About Us

Registered in 2006

Community Uplift and Welfare Development (CUWEDE) is a leading, Community Based Organisation (CBO), registered in Nebbi with Nebbi District Local Government; and operating in all the sub-counties of Nebbi.

CUWEDE works with the poor, rural and marginalized individuals and community groups composed of women, youth and children majority live in a large household size with about 7 people and eat one unbalanced meal a day; lack access to basic services such as clean and safe water, use firewood and Tandoma as sources of energy for cooking and lighting, mainly seek medical assistance with traditional healers and herbalist and usually dropout from schools as early as primary four or five and majority do not even complete the primary school training circle and hardly participate in local governance agenda.

Message from the Board of Directors

This website presents a real picture of Community Uplift and Welfare Development (CUWEDE) a leading Community Based Organisation (CBO) in Nebbi. It also point out to the direction the organisation is to take over the coming years in order to contribute to its vision and mission but more especially helping to bail the people of Nebbi out of poverty, ignorance and diseases since these are the core three fundamental issues affecting the district populace.

At institutional level, we are excited to share with you three main achievements of the organisation in 2020 amidst the COVID-10 pandemic threats; (i) CUWEDE having introduced CoD Lab program which has seen it expand its vocational skills training program; (ii) CUWEDE joining and being approved as a member of Go African Volunteers which we will soon see oversee volunteers coming for community development work over the next few months and (iii) CUWEDE’s partnership with Ssozi.org which has supported the development of an attractive and exciting website that you are currently viewing at affordable and pocket friendly rates. All these will help strengthen the institutional capacity of the organisation especially in fundraising, visibility and making it a unique CBO in the region.

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Ms. Jane Ongiera

Chairperson Board of Directors

Our Team

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Programme Coordinator

Mr. James Kumakech
Chief Finance Manager

CPA. Mark Anican Kermundu
Program Manager

Mr. Ogentho Richard Zahab
Learning And Documentation Officer

Ms. Wawelo Diana
Program Officer

Mr. Cosmas Yombe
Program Assistant

Mr. Okethwengo Ronald
Record Assistant

Mr. Innocent Pithua
Administrative Assistant

Ms. Akumu Harriet
Accounts Assistant

Abedican Jolline

Programme Coordinator

Mr. James Kumakech

Mr. James Kumakech holds a Bachelor Degree in Development Studies. He is the Programme Coordinator of CUWEDE since its founding in 2006. Fresh graduate then brings to CUWEDE a wealth of graduate experience in project planning and management, enterpreneurship, micro-finance and community governance and development. He has wealth of experience and has had series of short and long term trainings regionally and globally especially, with MS-Training center-Arusha, INSEAD Business School-Nairobi, African School of Microfinance-Mombasa (Kenya), Sustainable Entrepreneurship-Stuggart-(Germany), Data Farm Management-FAO and Human Resource Management by Institute of Banking and Financial Services-Kampala among others. He has worked and given support to several community and village self help groups, partnership building, networking, advocacy, poverty resource monitoring and tracking applying research and rights based approach to governance and development; and strengthening relationship with local government.

In addition, he has provided research consultancy services in, Local Government Council scorecard initiative, public expenditure tracking in health and assessing governance aspect in water and roads and has co-authored some of these reports with senior Research Fellows at ACODE.

Chief Finance Manager

CPA. Mark Anican Kermundu

CPA. Mark Anican Kermundu (FM 2587) is a registered Certified Public Accountant of Uganda graduate (ICPAU). He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management from Gulu University and a Diploma in Business Studies of Makerere University Business School. Trained in Health Management Information system and Data Analysis. He has wealth of experience in data compilation and analysis, Management Information System, Reporting and Documentation. 

He has vast knowledge in the use and application of IFRS, International Accounting Standards [IAS] and International Standard on Auditing [ISA]. Currently, he is a full time staff of Nebbi Municipal Council as a Senior Internal Auditor combining his skills as a Lecturer with Multitech Accountancy Programme [MAP-Arua and Lira Campuses] for two years and has experience in both Local Government Financial Management and Non-Governmental Organization for a period of over 16 years now.

He is also a part time Chief Finance Manager with Community Uplift and Welfare Development [CUWEDE]. He supervises the Accountant and guides the accounts section in the areas of financial planning and accounting, preparing charts of accounts and advise/guide the board and management on the financial management and helps to improve on control system of the organization. 

