Provision of lifesaving and emergency food security and livelihood support to the most vulnerable IDPs affected by drought in Qansax dhere district of Bay region, Somalia ADA is planning to support the most vulnerable agro-pastoral and IDPs communities in Qansaxdhere district, Bay region of Somalia, through supporting 350 agro-pastoral/or livestock keepers’ households with quality fodder feeds and unconditional cash transfers. Support in unconditional cash transfers to 450 IDPs households for three months. The project will primarily target agro-pastoralist, IDPs, pastoral drop outs and rural poor living in and around the IDP camps and in rural villages. A total of 800 households will be supported for the 6-months project in four villages and four IDPs in rural Qansax dhere district, Bay region of Somalia.

The project objective is to Improve and sustain life-saving food security and livelihood to 800 vulnerable agro-pastoral/IDPs households consisting of (1,185men, 2527 women, 255 boys and 833 girls) affected by drought and protracted humanitarian crisis in Qansax dhere district of Bay region in Somalia.

The project will target the following villages/IDPs (i.e October IDP, Busley IDP, Haafata IDP and Badbaado IDP), for villages the project will target (Tiirki, Beled Amin, Osmacil and Mokubow villages) in Bay region.
The strategic objective of this project:
1. To improve access to food for people facing severe acute food insecurity
2. To protect livelihoods and related food and income sources for farmers, pastoralists, agro pastoralists
and rural IDP.
ADA will ensure that the project is implemented through engagement with all relevant stakeholders, ADA has planned activities such as beneficiary selection, vulnerable Households with preference women headed Households will be selected and enrolled for the fodder feeds, unconditional cash transfers. At least 70% would be women and 15% disabled persons. Procurement and distribution of quality fodder feeds to 350 households. Each livestock keeper will receive 20Kgs of fodders feed with total value of $180 per HH.

Fodder beneficiary households will be identified based on their vulnerability, such as low livestock holdings, low fodder availability, demonstrable positive coping behavior, and the presence of vulnerable people in their households. Quality fodder feeds will be sourced through local vendors for timely implementation of activities, since time is a critical matter as livestock will require urgent interventions. ADA will ensure to carry out procurement and registration process by November-December 2022.The distribution will occur around January- February 2023. The livestock keepers will ensure to feed the Sudan to their livestock’s. The Sudan grass is exceptionally safe and good for the livestock, thus by increasing livestock feedings, the availability of milk will be improved and hence the ease of access to food for the households, this will directly contribute to an improvement in the food consumption score. A total of 350 rural agro-pastorals/drop-outs and 450 vulnerable IDPs households will benefit from unconditional cash transfers for three (3) months (Dec 2022, January 2023 and February 20220), each will receive $270.
After completion of the fodder distribution, ADA will Conduct post distribution monitoring to assess the effectiveness of the distribution process, to verify the number of beneficiaries who received quality fodder feeds/or sudan grass through the support of ADA's Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Unit. The PDM survey will only be carried out in four villages targeted in Qansaxdhere district where fodder feeds for livestock will be implemented)