Jacqueline Asiimwe

She concurrently serves as the chairperson of the International Centre for Research on Women Uganda, an affiliate of the International Center for Research on Women ICRW, based in Washington, DC, United States. Jacqueline is a member of the Global Board of ICRW. She also served as the Deputy Programme and Advocacy Manager for the Civil Society Capacity Building Programme, funded by the European Union, from 2007 until 2009.

Jacqueline married Peter Mwesige, a journalist, on 22 December 2002, in Perryman, Maryland, United States. The marriage was blessed with two sons. The marriage was officially dissolved in a sitting of the High Court of Uganda, in Kampala, Uganda, on 30 November 2021. The couple was granted joint custody of their two children together.

Asiimwe attended Mengo Primary School where she sat P7 in 1983. She then joined Gayaza High School the oldest girls' secondary school in Uganda, from 1984 to 1989 for both O-Level and A-Level studies. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree, awarded by Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university.

Jackie Asiimwe–Mwesige, (nee:Jacqueline Asiimwe) (born March 1970), is a Ugandan human rights lawyer and philanthropy advisor. She is the current Chairperson of the East African Philanthropy Network (EAPN) and chief executive officer of CivSource Africa, a philanthropy advisory service company that she founded in 2017.

She was born in March 1970 at Mengo Hospital in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Her parents are Reverend Benon Mugarura Mutana and Mrs Joye Mugarura.