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Development for Education, Rehabilitation of Social Infrastructure,

And Environmental Joints Organization

Type of the organization : Nonprofit organization (multilateral )

Financial Resources : UN & International agencies, Diaspora, contribution

Org members, local enterprises etc

Geographical focus : Somaliland & Puntland

Issue focus : Education, Human rights and Democracy, WASH,

Environment and Rehabilitation

Name of the Organization: Derejo

(Development for Education, Rehabilitation of

Infrastructure & Environmental Joints Organization)

Address: Burao-Afgoye Street

Telephone: (Office) 00252-063-717313

Mobile 00252-63-4436422

Email: [email protected]


Web www.derejo.com

Contact person: Muse Abdi Ismail

Cell: 00252-63-4436422


Registration authority: under Somaliland Ministry of Planning

Legal status: established 2010 with permission of

Somaliland Non-Governmental Organization Article 43/2010

Registration No: MNP&C/DP/37/1816/1062/11

Bank Account: Dahabshiil D6850 (Local) and our off-shore Bank account (See

DONATE Column of our website)

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Table of Contents 1. Background: ............................................................................................................ 4

1.1. Vision: .................................................................................................................. 4

1.2. Mission: ................................................................................................................ 4

1.3. Objectives: ............................................................................................................ 4

1.4. Targeting Groups: ................................................................................................. 5

2. Organizational Structure (Organogram) ................................................................... 6

2.1. Human Resources (key positions) ......................................................................... 7

3.1. Capacity Building- (Awareness andTrainings): ..................................................... 8

3.2. Environment: ........................................................................................................ 8

3.3. Education: ............................................................................................................ 9

3.4. Sport-Encouraging sport tournament ................................................................... 10

3.5. Human Rights and Democracy (Promoting democratic election and Women

Participation): ............................................................................................................ 10

3.6. Water supply, Hygiene and sanitation (WASH): ................................................. 11

3.7. Emergency Relief: .............................................................................................. 12

3.8. Soil conservation : .............................................................................................. 12

3.9. Internally Displaced People (Burao IDPs) and Derejo responses: ........................ 13

3.10. Awareness: ....................................................................................................... 13

4. Future prospective ................................................................................................. 13

5. Statement from Board: ........................................................................................... 14

Derejo Track Record: ................................................................................................ 28

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1. Background:

Derajo (development for education rehabilitation of social infrastructures and

environmental joints organization) is nongovernmental, non-political, nonprofit making

organization. The organization was masterminded and later established by group of

academic and intellectual youth of Somaliland in 2011 to deal with formidable task of

social livelihood enhancement and developments for its community.

The organization’s main office is in Burao (Somaliland second largest city) and has other

representatives in the main Somaliland regions. The organization implemented quite

several projects; among them WASH and Women rights for Water related projects funded

by several funders such as Somaliland Diaspora, WFP and other partners, the main areas

in which the organization priorities are Human Rights, Water, education, environment,

livelihood and community health care.

However the Derejo organization is determine to take cycle treads to strengthen the

livelihood of the destitute families in both rural and urban areas, to organize substantial

workshops of community mobilization and orientation for Women and youth who are at

risk for associating with criminal and violent lifestyle by delivering an alternatives, and

ushering to the vocational schools and Civic education where the desperate youth (both

girls and boys) could have revive their moral and restore their ethics. Derejo has high

hopes to play active role for the development of this part of the world. And stretch its wings

to the entire sub-Saharan states of Africa in the future.

1.1. Vision: Our endeavors is to foster a community that share a common objective and ideology to

achieve their wellbeing and lead themselves towards the holistic approach of promotion.

1.2. Mission: Derejo mission is to facilitate the process of community development through sensible

mechanism and eradicate the poverty by social mobilization, rehabilitation of

infrastructures, education accessibility, and environmental protection and to light the

candle to show the way of improvement.

1.3. Objectives:

• To promote community water supply through conservation and preservation of

water resources in both rain water and ground water to provide consultancy

services for planning and designing community water supply, waste water disposal

and solid water management schemes. To carry out researches and development

studies on different aspect of environmental protection and water supply,

workshop, campaign, seminars, training programs etc.

• To promote and make available method of improvement and supervisory skills to

perk up Somaliland community and the management at the grass root level Poverty

eradication and elevation of social morality, lead to work to defusing domestic

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problems that might resulted by low point of social livelihood for providing

essential and visible as well as viable guide line and show reachable approach of

developing.

• Empowering women through skill enlargement, protecting children from abuse

and exploiting through education and granting fundamental right

• Ecological preservation, fortification and conservation, sensible utilization of

natural resources to achieve a sustainable and unwavering development with

active community participation, because we believe that only collective ideas and

integrated human power can build a prosperous jubilant nation, ensure that grass

root effort can change the destiny.

