COOPI activated a rapid emergency response, providing humanitarian assistance to the displaced mainly through WASH and non-food items (NFIs) activities by distributing drinking water and basic necessities such as blankets, small cooking utensils, water containers, plastic sheeting and ropes, to set up temporary shelters while waiting for IDP sites.
In the field, COOPI's work is carried out in a coordinated manner with other humanitarian actors in the country to integrate the various humanitarian emergency management interventions.
Since 2004, COOPI has been present in Sudan, where it implemented development and humanitarian assistance interventions and supported the most vulnerable groups, afflicted by conflicts and natural disasters, including refugees, displaced persons and host communities. At first, COOPI operated in North Darfur; while later on, in 2019, it expanded its presence to eastern Sudan - Kassala and Gedaref - and the capital Khartoum.
Over the years, COOPI adopted a multi-sectoral and integrated approach, which led to a considerable improvement and access to basic services with programmes dedicated to Shelter and Non-Food Items, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH and Disaster Risk Reduction in the states of North Darfur, Kassala and Khartoum.
COOPI is currently actively engaged in the humanitarian emergency supporting the population affected by the conflict that broke out on April 15th, 2023 between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces.
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10-04-2024
The conflict in Sudan has already created the world’s largest displacement crisis. Now fighting, displacement and lack of humanitarian access to the most...
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05-04-2024
Far from the spotlight, struggling with a year-long conflict, Sudan continues to face one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. In this alarming...
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02-11-2023
In six months 9,000 people were killed and 6 million displaced. In Darfur, ethnic cleansing nightmare returns: half a million flee to Chad but camps are...
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25-10-2023
Source: Corriere della Sera, Mondo Capovolto On April 15, 2023, the current, umpteenth, Sudanese conflict broke out, with humanitarian...
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03-10-2023
The increasing numbers of crises between 2022 and 2023, due to the effects of climate change, natural hazards and wars, have thrown into disarray dozens of...
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21-09-2023
Due to the current humanitarian crisis, the Sudanese people are facing unimaginable suffering and the slow pace of global response is a deep concern of the...
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31-07-2023
The Sudan INGO forum, of which COOPI - International Cooperation is a member, calls on delegates in the city of Jeddah, who are committed to ensuring regional...
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31-07-2023
In the last days of July, the Sudanese team of COOPI has distributed food baskets and shelter materials to over 700 displaced families in Gedaref, on the...
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23-06-2023
6 June 2023 This opinion article was originally published by The New Humanitarian. By Will Carter, Norwegian Refugee Council Gedaref, Sudan...
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29-05-2023
Since the conflict in Sudan between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces erupted on April 15, 2023, more than 1,400,000 people have fled the capital...
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23-05-2023
The Sudan INGO Forum, to whom COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale belongs, denounces that over the last week at least 15 offices of International...
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03-05-2023
Sudan INGO Forum, to whom COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale takes part, calls on conflict parties to ensure protection of civilians, including aid...
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28-04-2023
Due to the serious crisis that broke out on Saturday 15 April, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale was forced to repatriate the 11 international workers...
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14-09-2022
Like every year, the rain in Sudan was expected and feared. This time, however, the dangers and disasters caused by the floods were successfully avoided. The...
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27-04-2022
Starting from 2020, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale has worked in the locality of Kabkabiya, North Darfur State, by implementing an operation called:...
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15-10-2021
October 15, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale celebrated the Global Handwashing Day with several events in Darfur, Khartoum and Gedaref...
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10-09-2021
Making use of the clean and free energy from the Sun: this is what 30 women started doing in Umbaru Locality, North Darfur, Sudan. The women will run the...
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09-09-2021
In June 2021, COOPI provided 1,800 households (approximately 10,800 beneficiaries) with a variety of vegetable seeds as part of our project "To Mitigate...
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01-09-2021
The rain that pours down every July on the areas of the Mayo refugee camp, on the outskirts of Khartoum (Sudan), is enough to flood houses and roads. But since...
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20-05-2021
The conflict that broke out in November 2020 in the Ethiopian region of Tigray has caused the influx of thousands of refugees in the eastern states of Sudan,...
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29-04-2021
About 60 kilometers North East of Mellit locality, in North Darfur State (Sudan), COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale is about to complete the...
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23-04-2021
An open letter to States and their Leaders from the civil society organisations working with and for the 270 million people facing hunger, starvation or famine...
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20-04-2021
Since the beginning of the Tigrinya refugee crisis, COOPI - in close coordination with AICS (Italian Development Cooperation Agency) - has started the...
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02-04-2021
Over the last couple of years, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale has created 30 Village Saving Loan Association (VSLA) groups in Umbaru and Kornoi...
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29-03-2021
Since the end of November 2020, COOPI has started to provide drinking water (filtered and chlorinated) to refugees from Tigray (Ethiopia) stationed at the...
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26-02-2021
The conflict that erupted in November 2020 in the Ethiopian region of Tigray is at the root of an alarming humanitarian emergency, which has involved not only...
