UNICEF Somalia 2021-2022 thematic support health and protective environment UNICEF Somalia 2021-2022 tematiskt stöd hälsa & skydd av barn Nya medel/medeltillägg för att bekämpa covid-19
Sida kommer att stödja FN:s barnfond (UNICEF) i Somalia med finansiering av de tematiska programmen Hälsa och Skyddande miljö för barn, och ett extraordinärt tillägg för att stödja utrullningen av vaccinationskampanjen av covid vaccin. Insatsen har de övergripande målen att bidra till:

- Att fler nyfödda, spädbarn och barn överlever och utvecklas och att färre kvinnor och flickor dör under graviditet och förlossning.
- Att barn och kvinnor är säkrare och bättre skyddade från våld, exploatering och övergrepp.

Den föreslagna insatsen kommer att bidra till följande mål i Strategin för Sveriges utvecklingssamarbete med Somalia 2018 - 2022:
- Ökad och jämlik tillgång till hälso- och sjukvård med fokus på kvinnor och barn;
-  Stärkta system och institutioner som upprätthåller och garanterar respekt för mänskliga rättigheter, demokrati och rättsstatens principer, och;
-  Stärkt kapacitet att förebygga och motverka våldsam extremism och radikalisering

Sida kommer att bidra med 75 miljoner kronor under perioden 2021 - 2022 till de tematiska programmen Hälsa, inklusive ett öronmärkt stöd till utrullningen av Covid-19 vaccineringen, och Skyddande miljö för barn, såsom de är föreslagna i UNICEF:s landprogram för Somalia 2021 - 2025. UNICEF kommer under samma period att finansiera samma tematiska program med motsvarande 520 miljoner kronor. New/additional funds to address COVID-19
Sida will support United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Somalia with thematic funding for Health and Protective Environment, with an additional support to the Covid vaccination campagin. The contribution has the overall objective to contribute to:

- That more newborns, infants and children survive and thrive, and fewer women and girls die during pregnancy and childbirth.
- That children and women are safer and better protected from violence, exploitation, abuse and harm.

The proposed contribution will contribute to the following objectives in the Strategy for Sweden’s development cooperation with Somalia 2018–2022:
- Greater and equitable access to health and medical care, focusing on women 
and children;
- Strengthened systems and institutions that promote and guarantee respect 
for human rights, democracy and the rule of law; and
-  Strengthened capacity to prevent and counter violent extremism and radicalisation.

