Profile

1.0 Introduction

T

he Tanzania Youth Potentials Association (TYPs-Association) is a Non-Governmental Organization established in Tanzania with its headquarter in Musoma District, Mara region-Tanzania (East Africa). Its establishment and program performances shall be guided by the state laws as hereby categorized as a Non-Governmental act No. 24 of 2002 as amended in 2005.TYPs-Association is comprised of honorable, associate, Founder, and joining/ ordinary membership, whereby as of January 2013 it had 31 members.

The organization was formed in 2012 and registered 14^th May 2013 under Non Governmental Act No. 24 of 2002; vide registration No. 00NGO/00006304.The focus of the organization is to utilize youth’s potentials for their own development, community and state development at large. It also intends to strengthen regional and international interventions towards protection and promotion of the human rights especially to children, youth and women. It works with networking with other partners/ stakeholders and beneficiaries.

The TYPs-Association has sound management team and Board of Directors which oversee its taking off and other planned activities. There are number of challenges which the TYPs-Association wishes to address; some of the challenges are insufficient financial resources, its own office and inadequate volunteers. The TYPs-Association intends to use a period of three years (2013-2015) of its first Strategic Plan to achieve its objectives.

Our Core Values

The TYPs-Association core values is to practice high commitment aiming at executing advocacy matters based on poverty reduction, mobilization of social justice, conservations and utilization of natural wealth for socio-economic development and using technical packages in an equal and balanced reflection via;

o   Respecting others and valuing equality between each other.

o   Being friendly to each other as to create mutual working partnerships, between the association and other development stakeholders

o   Building a sense of ownership as to promote accountability, openness and transparence to every member

2. Objectives of the Organizations

General Objective

To advocate various matters aiming at creating strong social-economic base by promoting the social, economic, and cultural development leading to empower people of the society with competent technical packages eligible to fight against poverty and ignorance at large and let them be engine and front fighters during an elimination of poverty sidewise hardly working to build a strong nation with competent people as well as strong economic base simultaneously

Specific Objectives

i. Development

a.     To identify and overcome the obstacle hindering attaining development achievements in Tanzania by addressing strategic approaches likely to combat various issues grounded by Ignorance, Poverty and Diseases among people of the society.

b.     Environmental Conservation and Management of Natural Resources

c.     To carry on activities of legal aid, advice, counseling and other related services to victims of Gender based violence.

d.     Lobby and advocate for change of Laws affecting Women and children.

e.     To mobilize communities to change attitudes and behavior which cause violence against women and children

f.        To build capacity to community leaders towards understanding impacts of violence to women and children and motivate them to initiate change within their own environment that uphold women’s and children’s rights.

g.     To prepare radio programs liaise with print media on issues related to women’s and children rights.

ii. Advocacy

a.     To empower youth and the community at large to access their rights and fight for injustices and inequality due to the facts that violation of their rights endanger their development.

b.     To create a difference in the community through advocacy in relation to basic human rights especially women’s and children’s rights.

iii. Capacity Building

a.     TYPs-Association shall work to increases knowledge, output rate, management, skills and other capabilities of youth through acquisition, incentives, technology and/ or training. This is an approach to youth development that focuses on understanding on the obstacle that inhibit youth from realizing their potentials while enhancing ability that will allow them to achieve measurable and sustainable results towards establishment of poverty eradication initiatives on self-reliance basis.

3.0 Vision and Mission

3.1. Vision statement

To fight against poverty and work with youth and other community groups to overcome poverty and injustice by utilizing their potentials.

3.2. Mission statement

To strive inheriting Youth and other community groups with various technical capacities eligible to make them be engines for socio-economic growth for individual benefits, societies and the national at large as such to see a community in which women’s and children’s rights are observed and respected by executing mobilization projects eligible to bring positive changes to community through action and participation in collaboration with community and other stakeholders to prevent Gender Based Violence (GBV)

4.0 Organization Governance and Management

The organization governance and management is stretched into three (3) main levels namely; the General Meeting (GM) and Board of Directors which stands as governing body and the Management which serves as the Management body of the organization.

