High levels of food insecurity and malnutrition affects Ethiopia’s Somali Region despite general long-term improvements in the overall food security situation of the country. The impacts of recurrent droughts, climate change, environmental degradation and insufficient livelihood options have trapped rural communities in a perpetual cycle of poverty. To help tackle this challenge, the African Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) supported six communities in Gursum and Erer districts through the project “Enhanced livelihoods and poverty reduction through economic diversification and decent work opportunities”. Two-thousand households in these communities benefited from skills training and input provision for poultry, crop and forage production.