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ODDBU is a branch of the Catholic diocese of Bujumbura focusing on development issues. Their mission is to promote peace through socio-economic growth by involving communities in their own development. By providing stable livelihoods ODDBU hope to reduce the number of factors that lead to violent conflict. Conflict Resolution through Farming Burundi faces a crisis [...]
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Bujumbura Diocese Development Organisation (ODDBU)
Centre Resolution Conflits (CRC)
Based in Eastern DR Congo, the part of the country most vulnerable to violence, the ‘Centre Résolution Conflit’ (CRC) has, for the last 10 years, been tireless in its work rescuing child soldiers, keeping communities together, building relationships and training people from different tribes to live together peacefully. Henri and Albino from Insight on Conflict [...]
Training Centre for the Development of Ex-Combatants (CEDAC)
An organisation with 10 staff, dedicated to the peaceful reintegration of ex-combatants, through the provision of skills and peacebuilding training. To date, CEDAC has assisted with the socio-economic reintegration of 25,000 ex-combatants across the country. The Training Centre for Development of the Ex-Combatants (CEDAC) is a non-partisan organisation that aims to support former soldiers to [...]
Amahoro Youth Club (AYC)
The Amahoro (‘Peace’) Youth Club aims to be a force for peace, exchange and development for the common good. It was set up by a group of university students, who wanted to create a new type of not-for-profit organisation; a national movement which had a democratic, networking structure, in contrast to what they perceive as [...]
Ubuntu Centre
The Ubuntu Centre is a hub for research and activities devoted to promoting peace and reconciliation, both in Burundi and throughout the Great Lakes region. Activities include drama projects, psychosocial counselling, peace education, and media programmes. They have recently introduced socio-economic development ventures like housing and goat farming, and the centre also conducts research on [...]
Kamenge Youth Centre (KYC)
The Kamenge Youth Centre (KYC) was initiated by the Catholic diocese of Bujumbura in 1991; it works between six highly ethnicised communes in northern Bujumbura, an area which saw more than 20,000 people killed in the 1993-2000 conflict. KYC provides a wide range of activities including training, sports, and other recreational activities. Since 1994, the [...]
Dalit Development Society
The Dalit Development Society is dedicated to addressing the needs of marginalised people, espeically those from dalit (‘untouchable’) caste groups. DDS works to create a more just society. It focuses on victims of the recent conflict and dalit people, promoting basic human rights and re-integrating marginalised people. DDS works to address social exclusion, in the [...]
