Objectives

Preserve development and promote cultura heritage as a resource for social economic development. Establish and mantain infrastructure and facilities for preservation and development of cultural heritage and youth talents and skills development. Develop talents and skills of the youth for self - reliance. Additional information: The Memorandum and articles of association provide eight general objectives. Each objective can be operationalised by a big programme. This was intended to give unlimited scope and alternative programme areas but impossible to be all implemented. The organisation eventually developed a round five of the eight objectives all curved by the theme CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT. OBJECTIVE C Empower youth to exploit their talents, skills development and promote creativity and self reliance. Culture become the instrument of the empowerment of the youth to build confidence and creativity for self-reliance. Skills and talents are developed in cultural and indigenous expression, like music, dance, drama and folklore. Youths and women entrepreneurial skills were developed in safeguarding, preservation and promotion of indigenous knowledge and entreprises. OBJECTIVE D To promote organisational discipline and effective leadership. Cultural values and indigenous knowledge was re-claimed to promote leadership and society organisation. Thus positive traditions, customs and philosophy in proverbs and sayings are used to promote good leadership practices. OBJECTIVE F To enhance partnership and networking with development organisations and progressive intelligentsia. The target for partnership and networking are cultural clubs and associations in the target society who are also targets for membership and beneficiaries to the programme. At external level, the target for partnership are organizations that support culture or cultural approach to development, protection and promotion of indigenous or traditional knowledge. Hence the organisations with which we have networking and partnership relationship include -Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda which documents and publishes our innovative cultural approaches. -Common Wealth Foundation department of culture and diversity which gives grants to some of our cultural projects. -Arterial Network which networks us as one of the cultural organizations in Africa -UNESCO which funds capacity building for our Koogere Community Museum through Cross Cultural Foundation of Uganda. -WIPO which accredited us to participate in the sessions of intergovernmental committee on Intellectual Property and genetic resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore. -Prince Claus Fund for Culture and development which funds some of our projects. -HIVOS which funded some of the projects. -International federation of Arts councils and cultures Agencies (IFACCA) which invites us to participate in the biannual world summits on arts and culture -National Indigenous knowledge systems office NIKSO - South Africa with which we have learning exchange relationship to enable us build capacity for traditional knowledge) reserach and documentation as a means of protection of indigenous knowledge. -Traditional Knowledge Digital Library TKDL - India with which we have learning exchange relationship to enable us build capacity for traditional knowledge reserach) documentation and digital database development as a means of traditional knowledge protection. -Engabu Za Tooro is finalising arrangements to either partnership with the Ministry of Gender) Labour and Social Development - Government of Uganda through a memorandum of understanding. This is the ministry incharge of culture and heritage. OBJECTIVE G To promote the vitality of culture as a basis of individuals confidence and self realisation. This objective gave raise to the overall theme of the organisation as a culture and development which is operationalised into an overall cultural approach to development. It should be however noted that the organisation is in need of rephase the objectives in the memorandum and articles of association to be directed to this theme.

Cooperation

The organisation run training sessions called cultural school where cultural practitioners come together to share experience, skills, build knowledge through documentation, coordination and networking. The organisation links and facilitates cultural groups to exhibition festival and training oppotunities. The organisation holds an annual cultural festival called "Koogere Week" where heritage practitioners come together to compete, debate, exhibit, demonstrate and celebrate.