IRCA - Initiative for Relief and Climate Action

Environmental Education and Conservation

IRCA works holistically to enhance and increase agricultural production through the promotion of farming skills and climate change adaptation, and improved farming methods.

Inclusive Basic Education

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IRCA believes that Education is central to the development of the individual and the progress of society at large and thus has established a high-quality program for Education focusing Primary Education.

General Background

Initiative for Relief and Climate Action (IRCA) is a Somali based, non-political, not-for-profit, and non-governmental humanitarian relief- and development organization established in 2018 by a local Somali Intellectuals that focuses to save lives, battling climate change- related issues by promoting Environmental sustainability and livelihood interventions, promote the path to self-reliance and dignity through human transformation going beyond relief and development.

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Major/Core Programmatic Areas

IRCA Programs will be targeting the most vulnerable communities. IRCA considers Climate Change as an issue of highest relevance and works in its direction both in a full-fledge manner or as a cross-cutting theme in its other projects. IRCA will be striving to achieve its specific objectives in six (6) programmatic areas of:

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The changing story of IRCA

IRCA’s humanitarian and development intervention programs are holistic, people-centered, community-based, and sustainable. Therefore, sustainable livelihoods approaches are adopted for all IRCA strategic and short-term program focus in Somalia.

Year by year, with your support, we have expanded our work. This is how we changed the story.

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Our Partners

IRCA has been actively engaged in building trust and confidence among humanitarian actors in Somalia while simultaneously seeking funding from various donors and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). As of now, IRCA has established partnerships with the following organizations:
• ADRA
• Southwest State Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (through Save the Children and FAO)
• Southwest State Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (through GIZ funded project)
• Southwest Ministry of Environment and Wildlife.
• Baidoa International University (BIU)
• Southwest Innovation Hub
• Somali Economic Development Hub
• Southwest State of Somalia Diaspora