Lifesaving emergency support is provided to the Drought and conflict Affected Population of  Galgaduud region Somalia This project is designed to respond to the immediate basic needs of populations in the drought and  conflcit ravaged district Ceelbuur of Galgaduud South central Somalia. The  November IPC analysis places district Ceelbuur  of Galgaduud region  in a state of emergency. The major objective of this project is: “Drought-affected populations in  Ceelbuur  of Galgaduud (SC) have improved access to food through cash injection and knowledge transfer”, with the specific objective: “Drought-affected communities in Ceelbuur of Galgaduud SC  have improved food security, awareness to nutrition and are able to protect their livelihoods”. The main activities of the project will be unconditional and conditional cash transfer to the affected households using electronic mobile platform. The financial transfer will be complemented with the essential messages on improved nutrition of infants and pregnant and lactating women. Beneficiaries will receive 3 cycles of cash transfers for accessing food and other unmet needs on immediate basis. The monthly cash transfer amount will be at the rate of USD 85 fro both conditional and unconditional transfers (As per the super region defined allocation) to meet 80% of the full minimum expenditure basket. 
There are more than 2M IDPs in Somalia with an endemic nutrition problem. The project will prioritize IDPs (newly and protracted) during the selection process and this provision of in time cash support will help the communities to access food and other unmet needs at the shortest possible response time . This will be supplemented with the essential Nutrition messages during the community meetings (Selection of villages, beneficiaries’ registration and verification processes) that will focus on food and dietary needs of PLWs (Pregnant and lactating women) and infants, importance of balanced food and dietary diversity, key hygiene practices, Nutritional care of sick or malnourished children and referral to the nutrition service providers.
Norwegian Refugee Council multi sect-oral assessment conducted in Central Somalia during the month of July 2017 also concluded that ‘Food access remains a challenge among poorest households due to reduced income and high cost of living from ongoing drought’. The Gu rains were below average in most of central regions specially in Galgaduud and Mudug. Some areas in the region have  not experienced any Gu rains so far exacerbating the already precarious situation . 

This project is in line with the Food Security cluster strategic response objectives: Improve household immediate access to food through provision of unconditional and conditional transfers depending on the severity of food insecurity as per IPC classification, vulnerability and seasonality of the livelihoods. Relates to Strategic Objective SO1 amp SO2.
NRC will be conducting a Baseline survey (at the beginning of the project)  in order to have baseline values ,and will also conduct an End line survey (at the end of the project) to measure progress and plot a deviance in critical food security indicators. In addition, post distribution monitoring (PDM) will also be done 2 weeks after cash is received by the beneficiaries. As a standard practice PDM captures some of the key information around timeliness of support and critical indicators including ‘Food consumption score (FCS) and Household dietary diversity score’. PDM also monitors expenditure patterns of the provided support and determines measures for corrective actions if there are deviations from objective