Tolly Mbwette

Professor Tolly Mbwette
Born	8 June 1956 Irambo, Mbeya Rural District, Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania)
Died	July 2, 2020(2020-07-02) (aged 64) Upanga, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Resting place	Irambo, Mbeya Region
Alma mater	University of Dar es Salaam, Imperial College London, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Years active	1981-2020
Organizations	Open University of Tanzania, UDSM
Known for	Vimbwette
Children	3
Website	www.mbwettelibrary.com

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Mbwette held various managerial positions in institutions of higher learning, starting with a position as associate dean for research, publications and postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), after which he assisted the UDSM vice chancellor in coordinating the university's Institutional Transformation Program for eight years between July 1994 and July 2002.^[7]

From January 2004 to April 2005, he was deputy vice chancellor for academics at the Open University of Tanzania and went on to serve as vice chancellor of the university from 13 April 2005 to 12 April 2015.^[8]^[9] He was chairman of the Inter-University Council for East Africa's Governing Board for two years and served as its vice chairperson from 2008 to 2010. He was the founder and chairman of TERNET Council between 2007 and 2010.^[10] Between 2007 and 2009, Mbwette was the chairman of the Tanzania Commission for Universities. He served as vice chairperson of the Governing Board of the African Council of Distance Learning between 2008 and 2011.

From 2009, he was an honorary advisor to the Commonwealth of Learning. In July 2011 he was elected President of the African Council of Distance Learning for a period of three years. Mbwette has conducted extensive research and consultancy in the areas of environmental engineering, information and communications technology, institutional reforms and environmental management.^[11] He served as Governing Board member of the Association of African Universities.^[12] He was also a chairperson of the university council of Kampala International University in Uganda^[13] and served as board chairman of the Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation.^[14]

In 2015, Mbwette opened a public library known as the Mbwette Professional Library which holds a collection of research and reading materials.^[15]^[16] The library is responsible for directly supporting the national and international research community.^[17]

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Selected works

Jowi, James Otieno; Mbwette, Tolly (January 2017). "The Role of Research Centres and Networks". In Jane Knight; Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis (eds.). Regionalization of African Higher Education. Brill. pp. 161–174. ISBN 9789463009560.
Mbwette, Tolly Salvator Augustin (1989). The performance of fabric protected slow sand filters (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/47566.
Mbwette, Tolly S. (2018). "Experiences with slow sand filters in Tanzania". In Ince, M (ed.). Water and sanitation in Africa: Proceedings of the 11th WEDC International Conference, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 15-19 April 1985. Loughborough University. pp. 93–96.
Tarimo, Irene; Yohana, Lawi; Senzia, M. A.; Mbogo, M.; Mbwette, Tolly S. A. (December 2014). "Modelling of Municipal Wastewater Treatment in a System Consisting of Waste Stabilization Ponds, Constructed Wastelands and Fish Ponds in Tanzania". In Sven Erik Jørgensen; Ni-Bin Chang; Fu-Liu Xu (eds.). Ecological Modelling and Engineering of Lakes and Wetlands. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-63249-4.00025-7 – via ResearchGate.
Mbwette, TSA (2012). "Seventeen Years of Delivery of Open and Distance Education by The Open University of Tanzania (OUT) in East Africa and Beyond". Huria: Journal of the Open University of Tanzania.