Volunteer Action Network
EIN: 85-2035898
Mission
Our mission is to be a leading Organization for women empowerment in Uganda enabling women and girls live a productive life with respect and dignity, through improving their income, health and increasing their levels of participation in decision making.
Ruling year
2021
Development Director
Abdul Wahab Nyonyintono
CEO & Co Founder
Muusa Bukenya
Main address
4150 East Citrine Road
San Tan Valley, AZ 85143 USA
EIN
85-2035898
Education
Health
Microfinance
Community development finance
Social enterprise
Population served
Women and girls
Refugees and displaced people
Economically disadvantaged people
At-risk youth
NTEE code
Single Organization Support (Q11)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Women's Economic Empowerment
We build economic independence and increase household income and food income security at the house to support rural and peri-urban poor women in self-selected groups. The members cross guarantee the loans of each other member in the group. By loaning to these groups, we tap into an already supportive and cooperative atmosphere. Each group in a particular village selects a leader to forward her name to the office.The selected leader is provided with leadership training, group dynamics, troubleshooting problems, and conflict resolution among others. After our borrowers receive their micro-loans, Our program addresses the lack of access to finance among women. We want all women to become successful businesswomen and self reliant, so in addition to providing a micro-loan they receive three days of business training. Our training includes adult literacy training, budgeting, inventory control, record keeping, business planning, writing a business plan, and more.
Sexual And Reproductive Health Rights
We build the capacity of women and girls to have knowledge about SRHR and provide access to menstrual facilities including affordable sanitary products. Providing girls with affordable menstrual hygiene products empowers them to go to school all year round and gives them a better future. When girls are educated, poverty drops, economies thrive, and communities become more resilient. But when a girl faces obstacles in healthily managing her menses, she is at risk for infection, her self-esteem and self-confidence suffer, she may remain absent from school during her period, or, worse still, drop out of school altogether upon reaching puberty. We target schoolgirls ages ten and above, mainly in primary and secondary school and rural women who do not have access. We provide them with a pack (8 pads in a box) of sanitary pads per month and give education sessions on women's health.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We empower women and girls in Uganda by providing spaces and resources to enable them to participate effectively in individual and community development processes, thus, strengthening the economic resilience of individuals, their families, and communities to lead successful and dignified lives.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
• To equip women and girls with entrepreneurship skills and knowledge
• To link women and girls to financial institutions
• To provide seed capital to women and girls to invest and advance sustainable businesses
• To strengthen communities to actively participate and access economic programmes
• To expand the production capacity of the Health Period Initiative (HPI) unit
• To provide quality affordable sanitary products
• To provide SRHR education to schools and communities
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is hard to come up with good questions to ask people
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Development Director
Abdul Wahab Nyonyintono
Volunteer Action Network is a non-governmental and non-profit organization established in 2005 to empower women and girls in Uganda by providing spaces and resources to enable them to participate effectively in individual and community development processes, thus, strengthening the economic resilience of individuals, their families, and communities to lead successful and dignified lives
CEO & Co Founder
Muusa Bukenya
Volunteer Action Network is a non-governmental and non-profit organization established in 2005 to empower women and girls in Uganda by providing spaces and resources to enable them to participate effectively in individual and community development processes, thus, strengthening the economic resilience of individuals, their families, and communities to lead successful and dignified lives
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Volunteer Action Network
Board of directorsas of 04/13/2023
Board of directors data
Abdul Wahab Nyonyintono
Muusa Bukenya
Volunteer Action Network
Abdelqadir Mahmoud
Volunteer Action Network
Board leadership practices
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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 ? Yes
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