SAACID is Somalia’s oldest continuously operational indigenous non-governmental and women organization. SAACID has continually operated in the anarchic context of Somalia for more than 30 years now. SAACID is a not-for-profit, non-political, non-governmental women’s organization (NGO) that has been dedicated to the empowerment of Somali women, children and the poor. SAACID has implemented a very significant portfolio of operational programmes. This has not been gifted to SAACID. To get to where it is today, SAACID has had to work harder, and probably perform better than other local or international NGOs or international agencies and has had to provide consistent success for more than 30 years.