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Emergency WASH Response in Beletweyne The proposed six-month project aims to provide urgent lifesaving assistance to flood-affected communities in Beletweyne while mainstreaming protection and integrating sustainable, flood-resistant solutions. The WASH intervention will improve the health and reduce the risk of disease outbreaks in flood-affected communities through increased access to safe water, use of latrines, hygiene promotion and increased adoption of safe hygiene practices. Cash programming, in the form of conditional transfers, vouchers, and cash for work (CfW), will form a core pillar of the proposed intervention. Specifically, the project will provide emergency and flood-resistant sanitation services, rehabilitate water systems, including repair, disinfection, and reinforcement against further flooding, and promote improved hygiene practices. Relief International (RI) will prioritize the rehabilitation and reinforcement of damaged water and sanitation infrastructure to withstand future floods. In the rehabilitation of latrines at household, communal and institutional levels, RI will adopt flood-resistant design and construction methods. Specifically, RI will train masons on flood- resistant latrine construction techniques, procure construction materials, and incentivize the rehabilitation of targeted latrines through vouchers. RI will assess the damage and strategically rehabilitate, reinforce for flood resistance, and disinfect strategic water points. Newly flood-displaced people will have increased access to safe water from RI contracted water trucking companies. To minimize overlap, RI will continue to liaise with Qatar Charity and Save the Children on water trucking targeting. Through the regional WASH cluster and the government-led floods taskforce, RI will coordinate with government, UN agencies, and NGO partners on the response. RI will solicit feedback from community members on their needs and other support they may be receiving from other sources to appropriately target the proposed interventions and minimize overlap and duplication. Through a CfW scheme, able-bodied community members will establish a disposal site to dispose appropriately of debris that has accumulated due to floods. With in-kind hygiene kits distributed to flood-affected households and targeted dissemination of hygiene promotion messages, RI will promote improved hygiene. RI will leverage its health and nutrition data to target hotspots for acute diarrheal disease. This case tracing approach will support the proactive targeting of people in need of hygiene promotion, hygiene kits, safe water, and latrines. Trained hygiene promoters will complement case tracing with routine interaction with community members and door-to-door household hygiene awareness campaigns. RI will target newly flood-displaced people in settlements and after they return. RI will assess the situation at the time of implementation to ensure that newly flood-displaced are primarily targeted. These interventions will improve wellbeing, prevent morbidity, and restore dignity for flood-affected communities in Beletweyne.
Provision of  adequate access to basic primary education to drought affected population in Bay and Bakool region south west state Somalia The project intends to support teacher’s incentives provision through the supported 50 learning centers under the CERF funded project implementing by HIDIG and GRRN organization in Bay and Bakool region. The project will ensure to provide 9 months teachers incentives in the target learning centers hence enhancing effective and adequate protective learning environment for the drought affected boys and girls in target district.The project will ensure  to full complements with the CERF funded education activities in Bay and Bakool region .The project targets a total of 9,200 boys and girls school going age in 50 learning centers in the  4 district of Baidoa, Dinsor, Wajid and xudur district in Bay and Bakool region.The project will support a total of 184 teachers including 50 head teachers/school administrators  across the four district.
Increasing Access to Basic, Emergency, and Life-Saving Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Care Services among the host community and IDPs in Woqooyii Galbeed (Gebiley  Hargiesa) districts in Somaliland World Vision Somalia (WV Som) in collaboration with MOH plans to implement the project in in Somaliland through the already existing community health and community structures while leveraging on the already existing programs to ensure complimentary and avoid the duplication of effort and resources. The project will be geared towards iIncreasing Access to Basic, Emergency, and Life-Saving Maternal, New-born, and Child Health Care Services among the host community, IDPs and Refugee returnees in Woqooyii Galbeed (Gebiley amp Hargiesa) districts in Somaliland. WVSOM will work towards capacity building MOH to enhance their knowledge and skills to provide quality health services within the target populations. WVSOM will in collaboration with Ministry of Health (MoH) capacity build the health workers and the Community-based Family Health Workers (CHW/FHWs) through trainings, OJT, supportive supervision and mentorship throughout the project cycle to enhance their capacity and skills to effectively implement the project. Community engagement and participation will be key through the project to enhance project ownership thus contributing to sustainability of the project activities after the end of project period. WV in collaboration with the MoH will work towards promoting active and representative participation towards enabling all community members to meaningfully influence the decisions that affect their lives. WVSOM proposes to address these issues, through supporting health facilities with sufficient numbers of quality staff through incentives, training and continuous supervision. Necessary supplies will also be provided to ensure functionality. Community-based Family Health Workers (FHWs) CHWs/ FHWs  will be engaged together with the targeted communities and will be supported with resources and training. They will serve as change agents at household level where they will provide counselling and awareness raising on common health issues. The Ministry of Health (MoH) with support from WVSOM will hold the primary role in initiating, organising, coordinating, and providing health services for the communities in the region. WVSOM will seek to support the MoH to fulfil their role by providing technical and resource support, strengthening the health systems, and enhancing coordination and facilitating continuous learning. WVSOM will ensure communities are well-informed and meaningfully engaged throughout the project cycle this includes organising inception and regular community meetings, consulting communities in FHWs engagement, and establishing an accessible and transparent feedback mechanism. 
