Where we work

Seven areas in Somalia, and the region beyond.

BADEF works with poor and marginalised communities across the Somali regions and in neighbouring countries in East Africa: people made vulnerable by prolonged civil war, man made disaster and the mismanagement of resources. Every project is designed around the priority needs of the community it serves.

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Coverage

The areas we work in.

BADEF works across the Somali regions and in neighbouring countries in East Africa. Where a community names a need and a local committee or partner asks us in, we work there.

Countries we serve

Kenya

Office

Somalia

Seven states and territories

Programmes documented

Ethiopia

South Sudan

In Somalia

Jubaland State

Lower Juba

Programmes documented

South West State

Lower Shabelle

Programmes documented

Galmudug State

Hirshabelle State

Puntland State

North East State

Somaliland

The tags mark what this site can evidence: an office, or a programme with published participants, locations and results. Our reach is wider than our published record, and we would rather show you the evidence than claim the same depth everywhere.

Documented programmes

Where the work is on the record.

These two regions carry published project records: who took part, where, and what changed. Our coverage is wider than our documentation, and we would rather show you the evidence than claim the same depth everywhere.

Lower Juba

Jubaland State

Afmadow · Dhobley
Including the Qorax IDP camp near Dhobley.

Maternal and child health, gender-based violence services, and clinical training for nurses and midwives.

Lower Shabelle

South West State

Marka · Kurtunwarey

Food security and livelihoods, delivered through cash-plus agricultural input distribution to farming households.

On the ground

What we do, where we do it.

Afmadow · Lower Juba

Clinical training for safer births

BEmONC training equips nurses and midwives with emergency obstetric and newborn care skills, alongside clinical management of rape services in GBV health centres.

Dhobley · Lower Juba

A clinic that comes to the camp

A free mobile clinic serves residents of the Qorax IDP camp, bringing consultations, treatment and maternal care to families far from any fixed facility.

Marka · Lower Shabelle

Cash, seeds and a season ahead

Cash-plus agricultural input distribution gives farming households both the means to buy food now and the inputs to grow their next harvest. The same programme runs in Kurtunwarey.

Across the region

Local evidence, carried into regional rooms.

Our work is not confined to our field sites. BADEF joins civil society actors and national human rights institutions from across the COMESA region to strengthen protection for children affected by conflict, most recently at a regional convening in Kampala, Uganda, in July and August 2024.

Bringing evidence from Lower Juba and Lower Shabelle into regional forums is how local work turns into policy that outlasts any single project.