Turkana Bio Aloe Organization (TUBAE)
Nonprofit Organization Management - Lodwar, Turkana County, Kenya
Turkana Bio Aloe Organization (TUBAE) Employees
Turkana Bio Aloe Organization (TUBAE) Details
Turkana Bio Aloe Organization is a Community Based Organization as well as a Trust. TUBAE is a governance, social accountability, human right and social-economic organization operates across the Turkana County with forty nine (49) registered groups comprising of women, youth, peasants and private sector. Our membership is 70% Women, 25% Youth and 5% Minorities groups. The core mandate for its formation was to exploit and conserve the endangered Aloe species (Echuchuka), found in Turkana County, through artificial propagation, value addition and marketing of dry land products to alleviate poverty. Since 2006, TUBAE successfully patented their members locally processed products as "Echuchuka" with Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) and certified by Kenya Bureau of Standard (KBS). This was the first community initiative to own a collective Trade Mark (An Intellectual Property-IP) in Kenya aimed at addressing vulnerability among women and youth groups in Turkana County. With emerging issues in 2010 TUBAE adopted new thematic areas in fulfillment of community needs namely;- Devolution and Governance, Human Rights & Access to Justice and Media Advocacy in addition to the Social development program.VISION STATEMENT: " Human dignity for sustainable development"GOAL:To have a citizen with knowledge in human rights, social accountability and legal procedures towards creating an equitable, just environment for human dignity and development. MISSION STATEMENT:Amplify citizens voices by promoting justice, economic opportunity and human dignity in adherence to the rule of law through active citizen engagement in entire public expenditure management (PEM) cycle. WHAT ARE OUR CORE VALUES?1. Responsiveness, 2. Integrity, 3. Innovation,4. Inclusiveness, 5. Teamwork and 6. ExcellenceWHAT ARE OUR KEY THEMATIC AREAS? Human Rights & Access to Justice;Human rights education, HRDs protection, set up community justice centres, Legal clinics and conf
