ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND

Action Against Poverty & Peace Development (AAPPED) is non-profit, non-governmental and non-politic which aims to act the against of poverty and to establish the community conflicted to resolution and making peace, the organization was established on 22^nd/02/2010 by Somali intellectuals who lives in abroad and within the country.

Action Against Poverty & Peace Development known as AAPPED is non-political organization which has an office in Nairobi and Mogadishu.

AAPPED is non-governmental, non-Political and non-profit organization with the aim of supporting the Somali people in general and the vulnerable groups such as women, children and elderly people mainly those who suffered the long years of conflict and the cruel environment that made almost every person in every community vulnerable.

AAPPED continues to make positive contributions by perpetually highlighting human rights violations and the deteriorating security situation affecting the majority of citizens. Specifically, AAPPED has renewed sense of commitment and partnership that seeks to build on their individual successes and aims to provide a stronger, better coordinated forum through which Somali women, men, boys, girls and elder groups can proactively take part in seeking lasting solutions to the political, social and economic problems that have left Somalia one of the worst humanitarian and political crisis in the world.

In the spirit of humanity, the members of the organization have made self-commitment to help those need their help in understanding and solving their own problems, regardless of sex, beliefs and race, giving special care to the vulnerable groups of the society including women, children, poor, aged and disabled by offering opportunity to enjoy their rights.

AAPPPED has together actors from local and international institutions, civil society groups, private sector, community leaders, local and international NGOs, and external assistance partners in a consensus-based process for the identification and prioritization of reconstruction and development need, action-oriented research and problem solving, and development of recommendations for improved policy and practices.