Our Profile
Umoja Rescue Agency-UREA
“Rescue humanity and save life”
Umoja Rescue Agency (UREA) established in December 2011 as an independent local non-profit non-government organization with its headquarter in Koboko District-Uganda is legally registered with Uganda Registration Service Bureau (Registration number 80020001800126) on 7th day of May 2019. Umoja Rescue Agency (UREA) was formerly known as Umoja Development Association (UDA) which emanates from a Neighborhood Assembly (NA) model led by a group of young men and women who support community rehabilitation and reconstruction and promote human rights and social economic wellbeing and free people from poverty.
Why the youth established the organization is because of the fact that people of Northern Uganda and West Nile lived in exile and suffered internal displaced for more than decades due to civil war and conflicts between government of Uganda and armed rebel groups that led to loss of life, destruction of productive property and retarded development. The geographical location of the region placed it among hard-to-reach regions in Uganda that further contributed to its marginalization, insecurity, and pressure of resources and land. Additionally, because of civil unrest from neighboring counties, West Nile and Northern Uganda continues to host a mass influx of refugees from countries like South Sudan, and DR Congo with insufficient resources provided. The region is also battling with climate change effects resulting from environmental degradation, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy/early marriages that affects education of girls and boys, access to Sexual reproductive health information and services is limited and often unfriendly, HIV/AIDS, sexual gender based violence, inadequate access to economic opportunities and poverty.
Since then, the organization has devoted itself in mobilization of communities and rehabilitating them to recover from the effects of insurgencies, economic hardship and demand for justice and better service delivery. As noted, still many people in Uganda and worldwide are unable to enjoy their rights and social-economic wellbeing due to political, social, cultural, environmental and legal obstacles. This is even more true for individuals fleeing armed conflict or searching for safe refuge in Uganda and elsewhere.
Oure Registration number with URSB is: 80020001800126, and Koboko District Local government is: 563/0145
Our Vision
A Just Society Free of Poverty
Our Mission
“To rescue and empower women, youth, children, and persons with disabilities to enjoy their human rights and socio-economic wellbeing to lead healthy, productive and dignified lives”.
Our Core Values
Integrity
Transparency and accountability
Non-discrimination
Solidarity
Innovation and creativity
Partnership
Our Core Programme areas
- Environmental protection and climate change
- Livelihood and food security
- Peace and Conflict transformation
- Gender equality and Transformation
- Access to Justice and democratic governance
- Education and skills development
Our Strategic Objectives
- To promote environmental protection, climate change adaptation and mitigation.
- To improve livelihoods and food security to free people from hunger and live decent life
- To promote peace and conflict transformation in communities affected by crisis.
- To increase access to justice, promote protection of forced migrants and host communities, their wellbeing and dignity
- To promote gender equality, gender transformation, and advance women empowerment in all facets of political, economic, cultural and social and technological transformation.
- To promote quality education and skills development for decent and gainful employment
- Promote democratic governance, civic competence and social accountability for improved service delivery to the community.
- Enhance the organizational capacity development of UREA for effective and efficient growth and development.
Our Core Values We cherish:
- Integrity: We are honest and truth to ourselves and our partners. We show consistency and uncompromising adherence to our work and we promise to deliver to our communities with high integrity.
- Transparency and accountability: We are transparent and accountable in all actions individually and collectively. We built trust, and makes use of organization resources efficiently and effectively for the intended purpose. Our whistleblowing policy in it we built trust and transparency.
- Non-discrimination: We very inclusive and encourage participation of people in our work to capture their needs and concerns in the planning and implementation of projects. We do not discriminate on grounds of sex, gender, age, religion, tribe, race, color, disability, political affiliation, etc. We respect the rights and dignity of every person. Our actual work in Uganda is guided by our policy on non-discrimination, polices, laws and International instruments.
- Solidarity: We are committed to stand in solidarity with those people whose rights denied, who dignity is violated, or whose existence is threatened. For this reason, we seek to rescue humanity and save life.
- Innovation and creativity: We are strongly committed and passionate to utilize our skills and abilities to tap into our inner pool of resources and bring in new ideas for transformation in our communities
- Partnership: We collaborate with local community, local governments, development partners and agencies so that we create synergies to support our communities and rescue them from extreme vulnerable and poverty. Through partners, we believe in complimentary
Policies & Systems
UREA follows its specific set of policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) which has been revised and updated a number of times up till now in order to make them more staff friendly and organization-centered.
UREA uses its following, laws, policies and manuals and among others
- The Constitution of UREA
- Manual of Human Resources and Management
- Manual of Financial Policies and Regulations
- Safe guarding policy
- Procurement policy
- Whistle blowing policy
These manuals contain a number of basic organizational policies and procedures which help in the creation and maintenance of a transparent, accountable and fair working environment in UREA and ensure the effective achievement of overall objectives of the organization.
Human Resources
UREA has a core team with various professional backgrounds such as management, education, health, finances and HR. In addition, the UREA hires the project staff as and when required. The organization also engages volunteers and interns on need basis.