Who We Are
Integrated Services for Displaced Population (ISDP) is a Somalia humanitarian Non-Profit Organization registered in the federal government of Somalia and its federal member states, ISD was founded in 2010, and since its inception, it has successfully implemented different development projects in the Puntland State of Somalia.
ISDP is operational in Bari, Nugaal, Karkaar, and Mudug regions with a track record in implementing high-quality health and nutrition, Food Security, Livelihood, protection, and WASH interventions by providing essential services to conflict and disaster-affected communities.
ISDP targets to supports Internal Displaced People, Refugees, Vulnerable households, drought-affected communities, children, and hard to reach people living in Somalia.
ISDP currently a partnership with key government institutions in Puntland, and UN agencies with close working relations with local communities in Puntland.
ISPD is an active member of the Puntland Non-State Actors Association(PUNSAA) and humanitarian cluster groups.
Vision
A Society with improved living conditions through dedications to end poverty and injustice
Mission
Committed to improve living conditions in partnership with communities to build sustainable, healthy and productive communities in Somalia.
Core values
- Transparency and accountability
- We count both achievement and action
- We stand for the poor and powerless
- Our faith is in teamwork, honesty, consistency, commitment and fairness to all
stakeholders and beneficiaries we work with
Our Partners
We have partnerships with key government institutions and ministries (Ministries of Health, the Ministries of
Education and Women Development and Family Affairs, of the Puntland State government), and other partners included; UNICEF, WFP, and MDM. We have close working relations with local communities in Puntland, our key success in delivering results is determined by the active involvement and engagement of local communities in project implementations.
ISDP Head Office shall be situated in Bosaso, Puntland, Somalia, with established branches and sub-offices
in the Regional Cities/Towns of Somalia to overseas any field operation. ISDP shall operate within all
regions of Somalia when need arises
Over-all Objective
- The over-all objectives of ISDP is to improve living conditions of target population while partnering with key stakeholders and host communities to build self sustainable, health and productive communities in Somalia.
Isdp Objectives
- Increase access to enhanced reproductive health and primary health care service to target communities mainly women and children.
- Improve the resilience of the local communities by providing multiple livelihood options and building the capacity of vulnerable groups against shock and crisis
- To establish and improve water and sanitation service to the displaced population and the host community
- To facilitate provision of quality and affordable education services to target communities through creation of conducive learning environmen
- Promote income generating and create vocational skills for the IDPs, refugees, asylum seekers, and host community to make them self sufficient and reduce the level of poverty
- Improve the right of women focusing on issues like Gender-based violence (GBV), Female Genital mutilation and other forms of discrimination against girls and women
- To support and champion for the marginal and minority groups on their rights, protection and inclusion
- Provide protection services and response to the victims and survivors of abuse and all form of violence through response, monitoring and reporting.
What We Do
ISDP utilizes an integrated approach in its scope of intervention and implementation of its programs which try to address prevailing social problems and needs.
We are relentlessly committed to taking full responsibility and providing excellence in every project & endeavor we undertake. At ISDP, we pride ourselves on taking on big challenges and seeing them through within a set budget and time.
ISDP’s interventions and activities focus on the following thematic areas;
1. Protection
We focus to provide response in creating safe environment for displaced communities in Somalia. As a result of limited government authority in Somalia, many individuals face violence and risks included but not limited; forced displacement, gender-based violence, child rights violations, arbitrary detention, forced recruitment particularly of children, “deportation”, evictions, forced relocation, and family separation.
Target groups are; the most vulnerable members of the community including; women and children, and minority groups. Vulnerable members of a community do not always have equal access to humanitarian assistance. ISDP also implements a Child Protection program within the Puntland State of Somalia.
The program includes documentation of incidences of violations against children especially the Six Major Violations outlined in the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1523. Form its Health Facilities, ISDP give treatment to survivors of SGBV/GBV. And also provide child protection program that includes Investigation, documentation, Monitoring, providing care and protection.
2. Health Program
With the support of various donors, ISDP has established health facilities that provide reproductive and primary health services to women, children and the community at large. Under the health program ISDP also run mobile clinics in the community and IDP settlements within its target areas. Some of the services provided are outpatient services, delivery, safe motherhood and child survival, immunization, referral services, prenatal and postnatal care among other services.
The health facilities are also used to conduct health awareness sessions on the importance of visiting health facilities, immunization, and breastfeeding among other health issues. We believe access to health is both a fundamental human right and a key issue for development. Aimed to increase coverage of health services, improve quality of health services through innovative approaches, and improve informed demand of these health services.
