Somaliland humanitarian crises has become fragile towards the 2015-2016 following consecutive three failed and below the normal rainy season from (October – December 2015, April and June Gu rains 2016, and October – December 2016 as well as late Gu rains of 2017. The drought episode grips loss of Livestock […]
Candlelight made numerous drought responses by providing water tracking and dates to different sites including but not limited Farawayne, Garabis, Gumburaha and Qolcaday rural villages in Marodijeh region, since there was a severe droughts in Somaliland particularly these areas. The situation we have seen those areas was overwhelming, and some […]
Drought and climatic related humanitarian episodes has been recurring feature in the Greater Horn and specifically in the Somali region. The situation was also made complex by accelerated environmental degradation which badly impacted on rural communities who predominantly depend on livestock production and to some extent on crop production for […]
Somaliland is currently experiencing a progressive and sustained deterioration and erosion of livelihoods, which is exacerbated by a combination of multiple reinforcing shocks including drought, accelerated environmental degradation and climate change. This situation has been going on for many decades now and has led to, among other things, unsustainable utilization […]
FAO produced a guideline for Improving Gender Equality in Territorial Issues (IGETI) to promote gender inclusion and participation in July 2012. The country office with the support of Candlelight translated the guideline in to Somali language under its “Rebuilding Confidence on Land issues in Somalia” project generously financed by the European Union. […]
The native forests of the evergreen belt in high Daallo Edge is found have 1,200 endemic species, the high altitude areas of Daallo reaches 1800M-2100 with receives annual rainfall exceeding 700mm per annum. This forest vegetation was covering nearly about 1 million hectares before the collapse of government institutions for […]
Enhancing livelihoods in the agro-pastoral and pastoral communities living in Buroa and Sheik districts is a livelihood project which implemented by Candlelight with fund support from its partner organization ISF. Candlelight introduced this livelihood project which focuses on fodder & Sisal productivity improvement through trainings on agronomic practices for fodder, […]
Reducing Vulnerability and Building Community Resilience to Climate Change Effects in Somaliland is a project which funded by KNH/BMZ. The project aims at increasing the resilience of 18,000 resources for poor agro pastoralists and pastoralists in the target regions of Togdheer and Sahil so they may better cope with the […]
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a violation of human rights of women and girls. The convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls and the convention on the rights of the child called on states parties to eliminate harmful traditional practices, and the African union […]
Women milk cooperative established by Candlelight in Suuqsade had received assistance and presented their unique modality of working for the first time in Somaliland. Candlelight provided and supported milk preservation tool kits consisted milk cans of stainless containers and two refrigerators working solar system to thirty members in two Women […]
