Be part of Mozambique’s peace journey.
Your support helps us empower youth, women, and communities to rebuild livelihoods, restore trust, and shape a peaceful future.
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HEAD OFFICE | CABO DELGADO
Edifício de INSS, 4˚ Andar, Bairro de Expansão
Pemba – Mozambique
(+258) 83 511 2726 | 84 539 5677 | 86 489 9538
SUBOFFICE | MAPUTO
Av. da Marginal, 2˚ Andar, Bloco A, Edifício Jardim Centenário
Maputo – Mozambique
(+258) 84 398 3782 | 82 304 9946
Tibverane Foundation for Peace, Dialogue, Reconciliation, and Future Transformation is an independent, non-governmental, and non-profit think-and-do, and innovate-tank foundation dedicated to preventing and resolving conflict across Mozambique. We advance peace through research, policy analysis, early warning systems, dialogue, mediation, reconciliation, humanitarian assistance, and security sector reform — including the disengagement, disassociation, and reintegration of members of armed groups.
By mobilising partners, financial, technical, and expert resources, we foster peace-supporting economic opportunities in fragile and at-risk communities, promoting good governance, shared prosperity, and inclusive, sustainable development.
As a think-and-do, and innovate-tank foundation, Tibverane bridges peace theory and practice — transforming lessons from the field into innovative, evidence-based approaches that strengthen reconciliation and resilience in Mozambique and beyond.
Our name, Tibverane—from Mozambique’s Cisena language meaning “let us understand each other”—reflects our conviction that lasting peace begins with mutual understanding and shared prosperity.
From our head office in Pemba, Cabo Delgado, we work across Mozambique, where fragility and hope meet—empowering communities to rebuild trust, livelihoods, and dignity. Through dialogue, mediation, reconciliation and peace-driven development, we help transform conflict into opportunity.
The Tibverane Foundation for Peace, Dialogue, Reconciliation, and Future Transformation is an independent, non-governmental, and non-profit organisation dedicated to preventing and resolving conflict across Mozambique. Established in 2025, Tibverane promotes peace through early warning systems, dialogue, mediation, reconciliation, humanitarian assistance, and security sector reform — including the disengagement, disassociation, and reintegration of members of armed groups.
By mobilising partners, financial, technical, and expert resources, we foster peace-supporting economic opportunities in fragile and at-risk communities, promoting good governance, shared prosperity, and inclusive, sustainable development. We work where conflict, displacement, illicit economies, and resource-related tensions intersect — helping communities transform fragility into resilience and rebuilding the foundations of trust and coexistence.
As a think-and-do, innovate-tank foundation, Tibverane bridges peace theory and practice — combining research, mediation, policy analysis, advisory services, and economic empowerment to address the structural causes of conflict. Our Advisory and Accompaniment Services provide governments, civil society, and development partners with evidence-based guidance on political economy analysis, conflict sensitivity, governance reform, and peace-supporting programming — ensuring interventions are contextually grounded, ethically sound, and results-oriented.
Our name, Tibverane — derived from the Cisena phrase meaning “let us understand each other” — embodies our conviction that lasting peace begins with mutual understanding, accountability, and shared prosperity. From our head office in Pemba, Cabo Delgado, we work across Mozambique, where fragility and hope meet — empowering communities to rebuild trust, livelihoods, and dignity.
Tibverane represents a new generation of African peacebuilding institutions — politically informed, locally grounded, and globally connected. Guided by the belief that sustainable peace requires accountable institutions, equitable development, and inclusive opportunity, we are committed to ensuring that peace in Mozambique is not merely negotiated but lived — anchored in justice, dignity, and shared growth.
A peaceful, just, and inclusive world where communities transform conflict into opportunity, and where peace and prosperity are sustained through collaboration, equity, and shared growth.
To foster durable peace and reconciliation by empowering local communities, youth, and women to resolve conflicts, build resilience, and drive economic transformation through innovative and conflict-sensitive approaches.
The Tibverane Foundation’s Theory of Change is grounded in the conviction that sustainable peace in Mozambique can only be achieved when dialogue, accountable governance, inclusive economic systems, and community resilience mutually reinforce one another. Lasting peace cannot be achieved through mediation or reconciliation alone; it must be sustained by responsive government institutions, responsible private investment, and empowered communities capable of shaping their own futures.