We target to train health workers, educate parents, distribute needed supplies and provide care to keep children healthy. We stand to reduce the suffering of Somalis, since Somalia, have some of the highest infant, child, and maternal mortality rates in the world.
3. Nutrition program
ISDP nutrition programs are aimed at improving and enhancing the capacity of women on proper nutrition intake for the well being of the community. The nutrition program under the support of various donors mainly WFP and UNICEF have established stabilization centers, outpatient therapeutic services for the treatments of moderate acute malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition for distribution of food ratios to pregnant, lactating, infants and children.
The services are provided during ISDP conducts awareness sessions on infant and young children feeding (IYCF, nutrition hygiene health promotion (NHHP) activities to increase the knowledge and practice of the community on essential nutrition behaviors and conduct capacity building sessions on integrated Management of acute malnutrition (IMAM) to health workers.
4. Education program
Since its establishment in 2010 ISDP worked towards assisting the children, this assistance include offering basic education to children from the less privileged families, IDPs and marginalized communities. The program, aims at encouraging and motivating children from the displaced communities to have zeal in
obtaining education.
Provision of basic education to these children is aimed at contributing to the reduction of illiteracy in the IDP camps and marginalized communities. With basic education, boys and girls from these communities will qualify to pursue skills training programs hence break the cycle of poverty that has been a hallmark of these communities.
5. Integrated Livelihood
ISDP offers trainings which include midwifery, nursing, First Aid, Community health, vocational soft skill training and capacity building trainings. The beneficiaries of the program are the IDPs, refugees, asylum seekers and host community. The project beneficiaries vary depending on their education level.
Some of them are high school graduates who cannot afford to further their education and learners with literacy and numeracy. We work to improve the livelihood opportunities among poor communities.
We design projects in a way that they are self sustainable and promote income generating, in order to boost food provision to the target beneficiaries. Our targets are; women headed HHs, Children, Drought Displaced HHs, Conflict Displaced HHs, and less privileged members of the society
6. Resilience
We are committed to address humanitarian and development work in situations of recurrent shocks and crisis. It’s important to build the resilience chronically vulnerable Somali people, households, communities and systems to climatic shocks and other related risks.
ISDP has provided humanitarian assistance to families and communities affected by shocks and disasters from the provision of food items to families affected by disasters to digging of shallow wells and provision of shelter and non-food items to IDP families.
7. WASH Program
The water, sanitation and hygiene component comprises of hygiene awareness sessions, construction of water structures (shallow well, water reservoirs), water trucking, rehabilitation and construction of pit latrines and hand washing facilities and advocacy on the stopping open defecation.
8. Youth Youth Engagement Engagement
We support youth groups in Somalia. They are very vulnerable and face problems, which include: Unemployment, Lack of skills, Insecurity, Migration and among others. At ISDP we believe the youths are the biggest assets and human resource for a community if constructively engaged and empowered by preparing them to be active citizens in the reconstruction and rebuilding of their communities and the country as a whole.
When young people are involved in responsible, challenging actions which require critical thinking, problem solving and making decisions gives them the opportunity to present their views and interest hence contribute in social change. ISDP as an organization conducts projects activities where young people are provided with conducive environment to highlight and discuss some issues within the community that affect them.
Some of the programs ISDP conducts are civic engagement, life skills activities, environment conservation and prevention of violations among other activities.
9. Awareness and Advocacy programs
ISDP is an NGO committed to the welfare of the IDPs, Asylum seekers, refugees, women and children. ISDP is also involved in Awareness and Advocacy programs on various themes related to the promotion of Health of women and children, rights of women and girls and other occasions for the general societal well being, in the context of the
Somali societies.
ISDP organizes various activities such as workshops, seminars for community stakeholders, and public forums on the following themes; Best Feeding practices, hygiene & sanitation, Nutrition, Peace Building & Reconciliation, primary Health and HIV/AIDS and Elimination of FGM in all its forms. ISDP participate in all the cluster meetings, also organizes forums and seminars to commemorate various days on the UN and human rights calendar and the Somali National days relevant to its thematic areas.
These include the FGM Zero Tolerance Day on 6th February, the International Women’s Day on 8th March, Somali Tree Planting Day on 17th April, the World Environmental Day on 5th June, the World Breastfeeding Week on 1st August, International Day of Peace on 21st September, Universal children’s day on 20th November, the International Day Against VAW on 25th November, the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day on 29th November, International AIDS Day on 1st December and the Human Rights Day on 10th December.
