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Somalia. Community-credit and resource management to increase climate resilience

Resilience is the ability of a person to maintain his or her integrity even in the face of dramatic circumstances to overcome difficulties. This is well known by the practitioners of our project, "Increasing the Resilience of Chronically Vulnerable Somali People, Communities and Systems to...

Somalia. Breaking inequality barriers: Amran's story of gender empowerment

Amran Abdi Farah, a 27-year-old mother of two residing in Beritir village, is one of the beneficiaries selected to attend a six-month vocational training for market demand-driven skills delivered by COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale and the Somali Resilience Program (SomReP) as part of the...

Somalia. Ali's journey from despair to prosperity

Ali is a sorghum farmer in Shibelow, a village in Baidoa district. Due to the impact of the 2020 drought on agro-pastoral households, he and his family fled in search of safety and assistance to Baidoa town, the capital of the Bay region. Since moving to Donderow IDP camp in Baidoa town,...

Somalia. Abdiyo, the change maker in the Village Committee

Abdiyo Khalif Dahir, 67 years old, mother of 6 and grandmother of 31 children, is a member of the Village Development Committee in Dayah Village, Dollow District – Somalia. The Committee was created in 2014 under the project “Enhancing resilience in Somalia”, financed by Australia...

Somalia. A traditional heritage festival by COOPI

On 19th December 2021, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale held a traditional heritage festival for the Yemeni refugee community, Somali returnees, and Internal Displaced People in Mogadishu which was supported by UNHCR under the project “Promoting Self-reliance and livelihoods for...

Somalia. A community and networked approach to build climate resilience

Phase two of the Somalia Drought Response Project, funded by SDC, the Swedish Agency for Development and Cooperation, has come to an end. The final project video features the testimonies of those who wanted to tell us how the activities carried out by COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale have...

Somalia. 250 vulnerable people initiated into entrepreneurship by COOPI

In Mogadishu, 250 vulnerable returnees, displaced persons and members of the host population received training and cash to start a small business, thanks to the project "Developing Entrepreneurial mind-set of returnees, IDPs & host communities through capacity building and start-up grants...

Somalia. "Who is my neighbour?" SomRep's campaign against drought

The crowfunding campaign "Who is my neighbour?", created by the consortium of NGOs, SomRep (Somali Resilience Program) of which COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale is a member, started on 27 March and is aimed at fighting the worst drought Somalia is experiencing in the last 40 years and...

Somalia, an integrated approach in emergencies

There are many ways to save lives in emergencies and crisis. In the South-Central of Somalia, in relation to the project  supported by ECHO (the EU Humanitarian Aid), COOPI is working from March 2016 through an integrated approach addressed to the most vulnerable populations affected by...