The project expects to cover a total of 52,609 individuals, including 13,680 men, 26,432 women, 6,248 boys and 6,249 girls in Hargeisa and Gabiley District. WV will try to seek additional private resource from World Vision Taiwan to complement the project
Providing equitable, durable and sustainable water and sanitation Services to IDP’s and drought vulnerable host communities in Hobyo and Galkacyo districts As Water shortage and poor access to water currently remains the single biggest threat to lives of IDP’s and vulnerable host communities in Hobyo and Galkacyo districts. Humanitarian needs have increased drastically due to below-average Deyr rain in 2018, large-scale displacement and lack of access to basic services. There are no permanent water sources within the IDP settlements hence IDPs rely on berkards which have since dried up, and there is high pressure on the few existing boreholes, already suffering years of neglect and poor maintenance in Hobyo and Galkacyo districts. Pastoralists are highly vulnerable because they are dependent upon rain-fed rangeland grazing for their livestock and tend to have very few fixed assets. The project intends to provide durable and sustainable water and sanitation services to 22,705 IDP’s and drought vulnerable people in Afgaduudle, Madaxdaran, Lascadalle, Tarogee, Qaidaro and Wisil villages by drilling 3 boreholes and rehabilitation of 3 strategic boreholes to provide sufficient safe water increasing access to at least 15 litters per day. The boreholes will be piped within a radius of 1150 meters. The project will also construct 60 latrines to improve sanitation conditions. Construction amp rehabilitation of reliable water sources to the IDP’s and vulnerable host communities will reduce distance and time spent collecting water thus contribute to reduction of AWD for children and GBV among women and girls. WASH committees will also be established/revived/streamlined and trained to strengthen their capacity to manage the operation and maintenance of the new and rehabilitated boreholes and promote good hygiene practices and sanitation within their communities. 60 participants (30% are women) from NGO’s, government and private sector will be selected in mutual collaboration with National and Regional WASH cluster will be trained on diagnostics of ageing boreholes and methods of rehabilitation through 2 workshops in Galkacyo and Mogadishu.
Improved immediate access to food and Livelihood assistance to food insecure and drought affected populations in Odweyne district Togdheer region. The proposed project seeks to restore and improve  immediate food access among drought affected communities in Odweyne district Togdheer region in Somalia. The objective of this project is to meet the immediate food and other needs of the most vulnerable households through unconditional cash transfer. The unconditional cash transfers will target households in IPC 4 and 3 areas in Odweyne district. World Vision will use the Community Based Targeting Guidelines for Somalia in beneficiary targeting and selection. A community engagement process will be undertaken in each district before beneficiary selection is done.

World Vision (WV) has standing operational Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) with various mobile money service providers in Somalia/Somaliland for mobile cash transfers  and therefore the rollout is expected to be swift. Households selected for unconditional transfers will receive cash to enable purchase of food to feed an average household of six members. The transfer value will be based on January 2019 Somalia Cash Working Group Food recommended multipurpose cash transfer rate and aligned as much as is possible with what other aid agencies are distributing in the targeted locations. A total of 900 direct beneficiaries will be reached through this intervention.
Listening to affected populations: Deploying the Common Social Accountability Platform to Citizens in Somalia The humanitarian system in Somalia currently holds a larger annual budget than the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), making humanitarian actors a key set of public authorities whose decisions greatly affect the distribution of power and resources in Somalia. It is therefore incumbent upon the aid community to identify new ways to operationalise accountability to affected populations to ensure their decision-making (especially at the strategic level as articulated in the HNO/HRP) is informed and guided by the Somali population that they seek to serve.

