Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) started in 1994 while affiliated to Netherlands International NGO-HNTPO; it became an autonomous in Uganda as National Organization in 2001 allowing TPO to replicate some of its promising practices acquired elsewhere in Uganda and Somalia in community-based child protection work and community based mental health & psychosocial support. TPO has been active in the Great Lake region for close to 21 years now working with communities affected by conflict in Uganda, Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, Nepal, D.R.Congo and Burundi. Our two- pronged approach includes both direct service delivery and capacity building interventions. Our interventions are all guided by a community-oriented approach that places emphasis on identifying and utilizing existing traditional structures and infusing western concepts into local knowledge for which TPO DRC has conducted and expanding these both to Nigeria.

TPO has a long-standing collaboration with UNICEF spanning over 15 years. In DRC and Uganda, we are the key UNICEF partner for child protection materials development and capacity building. While in Somalia we recently concluded a 5-year engagement with UNICEF where we supported the AMISOM Peacekeeping operations to integrate child protection responses into their operations. Also, in Somalia under the same partnership agreement, we have built the capacity of over 12 local Somali organisations to design, implement and monitor psychosocial support and child protection interventions.

At a global level, TPO is an active member of the Child Protection Global forum, a member of the Save the Children led Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms reference group, an affiliated civil society organization to the Global Child Protection Working Group, as well as the Coalition Against the Use of Child Soldiers and a member of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Child Protection in Crisis Group. TPO is also a member of the Psychosocial Network as well as a REPSSI (Regional Psychosocial SupportInitiatives) partner. Since commencing in DRC close to Seven years ago, we have established a solid presence in South Kivu, North Kivu, Tanganyika, Maniema, Kasai central and Kinshasa. In all these provinces we have established community-based child protection . TPO was established in Nigeria in 2019 registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission- registration No. CAC/IT/NO 123375 and operates in the North East with its Head Office Maiduguri, Born State.

TPO’s mission in Nigeria is to empower local communities, civil society organizations and government institutions to adequately address the much needed Community Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support needs of the affected population and communities especially in conflict, post conflict and disaster affected areas. TPO provides services to the targeted beneficiaries by assisting them cope and soften their mental health and psychosocial problems. It also provides and implements technical support to communities helping communities CBOs/CSS) improving livelihoods and income generating activities. Its psychosocial services build capacity within the communities enabling them to identify, support and manage the psychosocial problems of children, their families and other affected people living in their communities.