Peace-building, built into the everyday work.
BADEF works to mainstream best practice in conflict management and mitigation into the sectors that carry daily life: agriculture, economic growth, democracy, education and health. Managing conflict is not a separate programme. It is how each of these is delivered.
Bottom-up, not top-down.
Most development programmes are designed somewhere else and delivered here. We work the other way round, and it changes what gets built.
The need is named
Not by us. Projects emanate from the needs the local community expresses, in their own order of priority.
The project is shaped
Developed at district level with the people it serves, so design and delivery answer to the same community.
Support is provided
Financial, material and technical assistance, directed at what the community already has rather than around it.
Capacity stays local
Self-reliance is the exit condition. A project that leaves nothing behind has not finished.
A programme is only real when it reaches the person it was designed for.
Commemorating World Breastfeeding Week 2022 with the Ministry of Health and Human Services, under the theme Step Up For Breastfeeding: Educate and Support.
Seven sectors, one community at a time.
These are the basic needs communities put to us most often. We advocate for them, and we deliver against them.
Food security & livelihoods
Helping families produce and earn enough to stay put, through agriculture, small enterprise and coastal work.
Basic health services
Access to essential care where clinics are distant, under-staffed or were never rebuilt after the war.
Gender balance & mainstreaming
Making sure women and girls shape programmes rather than merely receive them, at every level of the work.
Water, sanitation & hygiene
Boreholes, safe water points and sanitation, with the local committees that keep them working after handover.
Community mobilisation
Building the capacity of local committees and staff, because the structures we leave behind decide what lasts.
Education
Keeping children in school through displacement and drought, and equipping the teachers who stay.
Environmental protection
Protecting the land, water and grazing that livelihoods here depend on, and slowing the damage drought accelerates.
Where these run
Programmes are delivered through district offices across the south west regions.
Four objectives we are measured against.
They are deliberately concrete. Each one can be reported on, and each one appears in the quarterly returns that travel from the district offices upward.
A workable strategy
To set up a workable strategy for raising the standard of life of Somali people at large, and of the south west localities in particular.
All-round development
To promote the all-round development of the south west region’s people towards self-reliance, through financial, material and technical assistance.
Advocacy for real needs
To advocate for the actual basic needs communities identify, across all seven programme areas, rather than the needs it is convenient to fund.
Coordinated delivery
To coordinate, arrange and implement ways to alleviate the poverty and displacement caused by prolonged civil war, through health, education, water supply and other infrastructure.