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It is with great grief that we must say goodbye to Tonny Ssekamatte, our friend and colleague at the Wageningen Centre for Sustainability Governance of Wageningen University, and at the School of Public Health at Makerere University. Tonny passed away suddenly on 11 December 2025.<\/p>\n
Tonny was a young man and dedicated researcher, highly respected within our collaborative project on Governing SDG Interaction in East Africa. He was a great connector and, above all, an exceptionally kind, modest and warm colleague and friend to all of us.<\/p>\n
We are grateful for the years we were able to work with Tonny, both in his current PhD project and in earlier collaborative research with Makerere University\u2019s School of Public Health.<\/p>\n
Tonny was a great communicator and connector. His warmth, openness and genuine interest in people made him indispensable to the project\u2019s fieldwork in Kampala\u2019s informal settlements. Tonny had the unique capacity to make deep personal connections – with his supervisors, with his colleagues at Makerere and Wageningen University, and with research subjects from all layers of society.<\/p>\n
Only very recently, at the end of November, we had the pleasure of participating in an extraordinary two-day workshop in Kampala, organised and led by Tonny. He brought together more than 40 stakeholders from across the Water, Energy, Food and Health sectors, enabling a unique dialogue between governmental officials, scholars and the residents of an informal settlement in Kampala.<\/p>\n
During that workshop Tonny was in his element \u2013 engaged, generous and shining. We are committed to ensuring that the findings of his valuable research, which he was preparing for publication, will see the light in the months to come.<\/p>\n
Our thoughts are with his wife, children and family, who must now bear this unimaginable loss. We also extend our deepest sympathies to his friends and colleagues at Makerere University, and to his fellow PhDs and Postdocs in Wageningen, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia, who jointly suffer in the loss of such a great person.<\/p>\n
We will honour and remember Tonny for the great work he did and the kind person that he was.<\/p>\n
Dr. Bas van Vliet<\/p>\n
Dr. Mary Greene<\/p>\n
Prof. Dr. Machiel Lamers<\/p>\n
Prof. Dr. Simon Bush<\/p>\n
Prof. Dr. Art Dewulf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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