4.1 General Meeting

The general meeting comprises the panel of Board of Directors (only for the Annual General Meeting), an Executive Director and all other organization members. So far General Meetings may also include other stakeholders like Donors, Volunteers etc by special official invitation as Directors may think fit.

Powers/functions of the General Meeting (Article 29 of the Constitution)

         i.            To discuss, approve, and evaluate financial situation of an organization.

       ii.            To evaluate issues based on organizational programs and mentor technical issues related to current programs and those to be done in the next calendar year.

      iii.            To discuss, advice, and decide contracts to be entered between the organization and other organizations, companies, Donors, individuals etc.

    iv.            Other functions shall be attempted and respective powers shall be assigned accordingly.

An Annual General Meeting is held once per year and venue as may be determined by the member.

4.2 Organization Board

Quorum of Board Members

The quorum for the board members is 60% of all members.

The Board of Directors comprises of five (5) members and currently, the TYPs-Association’s Body of Directors has 5 Members. Some of the key functions of the Body of Directors are:

Functions and duties of board members (Article 27 of the Constitution)

         i.            To endorse leaders appointed by the office bearers.

       ii.            To review and approve or disapprove policies and actions of Tanzania Youth Potentials Association wherever it considers it necessary or desirable so to do.

      iii.            To evaluate the annual general handing-over reports on activities of Tanzania Youth Potentials Association submitted to it by the office bearers.

    iv.            To make provisions for all matters relating to funds of TYPs-Association including but not limited to preparation of annual estimates of income and expenditure, accounting, periodical financial statements and made provisions for the opening and management of the bank accounts.

      v.            To approve budget estimates presented by the secretary general.

    vi.            To investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or legal measures against any of the office bearers in case of malpractice, corruption or any other misconduct provided two thirds of the members attending the meeting shall approve or disapprove.

   vii.            Shall oversee general activities of the organization and ensure a constant growth of an organization in terms of programs and financial capacity.

 viii.            To establish committees as may be found necessary for execution of its function; and

     ix.            To perform any other duties as allowed in this constitution or permitted within the organization by-laws.

N.B: GENERAL WORKING MODALITIES & POSITION HOLDINGS

         i.            All machinery members of the organization works on volunteerism bases especially at an initial stage of the organization establishment, since projects shall be conducted on part-time bases.

       ii.            As responsibilities gains momentum and the organization grows in terms of programs, technical and financial capacity requiring permanent work execution, then Tanzania Youth Potentials Association shall contract the required technical individuals to work in a full time bases by being enabled with financial facilities. Either; contracts may be renewed by following all recruitment/appointment procedures in relation to other instruments like HR manuals etc.

      iii.            Other guidelines are applied as shall be instructed in the organization By-Laws.

The first TYPs-Association’s BODs membership is comprised of Ms. Eunice Katabwa, as its first chairperson. Other members in the Board are Mr. Andreas Migiro, the Coordinator of Community Development and Relief Fund (CDR Fund), as the vice chairperson. Others are Mwl. Magita G. Nyagore, Academic Master of Musoma Technical School and tutor of “Kazi Nje Nje Programme” of ILO-Musoma Urban, Mr. Fidel Balagaye, Youth Development Officer (Mara Regional), and Mama Tanna A. Nyabange District Community Development Officer and Coordinator of TACAIDS Unit (Musoma District Council).

4.3 Management/ Secretariat

The Management is headed by the Executive Director of the TYPs-Association Japheth M. Kurwa who is supported by Rozalia Juma, Executive Secretary of TYPs-Association, Ruhumbika K. Majula, Logistic Officer of TYPs-Association, Matheus Lazaro of TYPs-Association, Financial Officer of TYPs-Association and MelaniaLazaro of TYPs-Association, Program Manager of TYPs- Association, Debora Boniphace, Lilian Bunini, Maria Hamza, James Phabian Kubega. Some of the key functions of the management are to undertake day to day activities of the organization, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of the planned activities, carry out publicity work of the organization; and receive membership fees and communications.