Ileys Foundation for Development and Health Care is a local NGO, nonprofit and nongovernmental organization operating in middle Shabelle, Banadir, Galgaduud, Hiraan and lower Shabelle regions of south central Somalia. The organization was founded in 1995 with the endorsement of the community leaders and the local authorities as well.
The organization has mainly focused on education, primary health care, women empowerment, emergency relief and rehabilitation, mother and child health care and promotion of peace awareness within the poorest of the poor communities in the target l regions. Ileys has built its reputation at grassroots level as a visionary organization capable of working with communities mutually to alter the current course of conflicts and empowerment at communal and individual level in the regions.
To undertake its mandate the organization has also focused on upgrading of it staff capacity and organization management and financial systems and effectively responding to emergency. The organization has greatly benefited from its participation in the community development, Training conducted by OXFAM NOVIB (Oxfam Netherlands). SOCSIS-1EU Training was about Organizational Development topics which suited to uplift the standards for the organization on its capacity and effective respond on community development and emergency. The training covered the major topics of Organizational Development and emergency responds such as: Human Resource Management/planning, Management Practice, financial management, Governance, service delivery, external relations, Organizational sustainability and HIV/AIDS as well gender and Sphere, Community management disaster risk reduction(CMDRR) and gender policy in emergency. Following this training the organization has produced seven manuals of policies and procedures to be adhered for better accountability as transparency and contingency plan for better action preparedness on emergency.
Partners and membership
Ileys is affiliate member of Somali secretariat support (SSS), NGO consortium, south and central Aids commission (SCAC) and Somali education network (SAFE)
The agencies like UNICEF, WHO, UNDP and Novib, Gothenburg initiative ( GI)and Somali Swedish intellectual Banadir organization (SIBO) are among our partner organization supporting the NGO to fulfill its stated mission
The organization is partnered with all the local organizations who work in the operational regions to create friendly environment, as well as international and UN agencies.
