About Juba Foundation JF is a local NGO

About Juba Foundation (JF) is a local NGO, Non-profit and Non-political, which was] formed in July 2004 by group of Somali intellectuals in response to the increased insecurity, suffering, famine and deaths in Somalia Juba Foundation operates in Lower & Middle Juba and, Middle and Lower Shabelle, Gedo, Bay Region, Banadir and Awdal region of Somaliland. Juba Foundation partners: Mercy Corps UNICEF Muslim AID American Friends Service Committee NRC Save the Children International UN-FAO Somalia Act Now Children’s Fund

Juba Foundation Thematic areas • Food security and livelihood programs • Water sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)programs • Vocational skills training and Peace building programs • RE-Integration programs • Health programs • Protection • Agriculture and livestock support programs

GENERAL INFORMATION o TITLE: Youth livelihood development and peace Building Project. o IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: Juba Foundation o Donor: American Friends Service Committee(AFSC) o LOCATION: Kismayo

Program Overview • • • The project ‘Kismayo Youth Livelihood and Development Peace Project’ will target youth in Kismayo who don’t have the opportunity to acquire skills and knowledge that they need to earn an income and secure a livelihood. This program will help to fill that gap empowering hundreds of boys and girls with skills for life, focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable youth. This program is implemented in Kismayo city. The project aims to support youth gain occupational skills for employment in national labor market and realize good life and better livelihood. The project targets youth members and youth groups from the different districts of the city and the IDPS camps. 450 members of youth are trained on technical skills complemented with conflict resolution and Peace Building skills. The project involves capacity building through improving skills in Conflict prevention and management, vocational technical skills in carpentry, plumbing, tailoring and electrical. Nonetheless, the project formed a network platform for benefitting youth and youth groups to collaboratively advocate for human rights, opportunities and maintaining a united front to any challenges affecting their interests and that of their members.

Key objectives • The return, IDPs and host Somali youth in Kismayo to have selfsustaining livelihoods. • Somali youth in Kismayo influence peaceful co-existence in their communities. • Become more effective, accountable, and responsive to the needs of all, most of all, the poorest and most vulnerable in communities.

key achievements/successes • • • Juba Foundation as local organization is working towards ensuring the returns, IDPS and the vulnerable host communities have got dignified (re)integration modalities in support of selfreliance and resilience. This Project offered skills training for both female and male youth on different technical skills like; carpentry, plumbing, tailoring and electrical as well as peace building sessions meant for Conflict prevention and management. Mostly importantly it also gave start-up kits to enable them have an entrepreneurial opportunities. Around 450 youth in kismayo consisting of returns, IDPS and the vulnerable host community acquired knowledge and skills that can assist them overcome the dependency on humanitarian assistance. Skills trainings offered to this youth have contributed positively to sustainable opportunities for some like-minded youth who could benefit from the available opportunities by starting business with the start-up kits given to them after the completion of the course. In Dalxis-ka IDP camps you can find many female and male youth who benefited from this project and created business opportunity around there premises giving services to the rest of the community through the knowledge and the technical skills acquired, it has also created for them job opportunity making them to rely on their output instead of waiting humanitarian assistance. The few that were trained on this skills could up lift the individual household income as well provide some support to their close relatives

Challenges • With the high number of youth that showed up for the training all could not get the opportunity, due to the limited budget, there is a need for more training in order to create selfemployment for many idol youth • Provision of Limited start-up kits that could not benefit the youth at the maximum required.

Lesson learnt • Establishment of more technical skills facilities in Jubaland in the other parts of Somalia can assist the idol youth have an opportunity to change their lives in a positive and develop self-reliance through self-employment. • Humanitarian organizations working on durable solution to engage youth and women hence they are the back bone of this community, they can make the community reach selfreliance and resilience. • Somali youth are active if they can only find an opportunity to bring out their talents and potentials. • Active participation of the community is essential in identifying the most vulnerable and deserving youth from communities.