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.