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- Head Office: Kimara B, Temboni, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Across Tanzania, communities continue to face challenges that limit opportunity, weaken resilience and slow sustainable development.
CEPI works alongside communities to strengthen peace, empower leadership, create economic opportunity and build inclusive societies where everyone can thrive.
Stories of Hope
Working with Tanzanian communities since our founding.
Community Empowerment and Peace Initiatives (CEPI) is a national non-governmental organisation working at the intersection of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, human rights, humanitarian action and sustainable development. We do not arrive with finished answers. We begin with listening, and we stay long enough for change to hold.
To strengthen and capacity building to facilitate peacebuilding, justice, security and economic empowerment for sustainable development resulting to poverty reduction
A peaceful society with a stable economy.
Conflict robs communities of everything they build. We work at the earliest signs of tension — with elders, women, youth and local authorities — so disputes are resolved before they harden into violence.
People closest to a problem already hold most of the answer. We invest in local leadership, skills and confidence so communities can negotiate, organise and decide for themselves.
Peace without opportunity does not last. Livelihoods, water, education and inclusive governance turn a fragile calm into a future worth protecting.
Communities define the problem and co-design the response.
Baselines, monitoring and honest learning shape every decision.
Government, civil society and private sector at one table.
Local institutions lead delivery; CEPI accompanies them.
Skills and systems that remain after the project ends.
We design for the decade, not the funding cycle.
From the refugee-hosting districts of Kigoma to farming communities in Tabora and coastal
neighbourhoods of Dar es Salaam, our teams live and work where the programmes run. Select a
region to see current activity.
Refugee hosting, peace committees, WASH
Land conflict mediation, livelihoods
Farmer–pastoralist dialogue
Gender equality, youth enterprise
Governance and accountability
Water access, savings groups
PVE and youth resilience
Policy, partnerships, PVE
Relationships built over a decade, not mobilised for a proposal.
Tanzanian practitioners in mediation, WASH, governance and enterprise.
Independent board, audited accounts, published annual reports.
Baselines, mid-terms and honest reporting of what did not work.
Exit planning designed in from the first workshop.
District authorities engaged as partners, not observers.
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Community Empowerment and Peace Initiatives is a Tanzanian non-governmental organisation working alongside communities to build peace, strengthen resilience and create lasting opportunity.