This plan supports families linked to the Comprehensive National Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS) in 10 municipalities in the country. In Dagua there are 200 people who are heads of related families, of which 132 are women.

After a successful pilot project, data collection continues in Mogadishu and has resulted in six students trained and more than a year of monthly catch data. In 2020, Secure Fisheries is expanding Project Kalluun by partnering with other Somali universities.

Research examines how illegal fishing hurts Somalia's economy, exacerbates conflict, and weakens political stability.

Fund representatives spoke with Plan beneficiaries, checking on their progress and highlighting their experience in their newsletter.

2019, A Year Of Expansion For Rural Alternative Schools

These 29 ex-combatants, organized in the Multiactive Cooperative for the Development of Northeast Antioquia (COOMULDESNA), have been supported by PASO Colombia in their beekeeping project since February 2019.

In January, Secure Fisheries hosted a two-day workshop that convened representatives from the Federal Government, Puntland, Jubaland, Hirshabelle, and South West State Ministries of Fisheries (Galmadug regretted being unable to attend).

The workshop was led by a Somali fisheries expert and included 20 participants from a local fishing cooperative.

A Rural Alternative School (ERA for its Spanish acronym) is a productive and educational unit in a territory affected by violence.

Secure Fisheries coordinated a 45-day boat engine mechanics training for three Somaliland fishers.

A new report by OEF Research reviews a dozen case studies of business engagement in peacebuilding across a variety of private sector actors, strategies, and time.

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Isigi Keadagi hosted a multi-country, interdisciplinary workshop on billfish in Kenya to launch the project, “Billfish Interactions, Livelihoods, and Linkages for Fisheries sustainability in the Western Indian Ocean.”

The Fisheries Data Collection Working Group was started to begin nation-wide fisheries catch data in Somalia.

In the Rural Alternative School (ERA) of Tuluá, Valle del Cauca, an association of farmers who were victims of the armed conflict (ASOPROVENUS) and a cooperative of ex-combatants (COOLMUNES) have been collaborating on agricultural projects since July 2018.

This is a key region for peacebuilding efforts, strongly affected by the armed conflict before and after the 2016 Peace Agreement, with a long presence of crops for illicit use, a strategic location on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, and very rich in natural resources.