Ali Mohamed Ali (Kalaay)

This is how the professionals get trapped into SISI - Single Income, Single Identity A "mouse" was put at the top of a jar filled with grains He was too happy to find so much of food around him Now he doesn't need to run around searching for food and can happily lead his life As he enjoyed the grains, in few days time, he reached to the bottom of the jar Now he is trapped and he cannot come out of it He has to solely depend upon someone to put grains in the same jar for him to survive He may even not get the grain of his choice and he cannot choose either If he has to live, he has to feed on whatever has been put into the jar Here are my top 4 lessons from this: 1) Short term pleasures can lead to long-term traps 2) If things are coming easy and you are getting comfortable, you are getting trapped into survival mode 3) When you are not using your potential, you are losing it 4) If you don't take right Action at right time, you will finish what you have and will be in

Background. Somalia a country of 15 million population according to Work Bank (WB) which mainly depends on humanitarian aid and the presence of INGO goes way long before 90s when there had been a stable government in power by then then the civil war broke out and the livelihoods of the population is entirely disrupted and infrastructures destroyed. Fast forward came the aftermath of the famous 1992 drought country wide that attracted the attention of the world and that is when vast number of INGOs fully operation in Somalia. This came at time of absolute chaos and surely it was a hard environment to operate to extreme extend. Somali National NGOs most were formed during this hard times to facilitate aid and humanitarian service delivery while working alongside the INGOs, Due to the nature of the situation at the time forced INGOs support to NNGO be based on the aspect of primarily accessibility which basically meant any certain NNGO will be contracted to facilitate a cert