SFCG D.R. Congo

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Search for Common Ground in the DRC (SFCG), known locally as Centre Lokolé was established in 2001 to support communication around the Inter-Congolese Dialogue.

SFCG uses a wide range of peace-building tools, including common-ground media production, joint cultural and sporting activities, participatory theatre, and media and conflict transformation trainings. These tools address the principle threats to the long term stability of the DRC, and aim to prevent violence. SFCG’s tools are designed to permit flexibility and strategic repositioning according to new challenges and opportunities.  SFCG aims to contribute to the consolidation of democracy by improving the population’s knowledge of citizen participation and accountability under the new democratic dispensation, while encouraging dialogue and participatory decision-making between the population and their elected leaders. Faced with ongoing insecurity and human rights abuses, particularly in the east, as well as tensions around refugee return and internal displacement, SFCG’s activities seek to renew relationships broken over years of war through communication and collaboration.

SFCG has approximately 50 staff members in offices in Kinshasa and Bukavu, with sub-offices in Baraka, Uvira and Moba, and collaborates with approximately 100 local partners in all current and future provinces of the DRC. These partners are primarily local radio stations, as well as civil society networks, religious organizations and youth networks.

With this vision in mind, SFCG in DRC gives priority to the following thematic areas :

1. Democracy and Governance
2. Security Sector Reform
3. Peaceful return of refugees and IDPs
4. Repairing relationships between divided communities in DRC and the region