About Us
A Women-Led Organisation Built Around What Women and Girls Actually Need
Our Mission
Shared Action Africa (SAA) is a Ugandan, women-led nonprofit organization that works with refugee and host-community women and girls to build by strengthening reproductive health systems, creating pathways for income and supporting women to lead change in their communities.
Over the next decade, we envision a world where one million women and girls in refugee and host communities exercise agency to lead their families and communities from aid dependency towards self-reliance and resilience.
Our Vision
What Makes SAA Different
Women do not just receive support - they deliver it
Many women who go through SAA’s programmes become trainers, peer educators, community leaders, and service connectors. This creates a circle of receiving and giving back, where impact grows from within the community.
The model adapts to real life
Women and girls arrive with different histories, needs, risks, and ambitions. Refugee contexts also change quickly. SAA responds with a flexible model that can adjust across age groups, life stages, community needs, and changing circumstances.
It works beyond the individual
SAA recognizes that women are navigating larger forces: weak infrastructure, under-resourced services, limited market access, harmful social norms, and resistance to reproductive health choices. Through partnerships and advocacy, SAA works with women and local actors to build solutions and shift mindsets.
Designed to scale
Because the model is community-led, adaptable, and built through local delivery systems, it can be replicated across other refugee settlements and host communities.
Strengthens local and government systems
SAA strengthens local health systems by connecting people, institutions, and community structures
OUR VALUES
Our values articulate the enduring principles that guide our decision and actions at every level of the organization.
Leadership
We believe in women’s equal participation and leadership in decision-making processes at every level and in every sector to eliminate gender-based poverty
Entrepreneurship & Sustainability
We support women-led solutions that create jobs and scale green business models that are ecological
for land because studies have shown that when women have control over household assets, they invest it in their children, the future generations
Gender Equality
We believe in equal opportunities for all humankind and through expanding economic opportunities for women and the youth, we build a more inclusive community and provide a platform for real change
Innovation
We are committed to nurturing innovation and scaling up evidence-based innovations for sustainable impact through strong local communities, organisations, and effective and efficient programs
Cooperative Governance
We believe in community-led models of business ownership that empower members to be active participants in decision-making that foster cooperation, accountability, shared resources, and scale impact for the common good
Meet the Board of Directors
JOAN KABAYAMBI
Co-Chair (Uganda)
DR. JOSEPHINE NAMAYANJA
Co-Chair (United States)
LAWRENCE SSENTONGO
Board Member
FLORENCE. SEMPEBWA MAKADA
Board Member
CHRISTINE KATABARWA SUUBI
Board Member
JULIE AKACH
Board Member
Meet The People Driving Positive Social Change
EVELYN NASSUNA
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
PRISCILLA NAMBAJJWE
Co-Founder, Finance and Operations Director
KAMUSIIME ADELLAH
Sexual and Reproductive Health Officer
SANDRA TIISA
Technology and Information Officer
JOYCE MASIKA
Sexual and Reproductive Health Program Manager
ATAMBA KOBUHWEZI
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Officer
ATAMBA KOBUHWEZI
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Officer
MBABAZI PETER
Community Agricultural Training Coordinator
OUR PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS
At Shared Action Africa, we work with like-minded organizations and supporters. We are grateful to our financial and implementation partners who share our mission and vision to empower women and girls and transform communities.
Shared Action Africa
Uganda
Plot 88 Bunyonyi Drive,
Kampala
United States:
4500 Natomas Central Dr.
#633
Sacramento, CA
95834
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Service Locations
We currently serve Nakivale and Oruchinga Refugee Settlements in Southwestern Uganda.
Our Approach
Shared Action Africa supports refugee and host community women and girls to move beyond aid by connecting three parts of the journey that are too often treated separately - Sexual and reproductive health, economical opportuinty and women's leadership
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