The Transformative Leaders Network- Africa (TRANET-Africa) is a grant making and advocacy organization founded and registered in Uganda and involved in strengthening civil society, deepening understanding on public policy and fostering social justice in Africa among others. Core to the mandate of TRANET –Africa is policy research, analysis and advocating and creating platforms through which citizens can engage with duty bearers on matters of policy, decision making and governance among others. Over the years, TRANET-Africa’s work has centered on initiatives that aim to create a future of sustainable and collaborative partnerships by delving in research, policy analysis and undertaking advocacy at national, regional and international level. 

Founded in 2016, TRANET-Africa, got registered as a Not-For-Profit Organisation with the Uganda registration Services Bureau on the 14th Day of 2018 under Registration Number 80020001178149 with a VISION of "A society where the leadership upholds the ideals of social justice and good governance where social justice defenders enjoy the freedom and security to undertake their legitimate activities." and MISSION "To enhance social justice as well as build and protect a cadre of leaders at risk because of their peaceful and legitimate activities advancing processes that eliminate social injustice through research, advocacy, networking and capacity building."

OUR THEORY OF CHANGE

Mobilize and Sustain
Youth civil society into a formidable force for social justice, gender equality, governance and accountability, among others and sustain the youth led initiatives.
Empower 
Youth CSOs, youth human rights defenders, youth leaders and young women rights groups. 
Protect
Youth human rights defenders in Africa and those at the diaspora who are most at risk due to their legitimate human rights work. 
Advocate
For youth friendly service delivery, public policy and financing of youth led/ youth focused initiatives. 
Amplify

Youth voices locally, nationally, regionally and globally for a common goal.

Resourcing

We promote the resourcing of a diverse and resilient civil society across Africa with critical focus on youth civil society.

Building national and regional chapters to reflect a bottom up approach to social justice 
We will continue to work over the long term in communities with people living in poverty and exclusion to strengthen individual and collective consciousness of their rights, agency and capacity to lead lives with dignity. We will also work directly with communities
understand the causes of poverty and injustice, such as unjust laws or policies, which are often generated in decision making spaces far from their localities. We will connect these communities and their organisations with other organisations and alliances. When new laws or policies are put in place, we will work to support communities in claiming and enjoying those rights.
We will campaign with and support communities’ abilities to shift and transform power at all levels, challenging patriarchy and other intersecting forms of oppression, and developing just, sustainable and equitable alternatives. 
Our programming will continue to be designed and based on our human rights based approach pillars: Mobilize and Sustain, Empower, Protect, Advocate, Amplify and Resourcing. This approach will advance transformational and redistributive change by analyzing and shifting power, and holding leaders to account. In working with people living in poverty and exclusion, we will provide services and other forms of material support without substituting the primary responsibility of governments to fulfil human rights. 
Linking social justice efforts and struggles and building collective power 
As we live in a world of intersecting inequalities, caused by powerful and interlinked global forces, the power of the many will be needed to ensure rights and dignity for all. The structural causes of poverty, gender inequality and injustice are located from the household level to the global level. This means that solutions can only be found through collective and connected efforts at community, national and global levels. We will help build collective power through broad alliances between communities, people’s organizations, social movements and other allies, working together across geographic boundaries, to achieve social justice and eradicate poverty. Working with women’s movements, including feminist organizations and other women’s rights actors will be a priority in our efforts to advance gender equality. We will design global campaigns to bring collective power and voices to bear on systemic and transnational causes of poverty and injustice. 

TRANET-Africa will strengthen the leadership and voices of people living in poverty and exclusion, particularly women, so that they are able to set the agenda and lead change. Where necessary, TRANET-AFRICA will support the growth of people’s organisations and movement building efforts so that people have their own organisations to assert rights and defend any gains they make over the longer term.

