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Drought and displacement in Somalia Need for early solutions and joint planning June 2019

Drought and displacement in Somalia Need for early solutions and joint planning June 2019. Early Solutions: What does that mean?.

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Drought and displacement in Somalia Need for early solutions and joint planning June 2019

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  1. Drought and displacement in Somalia Need for early solutions and joint planning June 2019

  2. Early Solutions: What does that mean? • Definition: Early solutions planning encompasses steps to build the resilience of IDPS and host communities, as well as prepare IDPs for future durable solutions during the early stages of displacement. The time frame of early solutions covers actions that can be taken pre-displacement and up to the first 3 years of an influx of IDPs. • Key questions to address: • How to invest to prevent displacement into identified hot spots (to ensure adequate preparedness and enhance early response capacity including in hard-to-reach areas)? • How to support urban centres and mayors/ local authorities in planning and preparing for influx of IDPs? • How to ensure joint planning between humanitarian and development actors and between resilience and durable solutions groups – collective accountability?

  3. Key facts and figures • Key figures • 1.7 M people in Somalia face acute food shortages due to delayed and insufficient seasonal rainfall • 40% of the Somali population in need food assistance • 54,300 people have been displaced since the start of 2019 by drought. • Central/ northern regions are the most affected and to a lesser extend rural livelihoods in southern Somalia in Bay/Bakool and Hiran • (source: FSNAU, IOM,PRMN UNHCR…) • Key facts • IDPs are highly vulnerable to drought due to social exclusion and lack of connectedness, part of minority clans, etc • Drought means massive displacement into crowded cities as displacement is used as coping mechanism • Urban issue • Inclusion and marginalization • 2017 drought displaced are still displaced • (Sources: ReDSS reports, WB DINA, FAM, ODI/HPG, Ken Menkhaus studies, …) Policy Dialogue Program support and capacity development

  4. Use of displacement related data to inform drought response and joint planning • Use DTM/PRMN/FSNAU/ resilience and DS consortia data to better understand profile/ vulnerabilities/ needs and movements of different groups such as pastoralists, agro pastoralist, riverine and IDPs to inform better preparedness and targeted response • Support joint planning between humanitarian and development actors and between resilience and durable solutions groups to ensure complementarities and synergies based on stakeholders’expertise and capacity(rural/ urban, life saving/ infrastructures…) • Ensure that assessments of immediate humanitarian and protection needs are complemented by deeper, area-based analyses beyond IPC – collective accountability • Prevent displacement and when feasible deliver aid as close to the rural population as possible based on monitoring of access and availability of water and food Policy Dialogue Program support and capacity development

  5. Adapt durable solutions programing to prepare and manage drought-induced displacement in urban context • Urban preparedness and early responsein larger hubs to increase absorption capacity of IDPs influx:for instance programmes in areas where affected southern agro-pastoralist will arrive (i.e Bay and Bakool), need to pivot existing funding to support preparedness in urban centres as arrivals intensify in the coming weeks/ months • Scale up cash response to be used as safety net programmes and continue to strengthen community resilience to prevent further displacement • Social inclusion and protection: programmatic ability to devise inclusive interventions • Coordinate with development actors and local authorities on surge capacity and scale up of access to services complementing ongoing DS programing Policy Dialogue Program support and capacity development

  6. Government led - community centric response • Government led area based (cross-sectoral), collaborative programming that takes account of the specific needs of displacement-affected communities and uses participatory approaches to engage and empower communities/ self help groups • Build on DS programs that cut across humanitarian/ development and state building sectors to prevent displacement and invest in early solutions • Coordinate within existing structures at Federal and state levels and involve private sector and diaspora – not only through humanitarian bodies such as HCT and ICCG where government and local authorities are not represented • Continue to strengthen the capacity and leadership of local authorities and FGS to manage drought and displacement in the search for durable solutions Policy Dialogue Program support and capacity development

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