ActionAid (Somaliland)

ActionAid is a global federation working to end poverty and injustice with thousands of poor communities and millions of people across the planet guided by its global strategy ‘People’s Action to End Poverty’ that ensures solidarity with the poor and excluded people, re-asserting women’s rights, strengthening accountability, and building resilience against adverse climatic shocks and hazards.
In response to the refugee crisis, ActionAid International has been working in Somalia in 1980s. However, with the onset of the 1988 conflict in the North-west Somalia (current Somaliland) and deteriorating security conditions, ActionAid curtailed its activities and finally withdrew from Somalia in September 1990. ActionAid yet maintained links with Somalia as a coordinator of Inter-NGO Committee for Somalia (INCS-UK) - a committee comprising British relief and development agencies which shared information and planned a coordinated response to the crisis in Somalia.