Sida will contribute with 75 million SEK over the period 2021-2022 to the thematic areas, health, including an earmarked support to the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, and protective environment, as stated in UNICEF's Country Programme for Somalia 2021-2025. During the same period UNICEF proposes to implement the equivalent of 520 million SEK from regular and other resources to the same thematic programmes. The contribution is focused on two areas: health and protective environment
Health: 
UNICEF states that the overall purpose of its support to Somalia’s health programming is to ensure that more children aged 0-18 years and women benefit from quality comprehensive health services and healthy life practices.
Programming will, UNICEF informs, therefore focus on strengthening evidence-based planning, budgeting and monitoring for maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health (MNCAH), improving quality MNCAH services as well as family care practices for health and nutrition and institutionalizing community health approaches.
As part of Somalia’s strategy, to reduce neonatal mortality, UNICEF aims – with the contribution from Sida - to provide continued support to evidence-based low-cost high impact interventions to mothers and babies to reduce new-born mortality and still births.
UNICEF support includes trainings of midwives, nurses and doctors on early essential new-born care, which UNICEF with Sida support seeks to roll out in two federal member states: Hirshabelle and South West States.
Complemented with supplies and equipment, competency-based training will - according to UNICEF - target health professionals, primarily midwives, nurses and doctors from regional hospitals, health centres and peripheral health units (PHUs) to deliver quality interventions for pregnant and lactating women and their babies.
In terms of actual activities, UNICEF states that these are derived from the essential package of health services (EPHS) with primary focus to establish quality care targeting pregnant and lactating women and their babies using community, health facility and mobile clinic platforms.
This includes:
-Cascade (already prepared) various forms of competency-based training to build skills and knowledge of health professionals (midwives/nurses/doctors) and other front-line health cadres (e.g. community health workers).
-Provision of new-born care and other related mother and new-born supplies and materials.
-Monthly performance monitoring meetings to review indicator trends.
-Complementary resources to NGO partners in targeted areas to accelerate mother and new-born health service delivery, emergency referral and community accountability mechanisms (e.g., community health committees).
-Develop an integrated health and nutrition “first pregnancy” strategy for UNICEF; and, conduct a detailed assessment and roadmap for gradually supporting the state MOHs to manage managing their own cold chain to enable deliver safe, effective vaccines.
-Prepare contingency plans, capacity development and pre-positioning of supplies to enable the different state ministry of health to prepare and respond to regular cyclical shocks (floods, drought)- given chronic humanitarian needs (annual cyclical shocks) affecting the two states.
Examples of indicators that will measure progress and results for Health:
- Percentage of deliveries attended by skilled health personnel
- Percentage of pregnant women who attended at least four times for antenatal care during their pregnancy
- Percentage of children under 1 year receiving measles-containing vaccine
Protective environment:
The humanitarian crisis in Somalia is among the most complex and longstanding emergencies in the world. The protective environment for children has been weakened due to more than two decades of conflict resulting in the collapse of institutions at all levels. The perpetration of grave child rights violations including the recruitment and use of children by armed forces and groups remains a major concern in Somalia.
Under the programme for protective environment UNICEF will provide technical support to the Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development and the Ministry of Justice to develop an effective child protection system. UNICEF will support the Government in accelerating the domestication of the Convention on the Rights of the Child through building a stronger legislative and policy environment. The Child Protection Information Management System will be rolled out nationwide, providing case management tools that reinforce accountable services and follow-up.
UNICEF will furthermore in the area of child protection/protective environment:
-Strengthen the protective environment for girls and boys in school.
-Support children affected by armed conflict (including maintenance of the monitoring and reporting mechanism on grave child rights violations).
More specifically, the contribution will help to support the retention of girls and boys in school by contributing to a wider safe schools initiative that is being developed between the UNICEF education and child protection teams.
The broader program includes the development of school councils, teacher codes of conduct, improved pre- and in-service teacher training, higher female teacher ratios, as well as empowerment self-defence and "your moment of truth" violence prevention norm change programming for students.
Examples of indicators that will measure progress and results for Protective Environment:
- Outcome indicator: Number of schools and adolescent students (by sex) engaged in a safe schools’ programme incorporating adolescent empowerment
- Outcome indicator: % of girls and boys recruited and used by armed forces and groups that have been released and reintegrated with their families and provided with adequate care and services
For both Health and Protective Environment UNICEF has provided a results framework with indicators, baseline and targets allowing for a results oriented approach and close follow-up and dialogue on the progress of implementation. Examples of those is presented above under each thematic area. 
COVAX vaccines and the roll out of Covid-19 vaccination campaign 
The first batch of COVAX vaccines (300 000 doses) arrived to Somalia on March 15, 2021.  The Covid-19 vaccination campaign is of vital importance as a critical public health intervention to help contain further spread especially amongst the vulnerable populations.
The COVAX facility will provide vaccines for 20% of Somalia's total population. In this regard, Somalia will receive vaccines to cover 3,134,106 individuals, taking into consideration the population of Somalia being approximately 15,670,529 persons. Each eligible individual will receive 2 doses of the vaccine so, meaning that 6,268,212 million doses are expected to be administrated.  
In close collaboration with the Federal and State Ministries of Health, UNICEF and WHO developed a plan and budget to cover for the operational costs for the vaccination campaign. To cover the operational costs for the 6,2 million doses that are expected, it is calculated to cost approximately 25 MUSD, or per doses administrated 4 USD.
The plan developed includes the following key activities planning and coordination, logistics and vaccine management; human resources; training and meetings; supplies and equipment; transportation; social mobilization and communication; and M&E tools and biometric data collection; intra- and post-campaign monitoring; AEFI (adverse events following immunization) surveillance; and other forms of necessary technical support.  
The expected outcome of the Covid-19 campaign is vaccine induced immunity to protect against Covid-19, which will protect vulnerable groups and detain further spread of the virus. The proposed 5 million SEK will cover full vaccination (2 doses) of approximately 74 000 Somalis.