CO-Sustainable Natural Resource Manageme SomReP is a consortium of agencies that implement a nexus program with multi-step interventions which bridge the emergency to development continuum with funding support from multiple donors. The program strengthens social cohesion and conflict resolutionthrough facilitated inclusive and participatory assessment and disaster risk management processes.  Through graduation pathways, multi-step, multi-year packages of activities, SomReP supports HH, groups and community-based institutions to graduate to higher levels of resilience capacity: absorptive, adaptive and transformative. In previous years, DFAT has been investing in SomReP’s phase 1 strategy andsupported the design of the 2019 to 2023 strategy in northern Somalia. Focusing on El-Afweyne and Dollow districts which are districts previously supported by DFAT, the SERECA project will further the development of SomReP 2019 to 2023 strategy through: (i) strengthening the intensity of engagement with consortium-supported economic groups and peace/resource management committees to build adaptive and transformative capacities for resilience; (ii) develop, standardize and scale “pull” interventions within the wider consortium, including (a) inclusive market systems development (iMSD) and (b) social cohesion/conflict mitigation methods as well as mainstream women economic empowerment (WEE) and empowerment of persons with disabilities; (iii) integrate two new specialized LNGO partners: (a) NAGAAD: Peace Building and (b) Disability Action Network (DAN) into the consortium’s membership; (iv) strengthen the capacity of the consortium as a resilience thought leader to influence the agenda in Somalia and globally and position the organization fornew finance, and finally (v) enhance World Vision’s reputation as aplatform for innovation and nexus programming in Somalia and East Africa.

The SERECA project will support women, persons with disabilities, agro-pastoral and pastoral groups to strengthen adaptive capacity through training in financial literacy, business, and life skills, technical support and mentorship and linkages to formal finance and input supplier network to diversify livelihoods as well as build small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and agricultural enterprises, and adapt new climate-smart and market-facing strategies to enhance food security and enable sustainable engagement with markets.  Through linkages to formal finance, the program cohort will access loans and savings services which will increase their business capital as well as formal savings services hence enhance their absorptive capacity. The program will build transformative capacity for women and persons with disabilities, equipping them with advocacy and public speaking skills, and local and district support networks to productivelyaddress social and economic barriers which reinforce gender inequality, and limit their agency to participate in decision-making and seize economic opportunities.  The program aims to strengthen the traditional role of women in naturalresource and peacemanagement institutions as well as raise awareness of conflict-induced trauma as a barrier to sustainable peace and contributing factor to gender based violence (GBV).  Moreover, the program will seek to transform the dynamics within specific value chains through the strengthening of pro-poor financial products (credit and insurance), services (climate-smart input supply networks), and technical skills transfer (local manufacturing of surprise soap). The project will partner with two LNGOs: (i) NAAGAD for peace-building; (ii) DAN for disability inclusion to mainstream awareness, skills development,  and linkage to basic service networks.  The consortium[1]  will assess the core capacities and monitor the performance of LNGO partners, develop Capacity Improvement Plans, provide training in areas of weakness with the aim of building their capacity to the level whereby they can be enrolled in the consortium as full members. The gender, peacebuilding and disability mainstreaming technical approaches developed through the SERECA project will be scaled across the consortium’s 8 existing members and integrated through other grants into its area-based programs in 22 districts.

1.2. Project outcomes
The overall goal of the project is to support women, personswith disabilities, agro-pastoralists and pastoralists to have access to market-systems and inclusive financial and business development services, engage in a variety of opportunities, in a diversity of market systems. in a sustainable manner on fair and equitable terms, and enable food security and economic and social advancement. To enable this journey the project seeks to work to the following outcomes:

Outcome 1: Most-vulnerable groups (women entrepreneurs, people with disabilities, agro-pastoralists and pastoralists) supported to engage in market driven opportunities.
Markets will be strengthened to enable participation of small holder economic groups, improve productivity andsustainability of resource use overall enhancing food security and economic growth.  Beneficiaries will be supported to have accessto a full range of economic development information, affordable financial services, and innovative risk safety nets (livestock insurance). Targeted vulnerable economic groups and individuals will therefore become more economically empowered.