With more than two decades of grassroots experience, CPD has become a national leader in emergency humanitarian response, resilience building, peacebuilding, governance strengthening, and sustainable development. Our work is rooted in the belief that Somali communities, when empowered, are the architects of their own progress. We have transformed this belief into action—across sectors like water, agriculture, livelihoods, education, infrastructure, governance, and justice—through inclusive, locally led solutions that endure.
Reducing extreme poverty in Somalia and Somaliland is a core pillar that defines our existence. Our poverty eradication programs target the ultra-poor families that are often neglected by the mainstream charities. We deploy comprehensive, time-bound, integrated and sequenced set of interventions that aim to enable the extreme and the ultra-poor families achieve key milestones towards sustainable livelihoods and socio-economic resilience, in order to progress along a pathway out of extreme poverty.
We are a catalyst who challenge the structural causes of the injustice of poverty, and work with partners locally and globally to create opportunities for people living in poverty to realize their full potential. A core component of our delivery approach is the emphasis on evidence-based inclusive programming, coupled with a strong focus on continuous learning.
We strive to link all our humanitarian, peace building and development interventions with the aim of~ maximizing their impacts with the very least resources. We believe that local actors like CPD are the critical agents necessary for advancing community-based approaches to local development and the general re-structuring of the current humanitarian and development architecture. It is this belief that informed CPD co-founding the Somali NEXUS Consortium– the first and only locally-led consortium in the country bringing together eight local actors from Somalia/Somaliland.
Vision
We envision a poverty-free and sustainably-developed Africa.
Mission
To facilitate evidence-based and participatory approaches to development for sustainable welfare of African communities.
- Efficiency – We deliver timely and most suitable interventions to the needy.
- Integrity – We are accountable to all our stakeholders including the people we serve and partners.
- Equality – We believe and honor the equal value of every human being.
- Innovation – We cherish and support innovations in the promotion of the welfare of the communities we serve.