Provision of lifesaving CCCM services to drought affected communities in Baidoa The drought situation has deteriorated, and the drought impact snapshot issued in August 2022 indicates 7.8M people are affected by the drought while more than 1M persons are displaced due to the drought. Almost 41 per cent of the population is expected to face acute food insecurity through December, with parts of southern and central Somalia (Baidoa and Buur Hakaba) projected to be in famine between October and December 2022 if assistance is not scaled up and sustained. Due to the failure of four consecutive rainy seasons and the forecast of a fifth failed one, the impact of the drought and increasing economic pressures are deepening the severity of needs and driving the country to the brink of famine. The most vulnerable and marginalized people are disproportionately affected by the drought, including women, children, and minority clans. Minority clans, who have been disproportionately affected in previous droughts and famines, are reportedly unable to access services in equal measure compared to other clans due to discrimination, exploitation and gatekeepers. 

According to the CCCM cluster, the displaced populations predominantly reside in 3,300+ settlements mainly in Mogadishu and Baidoa among others while less than 30 per cent of newly arrived IDPs receiving immediate assistance such as NFI items, food/cash support, and access to nutrition services. IDPs from minority clans including the drought displaced face the risk of discrimination and exclusion from services on top of existing protection concerns like aid diversion, forced evictions, exploitation, and Gender Based Violence (GBV).

To ensure enhanced impact, integrated response and inclusion of the most vulnerable populations including minority clans, CESDO will building on its existing CCCM project through the Reserve Allocation 3 (July 2022) and will operate in an integrated manner with Nutrition, WASH, Health, SHELTER /NFI and Protection partners in Baidoa. Through this project, CESDO will target 20 IDP sites in Baidoa – one of the operational priority areas 1 reaching 62,006 persons (12,000 men, 30,000 women, 11,006 girls and 9,000 boys). CESDO will provide the following essential CCCM services through this project: establishment /strengthening of the CMCs in the 20 IDP sites targeted – 140 members, provision of capacity building to the CMCs, carry out monthly service mapping and monitoring in the 20 targeted IDP sites, facilitate monthly site-level coordination meetings for 6 months, community outreach and awareness campaigns to ensure people displaced by drought who join existing sites or set up new sites can immediately receive information on lifesaving services, conduct new arrival tracking in the 20 targeted sites, site improvement CFW activities reaching 525 persons, conduct 1 safety audits, as part of the protection mainstreaming programming, distribute 4,360 multipurpose solar torches to mitigate protection issues including GBV and establish/strengthen multi-sectoral CFM systems at the sites-level. 

The project will target the following sites in Baidoa (7 of them hosts minorities).

Adable Oomane, Barkulun, Buur Eeyle -2, Buur iyo Shabelow, Buurfuule Shibelow, Daniya, Darib Bashir, Dayniile, Fuur Ayli, Galgal Weyn, Hawlaha Guud Beerdale, Keerow Malaagdi, Kurtun, Lowi Iskirogow 1, Mabarak, Moori Fuur, Nasiib Door, Reydab Qandhole, Shabeelow Bay and Sumadle.