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		<title>Challenges and Progress in Somalia with Somali Family Services and NED</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On behalf of the Georgetown University Africa Forum, I would like to invite all of you to an exciting event on Thursday, February 23rd: &#8220;Challenges and Progress in Somalia&#8221;, a discussion with Somali Family Services (SFS) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). If you are interested in learning about development in Somalia or are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training in Human Rights, Leadership, &amp; Team Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ January 21-22, 2012 Abdurashid Ali, Director, Somali family Services (SFS) Garowe, Puntland Dr. Michal Moskow, Co-Facilitator, SFS board member, Minnesota Mukhtar I. Gaaddassar, Co-Facilitator, Technical Advisor, SFS .   Garowe, Puntland. On Jan 15, 2012, Dr. Michal Moskow, SFS board member traveled from Minnesota to Puntland to increase contact between the board and SFS in Puntland. Dr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SFS Conducts Self Help Projects For The Youth at Risk in Puntland.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A project to engage the youth to be productive and avoid joining violence groups was launched in Bosaso and Galkacyo. The project funded by the government of Japan and is implemented by International Labor Organization in partnership with Somali Family Services in collaboration with UNDP and UNICEF. The project aim is to engaging 475 youth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SFS Wrapped up Successful Youth Skills Training in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, 170 young Puntlanders completed a six-month youth skills training course with SFS. To prepare them to enter the workforce, SFS trained these 15- to 24-year-olds in a variety of practical skills, including communication, accounting and technology. SFS has already placed almost a quarter of the participants in paid jobs, another quarter as interns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SFS Capacity Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Democracy & Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SFS strives to build and strengthen the capacity of the Puntland government, civil society organizations (CSOs), and local religious and secular leaders to create sustainable institutions and mechanisms for citizens to participate in democracy-building and educational processes in Puntland. SFS works daily to empower citizens, improve civil society and help rebuild the Puntland government in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SFS Raises Its Profile in Nairobi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One year after opening its liaison office in Kenya, Somali Family Services brought its partners and friends together for a reception at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi to further raise awareness of its contributions to the political and social development of Puntland, Somalia. At the reception on June 17, 2011, those close to SFS’s work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Engagement for Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dialogue forum under civil society and reconciliation project was to bring different stakeholder to discuss and explore the possibilities to implementing charity act and affirmative action in Puntland. These sub-topics fall under main themes of civic education, resource sharing, human rights and introducing new policy whereby civil society and government jointly agreed.  These concepts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strengthening the communication between CSOs and government</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This forum was designed to strengthen the peace and state building while analyzing the conflict or the mistrust between the government and the civil society organizations from the participants’ point of view. The forum focuses on the current issues that are impacting the community.  There are two reasons for this choice of perspective.]]></description>
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		<title>New innovative forum launched in Puntland, Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>garowe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latest News SFS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Puntland Library and Resource Center on October 11, 2010, Somali Family Services assembled Puntland’s stakeholders to strength the communication bridge between Government, Civil Society, and the community as whole toachieve a successful peace and State building. The forum is first of many three-day training workshops under the project DEMOS (Democratic Engagement and Management for [...]]]></description>
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