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Did you know that...
Somalia has the longest coastline in
Africa at 3,025 kilometres.
Seventy-nine percent of people in Somalia are without access to safe water.
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The two perennial rivers in Somalia are called the Juba and Shabelle.
For the past 15 years,
Somalia has witnessed
internecine warfare
and widespread insecurity.
Now its time for change
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We work and cooperate with
various institutions and
organisations to address issue
related to agriculture food
security and livestock programs
and some of organizations which
we are willing to establish
partners relation and
cooperation are including the
following:-
FAO – Food & Agriculture
Organization
The Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United
Nations leads international
efforts to defeat hunger.
Serving both developed and
developing countries, FAO acts
as a neutral forum where all
nations meet as equals to
negotiate agreements and debate
policy. FAO is also a source of
knowledge and information. We
help developing countries and
countries in transition
modernize and improve
agriculture, forestry and
fisheries practices and ensure
good nutrition for all. Since
our founding in 1945, we have
focused special attention on
developing rural areas, home to
70 percent of the world's poor
and hungry people.
WFP – World Food Program
UNICEF - United Nations
Childrens' Education Fund
UNICEF operates in the whole of
Somalia regions and their
programmes cover health and
nutrition, water supply,
sanitation and hygiene and basic
education. In addition, the
communication, protection and
participation programme has
activities that cut across all
programme areas including: child
protection; HIV/AIDS and youth
development.
Food Security Analysis Unit-
Somalia (FSAU)
The Food Security Analysis Unit-
Somalia (FSAU) seeks to provide
evidence-based analysis of
Somali food, nutrition and
livelihood security to enable
both short-term emergency
responses and long-term
strategic planning to promote
food and livelihood security for
Somali people.
ADRA- Adventist Development
and Relief Agency
ADRA Somalia works throughout
the Somali regions providing
Development & Relief assistance
to needy individuals &
communities through provision of
Education, Food, Water and
sanitation
TERRA NUOVA
Supports development programmes
through rural development
,promotion of SME's and support
to urban youth.
COOPI - Cooperazion
Internazionale
An italian based development and
relief organisation working with
an aim to alleviate poverty, to
assist the most vulnerable
individuals and to improve
livelihood of disadvantaged
people. They help in providing
access to food, healthcare
education and financial security
among the worlds poorest people.
Also help to reduce their
vulnerability to emergencies due
to civil wars and natural
calamities.
HORN RELIEF - Horn of Africa
Relief and development
Organization
Horn Relief is dedicated to
creating sustainable peace and
develoment in Somalia through
grassroot capacity building ,
devloping youth leadership,
empowerment of women and
protection of environment. Horn
Relief has activity bases in
Sanaag, Sool, Bari Food
security,Rural livelihoods,
water, education, capacity
building and environment
Pastoral youth leadership,
alternative livelihoods, women
literacy, emergency drought and
vulnerability, tsunami response
and environmental study.
Climatic-rainfall, vegetative
cover, land degradation
CARE
CARE covers South Sudan,
Most of Somalia and Somaliland.
They assist in Food security and
Rural development, Health,
Education,Shelter, Water and
sanitation sectors. Activities
carried out include: Food
distributions, capacity
building, rehabilitation of
infrastructure, reproductive
health, Education, capacity
building,food and fishing gears
distribution, strengthening of
fishermen associations, borehole
construction etc Food security
assesments,basic minor illness,
drug use, immunization records,
education enrolment, number of
boats and fishing gears,
baselines for livelihoods.
Caritas Switzerland
Caritas Internationalis is a
confederation of 162 Catholic
relief, development and social
service organisations working to
build a better world, especially
for the poor and oppressed, in
over 200 countries and
territories.
Caritas works without regard to
creed, race, gender, or
ethnicity, and is one of the
world's largest humanitarian
networks.
Caritas provides a beacon of
hope for tens of millions of
women, men and children in times
of hardship and contributes to
the development of social
justice in times of peace.
Caritas' mandate includes
integral development, emergency
relief, advocacy, peace
building, respect for human
rights and support for proper
stewardship of the planet's
environment and resources.
