Partnerships/Affiliates

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KUBORESHA-AFRICA works at promoting International, regional and National partnerships that collaboratively promote networking to spearhead advocacy Communication and social mobilization at all levels from grass root to global level. The following are the prospective partnerships to highlight:

Accelerating the end of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics

The Global Fund partnership mobilizes and invests more than US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in more than 100 countries. KUBORESHA-AFRICA has worked with the Global Fund in the areas of providing technical assistance to Civil Society grantees in Uganda. And some officials of the organization have served at the Global Fund Board’s Communities Delegation.

Better health for everyone, everywhere.

World Health Organization builds a better, healthier future for people all over the world.

Working with 194 Member States, across six regions, and from more than 150 offices, WHO staff are united in a shared commitment to achieve better health for everyone, everywhere.

Together they strive to combat diseases – communicable diseases like influenza and HIV, and noncommunicable diseases like cancer and heart disease.

They help mothers and children survive and thrive so they can look forward to a healthy old age. They ensure the safety of the air people breathe, the food they eat, the water they drink – and the medicines and vaccines they need.


KUBORESHA Senior Staff Individual Affiliation

The Executive Director of KUBORESHA-AFRICA Mr Roger Paul Kamugasha is one of the 17- members of the WHO Global Civil Society Task Force on TB under the Global TB Programme in Geneva Switzerland.

WHO Global Civil Society Task Force on TB.

In November 2018, the Global TB Programme of WHO established a revamped Civil Society Task Force on TB (CSTF) to provide a platform for discussion and harness the untapped potential in engagement with community and civil society stakeholders at all levels. Following the commitment of the WHO Director General, the Task Force will emphasize:

  • Translating WHO TB policies including End TB Strategy into practice through mainstreaming of voices of communities affected by TB and their networks at global, regional and country levels;
  • Catalysing greater collaboration between civil society organizations, National TB Programmes and WHO at all levels in all activities and projects for improved TB outcomes including meaningful engagement of civil society and affected communities in policy development;
  • Contributing to the implementation of WHO TB policies with particular focus on multi-sectoral action for social protection and universal health coverage and advocating their inclusion in national TB strategies and plans, national social programmes and political platforms (e.g. parliaments) and regional and global platforms of policy dialogue;
  • Promoting and nurturing strong and effective linkages between community-based actors and national TB programmes or their equivalents as well as promoting the generation of demand for TB prevention, diagnosis, care and treatment services;
  • Development of framework for monitoring and evaluation of collaboration between civil society organizations, National TB Programmes and WHO at all levels;
  • Promotion of capacity building of civil society members and representatives of communities affected by TB to intensify the information sharing, dialogue and consultation on the implementation of WHO TB policies and norms;
  • Advocacy for increased domestic funding and donor commitments for TB response at all levels.
TB Alliance with headquarters in New York and a branch in Pretoria South Africa is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of better, faster-acting and affordable tuberculosis drugs that are available to those who need them.
Executive Director of KUBORESHA-AFRICA Mr Roger Paul Kamugasha and Ksenia Schenina of Russia while in Hyderabad India during the TB Alliance Stakeholders Association in 2019.

Kuboresha-Africa’s Roger Paul Kamugasha and Ksenia Schenina of Russia are the new Civil Society Representatives to the TB Alliance Stakeholders Association.

The Stop TB Partnership is leading the way to a world without tuberculosis (TB), a disease that is curable but still kills three people every minute. Founded in 2001, the Partnership’s mission is to serve every person who is vulnerable to TB and ensure that high-quality diagnosis , treatment and care is available to all who need it.
Together their over 1700 partners are a collective force that is transforming the fight against TB in more than 100 countries. They include international and technical organizations, government programmes, research and funding agencies, foundations, NGOs, civil society and community groups and the private sector.
They operate through a secretariat hosted by UNOPS in Geneva, Switzerland and seven working groups whose role is to accelerate progress on access to TB diagnosis and treatment; research and development for new TB diagnostics, drugs and vaccines; and tackling drug resistant- and HIV-associated TB. The secretariat is governed by a Board that sets strategic direction for the global fight against TB.

Mr Roger Paul Kamugasha is a member of the Stop TB Partnership Communications Coordinating Group.

Global Stop TB Communications Coordinating Group Geneva Switzerland.
The RBM Partnership to End Malaria is the global platform for coordinated action against malaria. It mobilises for action and resources and forges consensus among Partners. It was launched in 1998 by WHO, UNICEF, UNDP and the World Bank in an effort to provide a coordinated global response to the disease. Kuboresha-Africa is member of this partnership.
Civil Society for Malaria Elimination, a global network of civil society organizations and communities contributing to malaria elimination and ensure that communities are at the center of malaria programs.

USTP ( Uganda Stop TB Partnership) is a Non-profit making and Non-Governmental Organization formed in 2004 to support and coordinate nonpublic partners engaged in TB control in Uganda. It helps to increase momentum to upgrade TB control and harness new Inputs from these and even non-traditional partners in TB control. USTP has over 60 such partners. All these partners subscribe and contribute to the national strategic plan for TB control that is spearheaded by the Ministry of Health through the National TB and Leprosy Program, NTLP. Each partner brings specific expertise, experience and resources to contribute to the National TB response.

USTP has a General Assembly, the Partners’ Forum which brings together all members. Functionally, the USTP is made up of a coordinating board (The Board) and a secretariat which are the governing body and focal point for the coordination plus control of the Partnership activities respectively. KUBORESHA-AFRICA is a member of this Partnership.

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