Tibverane’s vision is of a peaceful, just, and inclusive Mozambique where communities, institutions, and markets work together to transform conflict into opportunity and sustain peace through accountable governance and equitable growth. Peace thrives when citizens trust their institutions, when governments deliver services transparently, when security forces protect rather than harm, and when private sector actors contribute responsibly to shared prosperity.
If peacebuilding processes are strengthened within and between fragile, volatile, and at-risk communities across Mozambique; if government responsiveness, inclusion, and accountability to these communities are improved; if security forces act professionally and with human-rights-based accountability; if existing community assets, strengths, and infrastructure are mobilised to serve as local peacebuilders and early-warning systems; if livelihoods — across human, social, natural, physical, and financial capital — are supported; and if partnership and collaboration among Tibverane, government, NGOs, CSOs, the private sector, and UN agencies are strengthened, then Mozambique will be better positioned to promote peace, reinforce social cohesion, and prevent violent conflict and violent extremism that risk destabilising both the country and the broader SADC region.
This theory of action, which connects Tibverane’s objectives to its envisioned political end state, asserts that to prevent conflict and violent extremism from gaining a foothold in historically marginalised and diverse communities, resilience and trust must be rebuilt between and among at-risk communities, between these communities and government institutions, and between communities and security actors. To establish or strengthen this trust, communities, government, and security actors must develop the skills, capacity, and commitment to meet the needs of at-risk populations and demonstrate tangible responsiveness to their aspirations.
At the heart of this logic lies the understanding that conflict endures where trust is broken and opportunities are scarce. Sustainable peace therefore requires rebuilding both horizontal trust (among citizens and communities) and vertical trust (between citizens, the state, and the private sector). Tibverane works to make this transformation possible by empowering local mediators and community peace structures to resolve disputes before they escalate; by enhancing civic participation and accountability to improve institutional legitimacy; and by promoting livelihood creation and entrepreneurship that provide tangible dividends for peace. In parallel, the Foundation engages security actors to uphold human rights and strengthen community relations, while integrating research, policy advisory services, and digital innovation to make peacebuilding adaptive and evidence-based.
This change pathway is underpinned by the belief that markets can serve as agents of peace. When private enterprises invest responsibly, procure locally, and share benefits equitably, they reduce grievances, create jobs, and weaken the appeal of illicit economies. Similarly, when state institutions are transparent and communities engage in inclusive dialogue, legitimacy grows and violence recedes. Together, these dynamics enable communities to move from fragility to resilience.
The expected outcomes of Tibverane’s work are:
– Communities that act as agents of peace and contribute to reconciliation;
– Accountable and responsive governance that restores legitimacy and equity;
– Human security grounded in mutual trust between civilians and security institutions; and
– Inclusive, conflict-sensitive economies where responsible business practices and fair benefit-sharing replace exploitation and marginalisation.
In this model, the private sector becomes a critical peace actor — advancing responsible extractives, traceable value chains, and equitable local development.
By bridging dialogue, governance reform, and economic opportunity, Tibverane contributes to a resilient, inclusive, and self-sustaining Mozambique. The Foundation helps ensure that peace agreements are not simply signed but lived — that reconciliation is matched with dignity, livelihoods accompany stability, and private enterprise becomes a driver of social good. The political end state envisioned is one where peace is institutionalised, governance is transparent and accountable, and social cohesion is anchored in justice, opportunity, and shared prosperity for all Mozambicans.
The Mozambique shows a striking paradox between the wealth of potentials and yet many challenges faced by its population. Mozambique is rich in natural resources such as natural gas, gold, and minerals, and has some of the continent’s largest cost. These resources offer tremendous opportunities for economic diversification and the development of livelihoods. In addition, the Mozambique has also great potential for renewable energies. Mozambique can also count on the dynamism of a particularly young population with a rich cultural heritage.
However, the Mozambique is also marked by high levels of poverty, unemployment, inequality, social and environmental vulnerabilities and its economy is characterised by a largely informal labour market, narrow tax bases, underdeveloped industrialisation, and a dominant agricultural sector with little focus on processing activities.
