Café Africa is a non-profit association registered in Switzerland. The European office works as a support and secretariat for the country offices established in Uganda, Tanzania and D.R Congo. Each country office is registered as a national non-profit organization in its host country and governed by its own board.

Café Africa works at the invitation of the national authorities and members of the national coffee sectors (the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) and the Ministry of Agriculture in Uganda, the Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) in Tanzania, the Ministry of Agriculture and Office National du Café (ONC) in DRC)

Café Africa relies on the national staff in each country, together with a pool of internationally recognized consultants with expertise in the field of coffee production, processing, marketing, project management, and food security related issues.

Reconfiguring the Framework

Café Africa shifts its decision making and management to its countries of operation, empowering each programme with its own ability to raise funds, manage operations and direct strategy.

Each country’s coffee sector is as diverse as the coffee regions within each country and Café Africa embraces this complexity through our approach. Our structure best supports its vision to untap the wealth of Africa’s coffee by positioning itself in a way that supports its country level operations to the fullest. (The UK trust does this. The Swiss board does this. Here is how they support operations, but do not dictate them or tell them how to best operate in each country.)

Supporting Long-term Change

Cafe Africa’s focus is not on project cycles, rather, it is about the people in the coffee supply chain from the farmer to the buyer, and everyone in between. Our aim is to enable the entire sector system to deliver more coffee and of better quality.

Cafe Africa was formed as a non-profit Association under Swiss law, however, we are restructuring governance to bring it to Africa. In line with our vision of bringing people to the table and ensuring they all have a voice, we are in the process of restructuring Cafe Africa so its governance is Africa based, with support from each of the offices. We seek a system wide change in how the coffee industry works, and shifting the decision making epicenter is part of our approach to reaching that commitment.

See our long-term impact, ten years on!

Structure

Association Café Africa Switzerland

Management Committee

• J Schluter (Executive Director)
• Viscountess G Brentford (O.B.E)
• R Nikkels
• E Granges
• Dr. S.Gayi

Café Africa Uganda

Directors

• A Gowa (Chairperson)
• R. Bakema (Executive Director)
• J Magombe
• T Mugoya
• J Schluter

Staff members

• Samson Emong
• Simon Kaggwa
• Evelyn  Kanagwa
• Andrew Magombe
• Moses Mugume
• Scovia Namusobya

Café Africa Tanzania

Directors

• J Schluter (Chairman)
• N.Yatera
• C Ashton, FCA
• Dr. A. Kwayu
• Ms Nangula Heita-Mwampamba

Staff Members

• Dafrosa Sanga – Operations Manager
• Leticia Nshange – Finance officer

Café Africa R.D.C

Directors

• T Kembola (Chairman)
• K Kamungele (Executive Director)
• V Ngezayo
• P Mabiala
• Mme Esperance Nzuzi
• A Boladinga
• Ms Lwanzo Amani
• J Schluter

Staff members

• Pascal Luzonzo Dopa (Coordinator, Karawa Coffee Project)

Café Africa Trust – UK

Trustees

• Viscountess G Brentford (O.B.E.)
• Ms.L.Groenewald
• Bishop K Barham