IIDA Women's Development Organisation

Establishment

Mission

• To promote peace and peaceful conflict resolution;
• To promote respect for human rights and differences in social strata;
• To encourage and assist the involvement of Somali women in the processes of reconciliation, reconstruction and economic development;
• To provide training for women and to encourage micro credit activities, in order to allow them to reach their economic independence;
• To discourage the practice of female genital mutilation and gender-based violence;
• To promote the growth and development of women's associations, including trade-unions;

  Offices

Main projects

• Reestablishing and operating in collaboration with the Italian NGO CISP the maternity hospital of Forlanini Hospital in Mogadishu, and providing trained to medical personnel.
• Disarmament of 150 irregular youth soldiers in the Merca area.
• Women's empowerment projects implemented via the Somali Women Agenda. The platform brings together 16 women's associations and other individual members from all regions of Somalia, and draws a real program priorities, strategies and actions for the peace process and societal reconstruction. These last two initiatives were implemented in collaboration with the Italian NGO COSPE.

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Awards

• UNIFEM Global Award 1996, awarded by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, then Secretary General of the United Nations, in New York City on 26 October 1996 at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of UNIFEM;
• Prize for Human Rights of the French Republic, awarded in Paris on 10 décembre 2008 on the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Memberships

• Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women
• Fédération des Femmes Africaines pour la Paix
• Network of Women from the Mediterranean, the East and the South of Europe