Bareedo Platform Somalia has concluded a Digital Security and Resilience Training in Garowe, Puntland, bringing together more than 35 participants from civil society organizations, women-led groups, youth movements, media organizations, and grassroots activist networks based in Puntland, Somalia.

The targeted rapid-response training aimed to strengthen participants’ digital safety, resilience, and operational security in response to growing risks such as hacking, online surveillance, cyber harassment, disinformation, and other digital threats that can disrupt the work of civil society and independent actors.

During the training, participants received practical guidance on securing social media accounts, protecting digital devices and online communications, strengthening data protection practices, identifying digital threats, and responding effectively to security incidents. The training contents was also included sessions focusing on wellbeing and healing digital trauma as results of digital threats to sustain civic activism.

The training forms part of Bareedo Platform Somalia’s broader efforts to support safer civic and democratic engagement across Somalia by strengthening the digital resilience of the civil society groups, human rights defenders, journalists and vulnerable rights groups working in challenging and high-risk environments.

Bareedo Platform Somalia continues to provide digital safety support, capacity-building, and emergency technical assistance to at-risk civil society organizations, activists, human rights defenders, journalists, women-led groups, and grassroots activists to sustain safe civic and democratic engagement across Somalia.

This initiative was made possible through the generous support of the CIVICUS Crisis Response Fund and the Digital Democracy Initiative (CRF-DDI), funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.