• SUMMARY OF OUR CURRENT PROJECT ACTIVITIES
HEALTH AND WELLBEING -
ACDF Team has worked with Somaliland Nursing & Midwifery Association www.slnma.org and Life for African Mothers - www.lifeforafricanmothers.org and International Health Partners www.ihpuk.org. Our professional and advocacy role has resulted in the provision of over 130,000 supply Misoprostol sufficient over 30,000 free medical. ACDF hereby express wholehearted appreciation to the Officials of the Ministry of Health Development especial Rt. Hon. Mahdi Osman- Deputy Minister , Somaliland Nursing Association lead by Ms. Fousia Mohamed and Life for African Mohamed lead by Ms. Angela Gorman, MBE and equally International Health Partners for the outstanding support and provision the medication.
As part of Collaborative UK and Somaliland Project, we have partners with Cardiff University - Phoenix Project and with support of the Somaliland Ministry of Health Development submitted a project proposal the THET managed Health Partnership Scheme (HPS), funded by the UK Department for International Development, unfortunately this project did not secure funding from UK Government. We remain in search of funding for Women's in Leadership Training.
As result of the civil war that ended in 1991, we have huge number of people requiring support in mental including Mental Health Services. As Advocate, we are lobbying number of international NGO to address the issue of mental health in Somaliland. We hope this will produce concert steps to launch a campaign of awareness raising and collaborative project.
ACDF is very delighted that Somaliland has adopted Civic Education under the Leadership of the Ministry of Parliamentary and Constitutional Affairs and Ministry of Education and Science. We collaborators via our extensive membership of 12,000 LinkedIn members and wish to use our good Office as Collaborative Agent to further developed this important areas of good governance.
We also identified the need to review existing Laws that been enacted in Somaliland, need for drafting of Legislations and exposure visits by Government, Parliamentary and Judiciary Officials.
ACDF has successfully recruited over 50 farmers on beekeeping project on partly funded by the Wales Government (UK) and co-manged by Bee for Development. We provided training to local farmers and we envisage to lobby for number of other related activities such Tree planting. We have also provided in our Farm basic training to local farmers on farming technicities but our limited resources is not enough and have draft concept note/proposal and looking for funders.
ACDF has been lobbying to establish TVET Centre during the last three years and has made progress with expert of volunteers being recruited this year and with discussion taking place with partners in UK, Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. We are pleased with level o support received from the Somaliland Ministry of Education and Science mandated with the provision of TVET in Somaliland. Thee sector needs extensive resources not financial but skilled instructors to produce the workforce needed for successful integration of Somaliland into the regional economies and opportunities presented by the Berbers Port Management under DP World.