Welcome to CEPAD Westnile
“Transforming the World through non-violence”
About Us
Community Empowerment for Peace and development westnile is an indigenous, women-founded, and women-led NGO, established in 2014. Rooted in feminist principles, CEPAD was created to address the root causes of violence and inequality by empowering communities to resolve conflicts and build sustainable mechanisms for lasting peace, resilience, and harmony. Originally registered as a Community-Based Organization (CBO), CEPAD transitioned into a fully registered Local NGO in 2021 (Reg. No. 5623). Headquartered in Arua City, the organization operates across West Nile and Northern Uganda, reaching hard-to-access and marginalized communities, including refugee settlements. As a women-led initiative, CEPAD actively collaborates with diverse stakeholders—including women, youth, faith-based organizations, and traditional leaders—to foster peace and sustainable development.The organization enhances institutional and community capacities to ensure inclusive and effective service delivery, aligning with national and international development agendas.
As a member of the West Nile CSO Network, West Nile Humanitarian Platform, Feminist Humanitarian Network, and the Charter 4change, CEPAD-WN actively engages in collaborative efforts within the humanitarian and development sectors. Renewing its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Office of the Prime Minister underscores its commitment to operating within refugee settlements.
Our Thematic Areas
Conflict Transformation, Peace building and Nonviolence
The goal is to build constructive change out of the energy created by conflict, by focusing on the underlying causes, analyse and understand the violent conflict, in order to consider what may be appropriate interventions. In this way, we contribute to addressing the underlying causes of conflict,
Women, Girlchild and Youth Empowerment
To empower women and youth as agents of social transformation. This will include actions and practices of raising the status of women and youth through education and raising awareness, literacy, and training.
Governance & Democracy
To promote the culture and institutional environment in which citizens and stakeholders interact among themselves and participate in public affairs, understanding structures and processes that are designed to ensure accountability, transparency, responsiveness, rule of law, stability, equity and inclusiveness, empowerment, and broad-based participation.
Environment, Land and Climate Change
To ensure that the communities can live in a healthy and sustainable environment and that they can adapt to climate change. This aims at empowering the communities with knowledge about climate change, their causes and consequences, and at providing skills and competencies to mitigate their actions to protect their environment.
Institutional Growth and Development
The institutional growth and development is to create and reinforce the capacity of CEPAD WN, to generate, allocate and use human and financial resources effectively to the achievement of our mission and vision. In growth, we envisioned the inherent changes needed in our organization's including membership, employment,
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