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Sustained cash assistance to prevent famine and respond to drought in rural Somalia
Tags: SOMALIA, HORN OF AFRICA, VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES, CASH GRANT, IRRIGATION, FOOD SECURITY, LIVELIHOODS, NUTRITION, WATER MANAGEMENT, RESOURCE PARTNERS, UNITED STATES,
Full title of the project:
Sustained cash assistance to prevent famine and respond to drought in rural Somalia
Contribution:
USD 25 000 000
01/04/2018-31/01/2019
Project code:
OSRO/SOM/809/USA
Objective:
To increase immediate food access, while protecting, restoring and enhancing household food production.
Key partners:
Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Climate Change (Puntland), Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation Development (Somaliland), Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Hirshabele), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (Galmudug).
Beneficiaries reached:
89 091 households (534 546 people).
Activities implemented:
- Provided USD 14 741 139 through cash for work to 29 345 rural households, enough to feed each household for 3-6.5 months.
- Rehabilitated 135 water catchments.
- Rehabilitated 18 irrigation canals to increase cereal production of small-scale farms.
- Rehabilitated 17 feeder roads and eight prosopis management sites.
- Rehabilitated 81 contour bunds to control soil erosion and improve pasturelands.
- Trained 2 339 community members on infrastructure management and formed water management committees for each rehabilitated site.
- Distributed USD 7 630 141 to 46 230 households, 39 360 of whom received cash assistance through the cash+agriculture modality during the Gu and Deyr cropping seasons, and 6 870 of whom received unconditional cash support in response to flooding in October 2019.
- Distributed USD 3 218 673 to 13 516 households through the cash+livestock modality
Impact:
- Increased immediate household food consumption and restored household food production, covering a total of 412 277 months of food security.
- Increased beneficiary communities’ coping mechanisms, with increases shown in the coping strategy index.
- Increased access to water through improved water infrastructure, providing sufficient water to 378 601 animals during the three months of the dry season.
- Increased livestock survival rates, with surviving animals expected to have sustained milk production to boost family nutrition levels thanks to increased access to water.
- Improved water management committees’ capacity to manage, operate and maintain water facilities and provided a sense of ownership of the infrastructure.
- Contributed to the conservation of natural resources critical to sustainable
OSRO/SOM/809/USA