EZT sponsors its club members by providing their school fees. Some of these students are at University level and others in high school.
Hosea Nkojo Sholarship fund: This fund was named after EZT Patron Mr. G.B Nkojo, who provides the funds of some students in Western Uganda from primary to University level. The funds are provided basing on the performance of the student and lack of support from the parents/guardians.
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Development Approach
Our interventions aim at liberating, stimulating and catalyzing capacity of critical reflection and independent thinking for an individual to interpret his environment and establish his position in the cosmos.
We strategically tap the power of culture to build confidence, enhance creativity and generate energy for change actions among people. Culture also help us to appreciate people's reality and develop effective strategies to negotiate for the desired changes by enabling people to rediscover themselves in their own traditions, languages and environment.
We take a holistic and integrative approach to human development. We take on the mind as well as the heart to achieve accelerates change movements in people. Thus we are not a project merely based on mechanistic and rationalistic logical framework but a people's movement with a common vision and ideology that attract and bind people together in organic networks
We strategically tap the power of culture to build confidence, enhance creativity and generate energy for change actions among people. Culture also help us to appreciate people's reality and develop effective strategies to negotiate for the desired changes by enabling people to rediscover themselves in their own traditions, languages and environment.
We take a holistic and integrative approach to human development. We take on the mind as well as the heart to achieve accelerates change movements in people. Thus we are not a project merely based on mechanistic and rationalistic logical framework but a people's movement with a common vision and ideology that attract and bind people together in organic networks
Partners
The History of funding Partners
EZT is particularly grateful to all its member organizations, donors and supporters.
Common Wealth Foundation (2008/2009)
HIVOS-The Netherlands (1999-2008)
Concern World Wide (2006-2009)
Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda (2007/2008)
Goal-Uganda (2002-2004)
Prince Claus Fund-Netherlands (2000-2003)
Kwataniza-Netherlands (2001-2003)
Germany Embassy in Kampala (2004)
Hanns seidel Stiffung Germany (2004)
Move your ASS-Netherlands (2003)
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) (1999)
Engabu Za Tooro also generates its local revenue from: sale of publications, Brass band services, sale of music products, cultural troupe hire services, gate collections on weekly community theater and outside commercial shows, periodic events, business skills training participants fees, consultancy in music and cultural services and Hosea Nkojo Sholarship fund.
EZT is particularly grateful to all its member organizations, donors and supporters.
Common Wealth Foundation (2008/2009)
HIVOS-The Netherlands (1999-2008)
Concern World Wide (2006-2009)
Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda (2007/2008)
Goal-Uganda (2002-2004)
Prince Claus Fund-Netherlands (2000-2003)
Kwataniza-Netherlands (2001-2003)
Germany Embassy in Kampala (2004)
Hanns seidel Stiffung Germany (2004)
Move your ASS-Netherlands (2003)
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) (1999)
Engabu Za Tooro also generates its local revenue from: sale of publications, Brass band services, sale of music products, cultural troupe hire services, gate collections on weekly community theater and outside commercial shows, periodic events, business skills training participants fees, consultancy in music and cultural services and Hosea Nkojo Sholarship fund.
Networks
Through different programmes EZT is an active member of the following national and international networks
Local networks
1. Rwenzori Association of NGOs and Networks (RANNET)
2. Fort Portal Catholic Diocese
3. Rwenzori Arts Forum for Cultural Development (RAFOCUD)
4. KANCA
5. Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC)
National Networks
1. Literacy Network for Uganda (LITNET)
2. Women of Uganda Network (WOGNET)
3. Uganda Development Theatre Association (UDTA)
4. Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU)
International Networks
1. Communication Initiative Network (CI Network)
2. CIVICUS (World for Citizen Participation)
3. Women's world Summit Foundation (WWSF)
4. Global Youth Action Network (GYAN)
5. Global Links InitiativeGlobal Fund for Children
6. Dance for the Earth (international network for traditional performers)
Local networks
1. Rwenzori Association of NGOs and Networks (RANNET)
2. Fort Portal Catholic Diocese
3. Rwenzori Arts Forum for Cultural Development (RAFOCUD)
4. KANCA
5. Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC)
National Networks
1. Literacy Network for Uganda (LITNET)
2. Women of Uganda Network (WOGNET)
3. Uganda Development Theatre Association (UDTA)
4. Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU)
International Networks
1. Communication Initiative Network (CI Network)
2. CIVICUS (World for Citizen Participation)
3. Women's world Summit Foundation (WWSF)
4. Global Youth Action Network (GYAN)
5. Global Links InitiativeGlobal Fund for Children
6. Dance for the Earth (international network for traditional performers)
Funding
EZT depends on different sources of funding both external and internal.
