TIP TESO

For Peace, productivity
and Social Accountability
in Teso Sub-region, Uganda, East Africa

Our Story

Teso Initiative for Peace (TIP) is a membership organization formed to initially respond to the deprivations occasioned by violent cattle rustling and the Uganda People’s Army insurgency. The decision to start Teso Initiative for Peace took many protracted discussions which culminated in its registration as an NGO on the 21st day of September, 2001, a day that the United Nations resolution (A/RES/55/282) set aside as the International Day of Peace.

The initiators of Teso Initiative for Peace were motivated by the desire to stop violence (negative peace) first and justice later (positive peace). Their ideological rootedness in non-violence inspired the commencement of various consultative meetings on he themes: “Ekwaikisi ai” and “Ikokinio Ai”? (Ateso and Ngakarimojong for “What do we do?” respectively). Most of the the stakeholders involved understood peace as the “absence of war” and were therefore working to ensure that physical violence ended. Read more…

Our Approach

Aligning with SDGs, National and District Priorities

To keep within its complementary roles, TIP aligns its activities in line with the national and respective district development plans.

Partnership and Linkages

TIP closely works with relevant partners in generating and sharing knowledge for improved livelihood practices.

Working with community-based structures

TIP holds that for any change to be sustained; it is safer to foster it through organised, functional, proximate and accepted structures.

How it works

Intergrated Approach

TIP uses the integrated approach to enhance people’s participation in understanding and addressing their development challenges.

The VSLA model for collective action and risk pooling

By acting individually, many farmers fail to transform their livelihoods, gain access to business finance, and engage with their leaders.

Community-based extension system for sustainable skilling and mentoring

TIP trains community-based resource persons in soft skills (collective marketing, village savings and lending, advocacy, poultry vaccination, agroforestry, etc.) with hard skills

Our Impact

TIP is transforming lives by turning challenges into measurable improvements in livelihoods, health, and peace. Across multiple districts and projects, it demonstrates clear gains in income, access to care, and community safety, with consistent results beyond isolated success stories.

Slab Covered Latrines

42.5 %

Children Fed

1064

Average Household income

345696

Poultry Numbers Increased

5313

Increase in MAize Yield

1.4

Increase in Beans Yield

0.8

Access to Loans

62 %

Average Monthly savings

28317

Partners & Supporters

TIP works with local communities, schools, VSLAs and partners to scale
an integrated model that delivers measurable results across health,
food security and education.