Member, University Council (Academic Staff Association)

Represents the Academic Staff Association on the University Council and coordinates the RETI consortium, which earned Muni the 2026 AHEFT Prize.

Assoc. Prof. Clement Okia coordinates the Refugee and Host Community Youth Empowerment and Transformation Initiative (RETI), through which Muni University and its consortium partners link skills training, entrepreneurship and financial inclusion to work for refugees and young people in host communities. By June 2026 RETI had skilled 67,347 young people, 40,275 of whom are now employed.

In September 2026 he accompanied the Vice Chancellor to Accra, where RETI earned Muni University the inaugural Africa Higher Education for Transformation Prize.

In the Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences he leads research on strengthening the capacity of higher education for equitable and resilient governance of natural resources in refugee-host communities in West Nile, and on harnessing trees on farms to meet national and global biodiversity targets.

From learning to earning: the RETI story

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