In addition, Mozambique stands at a crossroads. Half a century after independence, political polarisation, unequal development, and violent extremism continue to test its democracy. The 2024 general elections revealed the fragility of national cohesion, while unrest in Cabo Delgado and resource-rich regions exposed deep inequalities. These challenges continue to exacerbate the structural conditions of impoverishment and violence.
In this fragile and complex challenges context, the Tibverane Foundation was born, bridges national commitments to peace with local realities—working directly with citizens, communities, faith leaders, women and youth to rebuild trust and restore dignity. Through community-based mediation, humanitarian dialogue, and peace economies, Tibverane empowers people to turn fragility into resilience.
We accompany Mozambique’s post-accord peace process by supporting ex-combatant of armed groups reintegration, training mediators, and facilitating inclusive dialogue. Our initiatives convert the dividends of peace into tangible livelihoods—through the Business Peace Bootcamp (BPB) and Peace–Development Interface (PDI), which help women, youth, and former combatants establish peace-positive enterprises.
Tibverane’s work is also future-facing—addressing transnational threats such as illicit mining, critical minerals, organised crime, cyber insecurity, and disinformation. Through our Mozambique Centre for Preventive Action (MCPA) and Peace Response Innovation Lab (PRIL), we generate knowledge and innovations that strengthen local and national resilience.
Peace, to us, is not only the absence of violence—but the presence of justice, opportunity, and shared prosperity.
Tibverane’s programmes are organised around six interlinked thematic pillars that translate peacebuilding into measurable community impact. These six interlinked thematic pillar are rooted in the analysis and reflect the input and feedback from a range of stakeholders. All these pillars focus on addressing the underlying grievances and vulnerable conditions of community’s remotes areas and bordering Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe that are most at-risk of violence, recruitment, and entrenchment. The six pillars are mutually reinforcing and must be pursued concurrently; objectives are not noted in order of priority. They are necessarily broad to allow for flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances over the ten-year time horizon of the plan and to cover a provinces with diverse community’s values, contexts and institutional capabilities.
1. Peacebuilding, Mediation, and Reintegration
Healing divides, restoring mediation, negotiation, and community-led reconciliation capacity
We strengthen mediation and dialogue as foundations for reconciliation and peaceful coexistence. Tibverane supports community mediators, facilitates humanitarian dialogue, and promotes restorative justice and truth-telling. By accompanying the reintegration of ex-combatants, youth, and displaced families, we turn reconciliation into a lived reality across Mozambique.
2. Peace Economies and Natural Resource Governance
Transforming conflict resources into shared prosperity
We help communities convert the dividends of peace into economic opportunity. Through our Business Peace Bootcamp (BPB) and Peace–Development Interface (PDI), Tibverane supports youth, women, and ex-combatants to start peace-positive enterprises and manage natural resources responsibly. In areas affected by illicit mining and informal trade, we promote transparency, fair benefit-sharing, and conflict-sensitive governance.
3. Environmental and Climate Security
Protecting nature, sustaining peace
Tibverane integrates environmental protection with conflict transformation. Our Environmental Peacebuilding Programme strengthens communities to co-manage forests, water, and ecosystems, reducing tensions over natural resources and building local resilience to climate shocks.
4. Transnational Threats and Political Economy Governance
Understanding power, enabling change
We examine how transnational systems of power, illicit financial flows, and organised crime shape conflict and governance. Through political economy analysis and advisory support, Tibverane helps partners design strategies that disrupt illicit networks and promote accountable, inclusive institutions. Our Conflict Advisory Hub trains partners on peace negotiation, security governance, and conflict sensitivity.
5. Preventing Violent Extremism and Promoting Social Inclusion
Building inclusion to prevent violence
Tibverane tackles the root causes of radicalisation by promoting inclusion, opportunity, and dialogue. We equip faith and youth leaders with the tools to counter extremist narratives, strengthen civic trust, and rebuild social cohesion. Our community-based PVE training links education, livelihoods, and faith-based peace messaging to prevent recruitment into armed networks.
6. Innovation, Technology, and Learning for Peace
Harnessing knowledge and technology for a safer future
Through the Mozambique Centre for Preventive Action (MCPA) and Peace Response Innovation Lab (PRIL), Tibverane drives innovation in conflict prevention, humanitarian action, and peacebuilding. Our Digital Peace and CyberPeace Unity initiatives counter disinformation, enhance digital literacy, and protect NGOs from cyber threats.
