Fredrick Mugira

Fredrick Mugira is a Ugandan National Geographic Storytelling Explorer; Pulitzer Center Grantee and a multiple award-winning water and climate change journalist; media trainer, and development communication specialist with close to 15 years of wide-ranging experience. He has reported from various countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, and USA and led media training in environmental reporting, refugee reporting, and other topics across East Africa and the Nile Basin. He heads Water Journalists Africa a network of over 700 journalists in Africa reporting about water, cofounded InfoNile, a geojournalism platform mapping data on water issues in the Nile River basin and is a key project partner of the three-year Open Water Diplomacy project led by IHE-Delft Institute of Water Education in the Netherlands. Along with Water Journalists Africa and InfoNile, he currently works as an editor Vision Group, Uganda’s leading multimedia house.