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Promoting human centered actions for sustainable development

To have a community with social and economic strength to better their healthy and living standards.

• Love
• Integrity

Our Vision

To have a community with social and economic strength to better their healthy and living standards.

Our Mission

To be a development community-based organization that fosters unity, love, prosperity

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HOLISTIC ENGAGEMENT AND TRANSFORMATION ACTION (COTA) is Women Led Organization (WLO) with currently five (5) staff and six (6) board members with 90 percent of the staff and board members being women. It was established in 2017 as a livelihood group located in Yinga 1 village of Imvepi parish, Odupi Sub-County, Arua District (now Terego District). Initially, the organization was involved in such as farming (goat and poultry rearing), environmental protection (tree planting/growing, soil erosion conservation and advocacy against bush burning), hygiene and sanitation promotion activities for both refugees and the host communities in Imvepi, and peace building/peaceful co-existence between the refugees and the host community.

The organization has been in existence for over 8 years due to the prevailing constitution, hard work, teamwork towards achieving the set organizational goals with support and supervision of the board members. The organization successfully secured five years project of Strategic Partnership Agreement II (SPAII) early 2023 from ActionAid International Uganda and because of its fruitful implementation, COTA was added a top-up package of Loss and Damage (L&D) fund, and these are being implemented in Imvepi refugee settlement particularly in zone 1, 4 and

Protection

COTA works through the homes and communities in supporting menstrual hygiene management in young people. COTA has been sensitizing the girls and women under reproductive age on their duties and responsibilities of managing menstrual periods and the community on how to support the young

Organizational Development

COTA works to build the capacity of its staff and community members in undertaking activities to improve young people especially young women and community welfare through training workshops, and implementation of project objectives and dissemination of information materials.

Gender roles and planning

COTA believes that through gender role identification and segregation improves on the community level of participation and engagement. We also provide information on human rights and women rights during the session.
COTA staff take the young people through Gender

Juliet Tumwesigye

Program Manager

Sebina Mindreru

Finance Assistant

Wilfred Bwambale

Field Officer

Solomon Okiror

Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

12 Jan

Climate Change Action

“Climate Change Is Disrupting Weather Patterns In Uganda Causing Temperature Rises And Erratic Rainfall That Is Resulting In Loss Of Crops And

12 Jan

Gender Roles Identification

Young women of 10 showed their knowledge on gender roles through photo/image description.

12 Jan

Financial Education

Rollout of a 5-day #FinancialEducation geared towards knowledge, skills young people refugees and their families need to adopt good practices of Financial Management to enable them think of their

Field Coordination Office

Head Office Located in Imvepi Refugee Settlement Base Camp,
Yinga1 village, Imvepi Parish, Odupi Sub-County – Terego district
P.o. Box 340318, Arua – Uganda
Website: www.cotauganda.org
E-mail: info@cotauganda.org