Across these six pillars, Tibverane connects governance, environment, economy, and technology to build a Mozambique where peace is sustained by justice, livelihoods, and shared opportunity.
Our approach reflects the conviction that peace is both a process and a product—a continuous effort linking reconciliation, governance reform, and economic opportunity.
• Politically Informed, Locally Grounded: We believe in working with communities, not for them. Our approach is “politically informed,” meaning we recognise that lasting change is shaped by local power dynamics and politics. To achieve this, we recruit and train local staff to conduct their own ongoing political and economic analysis. This ensures our teams and partners on the ground possess the critical intelligence needed to make smart decisions and take effective, context-driven action.
• Globally Informed, Locally Driven: Tibverane Foundation’s approach is rooted in Mozambique’s realities yet informed by global experience. We draw on international best practices in peacebuilding, mediation, and development — adapting lessons from Africa, Latin America, and Asia to local contexts. Our work ensures local voices shape global debates while global insights strengthen local resilience, creating credible and effective solutions for peace.
• Build Trust: Achieving lasting peace, justice and reconciliation requires that societies reckon with past violence and injustices. To this end, we support our communities and local partners in dealing with the past. This paves the way for a more peaceful future and helps to prevent renewed violence.
• Behind the Scenes Working. Our approach carries political risk, which is partly mitigated by maintaining a low profile. Partners are also incentivised to engage with Tibverane because they can direct their own work and claim credit for success.
• Peace–Development Nexus: We link peacebuilding with livelihoods through enterprise incubation and market access.
• Dialogue as Transformation: We create safe, inclusive spaces for healing and policy reform.
• Evidence and Innovation: Through MCPA and PRIL, we apply data, foresight, and technology to shape prevention and resilience.
• Gender and Inclusion: Women, youth, and excluded groups are central actors in every intervention. In addition, within Tibverane attention to gender and inclusion is explicit across all levels of the results framework, and enshrined in the program’s operations manual and all staff terms of reference.
• Digital Peace and Cyber Resilience: Our CyberPeace Unity initiative shields civil society from misinformation and cyber threats.
• Partnerships and Accompaniment: We co-create with government, civil society, and private partners, ensuring accountability and trust.
Tibverane’s distinctive model fuses the depth of research with the reach of grassroots action—turning understanding into lasting peace.
We operationalise our mission through three interlinked modalities—Research, Dialogue, and Advisory—so that evidence informs practice, dialogue drives transformation, and impact is measurable. Our methods and fieldwork are guided by rigorous ethics, community trust, and confidentiality.
Research: Evidence for Impact
We generate solution-oriented analysis to inform real-world decisions in fragile contexts. By studying how armed actors govern, negotiate, and interact with civilians, we produce insights that shape mediation, development, and humanitarian practice. Our methods blend political-economy and stakeholder analysis with grounded qualitative inquiry and, when needed, quantitative and open-source intelligence—always under robust ethics and safety protocols.
Dialogue: Safe Pathways for Complex Conflicts
We create discreet, inclusive spaces for engagement across Mozambique’s complex conflict landscape. Our teams design agendas that enable meaningful exchanges among actors who rarely meet—faith leaders, political figures, humanitarian agencies, and private-sector stakeholders—while handling logistics, coordination, and facilitation to keep dialogue well-structured and productive.
Advisory: Tailored Accompaniment for Real-World Impact
We provide confidential, context-specific guidance to governments, private entities, civil society, and donors. Our support covers conflict-sensitive policy design, humanitarian access negotiations, and outcome measurement that prioritises reduced violence, improved trust, and sustainable livelihoods—with specialised knowledge of transnational and organised armed networks.
Tibverane Foundation’s work is anchored in six transformative shifts that redefine how peacebuilding, governance, and development intersect. Each shift reflects our conviction that peace is not an isolated project, but a dynamic process that links dialogue, livelihood, and accountability to build resilience from the ground up.
1. From Fragmented Efforts to Collective and Inclusive Peacebuilding
Tibverane fosters an integrated response that unites peacebuilding, governance reform, and development action. We convene local communities, state institutions, civil society, and private sector actors around shared priorities, ensuring that peace is co-created rather than externally imposed. Our model strengthens collective ownership, aligns humanitarian and development responses, and embeds inclusion as the foundation for long-term stability.
