Development Fund (DF)

For more than 40 years the Development Fund (DF) has collaborated with local communities and civil society organizations in developing countries to improve the production of food and income generation of highly vulnerable and marginalized rural communities
DF’s vision is a sustainable and just world with freedom from hunger, poverty and marginalization
Hundreds of thousands of small-scale farming households have received DF-support to develop resilient livelihoods and eliminate hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in their communities. DF has stood steadfast in the forefront among development organizations promoting the empowerment of marginalized rural communities,  pro-poor policies and appropriate solutions, particularly through approaches such as crop diversification, model-farmer, adaptive climate villages, affordable climate-smart agriculture techniques, community seed-banks, small scale irrigation and mechanizations, local natural resource management, microcredits and capacity building of civil society and grassroots organization
DF mobilizes the assets of small-scale farmers to ensure local contribution, involvement, and ownership, which is key to a sustainable, resilient, and equitable development. DF has been supporting local NGOs under various programmes in both Somaliland and Puntland since 2009 with the overall goal of improving food security and nutrition among pastoralists and agro-pastoralist communities in Somaliland and Puntland
The Somalia Country Programme is concentrated around the Building Local Resilience and Adaptation to Climate (BRAC) Programme supported by Norad, the Community Resilience in Somaliland and Puntland (CRISP) Project funded by the European Union, and the Improved Seed, Food and Livelihood Security for Agro-pastoralists Project funded by the Darwin Initiative (UK)
These projects are implemented in Awdal, Maroodijeex, Togheer, Sanaag and Sool in Somaliland and Bari and Nugaal in Puntland