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This webinar will highlight the vital role of community-led initiatives in effectively preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV), including technology-facilitated online violence. Four women activists from Somalia and Yemen will share their experiences and insights.
29 November 2024
In Somalia, Saferworld and partners have established an Early Warning, Early Response (EWER) system to reduce conflict and violence. We recently trained 200 EWER champions to monitor and respond to conflict and connect victims to vital services.
17 October 2024
To mark this year’s 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, we hear from our partners and the women we work with in Somalia about what needs to change.
25 November 2022
As a five-year project to improve the relationships between communities and authorities in Somalia draws to a close, we explore the main changes we have seen.
5 December 2021
We are excited to launch our Saferworld website in Somali, which will enable you to keep up-to date about our work and access resources specifically relevant to Somalia and Somaliland, where we have been working to promote peace, democratisation and good governance since 2004.
3 June 2021
On the final day of the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence (GBV), we turn the spotlight on how women’s rights organisations (WROs) in Somalia are working towards meaningful participation and women’s rights in the context of upcoming elections in 2021.
10 December 2020
In the first blog of our gendered implications of COVID-19 series, we spoke to the Somali Women Development Centre (SWDC) on the impacts of government restrictions on women and children in Somalia.
29 June 2020
Somalia Programme Adviser, Abdi Ali, and Senior Research Adviser, Zahbia Yousuf, reflect on our new research in Galmudug, Somalia. They explore why federalism was adopted, whether it has contributed to more inclusion and its future in Somalia.
15 June 2020
Tim Midgley and Alastair Carr highlight six lessons for the aid sector to consider as part of a conflict-sensitive response to COVID-19 in Somalia.
15 April 2020
Hamse Haibe looks at how Saferworld and partners have been addressing tensions by supporting communities in Mogadishu, Kismayo and Baidoa to address their safety needs through police advisory committees led by the people.
24 October 2019