Introduction

Introduction

SBACO is abbreviated for Somali Birth Attendants Cooperative Organization that was established in Gal kayo city of Mudug region in 1994 by a group of health physicians and senior community development professionals. Due to limited National functional NGOs in the region SBACO was established to intervene and provide effective and efficient Mother and Child humanitarian services undertaking in the emergency, Life saving, relief and rehabilitation phases to focus IDPS and those other people with poverty, vulnerability and variant crisis. SBACO is operational for 19 years and has been active since 1994 which is the date established working inside the districts of Mudug region except some 4 years of gap between 2004-2007 which the organization has faced some technical related issues that SBACO had not afford to proceed its humanitarian operations. During these stated past years SBACO has achieved to implement a number of 19 projects in partnership with UN Agencies, INGOs, Government institutions, Local Community Networks, Consortiums and Volunteer communities from Mudug women Diaspora. The Organization is currently operating in Mudug region and its districts both North and South areas through running of grass root level and developmental community activities targeted in both urban and rural areas. SBACO Mandate is to improve the wellbeing of Somali women and children and alleviate threats against their rights through providing them with Health, Education and Livelihoods based Services The mandate of operational fronts SBACO Humanitarian Organization are: Health, Protection, WATSAN, Livelihoods and Skills Trainings as they are often linked sectors to each other. Besides this , SBACO is prepared to respond emergence situations and disasters of natural and manmade inside the organizational geographical environment regardless of special believes, race, color , group or any else issue through respect of the international principles :Transparency, Accountability, Neutrality and Professionalism means together with the national State law and SBACO Organizational charter.   SBACO is a national Women NGO with its HQ in Gal kayo that has an adequate organizational capacity and expertise to smoothly run its activities and smartly collaborate with partners. The NGO’s members are committed to continue learning and self-improvement, sharing experiences with one another to effectively design, implement, monitor and evaluate community based developmental projects in a participatory manner. Information gathering and sharing throughout project cycle management at the grass root level, strengthening skills and awareness of the communities that we gained from international community advices will improve SBACO operations and the target community that SBACO is working with. The NGO has collaborated with the community to identify and prioritize their problems by using PRA tools, so as to enable them to participate in the project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation cycles, as well as the management, and technical sustainability when the project is completed.