Engabu Za Tooro also generates its local revenue from: sale of publications, Brass band services, sale of music products, cultural troupe hire services, gate collections on weekly shows and outside commercial shows, business skills training participants fees, consultancy in music and cultural services and Hosea Nkojo Sholarship fund.
EZT is grateful to all its parners. For infomation on the external funding parners please view the partners link.
Engabu Za Tooro also generates its local revenue from: sale of publications, Brass band services, sale of music products, cultural troupe hire services, gate collections on weekly shows and outside commercial shows, business skills training participants fees, consultancy in music and cultural services and Hosea Nkojo Sholarship fund.
EZT is grateful to all its parners. For infomation on the external funding parners please view the partners link.
Membership and structure
Membership structure
EZT is a membership organization and structured with a Patron, Board of Directors, Management and Network of 300 Grassroots women and youth cultural and economic groups.
It has a supreme Annual General Meeting, an elected Board of Directors from the Annual General meeting, and Staff for its democratic governance. The board formulates policies, considers plans and reports, and supervises implementation of activities through periodic meetings and daily interaction with the staff.
Engabu Za Tooro Staff
At least 40% of EZT staff at any one time have to be women. The organization operates with both full time staff and volunteers. Currently EZT has two US Peace Corp volunteers, Brook Edwards and Lindsey Edwards.
Mr. Rwagweri Stephen, Executive Director (Head of Business) who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work and Social Administration (B.A (SWSA) from Makerere University, Diploma in Philosophy from Philosophical Center Jinja (PCJ). He has attended many short courses like Entrepreneurship Promotion Programme from NEISBUD New Delhi India and a facilitating development course CDRA from Cape Town South Africa.
He has ten years of work experience with Engabu Za Tooro a cultural organization as an Executive Director and he is the founder of the organization.
He is also the Chairperson of “Twerwaneho Listeners Club” Human Rights Organization, Was a Minister of Youth and Culture in Tooro Kingdom, is a Clan Leader- Abafumambogo Clan and Patron of several Social Cultural Associations
EZT is a membership organization and structured with a Patron, Board of Directors, Management and Network of 300 Grassroots women and youth cultural and economic groups.
It has a supreme Annual General Meeting, an elected Board of Directors from the Annual General meeting, and Staff for its democratic governance. The board formulates policies, considers plans and reports, and supervises implementation of activities through periodic meetings and daily interaction with the staff.
Engabu Za Tooro Staff
At least 40% of EZT staff at any one time have to be women. The organization operates with both full time staff and volunteers. Currently EZT has two US Peace Corp volunteers, Brook Edwards and Lindsey Edwards.
Mr. Rwagweri Stephen, Executive Director (Head of Business) who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work and Social Administration (B.A (SWSA) from Makerere University, Diploma in Philosophy from Philosophical Center Jinja (PCJ). He has attended many short courses like Entrepreneurship Promotion Programme from NEISBUD New Delhi India and a facilitating development course CDRA from Cape Town South Africa.
He has ten years of work experience with Engabu Za Tooro a cultural organization as an Executive Director and he is the founder of the organization.
He is also the Chairperson of “Twerwaneho Listeners Club” Human Rights Organization, Was a Minister of Youth and Culture in Tooro Kingdom, is a Clan Leader- Abafumambogo Clan and Patron of several Social Cultural Associations
Approach
Our interventions aim at liberating, stimulating and catalyzing capacity of critical reflection and independent thinking for an individual to interpret his environment and establish his position in the cosmos.
We strategically tap the power of culture to build confidence, enhance creativity and generate energy for change actions among people. Culture also help us to appreciate people's reality and develop effective strategies to negotiate for the desired changes by enabling people to rediscover themselves in their own traditions, languages and environment.
We take a holistic and integrative approach to human development. We take on the mind as well as the heart to achieve accelerates change movements in people.
