Our Work
Education, peacebuilding, youth leadership, and responsible technology belong in the same conversation. Explore the programs shaping our vision of a future beyond conflict.
Our work moves on three levels: evidence that explains the conflict, systemic change that addresses its causes, and community-led action that meets people where they are.
Three pillars, four areas of work
Our work spans four connected areas, each tied to one of our three strategic pillars and to the flagship platforms and programs below.
Through the Vijana Mobile School and community-based learning initiatives, we expand educational opportunities for children and young people affected by conflict, displacement, and limited access to digital resources.
Part of Education and Youth Development
We work with youth, faith leaders, educators, and communities to encourage dialogue, nonviolence, social cohesion, and locally led approaches to conflict transformation.
Part of Peacebuilding, Civilian Protection and Social Cohesion
We support the knowledge, skills, leadership, and community relationships that help young people pursue entrepreneurship, livelihoods, and economic resilience.
Part of Economic Empowerment and Community Resilience
We engage communities, institutions, researchers, and technology stakeholders in conversations and initiatives that promote responsible mineral supply chains, accountability, and greater benefits for Congolese communities.
Connects research, policy, and advocacy across all three pillars
Our flagship platforms
Two public, evidence-led platforms carry our systemic work — before any single program.
Flagship platform · Systemic accountability
A live, source-linked observatory of documented incidents, actors, and trends across the DRC — built for journalists, researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Live screenshot from congoevidence.org, captured October 2026.
Flagship platform · Corporate accountability
A public atlas tracking proposed humanitarian-project pledges from tech and EV companies across Congo’s mining regions, alongside a public directory of participating brands.
Live screenshot from techpeaceforcongo.org, captured October 2026.
Systemic change begins with people.
Community-based programs
The programs that meet young people and communities where they are.
Education & Digital Inclusion
Tablets, learning materials, and trained facilitators brought into partner schools in Goma.
Peacebuilding & Community Protection
School-based awareness on safety, consent, dignity, and reporting pathways in the Goma area.
Peacebuilding & Community Protection
Faith- and community-based dialogues encouraging mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.
Youth Leadership & Economic Opportunity
Organizational capacity-strengthening for youth-led civil society organizations.
Youth Leadership & Economic Opportunity
Putting young people’s leadership and economic opportunity at the center of a peaceful future.
Education & Digital Inclusion
A free community learning, research, and action hub for young leaders and their communities in Goma.
Illustrative stock photograph. Not Vijana Africa program imagery.
The needs of young people cannot be reduced to a single issue.
Our Impact page sets out how we measure reach, participation, and outcomes across these programs, with clear definitions behind every figure.
Explore our accountability approach
