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Somali refugees return home and achieve vocational certificate

Last August 13th, in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, 160 people achieved a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) certification, as part of a project created by COOPI in collaboration with the UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees This project aims at...

Set4food conference in Washington

  On October 28 the conference of the project lead by COOPI.   On October 28 will take place the international conference "Sustainable Energy Technologies for Food Utilization" to present the project Set4Food. The aim of this project is to enhance the capacity of humanitarian...

SET4FOOD

"There can be no food security without having access to a source of fuel to heat and cook food": this is how the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs explains the precious relationship between food and energy, all the more relevant in crisis contexts, where thousands of people...

Nobel Prize. COOPI alongside the World Food Programme

On Friday 9 October, the World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of...

Mobile money to strengthen purchasing power in Somalia

"Before receiving the first cash transfers, I was desperate - after losing my crops due to drought and after falling ill, I didn't know how I could get back up," says Hawa Isgowe, a 70-year-old widow, who lives with her 8 children and 22 grandchildren in the Dahala IDP camp in Baidoa...

Milan. Saturday October 28 100 aid workers from over 20 countries for the annual conference

COOPI Meeting begins Monday, Oct. 23: A week of meetings about cooperation and global perspectives, Saturday 28 a day open to the public in presence and live streaming 100 international cooperation actors from more than 20 countries gather in Milan to discuss experiences, approaches and...

Milan, 29th October: The Near Future

On Saturday 29 October 2022, there will be a panel discussion open to the public and streamed online entitled 'The Near Future: International Cooperation in Times of Global Crises'. The debate will revolve around the combined effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and...

Maryan - COOPI helped me gaining my dignity back

"The first cash transfers helped me paying off my debts and giving a more diversified diet to my children. It was humiliating being seen as a burden, and the pressure to repay loans borrowed had been unbearable. The cash support I received greatly helped me gain back dignity within the...

Livelihood protection support for families affected by drought

In Somalia, the project “Emergency food security and livelihoods responses to drought affected agro-pastoral communities in Baidoa” aims to save and protect livelihood assets of 700 vulnerable drought-affected agro-pastoralists families including women, boys, girls,...