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CPS2000 Agnes M. N. Ssekiboobo
body within the legal framework of Makerere University in July 1969. Under
the United Nations Statistical Training Programme for Africa (STPA) 1978-93
and the plan of the Coordinating Committee for Statistical Development
(CASD), ISAE then was designated as one of the regional statistical training
centres in the African region and was supported to spearhead high level
professional training of personnel in statistics and applied economics and
population science urgently needed for social and economic planning and
development to meet the human resource needs of Uganda and other English
speaking African countries. SSP is therefore both a regional statistical training
centre and a mainstream Makerere University unit (ISAE, 2007). Since 1969,
SSP has trained over 10,000 statisticians, planners, applied economists,
actuarial scientists and demographers from 22 African countries. Most
ISAE/SSP alumni hold key professionally posts in National Statistical Services,
regional and international organizations. Makerere University has since 2011
turned collegiate and ISAE became SSP and together with the School of
Business and School of Economics formed the College of Business and
Management Sciences (CoBAMS).

2. Methodology
The review involved the analysis of:
i. Annual reports of Makerere University and the then ISAE and now the
SSP;
ii. The strategic plans for ISAE for 2000/1 – 2004/5 and 2006/7 –
2010/11;
iii. Literature review of research activities and empirical studies; and
iv. National and international development frameworks.

3. Results
The SSP has grown both in the scope and depth of its programmes and
services since it was founded five decades ago. In order to consolidate its past
successes in training statisticians at professional level and to adequately
develop the post-graduate and specialized programmes, the University
Council approved three departments for the SSP, namely:
• Department of Statistical Methods and Actuarial Sciences
• Department of Planning and Applied Statistics; and the
• Department of Population Studies
SSP currently with a population of about 1850 students up from 60 in 1969,
runs five undergraduate, ten post-graduate training programmes and short
courses/workshops. All undergraduate programmes have duration of three
years. These include: Bachelor of Statistics, Bachelor of Science in Actuarial
Science, Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Economics, Bachelor of Science in
Population Studies and Bachelor of Science in Business Statistics. The post-

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