Outreach Uganda
Changing lives. Overcoming poverty together.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Outreach Uganda's Ultimate Goal Our ultimate goal is to empower our clients with an entrepreneurial spirit, targeted training in key areas if needed, and access to resources so they can overcome poverty forever where their future success will be dependent upon only themselves. Main Groups/Communities We Assist 1. Jinja Uganda women's group 2. Cubu area Uganda women's group & men's agricultural group 3. Cubu villages (5)- with primary school 4 . Cubu villages (5) - with community clinic 5. Age 10 and older girls within Lamwo District Uganda Needs that We Are Addressing 1. Need for access to education and practical training 2. Need for access to health care so that families/businesses remain healthy & children do not die of easily preventable causes. 3. Need for access to credit facilities and land for women 4. Need for individual and community capacity building to increase income-generation potential from land 5. Support girls staying in school & avoiding early marriage.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Income-generation and Self-Sufficiency Program Primarily for Women
OU provides product marketing, business, leadership and other training assistance including provision of revolving loan funds and assistance with income-generation projects to selected community-based groups (3 women's and 1 men's) located in Jinja, Kitgum and Agwata Uganda. Most of these people were living on less than $1 per day prior to joining our programs.
Community Empowerment Program
OU currently works with one sub-county of five villages in northern Uganda. We work with the community on:
1. Primary/Nursery School Operation - building and operation of this northern Uganda parent supported government school which currently has almost 700 students from nursery through P-7 (sixth grade equivalent in U.S.) plus 18 trained teachers and 7 support staff. This school has grown steadily since its inception in January 2010. In 2017 Outreach Uganda completed a fifth classroom block which houses two nursery classes plus a girls' dormitory.
2. Operation of a community clinic in the same parish/village which serves over 6000 people of which half are under the age of 15. The clinic started in mid-2013. The clinic also offers basic maternity and immunization services.
3. A Home Building program for women in our JInja group. We have almost 7 acres of land, have drilled a well, and hope to begin home building later in 2019.
Child and Youth Education Program
Educational assistance of various sorts is provided to selected children of women in our income generation programs, plus children living in the focus communities for our empowerment programs in the Lamwo district of northern Uganda. In addition, we provide training to both students and parents on important topics. such as positive parenting and how to help our child be successful in school. There are several different sub-programs to help the children:
1. child sponsorship program which currently has over 200 children sponsored
2. scholarships for selected students for secondary and university or vocational training
3. Girls' Education Initiative program to help girls in 3rd to 7th grade stay in school at our Agwata location and excel so that they can continue on into secondary school. Normally, girls drop out at this age so less than 5% would continue with their schooling. We are trying to change this situation.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of students completing P-7 at the Agwata school
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Child and Youth Education Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This demonstrates that the community is supporting the education of their children. Also noteworthy is the fact that 73 of the 138 graduating P7 students during 2014 to 2019 years are girls.
Number of program participants In OU's Girls' Education Initiative participants
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people, Women and girls
Related Program
Community Empowerment Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This reporting metric shows the number of girls participating in our Girls' Education Initiative Program. It is a lead indicator of how many girls will finish P-7 (6th grade). Covid lockdown in 2020
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our Goals for the Next 3 to 5 Years to Meet These Needs:
1. Continue community partnership to support the Cubu Parent Primary school (Nursery to P7). We became an Exam Center School effective for 2021 exam year. We seek to become a school of excellence for local pupils as well as attract pupils from outside who will pay for boarding in order to attend our school. We want this community school to become increasingly self-supporting each year so that in 5 years, at least 35% of its operations are self-supporting.
2. Solidify our Girls' Education Initiative Program by seeking additional community support and offering support to our girls who are secondary/vocational students.
3. Expand our child sponsorship program to 250 students in primary school, and to convert to a scholarship program only for secondary and above.
4. Target one part of our post-primary scholarship program to be for students focused on health/medical or technology careers and who will come back to support the Lamwo district in exchange for their scholarship.
5. Home building program - complete common area improvements. Construct first phase of 10 homes for Jinja women.
6. Finalize an expansion plan for the Cubu Community Clinic with district health and community officials.
7. Continue implementing the Cubu Community Development plan including:
a. larger clinic building
b. build a dam to provide water for multiple agricultural uses
c. provide a mechanism for community wide crop storage and more direct transportation and/or methods for community wide crop sale access points.
d. build a vocational school
Beyond 5 years:
e. regional airstrip
f. connection to tourism once the airstrip is completed
8. Expand our cash crop agricultural program with a focus on having it support the clinic and school while also serving as a model for local farmers to adopt improved farming methods.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our strategies for accomplishing our goals are to continue to provide resources and build the capacity of our Ugandan NGO so that its staff can provide daily "on the ground" oversight of our operations and to continue to provide the needed training and capacity building for our women's groups and the Cubu community.
Near term activities include:
1. Devotion of time and resources to implementing the Cubu community plan
2. Expanding the Girls' Education Initiative program to one to two additional primary schools.
3. Finding selected "professional" volunteers from the west to provide one-time capacity building training/transfer of skills to aid in accomplishing our goals (pre-school, girls empowerment curriculum, and agricultural).
4. Focusing our efforts on developing strategic partnerships with local NGO and governmental entities in northern Uganda who can assist us in the implementation of our programs/projects and help in building the capacity of our communities.
5. Utilize cloud based software and virtual meetings to encourage more participation from within both the U.S. and Uganda to accomplish our activities as well as monitoring and evaluation.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Internal Resources, Capacities and Connections:
1. We are an unusual U.S. nonprofit in that we spend 2 to 3 months on site in Uganda each year making sure our programs are implemented successfully and that monies are properly spent.
2. We access U.S. based professional volunteers and use them as catalysts for implementing new training and new programs in Uganda (but not to take away paying jobs from Ugandans)
3. We have very committed Ugandan staff that have been with us over ten years.
4. We have a base of loyal donors, sponsors and customers who regularly give to us
External Resources, Capacities and Connections:
1. We have spent much time building relationships in the districts where we are working
2. We have connections with organizations and other resources relative to housing/land for women in southern Uganda
3. We are a registered Ugandan NGO and in the 15 years we've been in Uganda, have developed respect and good relationships within the Lamwo district where we work.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
After 13 years of work with our first two women's groups, we are seeing good results. Helping a woman with income-generation while educating a family member is a viable way to help the family upgrade itself. We think our current home building program for Jinja women will be the final tool they need to PERMANENTLY escape poverty and move out of the slum forever.
Our partnership with the Cubu Community on the operation of its community primary school and clinic has been quite successful. The school has grown from 20 students to over 500 students of which 40 are normally boarding students. The school was registered and licensed during the 2017 - 2018 time period. In late 2020 it became licensed as an Exam Center.
After 9 years with our Girls' Education Initiative, we see that our comprehensive approach is very successful at keeping girls in school through 6th grade. Our companion scholarship program for post-primary school has resulted in over 40 girls progressing on to secondary/vocational school. We intend to continue this program and to offer more psychological/social support to our secondary girls.
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Outreach Uganda
Board of directorsas of 05/06/2022
Carol Davis
No Affiliation
Term: 2019 - 2022
Carol Davis
No Affiliation
Conchetta Robinson
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Wendy Peterson
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Mary Dalke
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
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