Strategic Objective: To strengthen the institutional capacity of KAWUO and her member organizations for effective service delivery
KAWUO occupies a strategic obligation as Karamoja region coordinating umbrella for various women initiatives. To the extent that it can increase its leadership in the role, it will help secure a stronger and more consistent voice for women concerns in Karamoja and neighboring regions. KAWUO will therefore embark on various institutional development initiatives, aimed at building up KAWUO’s capacity, sustainability, and positioning.
One important component of this is to establish KAWUO internal management systems more firmly and make sure they are being implemented fully. During the next five years the focus of institutional policy development will be to develop organizational policies on internal and external communication, monitoring and evaluation, Board governance and leadership, and strengthen its gender mainstreaming and programming. KAWUO will also concentrate on ensuring that previously developed policies on financial and human resource management are implemented according to national standards.
To provide a senior level of leadership and advisory support. Finally, KAWUO will provide Capacity building support for its staffs and the member’s organization in core organizational needs including resource mobilization, proposal writing, management, monitoring and evaluation, ICT, and organizational policy orientation, to provide a greater diversity of skills within KAWUO’s lean staffing structure an members
To achieve KAWUO’s broader objectives, the organization will concentrate on building up strategic partnerships and establishing a set of relationships with member organizations that can help KAWUO better coordinate advocacy and capacity building on a regional level. KAWUO will seek strategic partnerships with major national organizations in each calendar year. It will also grow its regional base of women organizations to amplify women voices from a greater range of geographic and institutional women groups. Finally, KAWUO will develop a set of membership obligations, policies and procedures to ensure that it harmonizes its expectations with those of its members and maintains clear mutually productive relationships with all partners and stakeholders.