Support to Somalia NGO Consortium ltpgtltspan style="font-size: 10pt text-align: justify"gtSNC aims
to achieve a stronger, vibrant, and resilient Somali community through coordination for effective delivery of humanitarian and resilience interventions. SHF funding will enable the NGO Consortium enhance information sharing, collaboration
and engagement with stakeholders involved in delivering lifesaving
interventions, and in return will contribute to an enabling environment
for timely, inclusive and well targeted humanitarian assistance. The Consortium
will hold engagements and consultations with various stakeholders to define actions that remove barriers for marginalized
communities including minority and marginalized groups to increase timely and quality access to humanitarian supplies and life-saving interventions, create an environment that
enables the unconditioned consultation and active involvement of NGOS that represent affected persons in the chain of humanitarian activities from advocacy
towards prioritization of assistance for marginalized groups, consultation of NGOS in risk and response communication or even building NGO capacity to effectively respond to emergencies in ways that address their needs.lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgt

lt/pgtltp style="text-align:justify"gtltspan style="font-size:10.0pt"gtA key priority for
the Somalia NGO Consortium has been collaborating with authorities to influence
legislation and policy that facilitates an enabling environment
conducive for smooth delivery of emergency programs across Somalia.
Through donors and NGOs, the Consortium will facilitate deeper analysis
on access challenges, emerging government policies and directives using
humanitarian principleslt/spangtltspan style="font-size:10.0pt"gt. The Consortium will consult with different levels of governments and NGOs with the aim of sharing information and seeking remedies to bureaucratic administrative
impediments and have a common understanding of the contextual changes and
operating working environment. ltbrgtltbrgtIn its quest to ensure members and other NGOs
effectively use resources to change lives, through collaborative partnerships,
and reliance on external service providers or consultants, the Somali NGO
Consortium will strengthen the capacity of its members as well as SHF potential
and active recipients, on financial, grants and risk management, develop guidelines to mitigate
risksltspan style="mso-spacerun:yes"gt lt/spangtassociated with fast paced response
in emergency situations. This will contribute to ensuring SHF resources are
utilized efficiently.lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="font-size: 14px text-align: justify"gtSomali NGO
Consortium (SNC) will continue to advocate locally and globally for effective humanitarian financing including advocating for more funding directlylt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px text-align: justify"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px text-align: justify"gtto  local NGOs lt/spangtltspan style="text-align: justify"gtincluding minority and marginalized groupslt/spangtltspan style="text-align: justify"gt.  As a coordination platform and a common voice
for the hundreds of International and National non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) working in a highly insecure and complex operating environment, lt/spangtltspan style="text-align: justify"gtSNC continues to be anlt/spangtltspan style="text-align: justify"gt effective platform for networking and
coordination of NGOs to improve international aid coordination and promote
dialogue, advocacy,lt/spangtltspan style="text-align: justify"gt collaboration, learning, capacity strengthening and information
exchange amongst memberslt/spangtltspan style="text-align: justify"gt.lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtltbrgtlt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtSome of the
strengths of SNC include extensive field presence, strong partnership and
working relationships with Somalia/Somaliland Governments, international aid
agencies, civil society leaders and local authorities. So far, SNC has made a
significant contribution in Somalia through the formation of a national
platform where NGOs can voice their concerns, lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtilt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtncluding the newly established NGOs-only Access Working Group that meets regularly on monthly basis to discuss NGOs operational challenges and findlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt solutions for attaining conducive environment, increase attendance of the UN-led Access and Civil Military Working Groups meeting,lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gt,lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt



lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt ensure maximum benefit from thelt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt achievedlt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt Humanitarian Country
Team (HCT) representation lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt50-50% for INGO/NNGO’s and women/local NGOs
representation in existing governance structures by monitoring key agenda to ensure minority issue and those of marginalized groups are delilt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtberated and acted on.lt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltpgt





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