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15-01-2021
As of 1 January 2021, a new partnership contract between the European Union's Department for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and...
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30-11-2020
On the 19th and 20th September, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale urgently distributed 1,000 family food baskets to the most vulnerable households of...
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23-11-2020
Thanks to the sudden support of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), since November 14, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale is providing...
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19-11-2020
The current internal conflict between the Tigray region and the central Ethiopian government is causing a humanitarian crisis which - barring unlikely...
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04-11-2020
Last 21st October, COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale was the first organization to respond to the flood emergency in Kabkabiya town, the capital of Kabkabiya...
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15-10-2020
On Friday 9 October, the World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to...
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29-09-2020
In the wake of the recent disasters caused by the floods in Sudan, and after the recent distributions in the 5 most affected villages of Jebel Awliya in...
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17-09-2020
Starting from the mid of August 2020 Sudan is facing a heavy rainy season which got worse during the last week of the month. On the 2nd of September 2020,...
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04-08-2020
Sudan – In the latest month, COOPI completed the construction of seedbanks and nurseries in Meski and Kerfu (North Darfur). These infrastructures, built...
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14-07-2020
In Sudan, Covid-19 pandemic is threatening health, food security and nutrition security. As of the 24th of June 2020, confirmed covid-19 cases were 9,275,...
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12-06-2020
Nearly one year after the flood that hit the town of Al Kuma (80 km North of El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan), monitoring reports indicate that COOPI...
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05-06-2020
Dams realized with innovative materials, veterinary centers equipped with solar panels and improved latrines, seed banks managed by Committees: COOPI built...
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06-05-2020
Since COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, COOPI has continued to support vulnerable people in the Republic of Sudan, a country where still today only 23% of...
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16-04-2020
Mohammed Ahmad, 45 years old, is a farmer living in Um-Jedad village, in Rural Aroma Locality – Sudan. Together with other farmers of his village, he is...
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03-04-2020
Amgoumash, Kaltouma Abdalla, Sadja and Najza are some of the women beneficiaries of the European Union funded project “Mitigate the effect of El...
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02-04-2020
COOPI supported community of Wadi Garad – North Darfur - by constructing an artificial pond, which is the Bismilahi’s haffir, thanks to the...
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25-03-2020
Adam Ibrahim Adam, aged 47 and father of 6 children (3 girls and 3 boys), is a resident of Um Gedad village, one of the most remote villages in Rural Aroma...
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06-03-2020
In December 2019, COOPI conducted a mid-term evaluation on the European Union funded project ‘Strengthening Local Communities resilience to climate...
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21-02-2020
Adam Ahmed Ali is an animal breeder who lives in Matatib village, in the state of Kassala, in Eastern Sudan. Due to an endemic disease his cattle has suffered...
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10-02-2020
Overgrazing and deforestation have resulted into a big shift in vegetation of Mellit, Mallah and Um Kaddada towns in North Darfur, which is now characterised...
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08-01-2020
Water is now available to 18,000 households in North Darfur, Sudan, thanks to small-scale, solar-powered irrigation systems. By rehabilitating three...
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11-09-2019
Over the last few months, a tree nursery was set up in Mellit, North West of El Fasher in North Darfur, which allowed to plant over 10,000 seedlings of...
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08-08-2019
In July 2019, the distribution of 900 agricultural kits began at the only school in the so-called Rural Aroma area in Koga, Sudan. 112 farmers received the...
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08-07-2019
In the last 30 years, the El Niño weather phenomenon has caused drought and a decline in rainfall throughout Sudan, affecting about 59.5 million people....
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05-07-2019
Water is a priority in the state of Kassala, in eastern Sudan. This is what Mohammed Ahmad told us – he is a member of the Hidnadwa community, the...
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01-07-2019
Marginalisation, underdevelopment and poverty have long affected the state of Kassala, making it one of the most vulnerable states in Sudan, exposed...
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20-06-2019
In 2018, 70.8 million people fled war and persecution – this is the highest number ever recorded by the United Nations Refugee Agency in the Global...
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15-06-2019
Mr. Osman Abubaker Osman is a farmer in Baina village in North Darfur who adopted an innovative practice of harvesting water coming from mountain to his farm...
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14-06-2019
Try to imagine an area of 296,420 km², where an estimated population of approximately 1,583,000 people (2006) are at risk of malnutrition, lack water and...
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15-04-2019
In April 2019, the "Promotion of social and economic development in North and South Darfur and Red Sea State" project, financed by the Italian...
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28-05-2018
Atong Dut is a 30 years old South Sudanese woman living as a refugee in the Abu Jara village, located in Al Lait, North Darfur. She is living with the...
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09-10-2017
As the security is slowly improving in North Darfur, thousands of people are returning home. It is estimated that 7.713 people went back to Sudan in the last...
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07-03-2017
The 2015/2016 global El Niño event is considered to be one of the strongest on record. As of August 2016, close to 24 million people in East Africa have...
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21-02-2017
Sidic was born in the Republic of Sudan, just a short distance from Orshi dam, in a village called Lil. In 2016 COOPI repaired the dam which had been...
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