Food Security & Agriculture

The programme strengthens community capacity to achieve sustainable food systems through environmental stewardship, soil and water conservation, and climate-smart practices that reduce hunger and poverty.

Key Activities

• Provide relief, seeds, tools, and essential non-food items to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host households.
• Train communities in livelihood skills including food processing, micro-financing, and agribusiness.
• Establish grain banks and promote mechanized modern farming.
• Offer ox-plough training and introduce climate-resilient seed varieties, including vegetables.
• Implement integrated watershed development through check dams, gabions, dams, sunken ponds, contour trenches, terraces, and tree planting.
• Enhance water and sanitation services and form village watershed committees.
• Form village development committees and support fruit and forestry seedling nurseries.
• Deliver training on traditional pesticide use and sustainable livestock management.

Education

The education programme expands equitable access to quality basic, higher, and vocational studies so learners can drive sustainable development across the Tira community.

Key Activities

• Provide scholastic materials, teaching aids, and vocational training in mechanics, driving, carpentry, blacksmithing, food processing, tailoring, tie and dye, and civil engineering.
• Deliver adult literacy and numeracy programmes, including dedicated Tira language literacy classes.
• Preserve the Tira historical archive and celebrate cultural heritage through arts and knowledge exchange platforms.
• Improve and construct primary, secondary, and university-level education infrastructure.
• Promote research, debate, and innovation in cultural and creative industries.
• Develop partnerships with East African universities and offer scholarships to high-performing Tira students.
• Support the revival of Kush State University College as a centre of excellence.

Human Rights

TWWCA champions the inherent dignity, equality, and fairness owed to every individual, ensuring the community enjoys freedom, justice, and peace.

Rights Promoted

• Participation, accountability, transparency, non-discrimination, empowerment, and legality.
• Freedom from fear, harassment, and discrimination by internal or external actors.
• Protection for children and women, including the right to life, liberty, and equitable services.
• Gender equality, disability inclusion, and freedom of expression without torture or inhumane treatment.
• Access to education, health, nutritious food, justice, dignified work, privacy, and equal treatment before the law.

Key Activities

• Lobby and advocate for legal reforms at national, regional, and international levels.
• Develop substantive laws that protect community rights.
• Host online conferences and networking events to strengthen alliances.
• Monitor human rights violations and document evidence for accountability.
• Conduct trainings on human rights principles and their practical application.

Women Empowerment

The programme promotes gender balance, ensures every woman aged 18 and above can be a member of TWWCA, and removes barriers that limit women as equal contributors to community development.

Key Activities

• Provide training for women in vegetable production, food processing, weaving, tie and dye, and micro-entrepreneurship.
• Support women-led enterprises such as tailoring, soap making, driving schools, and borehole repair services.
• Integrate women across leadership and governance structures and develop their computer literacy.

Gender Based Violence Prevention

TWWCA recognizes the disproportionate impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on women and adolescent girls and stands firmly against all forms of abuse.

Forms of GBV Addressed

• Physical violence, battering, and material deprivation.
• Sexual violence, economic exploitation, emotional abuse, and marital rape.
• Dowry-related violence, sexual harassment, trafficking, and non-spousal violence.
• Early and forced marriage, harmful traditional practices, and cultural norms that enable abuse.

Root Causes Tackled

• Unequal power relations and patriarchal systems that marginalize women.
• Illiteracy, poverty, and limited representation of women in leadership.
• Statutory, customary, and religious provisions that increase vulnerability.
• Forced marriage, dowry demands, forced labor, and multiple sexual partnerships.
• Weak community sanctions, harmful norms, and low parental education and support.

Consequences Highlighted

• Economic disempowerment and reduced livelihood security.
• Escalating tension, physical violence, and mental health challenges.
• Increased morbidity, maternal health risks, and poor pregnancy outcomes.
• Unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, miscarriages, and exposure to STIs/HIV.
• Social inequality and exploitation of girls and young women.

Prevention Strategies

• Reduce alcohol access, expand poverty-reduction programmes, and champion women�s rights.
• Transform cultural norms that normalize violence and promote early intervention for behavioral challenges.
• Invest in micro-finance, education programmes, and faithfulness within relationships.
• Strengthen law enforcement capacity and accountability for GBV cases.

Health & Sanitation

The health programme improves the community�s ability to utilize nutritious food, enhance child survival, and expand access to maternal, child, and public health services.

Key Activities

• Train health cadres across critical departments and specialties.
• Upgrade clinic and hospital infrastructure while supplying essential equipment.
• Provide adequate medicines and establish nutrition centers that support vulnerable households.

Community Development & Capacity Building

This programme boosts the community�s capacity to foster sustainable development and inclusive growth.

Key Activities

• Deliver vocational and technical training tailored to emerging economic opportunities.
• Support market interventions that connect producers to buyers.
• Promote hygiene and sanitation practices that safeguard public health.
• Invest in community infrastructure that strengthens social cohesion.

Governance & Peace Building

The governance programme improves democratic space, empowers traditional leaders, and promotes peaceful co-existence through participatory decision-making.

Key Activities

• Support democratization processes and structures that uphold participatory democracy and good governance.
• Strengthen grassroots leadership, organs of justice, community leaders, and civil authorities.
• Enhance conflict resolution skills and peace-building mechanisms in the community.

Water Service Development Plan

The water programme increases access to clean water by expanding water infrastructure, conserving natural resources, and promoting community-led maintenance.

Key Activities

• Drill additional water points, rehabilitate water yards, and strengthen soil and water conservation.
• Reduce water-borne diseases by implementing comprehensive water and sanitation management.
• Ensure every household can access safe drinking water for daily use.

Social Awareness & Justice

Through awareness-raising and partnerships, the programme promotes social justice, peace, and human rights while coordinating emergency, reconstruction, and development responses.

Livelihoods, Deagrarianization & Land Reform

The programme safeguards customary land rights and supports fair land negotiations so the Tira community can prosper under equitable land governance.

Priority Actions

• Protect land ownership under customary law and secure legal assistance during negotiations.
• Ensure the right to acquire land, eliminate discrimination, and uphold gender equality.
• Promote joint and family ownership, communal land councils, and accountable chiefdom stewardship.
• Support government certification, registration, and compliance with land reform bylaws.
• Define maximum land for investment, guarantee informed consent, and safeguard common resources.
• Provide compensation for crop loss, disturbance of rights, and ensure access to banking services.
• Facilitate proper land demarcation and transparent tenancy agreements.

Tira Unity Preservation

This programme preserves Tira identity, nurtures inclusive community values, and builds shared purpose across generations and geographies.

Key Commitments

• Safeguard the Tira language, cultural identity, and collective conscience.
• Oppose clan, religious, cultural intolerance, and discriminatory practices.
• Encourage respect for diversity, constructive dialogue, and shared opportunities.
• Foster unity through patience, wisdom, accountability, and transparent communication.
• Uphold equal protection under community law while resisting abuse of power.
• Collaborate with neighboring communities and strengthen ethical leadership.
• Bring the entire Tira community together under a unified vision.

Tira Media Platform

The media programme cultivates a pluralistic media ecosystem that amplifies Tira voices, documents cultural heritage, and expands digital engagement.

Key Activities

• Develop Tira language learning platforms, email systems, and community-managed radio.
• Create social media channels including YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, websites, Twitter, and email networks.
• Produce multimedia content such as videos, photography, articles, poetry, and songs that showcase Tira culture and landscapes.
• Promote traditional entertainment such as Nyanggo, Zegeva, and wrestling while integrating audiovisual and musical arts.
• Provide accurate information that supports democratic participation and community development.