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No. 04 | End of April 2015

One Fact About

Osman Ali (standing) is a British citizen who left the UK to return to his home- country as an IOM Somalia MIDA participant. He serves as a Public Sector Financial Management advisor at the Puntland Office of the Auditor General, where he has been instrumental in providing technical assistance and leading the Puntland government’s public financial management reform process. Osman is our Migrant Hero!

Capturing the Action RE-WRITING SOMALIA’S NARRATIVE: Burao School Competition Encourages Youth to Showcase Artistic Talent

IOM and partners have provided assistance to more than 5,000 children, women and men who were forced to evacuate from Yemen following escalated conflict.

Partnership Highlight

Since declared independence in 1991, it has achieved relative stability. However, it remains vulnerable to extremism and violent conflict. To promote peace and stability among youth, IOM supports arts and culture in Somaliland’s Region. Read more “Every year, hundreds of undocumented

young Somali men and women die at sea en route to Europe, yet young people

continue to make the journey in search of security, jobs and education. Thanks to IOM, these comic books are helping us sensitize youth about the dangers of this journey.“ ~ Head Teacher at a Secondary IN THE NEWS: IOM and EU Train Journalists, School in Bossaso, Puntland Officials on Human Rights-Based Reporting

IOM Somalia TV IOM, through its Migration for Development programme, is striving to build institutional capacity in Somaliland. Watch here

April Highlights • To improve sanitation and community health, IOM provided sanitation tools and equipment to Zeylac District administration in Somaliland and Hodan District Administration in Mogadishu. The sanitation tools enabled over 350 At the opening of the workshop, the Secretary General of the Media Association of community members to volunteer in Puntland (MAP), Fatuma Mohamed Mohamud, said: “The media plays an important district clean-up campaigns. role in educating the public about child trafficking and gender-based violence. This • To create employment for youth, training will educate journalists on ethical practices and the protection of survivors IOM trained 206 young women and from harmful exposure.” Read more men from Baidoa on vocational skills, and provided business start-up kits. • To promote integration of IDP communities, IOM trained 81members of Bossaso’s fishing community on business management and fish processing, while 142 received fishing gears and equipment IOM Somalia Is Passionate as part of the livelihood assistance. • To support capacity building and

About What We Do! institutional development initiatives, IOM held a pre- implementation Training on Social Business Start-Up and Management “My work is very special: Every day, I take my Skills for representatives of the 10 associations selected to implement colleagues to important meetings, where they make the project. • To support effective transfer of decisions that affect the lives of thousands of knowledge and skills, IOM held a training-of-trainers workshop for children, women and men.” MIDA FINNSOM participants in , Somaliland. • To improve service delivery, IOM completed the construction of a new regional immigration office in Lowyaddo, along the Djibouti- Somaliland border. • To enhance institutional capacity, IOM held an institutional assessment validation workshop with Puntland and Somaliland immigration departments respectively. • To strengthen institutional capacity, IOM recruited a Human Trafficking Investigation Expert, who will support Counter-Trafficking police units in Garowe, Puntland. • To enhance institutional capacity, three organization development experts were recruited and seconded to the three departments of immigration in Mogadishu, Somaliland and Puntland. • To promote human security of migrants and mobile populations, IOM installed immigration booths at airport, and built a partition Abdirisak Barkhad is a driver at IOM Somalia, Hargeisa Sub-Office wall to protect their X-ray luggage scanner machine in Bossaso. (Photo: IOM/Mary-Sanyu Osire) • To promote human security of migrants and mobile populations, IOM trained 15 maritime transport, ports and counter piracy staff at the Bossaso seaport with a focus on CCTV maintenance and operation. • To provide emergency assistance, IOM rehabilitated water sources that provided water to 95,000 beneficiaries each day; in 8 regions across South Central Somalia. • To promote healthy migration, IOM conducted fitness-to-travel tests for 700 internally displaced persons who were voluntarily returning to their villages of origin in the Lower Shabelle Districts of Afgoye and Walawayne. • To promote safe, dignified and healthy migration, IOM provided food, temporary shelter and health education to moving from Dadaab refugee camp to Somalia. • To improve sanitation and health, IOM constructed 277 VIP latrines with hand washing facilities and lockable doors in Beledweyne and Bulaburto. • To improve healthcare, IOM reached more than 40,000 women, men and children through hygiene promotion campaigns. • To enhance institutional capacity, IOM held a training on integrated management of childhood illness for 30 health workers in Doloow, Gedo Region.

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