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To improve maternal, newborn and child health, strengthen livelihoods, and promote climate resilience through community led development programs.

Healthy, empowered and resilient island communities living with dignity.

Rachi Action For Healthcare Initiatives exists to serve the public interest and does not operate for the private financial benefit of its founders, directors, employees, or other individuals.

RAHI focuses its programmes on communities that experience significant barriers to healthcare, economic opportunity, environmental protection, and social development. Our public benefit work focuses particularly on:

• Maternal, newborn, and child health
• Sexual and reproductive health
• HIV prevention and awareness
• Gender-based violence prevention
• Community health
• Water, sanitation, and hygiene
• Livelihood development
• Women's empowerment
• Youth empowerment
• Climate resilience
• Environmental protection
• Biodiversity conservation

RAHI's programmes are designed to improve the wellbeing and resilience of communities while strengthening their capacity to develop sustainable solutions to local challenges.

RAHI's work is primarily focused on underserved communities in and around the Lake Victoria islands of Uganda, with particular emphasis on Bussi Island and surrounding island communities in Wakiso District.

The organisation works with communities whose geographical isolation can create significant barriers to healthcare, emergency referral, education, livelihood opportunities, and other essential services.

6.1 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

RAHI works to improve access to and utilisation of essential maternal, newborn, and child health services. Activities include:

• Community health education
• Promotion of antenatal and postnatal care
• Maternal and newborn health awareness
• Child health promotion
• Community outreach and referral support
• Strengthening links between communities and health facilities

6.2 Adolescent and Sexual and Reproductive Health

RAHI supports adolescents and young people with appropriate health information and community-based support, including:

• Sexual and reproductive health education
• Adolescent health awareness
• HIV prevention education
• Community mobilisation
• Support for vulnerable adolescent mothers

6.3 HIV Prevention and Community Health

RAHI supports community-level health promotion and prevention activities aimed at increasing awareness, improving health-seeking behaviour, and strengthening access to appropriate services.

6.4 Emergency Referral and Medical Transport

The geographical isolation of island communities can make access to emergency healthcare particularly difficult. RAHI therefore supports community emergency referral systems designed to reduce delays in accessing appropriate medical care.

6.5 Livelihoods and Women's Economic Empowerment

RAHI recognises that health and economic wellbeing are closely connected. The organisation supports vulnerable households, women, and young people through sustainable livelihood and skills development initiatives, which may include:

• Aquaculture and fish farming
• Mushroom cultivation
• Juncao-based livelihood activities
• Tailoring and soap making
• Skills development and entrepreneurship
• Income-generating activities

The purpose of these activities is to strengthen household resilience and economic independence rather than to generate private profit for RAHI.

6.6 Climate Resilience and Environmental Conservation

RAHI works to address the relationship between environmental degradation, climate change, livelihoods, and community wellbeing. Activities include:

• Environmental education
• Climate resilience activities
• Wetland protection and habitat protection
• Biodiversity conservation
• Community conservation initiatives
• Sustainable livelihood approaches that reduce pressure on natural resources

RAHI uses a community-centred approach to development. We work with communities, local leaders, health facilities, government authorities, technical partners, researchers, donors, and other stakeholders to identify needs and develop practical solutions.

Our approach is based on:

• Community participation
• Local ownership
• Partnership
• Evidence-informed programming
• Accountability
• Inclusion
• Sustainability

RAHI has adopted a multi-year policy plan covering the period 2026–2031. The policy plan sets out RAHI's:

• Public benefit objectives
• Programme priorities and planned activities
• Fundraising approach
• Asset management principles
• Financial management approach
• Governance arrangements
• Monitoring and evaluation approach
• Sustainability strategy

RAHI is governed by a Board responsible for providing strategic oversight and ensuring that the organisation operates in accordance with its legal obligations, mission, policies, and public benefit objectives. The Board is responsible for:

• Strategic oversight and governance
• Financial oversight
• Policy approval
• Organisational accountability
• Risk oversight
• Ensuring responsible use of organisational assets

Board Members

Members of the Board of Rachi Action For Healthcare Initiatives do not receive salaries or remuneration for their governance responsibilities.

Board members may be reimbursed for reasonable and properly authorised expenses incurred in carrying out their organisational duties. Any such reimbursement is subject to RAHI's financial procedures and applicable organisational policies.

Employees and technical personnel engaged by RAHI may receive reasonable remuneration for their professional or operational work in accordance with approved employment arrangements and organisational budgets.

RAHI maintains financial systems designed to ensure that organisational resources are managed responsibly, transparently, and in accordance with its public benefit objectives. The organisation's income may include:

• Grants
• Charitable donations
• Institutional funding
• Philanthropic contributions
• Partnership contributions
• Other lawful sources consistent with RAHI's objectives

Funds are used to support RAHI's public benefit activities and the reasonable organisational costs necessary to implement those activities. RAHI does not distribute profits or organisational assets to its founders, Board members, employees, or other private individuals.

RAHI is committed to financial transparency and accountability. The organisation publishes its financial information in accordance with applicable legal, regulatory, donor, and organisational requirements.

Additional financial information may be made available where appropriate. The financial statements published here represent RAHI's financial reporting for the respective financial years.

RAHI reports on its activities, achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and use of resources.

Future annual reports will be added to this page as they become available.

RAHI maintains policies and procedures that support responsible governance, safeguarding, accountability, programme quality, and ethical conduct. Selected organisational policies are available for public access where appropriate.

Governance and Accountability

Safeguarding

Programme Quality

Additional organisational policies may be published where appropriate.

RAHI's programme implementation is supported by a professional management and technical team. The organisation's management structure includes leadership and technical functions covering:

• Organisational management
• Programme management
• Health programmes
• Livelihoods and women's empowerment
• Environment and climate change
• Finance and administration

The Board provides governance and oversight, while management and programme staff are responsible for the day-to-day implementation of approved programmes.

All assets held by RAHI are used for the achievement of its organisational and public benefit objectives.

RAHI maintains safeguards intended to prevent organisational assets from being treated as personal property. Financial and asset management is subject to organisational controls, authorisation procedures, record keeping, and Board oversight.

RAHI is committed to ensuring that organisational decisions are made in the best interests of the organisation and the communities it serves.

Board members, staff, and other relevant persons are expected to disclose actual or potential conflicts of interest. Where a conflict exists, appropriate measures are taken to protect the integrity and independence of organisational decision-making.

In the event that Rachi Action For Healthcare Initiatives is dissolved, the remaining assets of the organisation, after settlement of all lawful liabilities, shall be applied in accordance with the organisation's governing documents and applicable law.

Where required by the organisation's governing documents and applicable ANBI requirements, remaining assets shall be transferred to an organisation with similar public benefit objectives.

RAHI is committed to maintaining transparent relationships with communities, donors, partners, government authorities, and the wider public.

We seek to ensure that information concerning our organisation, activities, governance, and financial management is accessible and understandable. This page is maintained as part of RAHI's commitment to public transparency and in support of its application for recognition as a Foreign Public Benefit Organisation (ANBI) in the Netherlands.

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