Somalia-GARP-Booklet

The Gender and Resilience project was created as
a response to Diakonia´s ambition to strengthen
its work on disaster risk reduction and to bridge
our humanitarian and development work. The
vision of the project was to contribute to gender
equality and resilient communities through disaster
risk reduction innovation projects.
Somalia was one of the six countries involved in the
pilot project. Diakonia’s partner KAALO developed
an innovative project to improve the food security
and resilience of vulnerable communities.
Participants were mostly women who knew little
about modern climate smart techniques, they were
trained to better manage climate-related shocks
and disasters through community contingency
planning and increase food security using climate
adaptive livelihood interventions; irrigated
agriculture, and green house technology.