Thematic area one: Knowledge Management and Advocacy (KMA)
UCAA uses research and documentation as a tool to generate and manage knowledge for evidence-based advocacy. By doing this, UCAA contributes to the knowledge base on faith-based strategies to promote human rights for marginalised groups. By working with partners, UCAA pushes for attitudinal changes of duty bearers and faith leaders and causes shifts in policies, laws and programming that benefit the lives of marginalised persons.
Strategic objective 1: To generate knowledge and information on the faith-related realities of marginalized communities to inform advocacy for their rights and well-being.
Outcome: Improved attitudes of duty bearers and other stakeholders towards marginalized persons leading to their inclusion in services planning and accessibility.
Thematic area 2: Faith, Empowerment and Solidarity (FES)
UCAA deliberately engages with religious and faith leaders and organisations to create a formidable force to demystify religious and faith dogmas that marginalise people, to foster inclusion.
Strategic objective 2: To build the capacity of marginalized groups and faith-based leaders to use faith-based strategies to dismantle the bias created by the different faith denominations against marginalized groups.
Outcome: Increased capacity and urgency of marginalized persons and faith leaders to demand for rights of marginalized persons.
Thematic area 3: Socio-economic Justice
UCAA supports marginalised persons to acquire vocational skills to be able to match the current job-required skills as well as to create jobs for themselves. This is achieved through deliberate sponsoring of marginalised persons to acquire skills from accredited vocational institutions, mentorship and complimenting economic empowerment programs for its members.
Strategic Objective 3: To improve the economic well-being of marginalized persons through improving their social interactions and economic activities.
Outcome: Improved sustainable income generation by marginalised persons.
Thematic area 4: Institutional Development
UCAA strives to build a strong and well-grounded organisation, continuously learning, innovative, well-positioned and sustainable to challenge violations of the rights of marginalised groups. Strengthening the finance, monitoring and evaluation, governance systems, Human resources and sustained resources are the key priorities in UCAA’s institutional building goal.
Strategic objective 4: To build a strong organization with motivated staff, sustained funding and vibrant financial, M&E, administrative and operation systems.
Outcome: Strong organization with motivated staff, sustained funding and vibrant financial, M&E, administrative and operation systems.