Isdp Governance
ISDP Somalia has defined structure including Board of Directors, and Management. The structure determines chain of command and hierarchy of responsibility within ISDP. The Board of Directors (B.O.D) is the highest decision-making organ approving policies and reviewing achievement and plans. The Board of Directors is the planning and policy making body of the organization with controlling and approving the all activities by the Board of Executive. The Executive Director is the head of executive and he/she is responsible for the implementation of the program and daily management activities.
Our Approach
Our Interventions are community-driven and led. We aim to deliver high-quality and sustainable results in a timely manner through engagement and empowering local
communities in Puntland.
Our Meal System
ISDP has an office in charge of its Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning System. This is aimed to reflect the lessons learned from the implementation of project activities, and incorporated into the programming for realizing better results and impact on the communities.
ISDP uses MEAL data to demonstrate and improve the effectiveness, efficiency and, ultimately, the outcomes and impact of their projects. In short, monitoring and evaluation data is always be used to inform ISDP’s management decisions, which, in turn, promote accountability and learning.
ISDP MEAL guide uses the following definition criteria:
Accountability A commitment to balance and respond to the needs of all stakeholders (including project participants, donors, partners and the organization itself) in the activities of the project.
Accountable projects are more relevant, are supported by stakeholders, and ultimately will have a greater impact to the target beneficiaries. ISDP is committed to project accountability by ensuring that project teams take proactive and reactive steps to address the needs of the project’s key
stakeholders while delivering project results.
Our Recent Projects
| Name of the Project | Duration | Location | Funded |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Nutrition Project therapeutic
supplementary food program FLA
Number CP/ISDP/107/TSFP/2013
|
January 2013 Up to
June 2014 |
Aluula district in Bari
region |
WFP |
|
Essential Package health services project
in Bosaso region, Puntland |
March 2015 op to Fe
2016 |
Bosaso district |
MDM |
|
Strengthening Malaria Control and
Health Systems (Malaria BCC)
PD/NEZ/2015/2002 |
December 2015- un
to date |
Bari, Karkar Gardafu,
Nugal and Mudug |
UNICEF |
|
PUN-CP /ISDP/0105/NTA/2019
MCHN, BSFP/TSFP |
January 2014-un to
date |
Bosaso and Armo |
WFP |
|
PUN-CP
/ISDP/0105/NTA/2019
BSFP/TSFP |
January 2019 up to
upto date |
Bosaso |
WFP |
|
Delivery of Quality Mother and child
Health services for IDPs and
vulnerable urban population in
Puntland |
January 2018- to
date |
Bosaso and Five villages |
MDM |
Our Needs
Infrastructure
ISDP’s long term plan for expansion is construction of Health Posts and Education Centers for women and children in all its project areas. The plan mainly envisions construction of classrooms, health centers, office room, latrines, water tanks and construction of a perimeter wall around each center. ISDP is currently running Advocacy, education and health facilities in different locations in Bosaso on rented premises. Hence the organization needs support in the construct of infrastructures to reduce the rental costs.
Recurrent Education Expenses
Running educational programs such as ISDP envision requires enormous resources to cater for learning material, teachers’ incentives and other recurrent running costs. ISDP requires financial support to meet these costs. There is also need for support to initiate a school feeding program for primary school learners in minority communities to prevent the learners from missing out of school since they work to help their parents in fending for their families.
Medical Supplies
In its program in providing medical services to its target beneficiaries, the organization needs supplies of vaccines, antibiotics, micronutrient supplements,
and medical equipment & supplies.
Our Recent Projects
The board of trustees is the highest authority of the organization who are responsible for the policy and decision making and fundraising initiatives. The board is composed of seven (7) officials who are active and highly experienced in different fields. The key geographical experience of the members is Somalia especially Puntland State with hands on experience in the fields of food and nutrition, Gender, community health, water sanitation and hygiene, child survival, protection, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, management and Fundraising.
The board consists of: -
| No | Name | Position |
|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Abdikarim Mohamed Jama |
Chairperson |
|
2 |
Mohamed Mohamud Ahmed |
Vice Chairperson |
|
3 |
Ahmed Abdi Bulshale Fahad |
Secretary
|
|
4 |
Hibo Haji Mohamed |
Treasurer |
|
5. |
Abdirahman Abdullahi Warfa |
Member
|
|
6 |
Burhan Elmi Hersi |
Member |
|
7 |
Abdirahman Mohamed Farah |
Member |
Isdp Organization Structure
