CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT-UGANDA
P. O. BOX 122, YUMBE
MOB: 0774289754/0754992344
Prison Road, Yumbe Town council Yumbe
Arua Brach, Arua Kampala Road, Ragem  
Email: ceeurg@gmail.com

AN EMPOWERED COMMUNITY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

  CEEU

Our Ref……………………….
Your Ref……………………..					            Date:___/___/2017

BACKGROUND TO CEEU
Centre for Economic Empowerment – Uganda (CEEU) is a local NGO founded in 2003 by three volunteers based in North Western Region of Uganda (West Nile) with its headquarters in Yumbe District. The organization membership consists of twenty (20) members of whom eight (8) are female and twelve (12) males. It is a community cantered organization working in partnership with all communities, Local Governments, National and International NGOs. CEEU is committed to working with disadvantaged communities to pursue her goals and objectives of improving capacities for improved household food security, women rights, clean water and Sanitation, education, healthy lifestyle and promoting good governance for increased access to socio-economic services for effective and sustainable poverty eradication. Centre For Economic Empowerment - Uganda was formerly called Needy kids – Uganda, a Civil Society Organization Registered with Yumbe District Local Government. It was formed in 2003 after 17 years from when the Ugandans returned from exile (from Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo) with the overall goal of socio-economic development amongst the disadvantaged communities of West Nile Region who settled back from exile. In the period of 1995 – 2000 West Nile Bank Front (WNBF) and Uganda National Rescue Front (UNRF II) took to arms against the government; this greatly affected the socio-economic transformation which was gradually recovering from the 1979 – 1986 wars.  The recent rebellion was by UNRF II who later on laid down their guns after a cease fire agreement was signed in Yumbe District, and by 24th Dec, 2002 a negotiated peace agreement was signed. Yumbe district experienced a generalized abject poverty for over seventeen (17) years. The district has suffered the West Nile rebellion characterized with loss of lives, properties, rapes, running to exile since 1970s until mid-2000 when a peace agreement between Ugandan Government and West Nile Bank Front signed and hostilities ceased and subsequently with UNRF II.  This is coupled with the fact that the district boarders Sudan which has recently had over 20 years of rebellion where Yumbe District ended hosting 170.000 refugees from 1995 - 2006. Because of the on-going internal conflict in South Sudan 2013 to date (2016) Yumbe District is hosting the biggest refugee population second in the World (2.72.000 Refugees in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement) to her population of 6.85.580 . Additionally in the district, business is envisaged to grow and population influx is expected to increase HIV infection and this is compounded by very high dependence syndrome, idleness, unemployment, illiteracy and laziness among the youth who form the greatest fraction of the population and most of whom are married. This has put a surmountable pressure on the young family and predisposed them to HIV infections. 

RESOLUTION AND JUSTIFICATION FOR THE CHANGE OF NAME
In view to expand on her thematic areas, Needy Kids – Uganda was resolved to changed name to Centre for Economic Empowerment – Uganda to cover environmental conservation, gender and economic empowerment, health, education, and governance and human rights issues. The new name has given the organization a better positioning in delivering her services to achieve an empowered community for sustainable household development through strengthening the capacity of women, children and youth to demand and access improved socio-economic services in the country. The new name shall take effect next year (2017) as it was reserved with the registrar of Companies and subsequently registered as an NGO with the Ministry of Internal Affairs under S5914/12676 on 16th Aug, 2016.

VISSION
“An empowered community for sustainable household development
MISSION STATEMENT
“Strengthen the capacity of women, children and youth to demand and access improved socio-economic services”

VALUES
Centre for Economic Empowerment – Uganda cherishes the following values:
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•	Accountability
•	Respect
•	Voluntarism 
•	Team Work
•	Commitment
•	Integrity

EXPERTISE OF CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT - UGANDA
Expertise of CEEU are in the area of Human rights, Agriculture, Water and Sanitation, Education, Health and Environmental Conservation and good governance.

ORGANIZATIONAL ACHIEVEMEMNTS
Since its inception, the organisation has successfully achieved the following:
Year 	Donor/ Partner	Programs supported 	Achievement	
2016 date	    Care Uganda 

Aga Khan Foundation (AKF	Livelihood ,Agricultural Marketing initiative (AMI)
Fruit gardening, Seed distribution, training of farmer groups and support them 	CEEU supporting 50 school gardening’s in Primary Schools, 4000kg seedlings distributed, 25 farmer groups formed and trained. 30 fruit gardens established in primary schools and farmer groups.
	
