GOVERNANCE
Our Mandate.
Everything Tindira does is grounded in its registered objects.
We are a Ugandan public-benefit institution, constituted to advance the economic participation, rights and empowerment of women and girls.
LEGAL IDENTITY
A registered
Ugandan institution.
Tindira Foundation Limited is incorporated as a public-benefit company, governed by a board and accountable to its objects.
Tindira Foundation Limited Incorporated in the Republic of Uganda under the Companies Act, No. 1 of 2012.
Company limited by guarantee Not having a share capital; the liability of members is limited by guarantee.
Not-for-profit by design Income applied solely to the objects; no profit or private benefit to members; on winding up, any surplus passes to a body with similar objects.
Incorporated 2022 · Kampala Registered office in Kampala District, with power to establish branches across Africa.
OUR COMMITMENTS
Anchored in global and continental goals.
UN SDG 5
To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Agenda 2063 · Aspiration 6
An Africa whose development is people-driven, unleashing the potential of its women and youth.
AU Constitutive Act · Art. 4(l)
The promotion of gender equality across the African Union.
REGISTERED OBJECTS
What we are constituted to do.
3(a) Gender equality & empowerment
Advancing SDG 5 and the AU’s commitment to gender equality and the laws, policies and institutions that empower women and girls.
3(d) Leadership, voice & visibility
Leadership, voice and visibility, and full participation in decision-making in political, economic and public life.
3(e) Economic rights, ownership & finance
Equal rights to economic resources; ownership and control of land, property and inheritance; and access to financial services, including micro-finance.
3(h) Education, literacy & skills
Eliminating gender disparities in education and building literacy, vocational and craft skills including for children and the vulnerable.
3(g) Income, livelihoods & poverty
Income growth, livelihood creation and poverty alleviation, with a focus on women and girls
3(k) Partnerships & funding
Partnerships, fundraising, donations and agreements with government and institutions to advance the objects.
3(b) Digital technology & e-inclusion
Improved access to digital technologies and the e inclusion of women and girls.
3(q) Continental reach:
Establishing branches and agencies in Uganda and other African countries.
FROM CHARTER TO ACTION
How our focus delivers the mandate.
Our focus on women’s and girls’ economic participation is a deliberate expression of the registered objects not a departure from them.
Earn, Trade, Own & Prosper
Equal rights to economic resources, ownership of land, property and enterprise, and income growth
Objects 3(e), 3(g) and 3(c).
Tindira Money Lab
Access to financial services, including micro-finance, and financial education that reaches girls
Objects 3(e), 3(h) and 3(b).
Research & the Prosperity Index
Building the evidence for effective laws, policies and institutions
Object 3(a).
The Tindira Summit & Partners
Partnerships, leadership, voice and visibility across the continent
Objects 3(d), 3(f) and 3(k).
A continental platform
Branches and agencies in Uganda and other African countries
Object 3(q).