Somalia Protracted Crisis Joint Response 2024-2026

The SOMJR 2024-2026 project seeks to provide assistance and support to urban, peri-urban, agropastoral, and pastoral communities. The focus is on addressing the needs of underserved communities and locations that have been significantly impacted by the 2022/2023 drought, conflict, violence, floods, disease outbreaks, and socio-economic challenges. This includes prioritizing the most vulnerable communities, including those from marginalized clans and minority groups. These populations will be experiencing IPC 3+ conditions, indicating a high level of food insecurity. It recognizes the importance of addressing severe food insecurity and places equal emphasis on assisting vulnerable internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in these areas.

The SOMJR will provide tailored assistance in the sectors of FSL, WASH, Nutrition, Health, Protection and MPC to target communities and households based on their specific needs, ensuring inclusivity, transparency, and active participation of all groups. The project prioritizes IDPs, while also including the host community to maintain balance and prevent tensions/conflicts.

The Joint Response

The Somalia Flood Joint Response is a multi-sectoral response to the protracted crisis, implemented in Somaliland (Sool, Sanaag, Togdheer, And Wogoyee Galbeed), Jubaland (Gedo and Lower Juba), Hirshabelle (Hiran and Middle Shabelle), Banadir, and Southwest State (Bay and Lower Shabelle).

The activities carried out under this Joint Response are the following:

• Food Security & Livelihoods: 44.195 individuals. Interventions include agricultural support through providing seeds and farming tools, food assistance through vouchers. Furthermore, partners will facilitate the establishment of community-managed revolving loan funds or community self-help mechanisms and invest in constructing a vegetable/meat sales market infrastructure.
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): 348.645 individuals. The Response will improve water access availability through provision of jerry cans and Aqua Tabs for water storage and treatment. Immediate humanitarian assistance for water will be provided through water trucking and water kiosks to households and IDP camps across the different selected regions. Furthermore, desalination of water, construction of latrines, and rehabilitation of water sources will be conducted.
• Health: 470.003 individuals. This includes primary health care services such as medical treatment for diseases and disease surveillance, reproductive health will be supported to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity, and immunization services will be provided at health facilities. In selected health facilities, Clinical Management of Rape will be provided.
• Nutrition: 151.618 individuals. Interventions include the provision of nutrition supplies, treatment of children and screening for malnutrition in health centers, by outreach teams and community networks.
• Protection:  74.837 individuals. Interventions include psychological support, training of protection volunteers and community awareness campaigns on for example the prevention of Sexual and Gender Based Violence, child rights and available services.
• Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA): 11.722 individuals. Interventions include Unconditional Cash Transfers and Conditional Cash Transfers (in the form of Cash-for-Work), provided through mobile money transfer.

The JR is planning to reach 692,617 affected people during this response.