Dr. Rose Mwaipopo is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Social Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam. Her major research areas and consultancies are on gender and women’s issues, children and adolescents, poverty and vulnerability, and, communities and resource use and management (especially in the areas of small-scale fisheries and artisanal/small-scale mining). She has written and published on the subjects of women and access to land resources, women and agency, women and the impact of COVID-19, gender-based violence, and violence against women and children, poverty and vulnerability, small-scale fisheries and changing marine environments; local communities and engagement in artisanal and small-scale mining. She is also engaged in several platforms for gender and women’s empowerment, including, the Gender Awareness and Transformation through Education (GATE) project of Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE), and the Rights for Domestic Workers project with the Community of Volunteers for the World and AIDS Partnership for Africa (CVM-APA), Tanzania. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology. [email protected]
