Our 2025–2030 Strategic Plan is a bold roadmap toward inclusive growth, sustainable livelihoods, and protection for the most vulnerable in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement and Yumbe District.
🌍 REWO Strategic Plan 2025–2030
Empowering Refugee Women & Youth for a Resilient Future At the Refugee Women Organization (REWO), we envision a society where refugee and host community women, children, and youth thrive with dignity, self-reliance, and equal opportunity.
Our 2025–2030 Strategic Plan is a bold roadmap toward inclusive growth, sustainable livelihoods, and protection for the most vulnerable in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement and Yumbe District.
🎯 Our GoalTo empower 10,000 refugee and host community youth—with a focus on 70% women—with market-driven skills, education, and entrepreneurship opportunities, enabling 80% to achieve sustainable incomes by 2030
.🧩 Our Core Focus Areas
- Education: Expanding access to inclusive and quality education.
- Livelihoods: Promoting skills development, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship.
- Protection & Gender Equality: Preventing GBV and promoting women’s leadership.
- Peacebuilding: Fostering social cohesion and conflict resolution.
- Environmental Sustainability: Promoting clean energy and environmental stewardship.
- Institutional Strengthening: Building our systems, staff capacity, and governance.
🔑 How We Work
- Engaging communities through participatory planning and advocacy
- Forming strategic partnerships with donors, government, and NGOs
- Empowering youth and women through training and leadership development
- Mainstreaming gender equality, disability inclusion, and environmental protection in all programs
📈 Our Progress So Far
- Implemented the successful Bridge Project with War Child Canada & Mastercard Foundation
- Established key institutional policies (Finance, HR, Safeguarding, etc.)
- Women’s representation in leadership structures increased to 48%
⚠️ Challenges & OpportunitiesWe recognize the need to diversify funding sources, strengthen our internal systems, and scale staff capacity to meet growing demands.
💰 Our 5-Year BudgetWe aim to raise UGX 4.2 Billion (approx. USD 1.1M) over five years, scaling our impact through collaboration with donors such as Mastercard Foundation, UNHCR, GIZ, and more.
📊 Measuring Our ImpactOur Monitoring & Evaluation system will ensure we track outcomes, listen to our communities, and continuously improve through evidence-based decisions.
📬 Join UsBe part of a growing movement to uplift refugee and host community women and youth. Whether you're a donor, partner, or volunteer your support creates lasting change.
📧 refugeewomenorganization@gmail.com
📍 Bidibidi Base Camp, Yumbe District, Uganda
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