Program Manager

Mr. Ogentho Richard Zahab

Mr. Ogentho Richard Zahab is a holder of Diploma in Project Planning and Management from Nile Institute of Management Studies-Arua; Diploma in Bible study Chrispedephian from Bahmingham City and has undergone series of internal trainings in One Book Accounting organised by Uganda Cooperative Alliance and Agricultural Finance, Sound SACCO Governance Practices by Swisscontact, Credit Management and Delinquency Control systems among others. He has provided sound leadership control within CUWEDE since its founding in 2006; initially as the Programme Officer and now as the Program Manager. Besides that; he also attended two months practical internship training with Uganda Debt Network (UDN) in the year 2015 where he was exposed to on-job skills training both locally and nationally.

Learning And Documentation Officer

Ms. Wawelo Diana

Ms. Wawelo Diana: Is the Learning and Documentation Officer with CUWEDE since September 2016. She holds Bachelor of Public Administration and Management from Uganda Christian University. Previously worked with Church of Uganda, Nebbi Diocese as Project Facilitator (Livelihood Project); Diana brings to CUWEDE mix of experiences from both religious and community backgrounds. Her interest is shared learning and approaches to community empowerment as well as innovative solutions to ending the current looming poverty that ravage the ordinary people at grassroots. She has undergone series of local and national level trainings and experience workshops including the annual IDF syposium experience sharing workshop that shared approaches to result based programming and reporting.

Program Officer

Mr. Cosmas Yombe

Mr. Cosmas Yombe-Programme Officer: is a holder of a Diploma in Community Development of Nile Institute of Management Studies-Arua. Has been working with (CUWEDE) since 2006. He was formerly a Licensed Teacher with Nebbi district local government for over 5 years before joining CUWEDE. Currently, he is a Program Officer with CUWEDE and with a number of skills training acquired in the areas of project planning and management, data compilation and management, poverty resource monitoring and tracking, monitoring and evaluation, Rights based approach to development, harmonized participatory planning, and finance and budgeting; has made him an active players in causing community transformation and empowerment.

Program Assistant

Mr. Okethwengo Ronald

Mr. Okethwengo Ronald a Program Assistant with CUWEDE; has Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education, Ronald joined CUWEDE in 2012, formerly employed as Community Based Facilitator (CBF) with West Nile Private Sector Promotion Limited (WENIPS) and Community Empowernment for Rural Development (CEFORD) spearheading community driven development including Voluntary Savings and Loans Association (VSLAs) in the community of Erussi sub-county.  As an executive officer of the groups then, he was involved in field training of the groups in, VSLAs, group financial skills, group production and management of especially groundnuts, soyabeans, cassava and Irish potatoes. The group projects have exposed him to a lot of on-farm agricultural and financial training skills which helps him in the design of appropriate income and food security programmes that CUWEDE undertakes. He is an active player, possesses team spirit and is able to work under pressure with minimum supervision. He is also the Chairperson and Head of Loans within CUWEDE staff loans scheme. His interest is in social enterprise promotion within the environment where he works. 

Record Assistant

Mr. Innocent Pithua

Mr. Innocent Pithua has an Ordinary Certificate from Erussi Secondary School and currently persuing Certificate in Records Management from Uganda Small Medium Enterprise Association Institute (USMEA). He is the Record Assistant at CUWEDE since 2008 and is the focal person of CUWEDE Fellowship programme; he is engaged in community mobilization and education. He is also engaged in daily records and archive management and other mini field activities of the organization such as sensitisation, community trainings and field data collection.

Administrative Assistant

Ms. Akumu Harriet

Ms. Akumu Harriet is the Administrative Assistant with CUWEDE since September 2016. Harriet holds a Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) and Certificate in Medical Records and Information Management from National Institute of Medical Records and Information Management (Mulago). She manages daily office front desk including correspondences and reception. She supports the Record Assistant with daily record keeping, management and updates of archive system.

Accounts Assistant

Abedican Jolline

Ms. Abedican Jolline  Is the Account Assistant with CUWEDE. Holder of Uganda Diploma in Business Studies (UDBS). As a fresh student; Jolline support the Finance Department in the areas of posting of income and expenditure, preparing of finance reports, assets management, preparing project and program budgets, keeping of ledgers and ensuring that, financial records are upto date. Jolline also supports the management with other adminstrative functions.