Nevertheless, ensuring that humanitarian actors engage with and are accountable to citizens in Somalia continues to be a major challenge facing the response. Insecurity and lack of access continue to require operational modalities based on remote management and limited field presence. This makes meaningful interaction with affected populations on the design and strategic planning of humanitarian action extremely difficult to implement. 

Building from a successful pilot partnership in 2018, Africa’s Voices Foundation (AVF), in partnership with ACTED and REACH (an IMPACT initiative developed in collaboration with ACTED and UNOSAT) is proposing a nationwide public radio consultation to triangulate and disseminate findings from the JMCNA, and collect feedback on Somali citizen’s experiences of and suggested solutions to the current crisis in Somalia. The initiative will focus on promoting accountability to affected populations through rich and inclusive public discussion, with findings designed to inform the HNO/HRP process. 

Both the radio consultation and the JMCNA will cover the whole of Somalia. AVF will work with a network of 26 radio stations to ensure broad-based coverage across the country. Whilst some areas remain beyond radio network coverage, primarily due to security, recent investments in telecommunication infrastructure, particularly in southern and central Somalia, have improved the extent to which communities in rural and conflict-affected areas can be reached by radio.
Improving access to food and nutritional security for  vulnerable drought affected families in Elbarde and Xudur district, Somalia The proposed project aims at improving access to nutritious and diverse food to mitigate the effect of new shocks and supports resilience of most vulnerable drought  affected population ((IPC 3, 4 or worse) in the underserved and hard to reach, Elbarde and Xudur district of Bakool region, Somalia. This is achieved through provision of unconditional cash transfer, Conditional cash transfer (cash for work) and provision of seasonally appropriate agricultural inputs to 2,200 households,  which is 13,200  most affected people (3,617 women, 3,734 men, 2,913 boys and 2,926 girls) in 20 villages in Elbarde (10) and Xudur (10) district to cover immediate food needs during lean season ( August – December 2019),restore productive livelihoods  and prevent further displacements. ACF will prioritize the most nutritionally vulnerable groups (labour poor and those unable to participate in the Cash for Work Program) including pregnant and lactating women, malnourished infants and young children under 5, disabled, chronically ill, elderly and child headed households with no external support for the unconditional cash assistance (800 hhs) to meet immediate basic needs combating rising cases of acute and morbidity related malnutrition. ACF will engage further 800 vulnerable HHS (female-headed Pastoral drop out, lost asset, no income, marginalized/minority communities) for conditional cash transfer (CFW) with at least one member of the household able to undertake manual labour. The CFW serve as short-term employment for the targeted HHS to provide cash to meet basic needs and rehabilitate productive infrastructures (farmland, water catchment, rangeland rehabilitation) to support restoration of productive livelihoods activities.The beneficiaries  (600 hhs) are further linked to benefit from emergency agricultural support seasonally appropriate agricultural inputs. This secure access to seasonally appropriate agricultural seeds for upcoming Deyr 2019 cropping season to replenish depleted seed stocks and support continued food production.
Providing Emergency Unconditional Cash Transfers to Vulnerable Households in Diinsoor The underperforming Deyr rains in 2018 and Gu rains in 2019 have heavily impacted the lives and livelihoods of households in Diinsoor which has led to an increase in the number of households in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) and IPC Phase 4 (emergency). Rural populations in the hard-to-reach and undeserved areas around Diinsoor have been severely affected as result of poor agricultural production and limited access to services due to limited coverage by aid agencies. Household debt levels in this area remain high with many households utilizing negative coping mechanisms as a means to survive this lean period. Findings from a rapid needs assessment conducted by ACTED in Diinsoor on 16 and 23 June found that 62% of households do not regularly meet their food needs. Due to this dire situation, ACTED proposes an emergency short-term response to address the acute food insecurity and alleviate the humanitarian needs. The project will provide life-saving support to 1,614 vulnerable and drought affected households (9,684 individuals) through unconditional cash transfers in Diinsoor. ACTED plans to distribute four-months of consecutive unconditional cash transfers to these households from August until November 2019. Overall, these activities align with the Food Security cluster objective to improve households’ immediate access to food through provision of conditional and unconditional assistance depending on the severity of food insecurity phase vulnerability and seasonality of the livelihoods. Moreover, the project aligns with the Somalia HRP 2019 objective to provide life-saving and life sustaining integrated assistance to reduce acute humanitarian needs and excess mortality among the most vulnerable people. Unconditional cash transfers act as a measure to prevent further deterioration of the food security of households and act as a buffer against the continued impact of the failed rains. These unconditional transfers in Diinsoor provide a quick response to increasing needs and enable households to access the functioning markets in Diinsoor.