Thus we are not a project merely based on mechanistic and rationalistic logical framework but a people's movement with a common vision and ideology that attract and bind people together in organic networks
We strategically tap the power of culture to build confidence, enhance creativity and generate energy for change actions among people. Culture also help us to appreciate people's reality and develop effective strategies to negotiate for the desired changes by enabling people to rediscover themselves in their own traditions, languages and environment.
We take a holistic and integrative approach to human development. We take on the mind as well as the heart to achieve accelerates change movements in people.
Thus we are not a project merely based on mechanistic and rationalistic logical framework but a people's movement with a common vision and ideology that attract and bind people together in organic networks
Action Habits
The Action habits are things we do repeatedly to consolidate and manifest our beliefs and existence as a socio-economic system.
Action : We are always in action and it is action that manifests the reality of our existence. Our flag flies twenty-four hours to signify that we are always awake and acting to improve our environment.
Ceremony: We pursue human development in a ceremonial context and look at life as a celebrated event. Therefore we express the reality of our existence and carryout our activities in a ceremonial way in order to consolidate and project our common beliefs. We labour and toil with a music rhythm in the background to signify that our toil is not void of hope and is not a punishment but a process of human fulfillment.
Signs and symbols: We emphasize signs and symbols in our everyday life to reflect our common beliefs, commitment and aspirations.
Excelling: We often excel in whatever we do and excellence is part of very being. This is the indicator we use to ascertain that we are fully awake and with it.
Action : We are always in action and it is action that manifests the reality of our existence. Our flag flies twenty-four hours to signify that we are always awake and acting to improve our environment.
Ceremony: We pursue human development in a ceremonial context and look at life as a celebrated event. Therefore we express the reality of our existence and carryout our activities in a ceremonial way in order to consolidate and project our common beliefs. We labour and toil with a music rhythm in the background to signify that our toil is not void of hope and is not a punishment but a process of human fulfillment.
Signs and symbols: We emphasize signs and symbols in our everyday life to reflect our common beliefs, commitment and aspirations.
Excelling: We often excel in whatever we do and excellence is part of very being. This is the indicator we use to ascertain that we are fully awake and with it.
Action principles
Action
We believe in a quick movement from thoughts, theories or words to action to operationalise our thinking. Our organization is a platform where we come to learn to perform and be action oriented.
Commitment and hard work
What we believe as true and desiring our intervention, we honestly dedicate our maximum spiritual and physical energies.
Determination
We are resolved in what we put our minds and our hands to do. Strategies can fail us but goals must be achieved.
Consistence
There must be connectedness between our beliefs and words and their inherent action across time and across circumstances. Changes in perspectives should only be a result of an integrated logical process.
Assertiveness
We build confidence in what we know, what we do and what we hope for. Standing by what we are convinced as right and good in the collective interests, we speak our mind powerfully, advanced our claim forcefully state our case convincingly and if need be even employ stubborn energies challenge abused power and to defend the interests of the disadvantaged.
Creativity
Always and in everything, we challenge our mind to bring forth something new from nothingness or added improvement on the existing creation. We believe the process of creation is never complete and human beings inherit creative mandate from nature. The ever-changing shape of the world is a product of the creative spirits in human beings.
Standing out
We must stand, shine and shout in the quality and quantity of what we do in comparison with the world around us. With all humility we should always be in the forefront, adequate enough to take the lead. With strong vision charism and readiness, we should be able to overcome human frailty, and live above normal weakness, taking the lead into the unusual.
Empowerment
Our attitudes, words and actions shall liberate the mind, generate energy for individuals and systems to achieve independence and realize their fullest potential. "Give some one a fish, he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish he will eat forever and enable others to eat forever". We always examine our thoughts, words and actions to ensure that they should not consciously or unconsciously enslave and disempowerment people and systems.
Culture and originality
We acknowledge culture as an instrument of confidence building, enhancing creativity and scientific thinking, and a mobilization power. We acknowledge and respect peoples' indigenous cultures. We shall tap the strength of diversity encourage intercultural exchange learning and forge common minimum program above cultural differences.
Openness and communications
Aware that the culture of silence and reserved ness in community has only encouraged suspicion, intrigue, rummongering and destructive talk, we shall encourage open discussions, dialogue and effective communication on matters of collective relevance at organizational and societal levels. We shall always build capacity of effective oral, written and action communications.
