Midnimo Voluntary Organization (MVO) commenced its activities in Sept 2017, when group of professionals combined their efforts and it was established in partnership with the local NGOs, volunteers, philanthropists, Puntland business community, Diaspora communities, and local community segments. MIDNIMO operates as a non-governmental organization with Public Benefit Status, since November 2017 to carry out community development projects through small-scale community investments. It was established as an appropriate tool for offering improvements of living standards in a participatory manner. Currently, MIDNIMO employs 20 staff members, and it has a list of over 15 consultants on stand-by, ready to be engaged at very short notice.

Over the past three years, MIDNIMO has established solid partnerships with local communities, business communities and Somalia in Diaspora. It has implemented a program of activities which has earned a high level of recognition as a development agency among the key stakeholders including the government, for its visible impact in achieving its prime goal of poverty reduction and improving living conditions.

Through its projects, MIDNIMO aims at building the capacities of self-development within the communities, so as to be able to articulate and fulfill their development needs as a community in its whole, or as a certain group within one community.

Until now, MIDNIMO has managed a budget of over 1.5 million $US financed by different people and companies.

The success of MIDNIMO is attributable to implementation of following types of high quality, and cost effective projects which have made a tangible development impact on the living conditions of the Puntland population. These projects funded by pooling fund contributed by local business people, Somalia Diaspora, individual philanthropists and volunteers.