Contact Details: SwissGroup/Caritas
Hargeisa Office: swissgroup@caritas-switzerland.org;
Caritas Switzerland & Caritas
Luxembourg Regional Office:
admin@caritas-switzerland.org.
EC - European Commission
European Commission is a major
donor for development projects
in the whole of Somalia.
Projects funded include Food
security, Rural development and
Livestock water sectors
FAO - Food and agriculture
Organisation of the United
Nations
The Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United
Nations leads international
efforts to defeat hunger.
Serving both developed and
developing countries, FAO acts
as a neutral forum where all
nations meet as equals to
negotiate agreements and debate
policy. FAO is also a source of
knowledge and information. We
help developing countries and
countries in transition
modernize and improve
agriculture, forestry and
fisheries practices and ensure
good nutrition for all. Since
our founding in 1945, we have
focused special attention on
developing rural areas, home to
70 percent of the world's poor
and hungry people
ILRI - International
Livestock Research Institute
ILRI Cooperating with UNEP and
RELMA GIS and natural Resources
Management-NRM Water harvesting
Spatial data
RCMRD - Regional Center for
Mapping of Resources for
Development
covers whole of Somalia in
Geo-Information projects design,
spatial database development,
Digital mapping for land use and
cover. Its activities include:
GISdatabase development,
training planners on GIS and
digital mapping of natural
resources Remote sensing data.
SC UK - Save the Children -
UK
Save the Children UK has a base
at Hiraan and is involved in
Food security and Primary
Education Community
sensitization by providing
training, constructing
schools,support for
agriculture/food to communities
Environmental changes, land and
water management including
access to household economy.
UN OCHA
United Nations Office for
Co-ordinations of Humanitarian
Affairs
Operates in the whole of
Somalia. This agency performs
the Coordination of humanitarian
response/resource mobilization
VETAID
VETAID operates in
Awdal,Sanag,Togdheer, Sool and
Bari regions of Somalia. Their
activitiess include: Rural
production systems, natural
resource management ,pastoral
food security assesment
Livestock diseases, pastoral
production systems/income,
prevailing market and climatic
trends.
World Vision
World Vision Somalia programme
covers Bakool, Middle Juba, and
Somaliland Health,in the areas
of Food security, Education,
Gender/FGM and peace building.
The current projects are in
provision of Primary healthcare
programs, Food security, FGM
gender awareness program, Global
fund TB Grant for Somalia and
basic education support. World
vision in Somalia collects data
such as Nutritional data, EPI
data,TB treatment and lab data,
food security data, pupil
enrolment, attendance and
retention in schools.
Land Degradation Assessment
in Drylands (LADA)
The Land Degradation Assessment
in drylands project (LADA)
develops tools and methods to
assess and quantify the nature,
extent, severity and impacts of
land degradation on dryland
ecosystems, watersheds and river
basins, carbon storage,
biological diversity and human
livelihood at a range of spatial
and temporal scales. It also
builds the national, regional
and international capacity to
analyse, design, plan and
implement interventions to
mitigate land degradation and
establish sustainable land use
and management practices.
Six countries - Argentina,
China, Cuba, Senegal, South
Africa and Tunisia - have been
selected for conducting pilot
studies.
AGROSPHERE
This is a non profit
organization dealing with
agriculture and rural
development.
CEFA
A non profit making organization
of voluntary service and
cooperation greatly involved in
community development,
agricultural and rehabilitation
programmes. Its activities cover
the whole of Somalia.
GAA – German Agro Action
Supports self help projects for
youth and children as well as
emergency programmes mainly to
poor victims of war and natural
disasters. Their project work
concentrates on the areas of:
agriculture and environment,
survival and reconstruction aid,
children and youth, crafts and
business, strengthening self
help groups and partner
organisations.
ARDO International
Based on the Juba riverine
regions. Collects and maintains
information on river gauges and
provide timely flood warnings to
the Juba riverine community.
CINS
CINS operates in Bakool,
Galobeet and Hiraan. Rural
Development Seed systems
rehabilitation and crop
diversification Shebelle River
level in Bulo Burti |
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