Building resilient, healthy and learning communities in Teso.
An integrated, community-led model linking climate-smart agriculture,
poultry livelihoods, WASH and school feeding to reduce poverty and strengthen education outcomes.
Our Story
Teso Initiative for Peace (TIP) began in 1999 when community leaders in Teso and Karamoja held a workshop titled “Ekwaikisi ai?” (“What should we do?”) to spark locally led peacebuilding and dialogue.
The group formalized as TIP around 2000, registered with the National NGO Board in 2001, and continued to grow despite early funding challenges until full registration as a company limited by guarantee in 2005.tipteso
From the start TIP combined peace work with livelihoods and community strengthening, running dialogues, training local leaders and clergy, and engaging elders to reduce cattle raids and local conflict.
Partnerships with development actors (including the German Development Service) helped TIP launch programs such as “Bridging the Gap,” supporting community reconciliation and later expanding into integrated work on agriculture, WASH, school feeding and VSLAs.
Today TIP works with schools, VSLAs, PTAs, trained WASH agents and community task forces across Soroti and the wider Teso sub-region to link climate-smart farming, poultry livelihoods, sanitation and school feeding so families move from vulnerability to resilience.
Our Approach
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Training in agroecology, kitchen gardening, soil and water management, post-harvest handling, crop diversification and collective marketing, with catalytic inputs for target households.
Poultry & Livelihoods
Poultry management training, disease prevention links, shelter improvement, enterprise coaching and peer learning for especially women-led households.
School Feeding & Education
Support to PTAs, SMCs and parents to revive school gardens, establish local feeding systems, improve school hygiene and increase parental participation.
Why it works
Integrated approach
We address sanitation, livelihoods and education together because these drivers of poverty are interlinked.
Tested in the field
Our model has produced measurable gains in sanitation, school enrolment and household incomes in TIP communities.
Local ownership
Interventions are delivered through community task forces, VSLAs, PTAs, SMCs and trained local agents to ensure sustainability
Impact
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Community Change
Help provide meals for learners and improve
sanitation facilities in communities and schools.
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.