Unity and cooperation
We cherish sentiments of unity and collective thinking, interaction, group effort and mutual cooperation
We believe in a quick movement from thoughts, theories or words to action to operationalise our thinking. Our organization is a platform where we come to learn to perform and be action oriented.
Commitment and hard work
What we believe as true and desiring our intervention, we honestly dedicate our maximum spiritual and physical energies.
Determination
We are resolved in what we put our minds and our hands to do. Strategies can fail us but goals must be achieved.
Consistence
There must be connectedness between our beliefs and words and their inherent action across time and across circumstances. Changes in perspectives should only be a result of an integrated logical process.
Assertiveness
We build confidence in what we know, what we do and what we hope for. Standing by what we are convinced as right and good in the collective interests, we speak our mind powerfully, advanced our claim forcefully state our case convincingly and if need be even employ stubborn energies challenge abused power and to defend the interests of the disadvantaged.
Creativity
Always and in everything, we challenge our mind to bring forth something new from nothingness or added improvement on the existing creation. We believe the process of creation is never complete and human beings inherit creative mandate from nature. The ever-changing shape of the world is a product of the creative spirits in human beings.
Standing out
We must stand, shine and shout in the quality and quantity of what we do in comparison with the world around us. With all humility we should always be in the forefront, adequate enough to take the lead. With strong vision charism and readiness, we should be able to overcome human frailty, and live above normal weakness, taking the lead into the unusual.
Empowerment
Our attitudes, words and actions shall liberate the mind, generate energy for individuals and systems to achieve independence and realize their fullest potential. "Give some one a fish, he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish he will eat forever and enable others to eat forever". We always examine our thoughts, words and actions to ensure that they should not consciously or unconsciously enslave and disempowerment people and systems.
Culture and originality
We acknowledge culture as an instrument of confidence building, enhancing creativity and scientific thinking, and a mobilization power. We acknowledge and respect peoples' indigenous cultures. We shall tap the strength of diversity encourage intercultural exchange learning and forge common minimum program above cultural differences.
Openness and communications
Aware that the culture of silence and reserved ness in community has only encouraged suspicion, intrigue, rummongering and destructive talk, we shall encourage open discussions, dialogue and effective communication on matters of collective relevance at organizational and societal levels. We shall always build capacity of effective oral, written and action communications.
Unity and cooperation
We cherish sentiments of unity and collective thinking, interaction, group effort and mutual cooperation
Engabu Za Tooro objectives
SEVEN OBJECTIVES ARE:
1. To mobilize and empower the youth to exploit and develop talents and skills for promotion of creativity entrepreneurship and self-reliance.
2.Using cultural approach to promote the rights of grass root women and children
3. To promote organizational discipline group efforts and effective leadership among the youth.
4. To promote unity, cooperation and interaction among youth of different social standing in order to build strength for sustainable development.
5. To enhance partnership and networking with development organizations and progressive intelligence.
6. To promote the vitality of culture and spirit of patriotism as a basis of individuals confidence and self-realization among the youth.
7. To mobilize the elite youth in institutions and cities to repatriate their attention and work to contribute to the improvement of their home communities
1. To mobilize and empower the youth to exploit and develop talents and skills for promotion of creativity entrepreneurship and self-reliance.
2.Using cultural approach to promote the rights of grass root women and children
3. To promote organizational discipline group efforts and effective leadership among the youth.
4. To promote unity, cooperation and interaction among youth of different social standing in order to build strength for sustainable development.
5. To enhance partnership and networking with development organizations and progressive intelligence.
6. To promote the vitality of culture and spirit of patriotism as a basis of individuals confidence and self-realization among the youth.
7. To mobilize the elite youth in institutions and cities to repatriate their attention and work to contribute to the improvement of their home communities
About Engabu Za Tooro
Engabu Za Tooro (Tooro Youth Platform for Action) is a Not for Profit Non Governmental Organization based in Fort Portal Western Uganda. It was founded in 1996 by then university leavers from the area with a mission of Enhancing the Capacity of the Communities through Culture, Talents and Economic development . It is a membership organization and structured with a Patron, Annual General Meeting, Board of Directors, Management, talent clubs and a network of community based economic groups
The organization is based on the theme of Culture and Development with major programme areas (Culture in Development, Talents Development, Women Empowerment programme and Entrepreneurship promotion Programme)
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