Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation (CECI Uganda)

Uganda
Livelihoods
Education for Children
Community Health
$175,000
Annual Operating Budget

Amount used to run the annual operating expenses

18,000
Annual Beneficiary Reach

Total number of beneficiaries supported annually

£0
Raised on Reframe

Amount of funds raised through the platform for Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation (CECI Uganda)

0
Donations

Total number of monthly donations made to Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation (CECI Uganda) via Reframe

About Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation (CECI Uganda)

Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation (CECI Uganda) is a Refugee-led Community-based Organization founded in May 2017 to address ethnic cleavages, conflict tensions, and other challenges refugees face, such as poverty, unemployment, and cultural intolerance. We prevent, reduce, and transform violent conflicts in refugee communities through locally-led innovations in peacebuilding, education, livelihood, and environment driven by local needs. We empower youth, women, and girls with the tools to build resilience, prevent conflicts, rebuild livelihoods, and participate actively in local leadership, peacebuilding, and development. Since then, we have been working with over 58,524 youth and youth to stop violence and increase social cohesion in refugees and host communities in West Nile, Uganda. We campaigned against all forms of hate speech and incitement to violence and provided community-based and data-driven solutions to the problem of hate speech, disinformation, and misinformation. We have also strengthened local peace structures to respond to and prevent conflicts, rebuilt the livelihoods of 5,951 youth, women and girls, increased their safety and wellbeing, and improved access to education for over 5000 children. With the outbreak of COVID-19 in Uganda, we were one of the first responders to the COVID-19 crisis in refugee settlements, mobilizing resources, spearheading public health awareness, increasing access to online education and personal protective equipment, and providing livelihood support, reaching over 9389 children, youth, women, the elderly, and people with disabilities in 2020 alone. Today, our services have expanded to benefit 147,098 refugees and hosts in Koboko, Yumbe, and Obongi districts, leveraging the power of creative and collaborative efforts to address and assist refugees in adapting to the effects of COVID-19, recovering better, and building resilience for a more equal, sustainable, and healthier community. We increase their access to education, financial resources, knowledge, and skills in conflict resolution and peacebuilding, business, technology, entrepreneurship, and vocational training.

Mission
To promote peace, self-reliance, and dignity through recreational activities, education, and other innovations going beyond relief and development.
An Empowered, Peaceful, and Self-reliant community.
  1. OXFAM
  2. War Child Canada
  3. Koboko Municipal Council
  4. European Union
  5. Mastercard Foundation
  6. r0g Agency
  7. CSBAG
  8. Youth Social Advocacy Team (YSAT)
  9. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
  1. International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI)
  2. Children Rights and Violence Prevention Fund (CRVPF)
  3. Dangerous Speech Network (DSN)
  4. Response Innovation Lab (RIL)
  5. Watson Institute
  6. Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
  7. Save the Children
  8. Ubongo
  9. Nansey Benansio Foundation (NBF)
  10. I CAN South Sudan

Cohere

Charter for Change, Refugee-led Organizations Network (RELON), Network of South Sudanese Civil Society Organizations in Uganda, West Nile Humanitarian Platform, Humanitarian Platform for Local and National Organizations in Uganda

Contact Person: Benson Khemis Soro

Contact Email: ceciuganda@gmail.com

Second Contact Person: Patrick Chandiga Justine Abure

Secondary Email: p1995chandiga@gmail.com

Additional location: Koboko and Lobule Refugee Settlements; Bidibidi Refugee Settlement; and Obongi District

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CECI established the Salaam Community Radio in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in 2021 to promote peaceful coexistence between refugees and hosts and to increase mobilisation of people of concern to participate in interventions; which has since then continued to provide accurate and timely information about food distribution
local opportunities and programmes
create forums for community dialogues and assist children with learning even during the pandemic. This is part of CECI's ongoing Sawa Le Salaam project in partnership with OXFAM.
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