• Stimulate a sustainable development methods and show practical way of assisting

those who are trying to promote their income generating activities, to encourage

the youth to be a master of themselves and find a chances to lead themselves

towards decent standard of live, to develop strong partnership with the private

sectors and the civil society organizations in pursuit of development and ushering

a systematic way outs

• To draw up plans and their implementation for all around social development

including people in tribal areas, downtrodden minority etc.

• To undertake nationwide human resources development programs including mass

awareness campaign and orientation

• To combat against any form of oppression subjugation or any evil act of social

harassment and urges the techniques to eliminate of all forms of discriminations

against part of the society. to eliminate any act of racism and xenophobia that

might exist in the society and promote harmonious kind of life

• To relief internal displaced persons and other uprooted community who are facing

economic hardship, drought affected, victims of war etc. to provide a special

assistance and measures to address the challenges and methods to eradicate the

poverty, eliminate the illiteracy and enhance the standard of education as well as

to ensure children to have access of faire education regardless of region, gender,

ethnic, will have completed a full course of basic education and both genders share

the opportunity.

1.4. Targeting Groups:

• Internally displaced people (IDP)

• Marginalized groups and women rights

• Vulnerable groups like women, children and poor families, minority groups

Orphanages and drop out children

• vagabond youth

• Pastoralists and livestock herders

• Subsistence farmers

• Rehabilitation for roads, and any other public infrastructures.

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• Environment

• Water managements.

2. Organizational Structure (Organogram)

2.1. Human Resources (key positions)

No

Name of

the

member

Sex

Qualification

Position

Membership

Years of

experience

1 Suleiman

Hassan

Mohamed

Male

BA in Social

Science

Project Manager

Derejo Staff

22 years

2

Farah Adan

Egal

Female

B.S. in

Business

Management

and law

Human rights

activist and

trainer

Derejo staff

14 years

General Assembly

Board of

Directors

Coordinator/Excusive

director

WASH Environmen

t Public

Health

Human

Rights

and

Democra

cy

Education Mobilizati

on and

sports

Finance

Officer

and

Accounta

Chair

Person

Vice Chair

Archivist, Admin

and IT

Awarenes

s

Cashier

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3

Ahmed

Hassan

Mohammed

Male

Master in

Accounting

(GAAP

Accredited)

Accountant

Derejo staff

15 years

4

Mohammud

Yassin

Mohammed

Male

B.Sc. in

Water

Engineering

Water Engineer

Derejo staff

40 years

5 Dr. Adan

Assair

Ahmed

Male M.Ds. in

Public Health

Public Health

Officer

Derejo staff 25 years

6

Saleban Ali

Male

Master of

ecology

Environment

Expert

Derejo staff

26 years

7 Faduma Ali Female Diploma of

finance

Cashier Derejo staff 13 years

8

Nimao

Hassan

Female

Secondary

school level

Secretary Derejo staff 8 years

9

Rahma Essa

Female

Secondary

school level

Community

mobilizer

Derejo staff

5 years

10

Suaad Ali

female

Diploma

management

Youth motivator

Derejo staff

4 years

11 Yusuf Abdi

Mohammed

Male MBA in

Business

Management

and ICT

Admin and IT Derejo staff 15 years

3. Areas of Work (Departments)

3.1. Capacity Building- (Awareness andTrainings):

Derejo organization provides a considerable training of capacity building to the local staff

of Somaliland water agencies particularly Buroa and Erigavo.

the organizations WASH Officer Mr. Muse Abdi Ismail and prominent water Engineer

have played key roles for the WASH sector within the organization, Mr. Mohamoud

Yasin who have immeasurable credit to the Somaliland MWM, these praiseworthy

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member help the organization to go through advanced tasks and provide valuable trainings

and workshop to reshape and give advantageous capacity building to the local staff of

BWA.

Derejo organization has been involving a major landmark of social mobilization; we

have been orientating the community in achieving the millennium development goals

and make villagers in Qoryaale, Beer, Yiroowe, Magaalo-yar and other eastward

Togdheer inhabitants understand the issues pursue community development in

collective hearts and mind.

3.2. Environment: A team of environmental expert has been doing an ecological assessment through

Somaliland regions to ensure the causes of soil erosion, gully erosion, the hazards of

deforestation; the panel has been traveling a thousand of males in Hawd grazing land,

Saraar plateau and Guban as well as Sool valley

By January and February 2011 derejo environmental team led by Saleeban Ali

(derejo environmental specialist) had traveled a thousand kilometers through

Togdheer, Sool, Saraar, and Sanaag regions to assess the consequence of soil and

gully erosion in the grazing land, the team has appealed for this damaged areas to the

local and international organizations who are dealing with environmental concerns to

take their measures to those defenseless areas , the study revealed that this grazing

land would not maintain its customary if action to safeguard cannot be taken

immediately.

