Organizational Capacity Strengthening

To effectively deliver on our mandate, we have invested in strengthening our internal systems, staff capacity, and governance structures. These efforts have enhanced our efficiency, accountability, and ability to scale our impact across communities.

Strengthening governance and leadership of the BoD to demonstrate improvements in oversight, decision-making, and strategic leadership.

• Revamped the Board of Directors by adding members with expertise in Programing enhancing strategic guidance and oversight and reduced BoD number from 11 to 7 for efficiency and effectiveness BoD delivery.
• Developed a BoD charted defining clear roles, risk management procedures, and performance evaluations for senior leadership and implemented this governance policy.
• Developed 7 Polices and revied 5 in line with required country laws to make sure the organization is compliant in all aspects.

Human resources and staff development

• Increased staff capacity by 20% across key departments, including monitoring and evaluation, program management, and finance.
• Revied staff appraisal form and introduced a staff development plan with ongoing training in safeguarding, gender mainstreaming, and project cycle management.
• Launched an internship and mentorship program to build a pipeline of young professionals from target communities.

Systems, tools, and operational efficiency.

• During this period, we focused on improvements in technology, processes and infrastructure that make us more effective.
• Upgraded our financial management systems to ensure transparency and real-time tracking of donor funds.
• Adopted new innovation of Business on Line Banking accurate accountability timing reporting and this has cut our risk of cash transaction m handling by 95%.

Partnerships and resource mobilization

• Created a resource mobilization strategy that resulted in a 2% increase in unrestricted income.
• Secured multi-year funding from two new donors through improved donor engagement.

Learning, adaptation, and organizational culture fostering a strong mission-driven culture

• Held annual reflection and learning workshops across with the BoD, staff departments, contributing to program redesign and adaptive management.
• Trained BoD and staff on climate Justice a new concept Vision TERUDO wants to integrate in our organization programming.
• Mainstreamed a culture of accountability and results, with quarterly performance reviews and cross-team knowledge sharing.