Our Current Projects

Emergency Targeted Relief Food and Restocking Assistance to Cyclone and Flood Victims

In 2019, SOYDAVO and the IOM worked together to provide food and livestock to cyclone and flood affected families in Awdal and Sahil regions. 765 households benefited under these two projects.

Enchancing Girls' Education

SOYDAVO and Education & Skills Development Group (ESDEG) are working together on a two year Girls Education project funded by UKAID/DFID in the UK.

Acting for Women, Fostering Women's Emancipation from SGBV/FGM to Improved Livehood Project in Togdheer Region

This project is a three-year follow up project initiated to consolidate the achievements made in the previous GBV project funded by International Solidarity Foundation, which ended July 2017.

Human Trafficking Project

This is a one-year project funded by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime – UNODC. The project commenced in November 2018 and will come to end in November 2019.

Protection, Return and Monitoring Network

The protection monitoring and returnees project seek to monitor the displacements and movements of people into and within Somalia and Somaliland.

Reproductive Health and Rights Project

This is a two-year project initiated to consolidate the gains made in the previous one and half year's project, which has ended in March 2018. The project was funded by the AmplifyChange UK.

Cash for Work and Cash Transfer Project

SOYDAVO is committed to improving the livelihood conditions of all people in its project communities, with particular attention to drought affected, disabled people and deprived women and children.

Self-Help Group Project

The Self-Help Group approach is a four-year project funded by the Kindernothilfe – a German-based organization who promotes the SHG approach in 24 countries including Somaliland. Project implementation commenced in September 2014 and will come to an end March 2019.

Gend-Based Violence Project

The project titled "Acting for women, fostering women's emancipation from SGBV to improved livelihoods" is a three-year follow - up project initiated to consolidate the achievements made in the previous GBV project funded by International Solidarity Foundation, which ended July 2017.

Peace and Culture Project

The project titled "Fostering Somaliland's Heritage: Creating links between Cultural heritage and job opportunities for Peace and Cohesion in Togdheer Region" is a two and a half years project funded by the European Union.

Our Mission

SOYDAVO is committed to working with human dignity, self-development, and to make people promoters of their own growth for women, youth and children through mobilization of their own potential and by implementing projects that meet their needs for education, health, skill training, income generation, sports and self-empowerment.

Our Vision

To achieve a society where children, women and youth are able to live their lives in peace and have their rights safeguarded in order to attain better social, political, economic, education and health standards.

Our Values

The core values of the organization are:

We promote transparency and accountability for our stakeholders
We believe in participatory decision-making processes in all our development activities;
Social justice for all, where people are treated fairly and equally;
Commitment to serving the poor;
We strive to have a human face in our strategies