With organization member’s modest contribution and some donation from

Somaliland Diaspora and a private institutions Derejo has been giving some sort of

short term training programs relating to instruction of

• environmental protections techniques

• Avoiding soil erosion

• Solid waste management

• Organizing Self-help groups for sustaining their livelihood

• Supplying water purifying tablets

Gully Erosion Caused by Floods

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3.3. Education: Derejo believes that education is the key for every major changes of development and is

essential to any social /human improvement, so in order to make this view possible, Derejo

encourages any activities to promote social integration among student of all levels. To

avoid perpetuation of social segregation, Derejo deeply concern such evil act and say

“NO” with aloud voice to any system based on differences in family origins , rank, tribes,

ethnic, classes, wealthy etc, but ensures that the schools are open for the children of all ,

both gender , men and women from all parts of the community.

Organizing student competition: so as to encourage the students and give chances to

acqu3.3.aintance for each other Derejo organized a contests between Togdheer

intermediate schools, to that extend we as an organization believe to play good role of

social crossroads and creating close relationship between school teachers and the students

as well.

Education appraisal: Education officer Mr. Sayid M.Ali and his team did assessment

in May and June of 2012, to illustrate the vulnerability and the weakness of Somaliland

girl’s education, the team had also narrated new techniques and gave an advocacy about

how to tackle this issue. The organization is recently doing its best to find ways and

means to mitigate the problem.

Education enhancement workshop conducted by Derejo Organization in Togdheer and surrounding villages

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3.4. Sport-Encouraging sport tournament Derejo organization serial workshop and seminars to encourage the youth to perform a

fair play and avoid tribalism any evil act that my hinder the regional tournament, on the

eve of the regional football match Derejo has donated material and other fund for

decorating Alamzey football ground

Regional football match in Burao 2012 Derejo organized seminars to maintain social integrity

3.5. Human Rights and Democracy (Promoting democratic election and Women Participation):

So as to play good role for maintaining Somaliland democratic election, Derejo had taken

a tangible position for the proceeding national democratic election as per community

mobilization and observing the systematic and fairness of the national democratic election,

the organization organized a team of prominent teachers had to convince the community

to cast their vote and make the election as medium of transferring power. These teams

traveled to the remote village to ensure the community to understand the real meaning of

adopting democratic government

Women queuing lines for voting a presidential elections on 26th June 2010. Somaliland people casted their vote in peace

whereas all parties had located their representatives

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3.6. Water supply, Hygiene and sanitation (WASH): Derejo has future plans to do its best to restore dented water system of somaliland main

cities, rain water harvesting, like catching rain drops from roof of buildings this efforts

include repairing old tanks and building a new system of water storages so that the

community would enjoy for having adequate water supply. In addition to that Derejo is

also aiming to institute managing streams of Togdheer seasonal river Delta and implement

a projects in Beer village, to which we are very much optimistic to have more beneficial

for both farmers and pastoralists communities of Beer and surroundings. Thought this

move needs to have a quite mega project to initiate customize Togdheer river delta

Water Consultants Group: the organization has a group of water and environmental

specialists, engineers and construction professionals who could provide professional

advices and manage for any water and environmental related projects , this group is

determine to help the community reach their project goals.

Derejo consultant can offer a specific expertise ground and rain fall water as well as

environmental revise. In recent times derejo team of consultant had been expended to other

areas of development including architecture, surveying, construction this team are highly

tested and grantee to carry out a professional job and put every systematic methods to a

proficient manner.

The organization is also to play a visible role for the managing of sustainability and

supplying adequate clean water for its community this responsibility and project areas

include:

• Public water Supply

• Socio-economic baseline studies

• Borehole rehabilitation

• Low cost sanitation system

• Drainage and sewerage system

• Water supply evaluation

• Environmental sanitation and hygienic

• Hand drilled well

• Shallow well constructions; and

• Mini-water system

Figure 1; Derejo Participates Somaliland Water Act Dissemination

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3.7. Emergency Relief: During the first quarter of the year 2011 a severe drought occurred in Somalia and

Somaliland, Derejo have had a material role to minimize the human sufferings of Togdheer

, Sool ,Saraar and Saraar regions. The organization had supplied a million gallons of water

to the villagers and the pastoralist community. In addition to that derejo also distributed

food and nourishment to some most needy families.

