Mr. EMMANUEL Twesige is a social worker with passion for human rights, research, leadership, and community development. Since 2014, he has built competencies in human rights and policy advocacy through working with organizations in the areas of peacebuilding, transitional justice, SRHR, and community development, in which he has played an active role in stakeholder coordination, community sensitization, youth mentorship, human rights advocacy, research and publication, and building grassroots teams and structures for community development reasons. Prior to joining RFPJ in 2021, Emmanuel worked with various other organizations, including Peer Education Rwenzori, MasterCard Foundation, Young Leaders Forum, and Rwenzori Abstinence and Scripture Union Youth Network, and served in various leadership capacities in his former education institutions. While at RFPJ, Emmanuel has grown from an Intern to a Program Volunteer, to a Communications Assistant, to now a Human Rights Officer. He is also an active Board member of Peer Education Rwenzori; and Kitumba Senior Secondary School in Fort Portal.

Emmanuel holds a Honors Degree in Community Development from Mountains of the Moon University, a Certificate in Administrative Law from Makerere University, a Certificate in Health Systems Strengthening from the University of Melbourne (Australia), and various non-academic national and international trainings in areas of Public Management, Peacebuilding, Human Rights, and Conflict Transformation from reputable institutions such as the Young African Leaders Initiative (Nairobi, 2020), Uganda Young Leadership Forum (2018) and African Middle East Leadership Institute (2021), the Council of Europe (2024), and Franklyn Institute of Public Management and Leadership (2025, among others. Emmanuel currently heads Transitional Justice programming at RFPJ.