Organizational Objectives:
(a) To improve livelihoods of marginalized communities in Somalia by increasing their capacity to address their basic needs of food, water, infrastructure, security and dignity.
(b) To contribute to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] in Somalia through awareness creation, community mobilization, capacity building, local and international fundraising and effective project implementation
General goals
(a) Improve the quality of life for the vulnerable, disadvantaged, and marginalized communities.
(b) Enhance emergency response and livelihood crisis intervention
(c) Increase access to safe portable water, sanitation and good hygiene conditions.
(d) Increase access to quality education
(e) Promote sustainable use of environmental resources
(f) Enhance human rights awareness, democracy and good governance
(g) Promote basic infrastructure and general accessibility.
Specific Objectives
The specific objectives derived from the above broad goals are to;
(a) Alleviate poverty by improving economic status of vulnerable communities through enhanced food production by providing farm implements and inputs and diversification of income generating activities. This is also achieved by implementation and building of irrigation canals and water access points.
(b) Enhance emergency response and livelihood crisis intervention through provision of food/cash/non-food items relief, Livestock take-off /re-stocking, Water trucking to pastoralists and provision of temporary shelters.
(c) Improve access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) conditions of the poor communities through construction and/or rehabilitation of water catchment dams, installing water tanks and construction of underground water tanks, provision of sanitation facilities and hygiene awareness training and promotion hygiene education.
(d) Improve access to education by children and youth through provision of facilities, teaching and learning materials.
(e) Eradicate harmful cultural practices like Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and early marriages.
(f) Increase opportunities for youth and Adult to further their education through distance learning
(g) Improve health status of communities through health education; environmental cleanliness, hygiene promotion and increasing access to primary health and child care centers in area of operation.
(h) Enhance environmental education, awareness and participation in environmental protection and conservation activities by the communities
(i) Promote peaceful co-existence and proactively resolve conflicts
(j) Empower the youth to contribute to the social, economic and political development of their community
(k) Create awareness of issues surrounding children in difficult circumstances with particular regard to child abuse and neglect
Guiding Principles
Our guiding principles are:
(a) Respect: We believe in the dignity and potential of the communities, partners, staff and other like-minded stakeholders to contribute to development and respect others’ views.
(b) Commitment: We’re dedicated to offer quality service to the communities with whom we work with a view to make better their living conditions.
(c) Excellence: We consecutively challenge ourselves to the highest levels of performance while encouraging learning with a view to achieving greater results of our interventions.
(d) Gender sensitivity: We’re committed to ensuring gender parity, equity and actively engaging in efforts towards women empowerment.
(e) Integrity and credibility: We strive at being honest and trustworthy in whatever we do and say and accept responsibilities for our collective and individual actions.
(f) Accountability and Transparency: COMORAD believes in being open and responsible to its stakeholders about its actions. We pursue a policy of zero tolerance to corruption.