HealthNet TPO works with communities facing the impacts of conflict, disaster, and displacement to strengthen safety, leadership, and cohesion. We focus on preventing violence—especially against women and children—and supporting those who have been displaced to rebuild with dignity. Moreover, by training health workers and strengthening local organisations, we ensure that communities lead their own recovery with culturally grounded and lasting solutions.
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Empowering communities
We work with communities to prevent violence and promote safety, particularly for women and children. This includes creating safe spaces, offering gender-based violence (GBV) support, and encouraging inclusive dialogue at the community level. Our initiatives also support people displaced by conflict or disaster — including refugees, returnees, and internally displaced persons — with approaches that are sensitive to local dynamics and needs.
Our work is rooted in the belief that protection and resilience go hand in hand. By partnering with community members and local actors, we strengthen networks of care and enable communities to respond to challenges with dignity and agency.
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Building local skills and leadership
We invest in local capacity to ensure that health, protection, and recovery services reflect the realities of the people they serve. Through targeted training, we work with community leaders, women’s groups, and health workers to build skills in self-care, emotional wellbeing, and inclusive engagement. In several settings, this includes training on couple communication, community mobilisation, and leadership for women in peacebuilding contexts.
Our teams — made up of national staff and local partners — play a central role in ensuring that programmes are culturally relevant and sustainable. By strengthening local organisations and supporting community-led solutions, we help lay the groundwork for long-term recovery and collective resilience.
Story in focus: ‘Somos voz’-‘We are voice’: A Journey from Violence to Healing
Recognising the power of personal stories in confronting violence, HealthNet TPO Colombia, GOAL and Buen Ayre Visual organised a forum for sharing personal narratives, emotions and strategies that brought together 24 women, such as feminists, activists, dancers, journalists and influencers, coming from all over Colombia.
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Read moreIntegrated emergency response to returnee population in South Sudan
In 2025, an estimated 9.3 million people—69% of the country’s total population of 13.4 million—are expected to need some form of humanitarian assistance in South Sudan.
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Read moreHealthcare and MHPSS services for refugees in Burundi
HealthNet TPO, with UNHCR, is enhancing healthcare for 95,000 refugees in Burundi. This project strengthens services in camps, provides mental health support, and improves nutrition, ensuring sustainable care for vulnerable communities.
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Read moreLeaders of Peace (LoP) in South Sudan
Building sustainable peace and gender equality in South Sudan through mental health and psychosocial support.
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Read moreWomen Advocate Peace (WAP) in Colombia
Women who feel protected and resilient are more able to become active participants for peacebuilding in their communities. HealthNet TPO supports women and girls, providing psychosocial support and building stronger community networks so that they feel empowered and enabled to engage in decision-making processes for sustainable peace.
With support from HealthNet TPO, we have built our knowledge and skills – the idea is to share this knowledge with other women, so that more of us can grow stronger.— Sandra Patricia Jacanamejoy - Kamëntšá Indigenous woman from Sibundoy, Putumayo and HealthNet TPO’s Regional Leader with the Women Influencing Peace group
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Read moreAccelerating Gender Equality in South Sudan #IWD2024
On March 7th, 2024, the Central Equatoria Women Associated launched a pre-International Women’s Day celebration in Terekeka, joined by HealthNet TPO South Sudan. With the theme “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress,” the gathering aimed to tackle economic disparities affecting women worldwide.
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Read moreDifferent contexts, same challenge: Psychosocial wellbeing, peacebuilding and gender-based violence in Colombia and South Sudan
On the 21st September, the inaugural webinar in a series on MHPSS and Peacebuilding explored the cultural and gendered sensitivities in both countries and why these are crucial for advancing peacebuilding, enhancing psychosocial wellbeing. We followed up with local MHPSS practitioners and community leaders to discuss further. This webinar was organised in collaboration with MHPSS.net and the IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support.
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Read moreColombia: Forum on Care and Health with a Gender and Ethnic Approach
Integrating the voices of indigenous women for a gendered and ethnic approach to health care in Colombia.