World Vision held a policy Review Discussion on Small Businesses Development and Challenges in Puntland’s Garowe

Briefly, the Discussion’s objectives were included:-

1. To bring together different stakeholders of the community members, in order to make policy review and update at the state and regional levels.

    2. To discuss different stakeholders of the community members in the review and update policies in effecting their livelihoods and

  3. Participants to review learn and understand relevant policy affecting their livelihoods.

The meeting was witnessed by the project’s stakeholders, including officials from World Vision Somalia, Puntland’s deputy minister of Labor, youth and Sports, Abdirizak Shire Ismail, business family and governors of Eyl, Burtinle and Dangorayo of Nugal province.

Today, it is new milestone for all of us. We are here to highlight the business challenges we might face, different business scenarios and ways forward all together’’. He added “We consider it a golden opportunity to bring all of you on board, and therefore we are looking for your inputs.I than you indeed’’.

As this wonderful ever discussion on the region small businesses development policy review meeting was going on, the governors of Eyl, Dangorayo and Burtinle all spoken same language, saying that this golden project has undergone their managing districts smoothly, benefited by the local small business owners, and of whatever skills and fruits they receive from this update review meeting will return to their corresponding areas.

However, World Vision has been operating in the larger Somalia since 1992 and in Puntland region in particular, since 2010. World Vision Puntland is implementing a project (Nugal Empowerment for better Livelihood project) which is funded by the European Union.

This huge project, Nugal’s empowerment for better livelihoods started on January 2015, and it is expected to end on September, 2017. This project covers districts including, Dangorayo, Burtinle, Garowe, Godobjiran and Eyl, hence World Vision Somalia partners this project with the ministry of labor, youth and Sports for the region’s small businesses betterment.