2015 -Date	Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)	Education – Strengthening Education systems in East Africa (SESEA) under Gender mainstreaming in Education and School Improvement Project (SIP)
	CEEU supporting 50  District Primary Schools, 
Strengthening the capacity of School Management Committees, mentoring of School Management Committee on Gender and documentation of best practices for replication to other Primary Schools.	
2012 to date 	SNV	Community Empowerment Energy Renewal Projects (CEEREP) and 
 Renewal Energy and waste management in schools 	promotion of modern stoves in communities, 
Increased number of communities having access to solar utilization in schools
Promoted  biomass and Energy saving technologies, developed disseminated and used efficient technologies carried out 	
2012 to date 	SNV	Community Empowerment Program (CEP)	Promoted Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Education in Okollo, Anyiribu and Offaka Sub-counties of Arua District	
2011 to date 	Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU)	Family planning (FP)	Trained satisfied users of family planning, oriented peer educators and organised dialogues with religious leaders on family planning issues 	
2011 to date	UWONET
	Sexual Gender Based Violence  prevention
(SGBV) 	Supported women affected by various forms of violence at household level including the orphans and vulnerable children 	
Year	Donor/ Partner	Supported programs	Achievement	
2010 to date 	UWEZO	Assess capacities of children at household level 	Assed capacity of children at household level in areas of reading, writing, speaking, listening and arithmetic skills	
2010	CAN-Uganda OXFAM GB
	Empowering communities on climate change 	Trained communities to manage tree seedlings and planting and Sensitised communities on importance of tree planting 	
2010-to date 	World Wide Fund 
(WWFUND)
	Empowering communities on advocacy skills on oil petroleum and gas industry	Sensitised communities on climate change, trained communities on oil existence and exploration process and trained communities on environmental actors on climate change, skills of advocacy and lobbying 	
2009 	TPO
	Psycho-social support to children 	Provided counselling services and  scholastic materials to children who are affected and infected by HIV/AIDs & conflicts	
	MINNESOTA International /WELSHARE International 
USAID	Uganda Malaria Community Partnership (UMCP)
	Distributed long lasting insecticide treated nets to pregnant mothers and children less than five years, and conducted open air sensitisations on prevention of malaria during pregnancy, 
Oriented the Village Health Teams and supported them in
distribution and administering of Coatem and Supported the health staff in monitoring, referral system and linkage to communities  	
Year	Donor/ Partner	Programs supported	Achievement	
2010	DFID and  CEFORD	Good governance 	Monitored the performance of UPE in Primary Schools in three sub-counties of Drajini, Kuru and Odravu in Yumbe District, supervised implementation of NAADS programme in Yumbe district, Transformed society in a fundamental and positive way in human rights, Promoted accessibility to basic education in-line with national goals, Promoted equitable education in order to eliminate disparities and inequalities and Ensured education is affordable to majority of children 	
2009-2010	SNV	Education 	Conducted multi-stake holder meetings in three sub-counties of Yumbe District that enabled the community to discuss challenges facing the education sector, Capacitated the School Management Committees and Parents and Teachers Association on skills of monitoring the school, Teachers, Pupils, sanitation and school gardens and Trained the non-traditional inspectors (Sub-county chiefs, LCIII Chairpersons, Secretary for Education Community Development Officers and Civil Society Organisation to monitor and Supervise the schools within their sub-counties	
Year	Donor/ Partner	Programs supported	Achievement	
2006	World Vision 	Northern Uganda Youth Rehabilitation Fund 	Provided skills in carpentry, printing and designing for selected youth (16 girls and 24 boys) in Yumbe District 	
2006	Care 	Agricultural Marketing Initiative (AMI)	Mobilised, sensitised and trained communities in sub-counties of Odravu, Kuru and Romogi in Yumbe District on Sustainable Agriculture, established twelve demo-fields where each of the above sub-counties and  Provided inputs e.g. sesame two to farmers as a seed multiplication programme 	
2005-2006	Uganda Program for Holistic Development (UPHOLD)	Education 	Enabled communities to participate in education programme, Capacitated six women pressure groups to 
support girl child education, Supported cooperative learning 
in primary schools, Formed learning corners for children both at school and household level and Supported drama groups to encourage girl child
education and to reduce school drop-out rate.	
2004-2005 	Aids Integrated Model (AIM)	Health 	NKU supported 160 orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Yumbe District, Provided scholastic materials for the 160 OVCs, Trained peer educators on HIV/AIDs and Home Based  Care and conducted Voluntary HIV/AIDs Counselling and Testing	

BOARD MEMBERS
SN	Name 	Qualifications	Position	Gender	Tel	
1	Mr. Imran Ejotre	
 Master of Science in Biology (Disease ecology and immunology of infectious diseases), Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA, USA	BOD Member	M	0787397170	
2	Mr. Ojjo  Zuberi	Masters in environ Health	Chairman	M		
3	Mrs. Busy  Kalisum	Postgraduate in mgt and Bachelors in community Devt	Vice Chairperson	F	0750593296	
4	Mrs. ADERU Jamila 	 Post graduate in Mgt and Bahelors of social works and social administration   SWSA	BOD Member	F		
5	Mr. Mawa Ratib Billal	BBA – Acc and Finance
Dip Educ - Secondary	Treasurer	M	0782410718	
6	Mr. Achema Muzamil	Bachelor of Devt Studies	Secretary/ED	M		
7	Dr mubarik  Nassuru	 Medical  Dr	Advisor 	m		

