AART: Anticipatory Action & Climate Resilience along Transhumance Corridors in Somalia
The project aims to strengthen preparedness, enhance early action capabilities, and build climate resilience among pastoral, agro-pastoral, and displaced communities. It includes designing effective EWS, implementing anticipatory action plans, and promoting sustainable agricultural practices that improve food security and social cohesion.
RFSS: Riverine & Pastoral Food System Strengthening
This project aims to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable households by focusing on sustainable agricultural practices, better market integration, and enhanced disaster resilience. The initiative includes developing the MDALAG, increasing access to agricultural inputs, and providing training on climate-resilient practices.
BREACH: Boosting Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change
The project aims to enhance the resilience of displacement-affected communities in Burao and adjacent locations in Somaliland. The primary goal is to provide durable solutions for internally displaced people (IDP) and host communities by strengthening their ability to manage disasters, improve access to basic services, increase livelihood opportunities, and support social integration.
Promoting Inclusive Action for Peacebuilding (PIAP)
Through collaboration with women and youth associations, the project seeks to foster leadership skills and engagement in addressing inter-communal tensions, enhancing mutual understanding, and promoting peaceful coexistence.
Empowering Youth Employment Through Mobile Technology
The motorcycle project implemented by Shaqodoon Organization and Oxfam Novib sought to promote safe motorcycle riding practices and improve the efficiency of delivery systems through the use of mobile-based technology, positively impacting the livelihoods of the participants and their families by creating sustainable employment opportunities for them.
SomReP: Consolidating Resilience Gains in Somalia
Contribute to the resilience vulnerable Somali people, through enhanced food security, sustainable livelihoods and strengthened disaster risk management capacities in SWS by 2023.
Mobile Aggregator Services
A robust SMS gateway that connects its SMS applications to all Somali telecommunications companies, using the service to have direct access to beneficiaries, attending to community needs.
Mobile Aggregation Service (SMS)
The aim of the project is to create an innovative and suitable alternative to information sharing to the public integrating Radio and Telecom through the use of mobile phones.
Market Information System (MIS)
Links Shaqodoon with the local business community, other potential employers and encourages youth to inculcate an entrepreneurial culture through entrepreneurship and financial literacy.
Bits School - Digital Design
Provide ICT training to youth in disadvantaged positions. Establish Bits school in Hargeisa; recruitment and ongoing training of 96 hard to reach and at risk youth from Hargeisa IDP’s communities.
SMS/Voice based Beneficiary Feedback Service Provision
As a result the Stability Fund set-up in partnership with Shaqodoon SMS and voice beneficiary feedback system in order to solicit targeted feedback from beneficiaries and the community.
Xogsiiye Business Information Line
The Somaliland government through support from World Bank has been trying to establish a One-Stop-Shop for business registration to make the process of registration seamless.
Covid-19 Helpline, Pandemic Support, Spread Prevention, Protection Support (COVID Call Center)
A COVID-19 call centre in Hargeisa providing a two-way communication system is encouraging the community to engage and call the centre whenever they need any information or feel sick.
SMS/IVR Feedback Service
SMS/IVR Feedback Service. To hear the voices of beneficiaries using a toll free three digital number connected to all Telecommunication companies in Somalia.
Democracy Through Mobile Technology
Promote accountability and transparency in governance and developmental agencies to meet the needs of communities especially those that are hard to reach.
DHRF: Using Mobile Technology to Support Democracy Building in Somaliland and Puntland
Somaliland’s nascent democracy has seen successes and failures. The system was designed to add value to the democratic process by providing a mobile service were voters can air their concerns.