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.

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:

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 is working to gain the trust and confidence among the humanitarian actors in Somalia and trying to attract funds from various donor and INGOs. So far IRCA has the following partners;

We understand the importance of approaching each work integrally and believe in the power of simple.

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