{"id":17902,"date":"2025-09-06T22:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=17902"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:20:46","slug":"sodma-leads-national-efforts-to-empower-women-in-humanitarian-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2025\/09\/06\/sodma-leads-national-efforts-to-empower-women-in-humanitarian-work\/","title":{"rendered":"SoDMA leads national efforts to empower women in humanitarian work\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212; <\/strong>In a qualitative move reflecting a national commitment to enhancing the role of women in building Somalia&#8217;s future, the Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA) has launched the &#8220;Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group.&#8221; This launch came during a high-level coordination meeting hosted by the agency, with broad participation from local and international partners, aiming to integrate women leaders into the core of the country&#8217;s relief and development efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting was chaired by Mr. Mohamud Moalim Abdulle, Chairman of SoDMA, who affirmed that this initiative is not merely a gathering but an &#8220;essential step towards a more equitable and effective humanitarian system.&#8221; He stressed that empowering women is an investment in building a national capacity for resilience and sustainable development, considering women&#8217;s organizations the true force for change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For her part, Dr. Rukaya Mohamed, UN Women&#8217;s Country Director, praised this partnership, confirming that &#8220;women are not just beneficiaries; they are indispensable partners in resilience and recovery.&#8221; She explained that the GiHA Group will work to ensure all aspects of the humanitarian response are tailored to meet the needs of women and girls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The discussions focused on establishing a robust framework for cooperation between SoDMA and local women&#8217;s organizations and civil society organizations, ensuring women&#8217;s direct participation in all humanitarian decision-making processes. This initiative sets a precedent in humanitarian coordination in Somalia and underscores a national strategy that places women&#8217;s empowerment and leadership at the heart of the journey towards building a prosperous and stable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; In a qualitative move reflecting a national commitment to enhancing the role of women in building Somalia&#8217;s future, the Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA) has launched the &#8220;Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group.&#8221; This launch came during a high-level coordination meeting hosted by the agency, with broad participation from local and international &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17912,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions\/17912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}