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Ordo 2015 Annual Report ONKODORDO RELIEF ANDONKOD DEVELOPMNET RELIEF & DEVELOPMENTORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION ORDO 2015 ANNUAL REPORT Annual report ORDO SECRETARIAT 2015 21OCTOBER ROAD , WABERI , MOGADISHU , SOMALIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS MESSAGE In the year 2015, was one of the most outstanding year in the history of ORDO. Together as a team we manage to achieve most of what we had put in our annual plan. I want to take this opportunity to thank all ORDO staffs and Board of Directors for their eternal support they rendered us throughout the year. The year started with a high note which was a sign of good things, which the almighty helped to achieve them. To mention but a few it is this year 2015 that ORDO got new partner, who was UNFAO, resulted in securing the a cash work project in Adan Yabal, unfortunately the project was cancelled due security issues. , We also widen our area of operations in Middle and lower Shebelle, Stockholm Sweden and Nairobi, Kenya, This also triggered us to increase human resource due to increased number of activities and project, we also hired external consultancy who trained our staffs in the areas of project management and Accountability for Affected population and humanitarian core standards. ORDO also opened a Mother Child Care Centre in Jowhar middle Shebelle. All these we attribute to God. In all of these efforts, ORDO staff was gratified and encouraged by the dedication and generous support of our membership. I look forward to working with many of you on these and new initiatives in the coming year. Your support and ideas are vital to ORDO’s success. This important work can only be accomplished with your help MISSION STATEMENT ORDO addresses the root causes of poverty and suffering through income generating schemes, capacity building, peace building, promoting social services, food security, prevention of HIV/AIDS, Human rights and advocacy and partnership with the aim of empowering vulnerable, disadvantaged and marginalized people to participate effectively in achieving livelihood security and realizing their rights to live with dignity and self-respect. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS The year 2015 the ORDO managed to register the following achievements: LIVELIHOOD ORDO livelihood objective conforms with WFP and UNFAO objectives which is : Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies Support food security and nutrition and (re)build livelihoods in fragile settings and following emergencies Reduce risk and enable people, communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs Reduce under nutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition Inline to the above we strive to ensure that the above objectives are achieved with our livelihoods project through proper timings and season that is suitable for food security and livelihoods projects, the food security project also conforms to the four pillars of food security which include: Stability, availability, accessibility and utilization. In 2015 ORDO managed to secure funds for our food security and livelihoods project through partnership with UNWFP and UNFAO. The selections exercise was based to technical criteria which was set by UNFAO and UNWFP for all the applicants In the process we managed to the implementing partner in Adan Yabal for UNFAO and Jowhar and Mahaday in Middle Shebelle for UNWFP. The UNFAO, funded our cash for work in AdanYabal, in which 600 inhabitants in the districts were to benefits using the sections criteria. They were to receive a daily payments of USD 5 per. The project INSPIRING COMMUNITIES aimed to rehabilitation 10 water catchment in AdanYabal which was to used to feed the animals in the districts The UNWFP project was a Food For Asset project was aimed at increasing food secured community and also enhancing a communal infrastructure for sustainability .The project saw work Jowhar/Mahaday and beneficiaries befitting with food on monthly basis for 3 months. HEALTH Health is a very vital element in a society; being an active member in the health cluster and focal person on bay Bakol we have never stopped giving people better and quality health services in the country. ORDO’s establishment in Somalia was shoulder to lean on because the civil wars that destroyed all public infrastructures never left the health facilities this resulted to high mortality rates due to simple diseases which could be cured not leaving the wounded peoples from the war that needed emergency help from the local health workers. Majority of the people died were women and children cause of their weak natures especially the under 5 children and the pregnant women during the pregnancy period and during the process of delivery. After a long discussions with a number of health service providers organisation like WHO,UNICEF we finally reached a solemnly decision to establish a health facility in Daynile district which was among the districts that were adversely affected by wars. The health facility provided