About Horn Aid Resilience Organisation (HARO)
HornAidResilience Organisation (HARO) was conceived by a group of Somali humanitarian practitioners, development professionals, and community leaders who shared a common conviction: that Somalia's communities deserved a homegrown, principled, and technically competent organisation capable of walking with them through crisis and recovery alike.
The founders of HARO bring together decades of combined experience working within and alongside major international humanitarian agencies across the Horn of Africa. Having witnessed persistent gaps between international humanitarian programming and the lived realities of affected communities — including cultural disconnects, limited community ownership, and insufficient attention to long-term resilience — they resolved to establish an organisation that bridges these divides.
Formally constituted in 2017, registered under the laws of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HARO immediately commenced its foundational programming across priority regions. The organisation's name represents resilience and aspiration, capturing precisely what HARO strives to make real for the communities it serves.
- The Gap We Fill: HARO was established in response to specific and persistent programmatic gaps observed across Somalia's humanitarian and development landscape.
- HARO is a Somali-led and community-embedded organisation, building genuine local ownership and prioritising last-mile communities overlooked by larger actors.
- HARO integrates climate adaptation into all sectoral interventions and mandates gender and youth inclusion at every programmatic level.