2. From Humanitarian Relief to Transformational Change in Fragile Areas
We go beyond short-term relief to address the structural roots of fragility. Tibverane works in the hardest-to-reach, violence-affected, and economically marginalised areas—where state presence is weakest and dependency on illicit or criminal economies is strongest. By combining mediation with governance support and livelihood development, we transform humanitarian entry points into sustainable peace and resilience pathways.
3. From Mediation Alone to Peace-Responsive Investment and Economic Empowerment
Tibverane bridges the divide between peace mediation and economic transformation by ensuring that dialogue leads to tangible development outcomes. Through peace-responsive investment, we connect peacebuilders, local entrepreneurs, investors, and public institutions to design conflict-sensitive business models that sustain peace and create opportunity.
Our approach integrates economic empowerment into peacebuilding, ensuring that communities emerging from conflict move swiftly from recovery to resilience. The Business Peace Bootcamp (BPB) supports small and medium enterprises that advance social cohesion, while the Peace–Development Interface (PDI) channels investment into community-driven infrastructure—agribusiness, fisheries, livestock, and rural development—that generates jobs and improves livelihoods for women, youth, and former combatants.
Each investment is guided by participatory and locally informed decision-making, aligning with community priorities and local development plans. Funding is not imposed through pre-defined blueprints but delivered agilely and inclusively, reflecting the real needs of communities. In this way, Tibverane ensures that peacebuilding and economic renewal advance together—transforming peace from a political outcome into a lived economic reality.
4. From Individual Reintegration to Community Resilience and Social Cohesion
Instead of isolated reintegration projects, Tibverane invests in community-based reconciliation that benefits displaced populations, ex-combatants, and host communities alike. We strengthen grassroots peace structures, offer psycho-social support, facilitate restorative dialogue, and support shared livelihood initiatives that rebuild trust and belonging. Reintegration becomes a collective experience of healing—where communities recover together and peace becomes locally owned.
5. From In-Kind Aid to Cash and Local Enterprise Support
Tibverane prioritises cash-based interventions and direct support to local enterprises as a way of strengthening markets, restoring dignity, and accelerating recovery. By keeping resources circulating within local economies, we reduce operational costs, create jobs, and expand income opportunities—turning assistance into empowerment.
6. From Centralised Partnerships to Locally Led and Regionally Connected Action
We shift from capital-centred programming to locally led peacebuilding and regional collaboration. Tibverane strengthens the capacities of provincial and community-based actors who understand local power dynamics and enjoy legitimacy among the populations they serve.
Our partnerships extend beyond Mozambique into Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, where we support cross-border peace dialogues, mediation, reintegration, and economic cooperation. This regional lens allows us to consolidate national peace processes while unlocking economic corridors that convert borders from fault lines into frontiers of opportunity.
A New Model of Practice
Through these six shifts, Tibverane is redefining what it means to build peace in Africa. We move from aid-driven, top-down intervention to locally grounded, politically informed, and economically integrated peacebuilding. Our method is one of accompaniment rather than imposition—working alongside local actors, not above them. We avoid one-size-fits-all solutions, preferring adaptive, context-driven approaches that prioritise “good-enough” progress over imported best practices.
At the heart of our work lies a simple principle: peace must be lived, not just declared. By linking mediation to markets, dialogue to dignity, and governance to opportunity, Tibverane helps communities transform fragility into resilience and rebuild Mozambique from the ground up.
Be part of Mozambique’s peace journey.
Your support helps us empower youth, women, and communities to rebuild livelihoods, restore trust, and shape a peaceful future.
HEAD OFFICE | CABO DELGADO
Edifício de INSS, 4˚ Andar, Bairro de Expansão, Pemba – Mozambique
(+258) 83 511 2726 | 84 539 5677 | 86 489 9538
info@tibveranefoundation.org
SUBOFFICE | MAPUTO
Av. da Marginal, 2˚ Andar, Bloco A, Edifício Jardim Centenário, Maputo – Mozambique
(+258) 83 511 2726 | 84 539 5677 | 86 489 9538
info@tibveranefoundation.org
