Johncation Muhindo is a recipient of the 2024 /25 Chevening Scholarship of the UK Government. He is pursuing MSc of Human Rights and Politics at the London School of Economics and Politics (LSE). At LSE Johncation doubles as a fellow for Program for African Leaders PfAL at the Firoz Lalji Institute.
He has over 15 years of community-driven social change work and is a team leader as well as the founder of Creations Forum Afrika; a non-profit human rights, peacebuilding, good governance, and advocacy-focused organization working in the fragile southwestern Uganda – DRC borderlands. Johncation serves on the Global Board of Directors of Protection International, an International NGO fighting for the right to defend rights by supporting human rights defenders in need globally.
He is a recent alumnus of the Refugee Studies Pathways at Refugee Students Centre (RSC), University of Oxford and the International Visitor leadership Program (IVLP) of the US Department of State and former visiting fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CARH) University of York UK where he is also a member of the human rights defender’s hub.
For his undergraduate, Johncation studied Democracy and Development under a scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, a German political organization. He is a recipient of individual Youth Action Fund award of the Open Society Foundation in recognition of his work in empowering young people by providing them skills and spaces to engage on national and global issues. Subsequently, this became part of the wider youth debate movement in the country to which prolific leaders and activists have been nurtured.