ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The Alliance has a general assembly composed of its members which decides strategic directions for the organization. They elect the executive committee after every two years. The executive committee makes polices and approve programme plans and reports. The executive committee also recruits the Coordinator and other staff who are responsible for implementing the programme. Currently, the Coordinator supervises one programme officer for capacity building and advocacy, one accounts officer and one communication and documentations officer. Others are the driver, office attendant and administrative assistant. There are also five land rights desk officers employed by member organizations that the Alliance secretariat contributes to their salaries and allowances and field expenses. The ULA coordinator links up with but does not supervise them directly. They work more closely with communities. However, in the new strategic plan, ULA plans to recruit one senior programme officer who is a lawyer for legal and policy issues and two interns. The interns will be employed on a yearly basis.

The institutional framework for the implementation of this strategic plan is built on a three tier structure, encompassing three broad areas at each tier.

1. Annual General Assembly which comprises ULA Membership
2. Executive Committee
3. The Secretariat

These three tiers are responsible for decision making and the successful implementation of this strategic plan.The Four main functions of these tiers in relation to this strategic plan are:

1. Sanctioning and approval
2. Policy and planning
3. Implementation of the strategic plan
4. Strategic plan implementation monitoring

Sanctioning and Approval is the responsibility of the Annual General Assembly and ULA membership through the Member’s fora. The Secretariat will regularly feed the member’s fora with updates on the progress in implementation of the strategic plan

Policy and Planning will be the duty of the Executive committee with the Co-ordination of the Secretariat. The functions of the Executive Committee will be advisory and administrative, and it will also be responsible for spearheading the participatory development and implementation of this strategic plan, communicating, overseeing and monitoring the implementation of the strategic plan, and managing capacity building requests from other partners in implementation.

Implementation of the Strategic Plan The Secretariat is responsible for the implementation of the strategic plan. It however, does this with its members who will be involved in every step of its implementation. To achieve this, at the Annual general meeting, the members sign up to the areas of interest that they would like to participate in. Working groups are then formed to design the implementation strategy and oversee the management of the programme. They also participate in the implementation of each strategic objective. Through this, we members will be in control of the outputs of the Alliance’s work and be an integral part of the Secretariat.

Strategic Plan Implementation monitoring This will be undertaken by the Secretariat with the participation of members. This will entail both budget monitoring and progress in implementation of planned activities.