What we do
Protection (Protection Monitoring, Child Protection, Access to Justice, GBV):
We work to ensure crisis-affected people and the forcibly displaced receive the assistance and protection they need as their rights, especially children and women as they are the most affected during crisis. We ensure that the affected population enjoys adequate protection of their rights including safety and security, unhindered access to humanitarian assistance, and solutions that fulfil norms and standards. We also ensure that the protection of children from associating with arm groups and any forms of violence, abuse, labour, discrimination, and exploitation. We ensure that boys and girls at risk benefit from comprehensive multi-sectoral case management support (abuse, neglect, exploitation, child labour & child marriage, etc) and protecting Human right violation and upholding the role of law in our society. We promote access to justice by helping to restore housing-land-and-property rights.
Food Security, Livelihood and Economic Inclusion, Cash-Based Interventions
Sustainable livelihoods are fundamental in our programmatic approach in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 “No poverty” by providing our beneficiaries access to skill training, employment opportunities, and resources. After fleeing, one of the most effective ways people can rebuild their lives with dignity and in peace is through the opportunity to work and earn a living. We at SDO Initiative work to promote livelihoods and economic inclusion for the forcibly displaced. We advocate for their right to work and support them in becoming more resilient and achieve self-reliance. Our vision of Food Security and Livelihood is to strengthen the resilience of affected populations, promote early recovery and voluntary and safe durable solutions to displacement, and support social cohesion through increasing the income and asset creation among the most affected population. We empower marginalized and vulnerable communities with access to life skills and capacity building in having a peaceful and prosperous society with skilled manpower. Experience of cash-transfer programming in northeast Nigeria has typically focused on responding to chronic food crises and multiple displacement caused by insurgency. We envision the forcibly displaced persons and others of concern to meet their needs in dignity, protected and can transition to solutions through the expanded use of innovative, efficient and effective CBI. Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in the humanitarian response will remain a key modality in the 2022 humanitarian response and beyond hence the need to invest in cash assistance. We ensure that cash assistance link with national social protection systems, whenever feasible.
Health and Nutrition
Healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. For SDO AID INITIATIVE, improving the health of the world’s women, men and children is core to our mission. Good health provides the foundation for community and economic development. Health is complex and multidimensional. We understand what people need to be healthy and to generate the evidence needed to address their health challenges. We work around Health to make a significant stride in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality. Good nutrition is a cornerstone of well-being, particularly in the first 24 months of life. It provides a key foundation for maximizing human potential and national development. We will work with partners, international organizations and funders to design strategies, policies, programs, and systems that address nutrition emergencies and create sustainable change in the NE region.
CCCM/Shelter/NFI
We work to enhance displacement management in camps, areas of return and out-of-camp sites to ensure equitable and dignified access to services, assistance, and protection for IDPs. We also work to enhance resilience and improve ability of communities and local partners to cope with displacement, and ensure local ownership and self-governance through inclusive participation, gender mainstreaming and engagement of displaced people. SDO AID INITIATIVE intends to work with partners to ensure sufficient, coordinated, and adequate delivery of emergency shelter solutions in response to the immediate shelter needs of affected people. Deliver reinforced or transitional shelters and repair systems to address the specific shelter needs of affected people Provide flexible, coordinated, adequate and harmonized NFI assistance (including assessments, distribution, reporting and post distribution monitoring) to affected people. We will work with sector and partners to target the unmet shelter needs of both existing IDP caseloads and new arrivals to address health- and protection-related concerns triggered by the shortage or lack of shelter and NFIs.
We will ensure both rapid impact and durable-solution approaches to shelter and NFI programming will be crucial to meeting the sector’s response objectives. This will be overall under the sectors strategic objectives of the Humanitarian Response Plan.
Logistics and Warehouse Management
For logistics and supply to be optimized to serve operational needs, we aim to strengthen humanitarian logistics, facilitate logistics coordination and information services for humanitarian actors and complement humanitarian actors’ logistical capacity across Borno State. We have the expertise and the desire to implement warehouse and logistics operations for UN agencies, iNGOs and NNGOs and ensure continued access to the persons of concern and to ensure timely delivery of core relief items and any other materials like shelter kits and tools to persons of concern. Based on need, we will continue to support the IDP and refugee returnees through logistical support in the efficient and timely reception and release of warehouse core relief items, shelter kits and other food and non-food items. We support operations by ensuring that the correct products are delivered in the right quantities, in good condition, at the required time, and in a cost-efficient manner with proper and adequate documentations.