Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation - CECI UGANDA
P. O. Box 158, Koboko, Central Cell, Appa ward, South Division,
Koboko
Uganda
Contact person: Benson Khemis Soro Laku
+256392986444; +256770317810
info@ceciuganda.org
ceciuganda@gmail.com
https://www.ceciuganda.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CECIuganda
Topics
- Educational policy/project
- Environmental project
- Peace politics
- Volunteers are welcome.
About us
Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation (CECI Uganda) is a refugee-led organization promoting peace, self-reliance, and dignity in refugee and host communities through locally-led innovations in peacebuilding, education, livelihood, and environmental action that are driven by local needs. Founded in May 2017, CECI Uganda empowers youth, women, and girls with the tools to build resilience, prevent conflicts, rebuild livelihoods, and participate actively in local leadership, peacebuilding, and development.
Our Mission
The mission of CECI Uganda is to promote peace, self-reliance and dignity through recreational activities, education and other innovations going beyond relief and development.
Our Vision
An Empowered, Peaceful, and Self-reliant community.
Our Objectives
• Build peace and improve social cohesion
• Build skills to support development and peace
• Promote girl child education and early childhood development
• Increase community knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDs care and prevention
• Eradicate Gender Based Violence
• Green the environment
• Foster creativity and innovation among youth in their respective fields of practice
What we do:
• Peacebuilding: CECI Uganda strengthens the role of youth and women in preventing and resolving conflicts in refugee and host communities by promoting peaceful dispute resolution and reconciliation and building and increasing peaceful coexistence and social cohesion through peace education, hate speech mitigation, media literacy, dialogues, music, trauma healing, community outreach, and conflict management and resolution.
• Education: CECI Uganda improves primary and accelerated education access for women and girls and early childhood development programs for children by promoting girl child education and early childhood development through advocacy, menstrual hygiene management, public health promotion, children educational radio programming, scholarships and scholastic materials support, and community awareness, education, and empowerment in gender-based violence prevention.
• Livelihood: CECI Uganda develops skills that support peace and development, resilience, and employability among youth and women in refugee and host communities through vocational, business, and entrepreneurial skilling, design thinking and girls’ technological empowerment, and the provision of capital to start, scale and grow their income-generating activities.
• Environment: CECI Uganda engages youth and women in community-led environmental conservation and climate action in refugee and host communities to promote environmental sustainability by educating communities, promoting tree planting, use of alternative fuel sources, and proper waste disposal and management, and strengthening local environment protection structures through training and grants.
More information:
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/CECIuganda
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceciuganda/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceciuganda/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ceciuganda
For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.
