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Message from Chairperson
We’re just getting started! We are Ateker Professionals! It gives me great pleasure to present the first APID’s Strategic Plan for the period 2021-2025. Using our well-positioned brand, excellent talent, and best practices across the country and around the world, APID can lead the way toward that desired reality.
These are just some of the assets that have set us up to lead, transform, and sustain this initiative.
The APID Steering Committee and the highly skilled and dedicated APID professional volunteers, in a collaborative manner developed this Strategic Paper I am presenting to you. The strategy describes how APID will contribute to address the outstanding and emerging challenges facing Iteso people through supporting integrated initiatives packaged into eight (8) selected sectors as follows: Agriculture, agribusiness & livelihoods, land, health, education, environment, finance & trade, justice/law and governance.
There will be deliberate effort to advance the empowerment agenda while addressing vulnerabilities that entrench poverty and inequality. We are aware of the fact that APID alone cannot provide complete solutions to the myriad of challenges facing Uganda today, especially ateker Iteso. APID will link with international, regional, national, district and local efforts to build meaningful partnerships to deliver its agenda. In the fight against poverty there are reasons to be optimistic and there are reasons to be alarmed. As an organisation, we are committed to fully utilising our richly diverse technical capacities in order to deliver on these commitments as we strive to help communities become self-reliant and propel themselves out of the poverty trap.
I call upon each person reading this plan to identify a role you can take on to help ensure our success. We welcome you as partners in this important work, and pledge to work tirelessly to realize a more hopeful future. I wish the organization all the best as it embarks on this noble journey. With belief in a better tomorrow.
Samuel Okiror
APID Chairperson
Message from C.E.O
After consultations with the Board of Directors, Steering Committee Members and Sector Working Teams and other stakeholders, we are pleased to announce that “Developing Teso Together” blueprint: The APID Strategic Plan 2021 – 2025 is ready to be shared with our members and partners. The strategic plan for APID 2021 to 2025 focuses on four (5) key strategic objectives:
i. To enhance the democratic capabilities of community group members (Ateker) to demand for quality public services and local government leaders to be responsive and accountable.
ii. To mobilize adequate resources locally, nationally, regionally and internationally to enhance socio-cultural and community development initiatives.
iii. To enhance the partnership development, collaborations and networking among APID Members and other development organizations.
iv. To strengthen the APID’s institutional, organizational and operational capacities and her members to effectively fulfill its mission and objectives.
v. To develop industrial business enterprises that will bring sustainable development to ateker for generations to come
In this rapidly changing environment, our strategic direction must account for change. With this in mind, the strategic plan was written with the intention to revisit it regularly to measure successes and to take into consideration an ever-changing world. Through effective planning, we can better capitalize on new opportunities and adapt to challenges because we have a clear view of our long-term horizon. This plan helps us prioritize and adjust resources to make sure programs and projects serve Iteso communities with long-term sustainability.
Chris Aru
APID Chief Executive Officer
Our Story
Ateker Professionals Initiative for Development (APID) Limited is an Association of professionals of the Iteso established in 2020.
APID is registered as a non-profit entity, company limited by guarantee given the reg. number by the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB). It is a Ugandan non-profit and independent professionals’ association not affiliated to any religious, cultural and/or political organization.
APID was established to stimulate development initiatives in the Teso region and link network members and partners locally, nationally and internationally to support such development initiatives.
We strive to ever remain an association of open-minded people with a common interest in the development of the Teso society of today and tomorrow through pooling together our talents to implement high-impact poverty eradication services.
APID National Offices are located at TechBuzz Hub on Plot 668, Kyadondo Road in Kampala Capital City, Postal address is P.O. Box 18, Kampala, Uganda with a Regional Coordination-Office in Soroti City, Plot 821, Soroti Uganda. This operational structure allows us to coordinate with development actors at all levels, locally, nationally, regionally and globally.
We exist to advance the profession of community work and to set, strengthen and promote the professional and ethical standards essential for exemplary community work practice through Capacity-building, Research, Learning and Development, Policy and Lobby/Advocacy, Monitoring and Evaluation, Promotion, Rights based awareness, improving living conditions of the communities (Ateker).
National Assembly
The National Assembly (NA) is the highest decision-making organ of APID. It is constituted by:
Members of the Board of Directors and Committees,
Members of APID Association, annually selected to represent the Association at The NA during its AGM.
Executive Officers and Chairpersons of the Technical Working Groups (TWGs),
District Representatives, one (1) each from the Districts that make up the Teso Sub-region.
For purposes of the APID SP, the National Assembly (NA), among other things, shall be responsible for:
scrutinizing and approving annual reports
Adopting annual plans and policies as proposed by the Board of Directors (BOD)
Taking overall responsibility for quality implementation of the strategic plan
Reviewing and approving any changes required in the course of the implementation of the Plan.
Board Members
These people are not special by their skills, but they are truly special by their heart.
Our Vision
Improved livelihoods , healthy, educated and empowered Iteso communities
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