The United Relief Initiatives of Somalia (URIS) is a national nonprofit, humanitarian and development network of NGO founded in Mogadishu, Somalia, in december 10, 2024 with a mission to serve the most vulnerable people affected by human and natural crises in the Horn of Africa region and beyond. Our thematic areas of work are humanitarian relief groups development, the education sector groups development, the WASH sector groups development, food security and economic development groups development, the youth and women empowerment and promotion of peace-building, conflict transformation and good governance programs working organizations development.
The aim of the URIS is to advance useful knowledge of the nation and its diverse communities, bringing a better understanding of local realities to bear on social and political action. The URIS works with institutions in the region to develop and implement long-term programmes that combine action-oriented research with humanitarian and human rights education and public information.
In humanitarian responses, we follow the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), internationally recognised standards which place communities and people affected by crisis at the centre of humanitarian action, and guide our emergency response work. It is a voluntary and measurable standard.
Vision
To be the resilient communities benefit from opportunities for greater health and wellbeing, and URIS plays a crucial role in pulling those threads together to help build community resilience and strengthen healthcare and humanitarian actors’ systems.
Mission
Our work is guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.
Background
We are committed to holding ourselves accountable for the promises we make to our supporters, partners, staff, and most of all, CSOs/NGOs. This means looking back at our commitments, celebrating our successes and learning from any mistakes in order to do more and do better.
The United Relief Initiatives of Somalia (URIS) was established in response to the plain for humanitarian emergency needs that resulted at the outbreak of civil war and total collapse of the central government in 1991. This crisis, combined with a severe famine which decimated almost a quarter of a million people, left abject suffering and poverty in its wake. Currently, Somalia has a large number of NGOs and civil society organizations working in humanitarian and development sectors. The United Relief Initiatives of Somalia (URIS) serves as a coordinating body, advocating for and supporting the work of these initiatives/NGOs.
The current Somalia civil society organizations, networks and NGOs in Somalia play a vital role in delivering aid and addressing various needs, but also face challenges related to coordination, accountability, and operating in a complex environment.
The United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR Relief and development section in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights which is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights have developed local Somalia initiative better named United Relief Initiatives for Somalia (URIS) in order to support developing NGOs locally so please also that it will be the Latest Grants and Resources web initiative in Somalia.
Many nonprofit organizations struggle to secure funding from large donors due to ineffective proposals. In this initiative guide, you will join to save the necessary steps.
The URIS network is an important country-level financing tool which provides quick, predictable and strategic funding to NGOs working in Somalia. Funds need to be made available to support institutional capacity building of SNGOs.
Our headquarters are in Mogadishu, with field operation offices across the Somali regions and international offices in Kenya, Geneva, Addis Ababa and most recently in the USA.