3.8. Soil conservation :

Derejo and WFP team in Kalbare to assess soil conservation

Derejo organization had implemented Soil conservation project in Kalbare village, the

project was 119,267 Mt Food For Asset ( FFA) funded by the World Food Program’s

office in Hargaisa, enclosed 389 of direct beneficiaries and 4890 of indirect house

hold beneficiaries.

3.9. Internally Displaced People (Burao IDPs) and Derejo responses:

As per fund received from British Somali Community Derejo had delivered used cloths

and household items to the IDPs , this effort was well appreciated both by Somaliland

authority in national, regional level and also opened a new window of opportunity for the

organization where the Derejo had widened its wing to the new horizon of partnership,

British Somali Community remains one of the vast partner with Derejo organization , some

of organization’s high-flying volunteers received gratitude letter from British Somali

Community in commemoration their masses of endeavor they devoted so as to make that

project of delivering items very visible and more viable.

The organization is now very much companion, exchange their experiences and share their

concerns and mutual and twin organizations, Derejo management has high hopes that this

relationship will ever maintain and bear a fruit.

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3.10. Awareness:

Derejo organization is committed to help the community to take any measure to ensure

the safety and strengthen their capacity of social enhancement and environmental

protection as well as practicing true principles of their right. Derejo organization will help

the community to foster their wellbeing and maintain habitats to ensure the survival of

their forests is obligatory for every individual, in this concern we urges everyone must be

vigilant and guard against any act that might result an environmental hazards.

4. Future prospective

In the coming future this community organization of Derejo has high hopes to achieve their

formidable task in good time of peace and prosperous.

The organization is determine to build a charming and dedicative community who is ready

to take their poor destiny into their own hands , a community that shares common view to

overcome their inconvenience , an integrated kind of community who spares no effort to

eradicate a poverty, illiteracy, have enough clean water and green and fertile environment

It is not long future that this organization wants to extend it activity throughout the east

African regions or likely the entire continent.

5. Statement from Board:

With humble way of thinking we would like to take the opportunity an say “Very Much

Obliged to whoever has denoted material assistance as well as those contributed their

positive view and ideas, we feel very bold to confess that without your generous help this

gigantic task would not possible be don

We are still welcoming to those are ready to be work with us and share get through the

challenges ahead.

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6. Annexes: Registration certificate, Testimonials and Recommendations

from partners

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Updated Certificate for 2018.pdf

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Derejo Track Record:

S/No. Completion Date Activity/Project

name

Location Funder Budget

(USD)

1 June 26, 2010 Women has a

Right to vote

Burao DEREJO

Contribution

$17,000

2 February 2011 Education for

rural girls

Qoryale,

Beer,

Magaalayar

and Yiroowe

villages,

Togdheer

Region,

Somaliland

TAF

organization

(Somaliland

Diaspora

org.)

12,340

3 Dec 2011 Soil

conservation

Project; Food

For Work

through women

employment

Kalbarre

Village,

Toghdeer

region,

Somaliland

WFP 180 MT

and $

7,500 in

cash for

non-food

items

4 Dec 2012 Mini-water

System Project

and Kiosk

installation for

Water and

Women rights

Qoryale

Village,

Togdheer,

Somaliland

Somaliland

Diaspora in

UK.

$18,700

5 Jan 2013 Dam

rehabilitation; to

mitigate the

Water collection

workloads on

women

Balli-Jilal,

Burao,

Togdheer,

Somaliland

WFP 220 MT of

RFF and

$7,800 for

Non-food

Items

6 June 2014 Sports

promotion;

soccer/football

supply and

distribution

Burao Burao Local

Company-

Telcom

$25,000

7 Febr. 2016 Mini-water

system Project-

Rural Women

Water collection

load mitigation

Qoryale

Village,

Burao,

Somaliland

Somaliland

Diaspora

$ 42,000

8 March 2017 Go back to

School

campaign

Seven

villages

around

Togdheer

Burao

Community

in UK

$7,000

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region,

Somaliland

9 May 2018 Hygiene and

Sanitation rights

for IDP Women

Four IDP

s’Women in

Burao,

Somaliland

Somaliland

Diaspora

Community

$10,500

10 December, 2018 Water rights for

Rural Women –

Miniwater

system

Three

Villages in

Togdheer

Region

Ministry of

Water

Resources

$41,700

11 January 2019 P&G Water

Purifier training

and WASH kit

distribution for

12 Villages in

Togdheer

12 different

villages in

Togdheer

region

Somaliland

Regional

Ministry of

Water

Development

$59,000

12 March 2019 Hygiene and

Sanitation

awareness and

training for

Community

Hygiene

committees

Seven

villages

around

Burao;

namely:

Suryo,

Waraabeye,

Waabo-gaajo,

Balli Hassan,

Beer and

Dindiin

Somaliland

Diaspora

$11,500

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