STRENGTHENING PEACE AND ENHANCING RESILIENCE
Transforming lives and strengthening communities across East Africa through sustainable development, education, and collaborative peacebuilding initiatives

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Program Overview

Africa’s borderlands hold immense
potential for peace and prosperity, yet
recurring challenges threaten
stability and development.
The Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands Programme (PRBP) strengthens peace and resilience by empowering communities, fostering cross-border collaboration, and promoting inclusive governance.

Thematic Areas

Cross Border Collaboration
Encourage partnerships between border communities to share resources, address common challenges, and build stronger regional ties.
Economic recovery
Enhanced access to income generating opportunities and shared natural resources for borderlands community members
Social Cohesion
Enhanced capacities of formal and informal cross border stakeholders in conflict prevention and management and social cohesion building with a particular focus on women and youth.

Thematic Areas

Our work is guided by key thematic areas that promote peace, strengthen social cohesion, enhance sustainable management of shared resources, support economic recovery, and build climate resilience. Together, these priorities advance inclusive growth, regional stability, and sustainable development.
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Conflict Prevention & Mitigation
This is the core theme/ output of PRBP - Reduce the impacts of local conflicts in the cross-border areas and enhance resilience in 3 IGAD clusters of the HOA.
Social Cohesion
Enhanced capacities of formal and informal cross border stakeholders in conflict prevention and management…and social cohesion building with a particular focus on women and youth.
Transboundary Resource Management
Strengthening the management of transboundary resources (Digital tools on cross border trading, Enhance human and good movement.
Economic Recovery
Enhanced access to income generating opportunities… and shared natural resources for borderlands community members.
Climate Resilience
Climate resilience is a cross-cutting outcome, and it is clearly embedded through natural resource and livelihood components.
PRBP Working Areas
We focus on strengthening peace and resilience in borderland communities by promoting sustainable livelihoods, fostering cross-border cooperation, and building strong partnerships for lasting impact.
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"To live in Africa’s borderlands is to recognize the strength of our people and harness it to build peace and resilience for generations to come."
-MARY GORETTY-

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Our Impact

Empowering Borderlands, Driving Sustainable Impact.
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