountainous landscape. African Geographical Review (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2023.2280589
  5. Rodgers Mutyebere, Ronald Twongyirwe, John Sekajugo, Clovis Kabaseke, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Matthieu Kervyn, Liesbet Vranken. Does the farmer’s social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103721
  6. John Sekajugo, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Rodgers Mutyebere, Clovis Kabaseke, Esther Namara, Olivier Dewitte, Matthieu Kervyn and Liesbet Jacobs. Can citizen scientists provide a reliable geo-hydrological hazard inventory? An analysis of biases, sensitivity and precision for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (2022) 045011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5bb5
  7. Bwambale, B., Nyeko, M., Sekajugo, J and Matthieu K. The essential contribution of indigenous knowledge to understanding natural hazards and disaster risk: historical evidence from the Rwenzori (Uganda). Nat Hazards (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-05015-x
  8. Katutu*, B. R. Nyamweha, C. Kabaseke, M. S. Koojo, J. Sekajugo, K. Martens, L. Jacobs, J. Maes and M. Kervyn. Study of Natural Disasters and their impact on the environmental condition of the Rwenzori Mountain region. Technogenic and ecological safety, 5(1/2019), 31–37. ISSN 2522-1892. DOI.10.5281/zenodo.2582759
  9. Liesbet Jacobs, Olivier Dewitte, Jean Poesen, John Sekajugo, Adriano Nobile, Mauro Rossi, Wim Thiery and Matthieu Kervyn.  Field-based landslide susceptibility assessment in a data-scarce environment: the populated areas of the Rwenzori Mountains. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 105–124, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-105-2018
  10. Jacobs, L., Dewitte, O., Poesen, J., Maes, J., Mertens, K., Sekajugo, J., and Kervyn, M.: Landslide characteristics and spatial distribution in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda, J. Afr. Earth Sci., 134, 917–930 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.05.013
  11. Jacobs, L., Maes, J., Mertens, K., Sekajugo, J., Thiery, W., Van Lipzig, N., Poesen, J., Kervyn, M., and Dewitte, O.: Reconstruction of a flash flood event through a multi-hazard approach: focus on the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda, Nat. Hazards, 84, 851–876 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2458-y
  12. Kervyn, M., Jacobs, L., Maes, J., Che, V.B., de Hontheim, A., Dewitte, O., Isabirye, M., Sekajugo, J., Kabeseke, C., Poesen, J., Vranken, L., Mertens, K., 2015. Landslides resilience in Equatorial Africa: moving beyond the problem identification! Belg. https://doi.org/10.4000/belgeo.15944
 Conference papers and abstracts
  1. Sekajugo, John, Kagoro-Rugunda, Grace, Mutyebere, Rodgers, Kabaseke, Clovis, Mubiru, David, Namara, Esther, Kanyiginya, Violet, Bwambale, Bosco, Jacobs, Liesbet, Dewitte, Olivier and Kervyn, Matthieu: What controls physical vulnerability to geo-hydrological hazards? A contribution to quantitative assessment of landslide and flood risk in western Uganda. EGU23, the 25th EGU General Assembly, held 23-28 April, 2023 in Vienna, Austria. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-4537
  2. Sekajugo, J., Kagoro, G. R., Jacobs, L., Kabaseke, C., Namara, E., Dewitte, O., and Kervyn, M.: Accuracy and completeness of a near real-time citizen science-based multi-disaster inventory in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-14282. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14282
  3. John Sekajugo, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Liesbet Jacobs, Clovis Kabaseke, Esther Namara, Olivier Dewitte and Matthieu Kervyn: Reliability of citizen scientists for near-real time reporting of geohazards. An analysis of biases and accuracy for the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. Geologica Belgica Meeting 2021, September 15-17, Tervuren, Belgium – Abstract Book, p. 86
  4. Olivier Dewitte, Axel Deijns, Arthur Depicker, Antoine Dille, Violet Kanyiginya, Désiré Kubwimana, Jean-Claude Maki Mateso, Toussaint Mugaruka Bibentyo, John Sekajugo: Landslide timing in the changing environments of the North Tanganyika-Kivu Rift region, Africa. Geologica Belgica Meeting 2021, September 15-17, Tervuren, Belgium –Abstract Book, p. 77
  5. Liesbet Jacobs, Jan Maes, Kewan Mertens, John Sekajugo, Wim Thiery, Nicole van Lipzig, Jean Poesen, Matthieu Kervyn and Olivier Dewitte: Flash Floods in the Rwenzori Mountains—Focus on the May 2013 Multi-Hazard Kilembe Event. Workshop on World Landslide Forum: Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides conference paper, 2017.
  6. Liesbet Jacobs, Olivier Dewitte, Clovis Kabaseke, François Kervyn, Jan Maes, Kewan Mertens, Adriano Nobile, John Sekajugo, Jean Poesen, Denis Samyn and Matthieu Kervyn: Landslide Diversity in the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda). Workshop on World Landslide Forum: Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides  Conference paper, 2017.
  7. Liesbet Jacobs, Olivier Dewitte, Jean Poesen, John Sekajugo, Jan Maes, Kewan Mertens and Matthieu Kervyn.  A first landslide inventory in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda.  Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 17, EGU2015-5997-1, 2015 EGU General Assembly 2015
  1. February 2025-July 2026, Project promoter (PI): Landslide detection and multihazard risk management in the Rwenzori mountains (RwenLand) between  Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda and Cambridge University, supported by UK Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund
  2. August 2024-August 2029, Project promoter (PI): Building Socio-ecological resilience of communities to Flash Flooding in the Rwenzori Mountains (B-SaFFeR) between Mountains of the Moon University, Uganda Martyrs University and Join for Water in Uganda; Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, AP University College Antwerp in Belgium as well as Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands supported by the Flemish Inter University Council (VLIR-UOS)
  3. May 2014 to May 2027, Deputy project coordinator: Strengthening smallholder farmer resilience to climate change through Joint learning, development and evaluation of contextualized solutions-A case of the Rwenzori and Kigezi highland regions of Uganda (SFR2CC). Between Mountains of the Moon University, Kabale University, Join Efforts to Save the Environment and Kigezi Women in Development supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands through their Water and Development Partnership Programme at IHE Delft
  4. August 2021- August 2027, Project team member (climatic hazard, risk, and vulnerability assessment): Improved mechanisms for climate change adaptation for sustainable food production for small scale farmers  between Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Antwerp, Royal Museum of Central Africa, VIVES University of Applied Sciences (all in Belgium) and Mbarara University of science and technology (Uganda) supported by the Inter-University Cooperation (IUC) programme funded by VRIL-UOS, Belgium
  5. February 2019-February 2022, PhD researcher: Digital citizen science for community-based resilient environmental management (D-SiRe) between Mountains of the Moon University (Uganda), Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Mbarara University of Science and Technology, supported by the Flemish Inter University Council (VLIR-UOS)
  6. 2014 – 2018, Research assistant: Sustainable land use and resilient livelihoods in the landslide-prone region of Mount Elgon, Uganda , between Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and Busitema University (Uganda), supported by the Flemish Inter University Council (VLIR-UOS)
  7. 2013-2015,  Research assistant: Mount. Rwenzori land degradation diagnostic project between Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Busitema University and Mountains of the Moon University (Uganda) supported by the Flemish Inter University Council (VLIR-UOS)

