Care Waamo Organization

The Care Waamo Organization has recently conducted a series of courses and workshops that was intended to educate activists to help teach people in rural areas how to make plans to reduce the impacts of recurrent droughts in the region. According Abdullahi Adan Hassan, the assistant chairman of the organization, the project was financed by The Swedish Agency Forum Syd through the Swedish organization Waamo Social Development Organization. Mr Abdullahi noted that this project is a part of a national adaptation plan to the environmental change. The courses were held in Kismayo, Afmadow and Dhoobleey. The courses main focus was to educate people plans to reduce impacts of droughts. The aim was to train 60 voluntary activists and those 60 activists will mobilize 540 activists, that means each course participants will mobilize 9 persons, so, the total number of those mobilized will be 600 activists. All project activities will be implemented between january 2018 to the en of Juun 2018.

But discussions and debates during the course revealed more suitable strategies needed, in order to address the problem with the best possible methods. Care Waamo representatives have summarized the important outcomes of the different courses. During the courses it was raised the risks on depending either on livestock products or cultivation because of drought or disease. There could be some difficulties especially arid areas where cultivations are difficult. But even the arid areas there could be some arable areas where semi-settled farmers or semi-nomads can cultivate sorghum, maize or beans The participants came with new initiatives to solve the problems.

1) Helping transforming the rural communities into agropastoralists
2) Creating diversified income to the rural population
3) Helping rural population to find markets for their integrated crop/livestock production
4) Creating an environment of understanding and tolerance between the two communities, the nomads and semi-settlers.
5) Encouraging people to participate efforts to increase lands productivity.

Mr Bursade Muhumed an activist and one of course leaders noted that, “now the courses and workshops are completed and we expect that this project will lead to a systematic change on how nomad people depend on single livelihood which can limit the survival of the communities. He added that “The project was successful by arranging a series of courses and workshops to three different locations. We have used the mass media to spread the information on how to prepare house-holds to minimize the impact of dry seasons. We have used Radio, TV news, special televised programs, internet and direct contact to the public. It was an interesting project and we hope we shall see the results soon.

A series of seminars was held in different districts in Lower-Jubba region of Somalia. Participants obtained knowledge to make preparation to mitigate drought consequences. The drought mitigation measures include a large number of actions, drought impact minimisation both short term and long term. The courses and seminars of project focuses to educate people to take precautionary measures before the drought strikes. This film is of many events that took place in Dhoobleey district in March 17th 2018, during the implementation of the project. This particular film is presenting the lectures, the workshops and interviews that was held after the seminars.

Care Waamo organization held a three days’ seminar on 17 April 2018 in Kismayo regarding how to plan measures to reduce the impacts of drought in Lower-Jubba region of Somalia. The aim of the seminar was to develop capacity of the project activists. The seminar was part of a wider campaign to learn preparations to minimize the impacts of recurrent droughts in the region

Care concluded held a three days’ seminar on 17 April 2018 in Kismayo regarding how to plan measures to reduce the impacts of drought in Lower-Jubba region of Somalia. The aim of the seminar was to develop capacity of the project activists. The seminar was part of a wider campaign to learn preparations to minimize the impacts of recurrent droughts in the region.

The seminar was attended by different social categories including representatives from the civil society organizations, Kismayo city villages and representatives from the Jubbaland authority. Mr Abdullahi Adan Hassan Care Waamo Chairman has opened the seminar and declared the campaign launched for a three months’ period. After three months another similar will be held to conclude the campaign. The two lectures Hassan Abdullahi Omar and Ahmed Abdullahi Nur (Bursade). The lectures presented the project topics and focused the need to awareness of droughts, the measures needed to mitigate the impacts of droughts, the environmental protection and ways to resolve conflicts peacefully to set aside hostility. During the seminar the participants had an opportunity to discuss the drought causes, the results and how to mitigate the impacts of droughts. The participants had finally come up with some suggestions and check-lists to follow during the implementation period. The participants were divided into groups and the discussions focused some specific issues to minimize the impacts of droughts.
Care Waamo coordinate with Waamo Social Development Organization which is registered in Sweden and the two organizations work with a lot of different developmental projects. This particular project was funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) via Forum Syd. Forum Syd is another Swedish aid organization which is facilitates aid and representing SIDA.

Care Waamo Organization has organized a three days’ seminar in Dhobley from 19 march to 22 march 2018. The organizations have obligation to organize seminars in the Lower-Jubba districts of Kismayo, Dhobley and Afmadow. It is part of the project Planning to reduce the impacts of droughts in Lower-Jubba region. Which is part of a major project called National adaptation planning activities (NAPA) in Somalia. The aim is to train 60 voluntary activists and they will influence the wider community and will meet 600 people in the region. The participants came from different parts of Dhobley district and they were selected from different categories from the society. Some of them were representing youth organizations, women organizations, and society leaders. The majority of participants came from the surrounding villages to Dhobley and most of them were pastorals and small farmers from surrounding villages.

Care Waamo Organization is a local development Organization and operates in the Jubbaland areas. The organization has many and different developmental activities in all Lower-Jubba region. Care Waamo coordinate with Waamo Social Development Organization which is registered in Sweden and the two organizations work with a lot of different developmental projects. This particular project was funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) via Forum Syd. Forum Syd is another Swedish aid organization which is facilitates aid and representing SIDA.

During the seminar the attendants had learned ways to make preparations to mitigate the impacts of the drought and the responses of the drought when it occurs. The activities focused how to make drought plans, how to conserve water, how to building dams, how to build wells and other water structures. Other topics were how to contribute environmental protection and how to make conflict resolution when preparing plans. The hope is when those activities are done, it will certainly lead the desired change on how to survive if drought occurs. When the participants finish their seminar they are expected to return to their villages and spread the techniques they have learned during the seminar and try to make social change on how to make preparations to droughts.