Burundi
 | Tuyage (Let’s Talk)Dive into the heart of Tuyage (Let’s Talk), an initiative funded by USAID to transform communities throughout Burundi. Spearheaded by Search, Tuyage’s mission is clear: to cultivate an enriched information landscape, foster dynamic economic dialogue, encourage citizen engagement, and promote unwavering social cohesion. Since its inception in 2018, […] |
| Search reality TV show winner awarded state funding by the President of BurundiWhen Maria dropped out of school in sixth grade to get married, her life was limited to household chores and farm work. But her innovative ideas have gained her the winning prize in the popular reality show Nd’umu DG, alongside recognition from the Burundian President himself. Maria’s story […] |
| Mid-term (2 pager) – Tuyage “Let’s Talk” in Burundi – August 2022Tuyage project activities were remarkably effective in improving women’s economic outcomes and increasing access to media that promotes women’s inclusion and rights. Mixed findings on changes in women’s agency and discriminatory norms, however, point to the need to adapt project activities to address more deeply ingrained barriers to women’s rights and empowerment. |
| Mid-term evaluation – Tuyage – August 2022Tuyage project activities were remarkably effective in improving women’s economic outcomes and increasing access to media that promotes women’s inclusion and rights. Mixed findings on changes in women’s agency and discriminatory norms, however, point to the need to adapt project activities to address more deeply ingrained barriers to women’s rights and empowerment. Recommandations:
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| Final Evaluation – Tubiri Tuvurana Ubupfu – February 2022From September 2019 to February 2022, Search implemented, with support from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, the program “Tubiri Tuvurana Ubupfu: Strengthening Trust and Positive Relations Between Youth and Police in Burundi.” The “Tubiri Tuvurana Ubupfu” project’s main aim was to strengthen trust and positive relationships between youth and police to prevent violence before, during and after the 2020 electoral cycle. To this effect, the project set out to transform the relationship between the two groups by encouraging constructive and humanizing interactions, and also with other members of the community. The project intended, in particular, to harness the potential of mixed security committees. The project came as a bridge that connected people with different perceptions and opinions. It positively shifted some patterns of collaboration between the target groups, which opened up a space for information sharing, in particular between youth and the mixed security committees on one side, and mixed security committees and the police on the other. The proportion of youth and police who can mention at least two incentive in engaging in dialogue to prevent violence significantly increase by the endline, by more than 30 percentage points. Community dialogues appear in particular to have helped some people to open their minds and change their behavior, with a significant increase in respondents who say they have discussed sensitive topics with the police in a safe space in the last 6 months (94% by the endline). The project presents several elements of sustainability, including youth champions, who are continuing to act as mediators within their communities, and a contribution to the institutionalization of community policing, as the police are currently considering integrating Common Ground Approach modules in their training program for police officers. |
| Final Evaluation – Supporting a New Generation of Women Leaders to Advance Peace and Security in Burundi – December 2021From December 2020 to November 2021, Search implemented, with support from the Federal Government of Germany, the program “Supporting a New Generation of Women Leaders to Advance Peace and Security in Burundi.” The project was designed to empower a new generation of women leaders in the peace consolidation process, both by ensuring that an intergenerational cohort of Burundian women have increased technical and financial capacity and confidence in their ability to participate in peacebuilding efforts, and by increasing overall community support for women’s participation. Through combined empowerment and outreach strategies, the project contributed to significantly increasing the visibility and the recognition of women’s role as key peacebuilding champions. 96% of respondents cited at least once women as actors contributing to conflict transformation, an improvement of 38 percentage points as compared to the baseline. This was accompanied by a perception of a decrease in conflicts in target communities. The project also contributed to an increase in community support for women’s participation. This was observed through an increase in the level of engagement of community members in women-led economic initiatives, including among men, and the transformation of some cultural practices. Finally, the project solidified women’s role as leaders in target communities – an additional 45% said they play a role as leaders and an additional 29% said their confidence had greatly increased by the end of the project, as compared to the baseline. |
 | BUILDING PEACE FROM THE INSIDE“Building Peace from the Inside: Supporting Insider Mediation for Sustainable Transformation of Conflict” is a two-year international consortium project funded by the EU’s Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP)and implemented by Search for Common Ground, Interpeace, Berghof Foundation, and partners Conflict Alert and Prevention Centre (CENAP) in […] |