OVERVIEW of UGAMA
Umuryango wo Gushyigikira AMAkoperative in acronyms UGAMA, is National Non-Governmental Organization for Supporting to Cooperatives and community-based organizations (CBOs).
UGAMA was created on July 1st, 1985 by the Centre of cooperatives trainings and research (IWACU), and COOPBBU a Belgian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). In the beginning it was known as CSC (Centre de Service aux Coopératives) and it was set as a Centre to provide services to cooperatives and groupings for helping them to manage better their joint ventures, to reach the necessary technical knowledge and financial means so that they can better reach the member’s aims.
It is on 11/12/1988 when both Centre IWACU and COOPBBU decided to hand over all properties of the CSC to local organization for cooperatives support “UGAMA asbl -Umuryango wo Gushyigikira AMAkoperative”.
UGAMA was created by 15 members of the Cooperatives as a Development Agent and a non-profit association and was approved by Order No. 477/05 of 22/11/1990 of the Minister of Justice.
To comply with Law No. 04/2012 of 17/02/2012 on the organization and functioning of national non-governmental organizations (NNGOs), UGAMA has acquired a certificate of registration No. 477/05 of 28/05/2013 as a national NGO. The certificate was issued by the national regulatory institution for non-governmental organizations “the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB)”.
Vison
The vision of UGAMA is then stated as follows:
Becoming a role model and an excellent driver of social and economic wellbeing of cooperatives’ members and neighbouring community.
Mission
The mission of UGAMA is “the community transformation through cooperatives and neighboring community development”.
This mission is realized through Four outcomes to:
(1) the cooperatives are economically sustainable and professionally managed and responsive to their members and neighboring communities;
(2) The socio-economic experiments of UGAMA and targeted cooperatives are capitalized and in operation;
(3) UGAMA and targeted cooperatives have capacity to sustainably addressing issues related to climate justice, technology and social inclusion towards their development activities, and
(4) UGAMA is professionally and sustainably managed in terms of technical aspects, resource management and partnership.