Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report’s original reporting, “A US-funded atrocity prevention system is going dark.” This feature story examines how local peacebuilders warn that remote communities in Central Africa are becoming harder to reach — and harder to protect.

Invisible Children coordinated maintenance activities for these radio systems, which served as the backbone for early warning and emergency response systems for communities in Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé, areas that experience intercommunal violence and threats from armed groups. These initiatives also included a reunification program connecting children and youth abducted by groups, such as the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, to their families. Invisible Children had to drastically reduce field operations and radio maintenance after cuts to USAID and State Department grants prompted reductions of their headquarters and field operations teams from 50 to 20 staff.

Source: Devex