Our work
Practical action shaped by local priorities
NPI’s program framework connects immediate protection and learning needs with longer-term peace, opportunity, and resilience.
Program areas
Six connected areas of focus
Protection and GBV prevention
Strengthening community protection structures, safety and gender-equality awareness, referral pathways, and appropriate services for women and girls.
Focus: Community protection, safe spaces, referral systems, legal awareness, counselling, and advocacy.
Child protection and psychosocial support
Promoting family and community support for children, psychosocial wellbeing, child-friendly approaches, and continued learning.
Focus: Case management, family support, child-friendly spaces, psychosocial support, and back-to-school outreach.
Peacebuilding, human rights and governance
Strengthening dialogue, reconciliation, civic awareness, and the capacity of local leaders to address tensions and disputes fairly.
Focus: Peace committees, community dialogue, human-rights outreach, civic education, and reconciliation.
Livelihoods and economic empowerment
Advancing locally appropriate opportunity, climate-smart production, savings and cooperation, enterprise, and women’s economic participation.
Focus: Climate-smart agriculture, savings groups, cooperatives, entrepreneurship, and women’s agribusiness.
Education and youth development
Expanding access to learning while helping young people develop life skills, leadership, entrepreneurship, technology awareness, and conflict sensitivity.
Focus: Community learning, youth leadership, entrepreneurship, life skills, and technology-supported education.
Disaster preparedness and resilience
Promoting understanding of climate and disaster risk, locally led planning, adaptive tools, and stronger early-warning awareness.
Focus: Risk reduction, disaster awareness, community planning, early warning, and climate-risk campaigns.
Delivery principles
Accountable, adaptive and coordinated
Local knowledge
Respect indigenous knowledge and community leadership.
Quality and accountability
Use clear standards, meet commitments, and remain accountable.
Innovation
Adapt tools and approaches to local realities.
Coordination
Work through partnerships and established community structures.
Resilience
Learn from challenges and adjust programming when conditions change.
Partner invitation
Invest in locally led resilience
NPI welcomes collaboration with organizations that value local leadership, accountability, and practical action across protection, education, youth opportunity, livelihoods, peacebuilding, and climate adaptation.