All over the world civil societies have power to influence individual behavior and the society at large on various issues bedeviling the society including FGM/C. In Puntland, civil society plays key roles in pushing for new laws, programmes, policies or strategies on FGM/C reduction, through holding all stakeholders to account on their commitments; also …
Puntland’s civil societies input in FGM/C abandonment Read More »
Most vulnerable and food insecure households live in delicate, resource-scarce and degraded environments, in areas that are prone to climate disasters and exposed to frequent shocks, major one being drought. The PSA Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) programmes addresses immediate food needs through cash, voucher or food transfers, while at the same time it promotes the building or rehabilitation of …
On 15th November 2018, we conducted a women to women dialogue at the PSA conference room. The purpose of this event was to bring women from different backgrounds together to openly discuss the causes of gender based violence and give suggestions on how its occurrence can be stopped. Some of the issues raised and mentioned …
As per FSNU 2018 and by joint multi-cluster needs assessment report, malnutrition cases are high in IDP settlements including Bosaso IDPs camp, in 7 out of 15 population groups surveyed they had critical prevalence of acute malnutrition (Global Acute Malnutrition-GAM ≥ 15%): this proves Bosaso IDPs camp needs urgent intervention in form of relief program …
Bosaso IDPs Vulnerability and the intervention needed Read More »
PSA/MOH in partnership with UNICEF from August 2017 to July 2018 implemented Community based IYCF intervention in Bossaso – Puntland, the project’s goal was to protect, promote and support breastfeeding In Bossaso city with target population of 448,009 IDPs and host communities at community level, the timeframe for the project was twelve (12) months. In …
In 2018, PSA in partnership with WFP is implementing drought recovery program – VFA project designed to allow households to meet basic food needs during this lean season, the project targets three villages of Karin, Ufayn sare & Tisjiic Villages in Bari region Somalia. The project expected outcome is to create and produce assets …
Within the month of June, we managed to facilitate individual IYCF counseling, which reached 323 pregnant/lactating mothers. We also, organized 10 group counseling session for mothers in MBAs, the session reached 116 PLW’s. It also included, 11 promotion events, the sessions reached 226 PLW’s. In addition, we distributed multi-micronutrient tables for 391 pregnant women and …
