Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Facilitation

This brief outlines the main WPS developments from the Trump to the Biden Administration. There were some significant changes made by the Biden Administration pertaining to gender policy and coordination in general, which likely will also have implications for WPS going forward.

In 2019, Al Nur secured a third Shuraako-brokered investment through the Nordic Horn of Africa Opportunities Fund to increase land utilization with the purchase of two hectares of land for fodder use, drilling of 200-meter borehole complete with irrigation system, a date dehydration machine, and tra...

In May 2022, Secure Fisheries held cooperative management (co-management) workshops in the communities of Laasqorey and Bullahar on the northern coast of the Somali Region.

Al Baraka Mixed Farm (“Al Baraka”; “the Farm”) is a commercial farm producing vegetables, fruit, and camel milk outside of Garowe. The Farm sources pesticides and insecticides locally, and its customers are local vendors in Garowe and surrounding cities.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports have increasingly highlighted the linkages between climate change and security.

Baidoa Electric Company (BEC) is the largest electricity provider in Baidoa, Somalia. The company was formed in 2012 by the merger of five smaller electricity companies who each supplied electricity to a different neighborhood in Baidoa.

Secure Fisheries Senior Research Associate and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expert, Paige Roberts, conducted a guest GIS workshop for the Berbera Maritime and Fisheries Academy (BMFA) on March 20-21, 2022 on their campus in Berbera, Somaliland.

The Zeila Co-Management Association, ministries, and partners began planning for the first Marine Protected Area in Somaliland.