Interconnected thematic mandates delivered through an integrated Nexus Approach—connecting humanitarian aid, development, and rights protection.
Expanding access to quality education for vulnerable children and young people through school rehabilitation, teacher training, and community-based learning centres across underserved regions.
Expanding access to quality education for vulnerable children and young people through school rehabilitation, teacher training, scholarships, and community-based learning centres across underserved regions having rehabilitated 12 primary schools, trained 850 teachers in inclusive child-centred pedagogy, and enrolled 3,500 out-of-school children, 60% of them girls.
MACWO improves maternal, child and community health outcomes through mobile clinics, malnutrition screening and treatment, immunisation drives, and clean water and sanitation promotion across underserved and displaced communities in Somalia.
MACWO strengthens community health systems through trained frontline health workers, functioning health committees, and clear referral pathways that link remote villages to district hospitals and specialised care.
Building household and community food security through climate-smart agriculture, livestock support, cash-for-work schemes, and emergency food assistance for families facing drought and displacement across Somalia.
Building household and community food security through climate-smart agriculture, livestock support, cash-for-work schemes, and emergency food assistance — distributing emergency food baskets to 8,500 vulnerable households, training 1,600 farmers and pastoralists in climate-smart food production, and supporting 45 community seed banks and livestock restocking initiatives across drought-affected regions of Somalia.
MACWO prioritises WASH in schools and health centres, rehabilitating water systems, constructing gender-separated latrines, and installing handwashing stations that keep children healthy, girls in class, and health facilities safe for patients and staff.
MACWO delivers these WASH services directly through its field teams and local partners across Somalia. From drilling solar-powered boreholes in drought-affected villages to building latrines in schools and displacement sites, MACWO works alongside community water committees to ensure every system is maintained, managed and sustainable long after construction ends.
MACWO delivers this work by embedding trained governance officers within districts and regions, working side-by-side with local authorities, traditional elders, women's groups and youth networks to strengthen the systems that serve communities. MACWO builds the capacity of local institutions through practical training in public financial management, transparency and accountability — so that Somali-led governance structures can plan, budget and deliver services that respond to real community needs. MACWO also empowers civil society and community defenders to engage duty-bearers constructively, facilitating dialogue between citizens and authorities, supporting community oversight committees, and amplifying the voices of women, youth and marginalised groups in decisions that shape their future.
MACWO advances gender equality in Somalia by challenging harmful social norms, promoting women's leadership and economic empowerment, and preventing and responding to gender-based violence in all its forms.
MACWO ensures that women are not just beneficiaries but leaders — placing women on village committees, local authority forums, peace dialogues and project decision-making bodies, and mentoring them to take up leadership roles in their communities. MACWO's commitment to women's leadership runs through every programme, from governance and food security to health and education.
Operating Women & Girls Safe Spaces, providing clinical/psychosocial case management, engaging men/boys in protection, and facilitating survivor economic grants.
MACWO runs Women & Girls Safe Spaces as trusted, confidential entry points where survivors can access case management, clinical care and psychosocial support in a safe environment. MACWO's trained caseworkers walk alongside each survivor — coordinating referrals to health, legal and protection services, and following up until the survivor receives the support she needs. MACWO also works with men and boys as allies in protection, challenging harmful norms and building community-wide commitment to ending gender-based violence.
Reducing poverty and building household resilience through cash transfers, vocational skills training, savings groups, and small-business grants that help vulnerable families earn a sustainable income and break the cycle of dependency.
