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Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) “In Namilyango We Share” Strategic Plan 2017-2022 October 2017 Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) Strategic Plan 2017 – 2022, October 2017 Message from the President Fellow old boys, I am filled with profound joy seeing this inaugural NACOBA strategic plan come to fruition. We have made significant progress as NACOBA especially in the last 15 years and I’d like to thank the previous NACOBA executives that have laid the foundation for the revival of the association especially for the period post the Centenary celebrations in 2002. While the association has initiated many wonderful programs and projects during this time and in its past existence, this is the first time in the available records of the association, members have pulled together to make a comprehensive definition of the NACOBA identity and a long term strategic plan to work towards achievement of the same. Our fore fathers that started up the association on 30th June 1940, sought to create a vibrant association that would foster unity among the old boys that were scattered in different places, offer support to each other in both temporal and spiritual matters, and benefit the alma matter. Those overall objectives remain relevant today as they were back then in 1940, and have only been expanded because of other emerging needs, and this strategic plan seeks to put in place a structured long-term approach to meeting those needs. This strategic document has been in the offing for the last two years in part because of the hectic schedules of the members volunteering to design it, and is a product of total dedication and sacrifice from many old boys that responded to my call in 2015 to come together and help define the NACOBA we want to see in the long term, and put together a plan against which the annual operational plans would be based. Together with these old boys, we have defined our True North, and the work of the future leaders of NACOBA has been clearly cut out. I am eternally grateful to the Old Boys that sacrificed their time and other resources to bring this to fruition. The names of these gallant old boys have been written in the Annex 3 of this document. I would like to thank Dr. Pelegrine Kibuuka, old boy and Head Master for his wisdom and historical information about NACOBA and the college that enriched this document. The executive with which I’ve served the NACOBA family as president has by the grace of God delivered many things, but this here for me is one of the most important gifts we shall live behind as we hand over office on the 5th of November 2017. We trust it will form a blue print for subsequent plans of the future leadership. Like every other plan, this will only be as good as it’s execution. On behalf of the NACOBA executive and on my own behalf, I would like to wish the future NACOBA executives the best of luck in executing this strategic plan and helping Namilyango College and NACOBA realise their immense potential and playing a leading role in positively transforming this nation. Fred Gyaviira Kyaka President, NACOBA 2 | P a g e Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) Strategic Plan 2017 – 2022, October 2017 Acronyms ExCO Executive Committee ICT Information, Communication and Technology MoES Ministry of Education and Sports NACOBA Namilyango College Old Boys Association PESTLE Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environment Analysis PTA Parents Teachers Association SACCO Savings and Credit Cooperative SWOT Strengths Weaknesses opportunities and Threats Analysis 3 | P a g e Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) Strategic Plan 2017 – 2022, October 2017 List of Contents 1.0. INTRODUCTION 5 1.1. PURPOSE 5 1.2. TIMEFRAME 5 1.3. ABOUT NAMILYANGO COLLEGE OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION (NACOBA) 5 2.0. CONTEXT ANALYSIS 7 2.1. POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENT (PESTLE) ANALYSIS 7 2.2. STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS (SWOT) ANALYSIS 8 2.3. STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS 9 3.0. STRATEGIC DIRECTION 11 3.1. MISSION 11 3.2. VALUES 11 3.3. VISION 11 3.4. DIMENSIONS OF THE VISION 11 3.5. SUCCESS PILLARS 11 3.6. STRATEGIC ISSUES 12 3.7. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES, INTERMEDIATE RESULTS, AND STRATEGIES 12 3.8. TARGET AUDIENCE 13 4.0. STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION 13 4.1 RESULTS FRAMEWORK 13 4.2 IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING AND REVIEW 13 4.1. SOURCES OF FUNDING (RESOURCE MOBILIZATION) AND COST OF IMPLEMENTATION 14 ANNEX 1: NACOBA STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS MATRIX 16 ANNEX 2: NACOBA ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 18 ANNEX 3: THE TEAMS IN THE TWO PHASES DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NACOBA STRATEGIC PLAN 2017-2022 19 4 | P a g e Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) Strategic Plan 2017 – 2022, October 2017 1.0. Introduction 1.1. Purpose This strategic plan is intended to guide the association towards realizing its mission. The plan provides for a clear understanding on where NACOBA has been since its establishment, the current situation and environment of the association and what strategic issues it would wish to address in the next five years as well as how it plans to get there. 1.2. Timeframe This document is a five-year plan that runs from 2017 to 2022 with actual implementation starting from October 2017 to September 2022. The plan shall be reviewed after two and a half years to assess its performance as well as changes in the community needs and donor priorities. 1.3. About Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) is an association of alumni of Namilyango College, one of the oldest secondary school in Uganda. The first ever gathering of the old boys to form an association was on June 30th 1940, 38 years after the school started. The inaugural meeting was attended by 150 old boys, and 3 key objectives were set for the association, namely; 1. Band all old boys together no matter how far they had scattered, 2. Foster and promote mutual assistance, both spiritual and temporal 3. establish and link between the old and the present Boys. In the words of Rev. Father B Doyle, from the 1st meeting, “The association should be a large family with one mother house to which all should return at least once a year for re-union: a family in which the members should assist one another in the best way they could. Old boys should not be the only beneficiaries of their fellow old boys’ kindness. The alma matter should hold a special place in the heart of each boy; and all support should be given to it for the purpose of helping it to exist and to produce more “sons”. An entrance fee of 10/= and annual subscription of 2/= was to be paid by each boy, while Free membership was given to the Namilyango Makerere students. In the same meeting, old boys were called upon to help raise funds to improve the school infrastructure such as expansion of the chapel that was becoming small for the growing population, after several promises from the government of the time hadn’t been fulfilled yet. Seventy-Seven years later in 2017, the message of the time sounds as relevant as it was back then. The association went through a slumber for many years, but was revived and became active again towards the Centenary Celebrations in 1902, during which time many old boys were brought back to the fore and offered great support to the association- it has not looked back since. Over the last 15 years, post the Centenary celebrations, NACOBA has had many leaders that have sacrificed greatly to mobilise the old boys for association and college activities and causes. NACOBA has indeed seen an increase in the number of old boys who sacrifice both their time and money to ensure that the living and learning environment in the college is improved. Infrastructure at the college has been improved, bursary schemes have been established, and community health 5 | P a g e Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) Strategic Plan 2017 – 2022, October 2017 camps have been organized among many other activities. The old boys have also taken an active role in the management of the college with a permanent sit on the board, and have in the process influenced a policy shift that gives preferential compassionate admission to old students that actively give back to the college. Besides investment in the college, the old boys have over the years created platforms for communication and socialization through which different innovative ideas have come to tap into the latent potential of the network. For example, the old boys have also launched a Savings and Credit Cooperative “NACOBA SACCO” which is steadily growing with a long term objective of growing into a bank, a Company called NACOBA Consult Ltd that seeks to provide professional services using the skillsets within the network. The association also set up a Health Insurance Scheme for members not on formal insurance with their work places, have also mobilized resources to help out distressed old boys. All the above activities and initiatives of the old boys have greatly contributed to continuously improve the image of the college that had taken a hit in the last few decades due to a number of reasons. 6 | P a g e Namilyango College Old Boys Association (NACOBA) Strategic Plan 2017 – 2022, October 2017 2.0. Context Analysis 2.1. Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environment (PESTLE) Analysis NACOBA operates within the broader Ugandan education community that falls under the ambit of the Ministry of Education, and Sports (MoES), and is guided by different policies.

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