TECHNICAL TEAM MEMBERS
Name 	Qualification	Position	Gender	
Mr. Achema Muzamil	Bachelor of  Dev’t Studies	Director	M	
Uruk Habibu	Bachelor in Finance	Finance and Admin. Manager	M	
	 	 	      	
ALUMA SWALI	 Bachelor in Education and certificate in law and admin.	Prog. officer Governance and Human Rights	      M	
OBITT  Micheal	Bachelor of Agriculture	Prog. officer 
Gender and Economic Empowerment	     M	
CANDIRU BEATRICE	Bachelor of HSc	Prog. Officer  Health	      F	
	Bachelor of PED	Prog. Officer Education		
Gulam Elis	Bachelor of ES	Prog. officer Environment	      M	
Adebuga Mansur	Bachelor in Devt studies	Public Relations and Communications Officer	      M	
BAKO FAIMA	Dip. BDS	Accounts Assistant	    F	
DODO JAMILA	Dip. SWSA	Administrative Assistant	    F	
Akim candiga	Bachelor in Devt Studies	Field Officers	    M	
Juma Ashraf	Certificates	Support Staff	    M	
	Pool  of professionals	A Resource Team of Volunteers including CEE-U members	     F	
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CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT - UGANDA (CEEU) ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

FIN & ADMIN
MANAGER

M & E
OFFICER

PROG.  OFFICER GOVERNANCE
& H.RIGHTS

PROG.  OFFICER
GENDER & ECONOMIC 

PROG.  OFFICER
HIV/AIDS FOCAL PERSON

PROG.  OFFICER
EDUCATION

PROG.  OFFICER
ENVIRONMENT

PUBLIC RELATIONS
OFFICER

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT

SUPPORT STAFF

FIELD OFFICERS

A RESOURCE TEAM OF VOLUNTEERS INCLUDING CEE-UG MEMBERS

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

ORGANISATION FUNDING HISTORY
Donor	Project Name
	Amount Received (UGX) 	Duration	Key activities	
AIM	OVC/HIV/AIDS	128m	2Years
	Supporting 160 orphans, training of 42 counsellors, formation of 4 women groups and provision of PMTCT services to 120 homes	
World Vision/World Bank	Printing and Designing	30m	2 Years	Training of 150 youths and distribution of 150 pairs of uniforms from the vocational centres to schools	
 UPHOLD	Family Basic Education
(FABE)	193m	2Years	Carrying Family Basic Education in selected communities of Yumbe District  	
Minnesota International Health Volunteers	Uganda Malaria Community Partnership	150m
	2years	Distribution of 342 long lasting insecticide treated nets to pregnant mothers and sensitizations on HIV/AIDS. Training of 132 CMDS/ VHTS 	
SNV	Capacity Building of School Mgt Committees	45m 
	On going	Increasing School Management Committees’ skills on monitoring schools
	
UWEZO	Citizen Assessment of Learning Outcomes	15m	On going	Assessing children capability of literacy and numeracy	
CAN –UGANDA
OXFAM GB	Advocacy and lobby on climate change	65M	On going	Empowering the community on issues of climate change	

PAST PERFORMANCE, REFFERENCE CONTRACTS, GRANTS AND AGREEMENT
Donors	Project Name	Amount Received	Duration	Contacts	
Aids Integrated Model District Programme (AIM)	OVC/HIV/AIDS	UGX 128m	2 Years
	Mrs. Stella  Aum 
Tel: 0772852182
E-Mail: ste@yahoo.com	
World Vision & World Bank
	Printing and Designing	UGX 30m	2 Years		
Uganda Program For Holistic Development (UPHOLD)	Family Basic Education
FABE	UGX 193m	2 Years	Mr. Onesmas Dralega
Tel: 0774940714 
E-mail: drasemas@yahoo.com	
Minnesota International Health Volunteers	Uganda Malaria Community Partnership	UGX 150m
on going	2 Years	Mr. Richard Male
Tel: 0782177654
E-mail: ricmale@yahoo.com	
SNV	Capacity Building of School Management Committees
	UGX 45m 
on going	On going	Mr. Akol Joseph
Tel: 07724552321
E-mail: akol2005@yahoo.com	
UWEZO	Citizen Assessment of Learning Outcomes	UGX 15m	On going	Mrs. Emma Mugole
Tel: 0772457975
E-Mail: emgole@yahoo.com	
WWW Fund 	Capacity Building on Climate Change 	UGX 35m	On going	Mr. Robert 
Tel: 0776582723