TRANET-Africa  recognises the agency and solidarity of other groups who come together to challenge power, but are not necessarily living in poverty or exclusion themselves. We will work with these allies in their own struggles for deepening democracy, and where necessary, we will facilitate linkages to the people and communities we work with and to broader social movements, supporting people’s efforts to build power from below to transform their realities and act in solidarity with others. 
Where necessary, we will encourage, support and facilitate solidarity between those directly affected by injustice and others by raising awareness and campaigning with supporters, donors, partners, broader movements and other allies who are working to achieve social justice, gender equality and poverty eradication. Solidarity will include providing material, moral, and other forms of support to communities, people’s organizations and social movements as well as engaging in collective action. 
Influencing and shifting power 

To challenge and transform invisible power that perpetuates structural discrimination and social injustice, TRANET-Africa will work to address modern slavery, patriarchy, dehumanisation, discrimination, racism, homophobia and xenophobia, all emanating from negative values and  stereotypes, and influencing people’s hearts, minds, behaviours, practices, all of which stand in the way of the implementation of any laws or policies written on paper. We will step up our public engagement to promote the values of justice, equality, solidarity and internationalism. 
Together with our partners and allies we will challenge and democratise the visible power of states and regional and international institutions. We will work to claim the role of the state as primary duty bearer at all levels, and hold states accountable for respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights in ways that are democratic, transparent and effective. TRANET-Africa will work with rights holders and human rights defenders to enlarge democratic space, so that all people have freedom to organize and speak out. 

We believe that every person has the right to participate in decision making that affects them, at every level, and we will step up efforts aimed at enhancing democracy through participation of excluded individuals and groups in decision making. At regional and international levels, we will engage with allies in influencing institutions that impact on international rules and standards and creating space for direct engagement between the people we work with and policy makers. 
Alongside communities and partners, we will challenge and transform the hidden power of elites, financial institutions and corporations that are increasingly influencing and controlling decision making processes at all levels. Our aim will be to expose their power and role so that people can hold them accountable and ensure that decisions are made by those institutions mandated to do so. 
Recognizing the diversity of the private sector and the contribution it can play in development, we will engage with it to promote responsible and sustainable corporate behaviour. We will continue to challenge the negative impact of corporations on human rights and ecological sustainability and advocate for safeguards and binding legislation to ensure businesses are accountable to human rights, labour and environmental standards and that they pay their fair share of taxes in all countries of operation. 
Deepening research, documentation and generating alternatives 
Conduct regular research, analysis and produce periodic reports, policy briefings such as annual reports on the situation of youth human rights defenders in the continent and in the regional economic blocks
Conduct research on the situation of youth and human rights across the continent and in the regional economic blocks
Conduct research on the situation of migrant youth and migrant workers as well as migrant students and produce annual and or periodic briefings

We will take a learning approach to our work, which is grounded in developing knowledge from below, and specifically from the experiences of communities and allies we work with, in collaboration with research centers, to deepen our understanding of how change happens. We will share community-generated knowledge and alternatives with social movements, policy makers and other practitioners in order to transform policy and practice. We will propose alternatives to the systems and practices we criticize, and ensure that the people we work with are central in defining and building these solutions.

PROGRAMME PRIORITY AREAS; Youth, Leadership and Governance; Civil Society Strengthening, Civic Pspace and grant making; Economic, Climate Justice and Migration; Policy analysis, research and campaigning for social justice.

IMPACT TOTAL REACH

CONSULTANCY SERVICES LINKED TO OUR PROGRAMME PRIORITY AREAS: At TRANET-Africa, we believe that we may not be able to reach and impact each and everyone through our usual programming. To be able to reach those who may not be our direct beneficiaries we believe that providing consultancy at subsidized rates can go a long way in impacting them. The following below is a list of our consultancy services Organisational development leadership development policy analysis and development of policy briefs strategic planning and strategic plan development migrant workers advisory

MEMBERSHIP

OFFICES: Currently, TRANET-Africa is piloting the establishment of Country offices in Arusha, Tanzania to support in Strategic engagement with the East African Community Secretariat and sister agencies.we are also piloting the establishment of  border Office in Malaba Uganda to host the Migrant Support Desk to undertake advocacy and awareness raising on the rights of Migrants, fair cross border trade policies among others.

In the future TRANET-Africa envisages the establishment of Offices in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Geneva Switzerland, Nairobi Kenya, New  York in the USA, London In United Kingdom and In Belgium to provide strategic advocacy and engagement with international Human Rights Mechanisms.

However, our volunteers across the globe continue to work remotely in the said locations.

To donate to support our work, Kindly click here https://tranetafrica.org/donate-us