Finalized research supervision

  1. David Mubiru (2019/MSc/002/Ps), MUST, The effects of floods, crop pests and diseases on the farmer communities of Kisoro and Buhweju districts. A case study in Murora and Bihanga sub-counties. MSc completed March 2023
  2. Tumwine Albert ( NO. 2021/U/MMU/MSC.NRM/002): Evaluating institutional capacity and governance mechanisms for disaster risk management in the Rwenzori mountain ranges. The case of floods in Kasese district: Succefully defended on 04th-May 2024
  3. Ingo BUSKENS, VUB: Risk analysis of the road network to landslides and debris flows in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. MSc completed in January 2023
  4. Femke Van der Weijen, VUB: The spatio-temporal analysis of the citizen-science data in Uganda and Kivu. BSc completed in 2023.
  5. Wenciselas Game (Reg No:2019/MMU/BES 003): Characterization of solid waste generation and management in Fort portal city. The case of Central division; completed November 2023

Ongoing postgraduate research supervision

PhD research supervision

  1. Nabunya Victo: Understanding processes controlling the spatio-temporal distribution of flash floods in a data scarce context  at VUB under the B-SaFFeR TEAM project
  2. Mabiriizi Julius: Assessing nature-based solutions as approaches for mitigating hydro-meteorological hazards and enhancing agricultural productivity in the Mountain Rwenzori region at Uganda Martyrs University

Master’s research supervision

  1. Kuule Hulice (REG NO: 2020/U/MMU/MNRM/001): Knowledge, Attitude and practice towards tackling climate-related disaster risks in Rwenzori- Uganda: A case of landslides in Harugale Sub-County, Bundibugyo District: Working on revisions from external examiner
  2. Masereka Exeviour (2023/U/MMU/MNRM/00147): Analysis of economic values of water resources and potential of sustainable livelihoods in Mpanga catchment
  3. Bisangabasaija Sufyan (2023/U/MMU/MNRM/00146): Assessment of the Spatial Distribution of Land Degradation Processes under Different Agro-systems in the Elgon Region.
  4. Muhindo Edith (2023/U/MMU/MNRM/01012 ):Assessing the Impact Of Floods On Food Security For small-Holder farmers along River Nyamugasana in Kasese District.
  5. Mugizi Neftali (2022/U/MMU/MNRM/007): Exploring the effects of climate change on smallholder farmers: a study of adaption strategies, perspectives and implications for food security in lake Bunyonyi subcatchment, Rubanda District