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Integrated Development Focus (IDF-S)

Integrated Development Focus (IDF) was established May 1st 1999 as a non-partisan non-governmental, none for profit making organization. The headquarters of IDF is Belet-Hawa district of Gedo region of Somalia, and has operational presence and experience in the entire Gedo region with an ambition to expand and strengthen its operational scope into the greater South Central Somalia. IDF pursues a rights based approach grounded on the belief that people are entitled to a claim of basic conditions of living with dignity and access to opportunity and dignity, as a basis of fulfilling their human potential.

IDF therefore seeks to stimulate sustainable developmental change amongst vulnerable communities living in south central region. IDF's mandate and core business is to facilitate humanitarian assistance to disaster affected communities, resilience building and general community development. These ambitions are realized through (core strategies of) knowledge transfer, influencing, brokering linkages and facilitating/ implementing integrated people centered humanitarian and development programs. The main developmental approach of IDF is to enable communities find solutions to their socio-economic challenges.