midwifery services for women during delivery, treat minor wounds, provide polio and measles vaccines to children, HIV and AIDS services like VCT to all the community members. This created a relief to the people of 12 because for long time they were under the ruthless rule of Al- shabab who never allowed Humanitarian intervention to the villages of Dayinle District. INCREASED AREAS OF OPERATION In 2015 ORDO opened offices in Stockholm in Sweden and initiated the process of registering and opening an office in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala Uganda. We are hopeful that by the end of the year all offices will be operational with a number of project running We also opened a liaison office in Jowhar, of which it will be coordination and response centred feeding the head quarter offices in Mogadishu, with need assessment and calamities like floods and droughts which are always happening in middle Shebelle due to failed rains and heavy rains. A liaison officer was hired to work in the offices in Stockholm and in Jowhar. INSERVICES TRAINING-INTERNAL CAPACITY BUILDING ORDO is dedicated to enhance the capacity of its staffs by investing in their skills to cope up with ever growing humanitarian field, We invest by organizing in-service trainings and workshops fro our staffs and also provide scholarships and study leave for our employees with the docket of capacity in the human resource e department. This year ORDO organised three trainings, tackling the following topics: Project planning and Management Project Monitoring and Evaluation Humanitarian core standards Accountability for Affected Populations All these trainings were conducted by Asset Africa from Nairobi Kenya. ORDO sponsored Hamisi Amir Abdalla, Project Manager Food security and Livelihoods, to further his studies in Kenya by paying for his master’s program at Mount –Kenya University offering masters in Community Development. CASE STUDY. WFP projects in Somalia have always been creating big impacts to the beneficiaries who participated in the project and the whole community living in the targeted areas where they implement their projects, their implementation methodology has always received an excellent results by enhancing the local INSPIRING COMMUNITIES communities to decide on what projects among their interventions best suits them.WFP give the community full ownership of the project by giving a local NGO as a cooperating a partner the responsibility of implementing the project for their behalf. For 3 consecutive years WFP and ORDO have partnered to entire that the four pillars of food security are always maintained throughout the years, the inhabitants of Jowhar have been continuously been faced with floods, clan conflicts which has paralyzed most of their livelihoods and enhanced food insecurity in the district, despite Jowhar being one of the food baskets of Somalia. The beginning of 2015,WFP partnered with ORDO implemented a conditional Food project ,Food for Asset in Jowhar/Mahaday districts where 10.5 km river canal was rehabilitated for a period of 3 months with main exchange is food as means of payment. The project was well timed because of the food insecurity and high rate of malnutrition that was being witnessed in the Jowhar. The project had 1614 participants and 9684 beneficiaries who were to directly benefiting from the project with indirect beneficiaries increasing the number to almost 5,000 farmers. The river canal which had the main objective of diverting water to people's farms has really increased the farm yields and the road has made the transportation of food easy. ORDO team had a depth interview with Mrs Hawa Abdi who was a participant in FFA project in Jowhar district, She was one of the luckiest members of the selected as beneficiaries in the project, Mrs Hawa Abdi A mother of 4 ,a widow and a household worker at homes in Jowhar district . She couldn't hide her happiness during the interview this was due to the fact that the project changed her life, her children and the community at large .insisted we have the interview at her home so as to be an eye witness at her house. On reaching there we could witness the change that happened at her home, comparing the previous condition at her house before the rehabilitation, The children health conditions also improved, to a greater extent . Our team continued interrogating Mrs Hawa Abdi on how positively the project has impacted her life, She begun by pointing her 3 years old girl who is experiencing the stunted growth, She said before the project she the could predict her baby's death, because her child weight was stunted .this was because the family had no regular food at home, the best the family could have was 2 meals. This was a basic meal was boiled rice. She continued by saying that at times the family could go hungry the whole day because she didn’t find a work therefore no payments, She pointed at a place surrounded by sticks which said it used to be a place where their 5 goats and a camel used to rest,this was the only asset that the family had.
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