In partnership with the Global Office for Humanitarian Affairs (GOHA), Interpeace is piloting a catalytic peace-sensitive livelihoods initiative in northern border areas. Building on the PATRIP Foundation’s climate-resilient infrastructure programme in the Tchologo region in the Ivory Coast and the Cascades region in Burkina Faso, the project consolidates social cohesion gains by addressing one of the root causes of forced displacement: economic vulnerability.

The initiative is structured around three interconnected components:

1) Livelihoods for Peace: The project supports more than 50 community members through income-generating activities linked to conflict-sensitive value chains (shea, cashew, agro-processing, market gardening, livestock farming, fishing), combined with technical training and micro-grants.

2) Applied Research: Featuring a Participatory Action Research component, the project documents the links between climate shocks, livelihoods, displacement, and peace dynamics, and produces a peace-sensitive private investment model.

3) Advocacy and Private Sector Engagement: By mobilising business actors and diaspora networks on corporate social responsibility strategies the project ensures private sector engagement aligned with peacebuilding objectives.

Implemented in regions particularly vulnerable to climate shocks, instability, and economic insecurity affecting mostly young people and displaced populations, the project aims to generate scalable, locally implemented solutions to strengthen resilience across the strategic region of West Africa.