Community Partners International
Community Partners International (CPI)'s story begins in the war zones of eastern Myanmar (Burma) in the late 1990s. CPI's founders understood that the key to improving health services for conflict-affected and hard-to-reach communities was to support community-led local organizations as key service providers, helping them obtain the resources, capacity and information necessary to meet essential health and humanitarian needs. From these origins CPI expanded across Myanmar's border regions, and annual coverage of CPI-supported services exceeded one million people for the first time in 2009.