Since its formation the organization has brought together more than 3000 women and youth groups from South west state, Banadir,Hirshabelle,Galmudug,Puntland, Jubaland and Gedo regions through volunteer entrepreneurial trainings, Vocational skill development, peace building forums, gender equality, livelihood and protection, peer support on psycho-social counseling, health and advocacy to utilize their talents in tailoring, carpentry, recycling, innovative tech and online business, small business startup training and agribusiness development among other skills besides helping them form voluntary savings and loaning association with clear structures of controls on how these associations need to be operated for accountability and greater economic empowerment of the youth and women groups.
1-Food Security & Livelihood
Our livelihoods and food security work focuses on the following thematic areas:
- Household and livelihood vulnerability analysis
- Emergency food assistance to the affected people by drought
- Asset creation (creating local assets that reduce food insecurity and build livelihood opportunities
- School meals
- Nutritious food production systems
- Integrated wash programs
- Employment and income generation and/or diversification through capacity building and training on vocational skills.
2- Development for Rural Communities
Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. Rural development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of land-intensive natural resources such as agriculture and forestry.
3-Wash Program
Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services in both acute and protracted emergencies is a critical thing for people’s health and wellbeing with WASH activities during emergency response, helping them to stay healthy and maintain their dignity.
Access to watershed Management and Sanitation in Rural Areas
- Emergency
Provisions of emergence services during drought, floods, fire and insecurity.
These services include emergency health and mobile hospitals, sanitation, first aid, food, nutrition and psychological counseling against traumas.
- Environmental Protection and climate.
Provisions of information regarding climate change and environmental conservation.
Creation of resilience agricultural and livelihood programs to responds to the emerging environmental issues.
- Peace building, good governance, deradicalization and conflict resolution programs
At SOYVA, we provide capacity building and training on the peace, security and conflict resolutions.
SOYVA provides capacity building and trainings on deradicalization and Youth participation in violence ideologies.
SOYVA also capacity build the communities, youth and women on good governance, public accountability and democracy.
- Education programs
SOYVA advocates for free and compulsory education.
It also provides meals and feeding programs to the vulnerable children in schools as well as books, stationaries, dignity kits(sanitary pads) to the girls, school bags and uniforms.
8-Gender Empowerment
Crises have a disproportionate effect on women, who care for their children and households, farms and businesses – but are often marginalized in decisions that affect their lives. Women make up the majority of those who die in natural disasters and suffer the brunt of violence without interventions for livelihood and resilience. Crises exacerbate existing gender inequalities and pre-existing vulnerabilities in women who are at increased risk during conflicts when rape may be used as a weapon of war. Our humanitarian efforts have a distinct gender focus – this doesn’t mean we only give attention to women and girls, it simply means we recognize that their needs, and strengths, are different from those of men and boys. We purpose to bolster their roles in Livelihood, economics, politics and governance to reduce their exclusion and eventually counter the widespread prevailing gender inequalities across Somali society.
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