Emergency GBV support to women and girls in crisis The proposed project is intended to improve GBV response through increased access to GBV services and provision of immediate and comprehensive lifesaving services to GBV survivors, and GBV risk mitigation for vulnerable women and girls through the following interventions: Clinical management of Rape (CMR), case management (CM) psychosocial support services (PSS) including psychosocial counselling, psychosocial first aid (PFA), social networking and access to information on available GBV services, through women and girls friendly spaces/safe spaces, and establishment and strengthening of GBV referral pathways (to enable access to comprehensive GBV services including legal, medical and livelihood services) in target communities, including IDP communities in the target locations. The IRC will also strengthen GBV risk reduction through strengthening and engaging community protection groups, distribution of dignity kits, whistles and solar lanterns to vulnerable women and girls, provide capacity building and trainings to community volunteers/workers and GBV service providers to enhance service provision and risk reduction for women and girls, and conduct safety audits for GBV risk assessments to inform the project implementation and decisions, among other interventions. The proposed project will therefore increase accessibility, quality and coordination of GBV services for conflict and drought affected communities in Mudug region (Galkacyo south and surrounding villages, Hobyo, Dhusamareeb, Gruel and Adado districts). The IRC will work with various stakeholders to ensure women and girls are protected from GBV and receive support when they experience harm. Some of the stakeholders include line ministries at state government level, the local administration, the police, and women leadership at community level, community and religious leaders and will establish protection networks for women and girls. Community action plans and protection mechanisms will be developed and implemented to reduce protection risks for women and girls including those in IDP settings.
Provision of Emergency Primary health care services to marginalized and host communities in Hobyo, Mudug region, South Central Somalia. The main aim of the proposed project is to provide emergency and essential health care services including emergency reproductive health services to communities in Hobyo through health facilities and mobile clinics to rural and hard-to-reach host communities.
 The project Activities for these project will include:  Emergency Reproductive Health Services , Gender based violence (GBV) recovery services including clinical management of rape and other forms of gender based  violence,Psycho social first aid and referral in to health centers/ units ,Immunization services ,Community engagement through community conversations and formation of health boards,health education, establishment of more sentinel sites  and establishment of referral pathways in remote rural areas.
 Efforts to mainstream protection and resilience will be addressed by integrating as many health components as possible under one roof and the involvement of  communities in implementation and management of the program through community dialogues and health boards. Capacity of local staff and MoH will be enhanced through training,involvement in actual activities and prioritizing local community in staff employment .This program will be integrated with nutrition and protection services in the same areas, creating a cost effective program that provides value for money with sustainable impact.
SAF UK has been running health programs in 2 of the proposed  locations for about 2 years.Unfortunately the project funded by UNICEF ended on 30th January 2019. Funds have not been secured to continue interventions. The project therefore seeks to reinstate these health projects , but at the same time scale up to reach areas not reached, especially those with global acute malnutrition (GAM) rates more than 15%. This will be done through 8 teams in  3 health facilities (fixed sites) and  5 mobile clinics. Mobile clinics will move to different designated sites everyday. Both fixed sites and mobile clinics will cover 59 villages.
Unconditional Cash Assistance to Improve Immediate Access to Food for Vulnerable Households in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia Two years after the prolonged 2016/2017 drought destroyed livelihoods and displaced almost one million Somalis - but also triggered a massive and successful scale up in humanitarian response to avert famine - severe climatic conditions, combined with other persistent drivers of humanitarian crisis, armed conflict, protracted and continued displacement are again pushing Somalia towards a major humanitarian emergency. This project is aimed at improving the ability of vulnerable HHs to meet their basic needs and reduce consumption gaps through life-saving humanitarian Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in the most vulnerable communities in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia. The project will target populations in IPC3 or 4 and especially female-headed HHs, heads of household with disabilities and elderly headed households in Wanleweyn district. Support will be provided through monthly multi-purpose cash transfers to 800 HHs via Mobile Money Transfer.