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Titre : Emergency Food Security Assistance to Drought Affected Communities in Bari and Nugaal regions of Puntland - Somalia

Pays /Région : Somalie

Code projet : SOM-17/3485/SA1/FSC/ INGO/4625

Durée : 13/03/2017 // 13/09/2017

Présentation
Emergency Response to Drought Affected Communities in Bari and Nugaal region of Puntland is a 6months project. It sets out to make a rapid response to the deteriorating humanitarian conditions for drought affected population. The overall objective of this project is : “Drought affected populations in Bari region of Puntland have improved food security and livelihoods opportunities”, with the specific objective : “Drought-affected communities in Bari (Bandar-Beyla district) and Nugaal (Garowe district) regions of Puntland meet their basic food and non-food needs”. This addresses Food Security cluster strategic response objectives : To respond the emergency food needs for the most vulnerable people in (IPC phase 3 and 4). NRC will use unconditional cash transfers (UCT) through electronic mobile money transfer as a modality to transfer money to beneficiaries because of safety, convenience and appropriateness. The project will target 537 households (3,222 individuals) in Bari (Bandar-Beyla district-437HHs ; 262F, 175M) and Nugaal (Garowe district-100HHs ; 80F, 20M) regions. Each beneficiary in Bari and Nugaal regions will receive $105 each month over a period of 4 months. Post distribution monitoring (PDM) will be done 4 weeks after cash is receipt by beneficiaries. This will be supported by project assistants and trained NRC enumerators. This will give time enough to allow for expenditure and utilization of the monthly cash transfers. This will be intended to monitor expenditure patterns and take remedial actions if there are deviations from objectives

Bénéficiaires
Drought-affected households including women headed households, household head with physical disability because of their relative disadvantage and vulnerability. Special focus will be given to households that have lost significant numbers of their livestock, households that are exposed to protection concerns because of having to trek long distances in search for work opportunities and in the process leave their children unattended, examples of such concerns have been witnessed in Garowe. NRC will use her beneficiary selection and identification criteria that is based on a set of vulnerability criteria covering the characteristic of the head of the household (female, elder, child, sick/ill, disabled), the poverty situation of household (level of debt, external assistance, level of savings, access to credits), the impact of the successive crises on the household (loss of production asset, loss of labor opportunities, displaced, loss of household items) and the composition of the household (number of babies under 5 years old, number of orphans, children, female pregnant / breastfeeding, malnourished children, elders, disabled, sick/ill). These vulnerability criteria will be shared with relevant district leaderships & stakeholders and validated by community leaders and local authorities. Based on these criteria, beneficiary households will be identified by the community leaders and NRC. NRC will work with WFP, FAO and implementing partners, Save the Children International -SCI, ADESO and many other actors in the cash transfer program in Bari (Bander Beyla district) and Nugaal (Garowe district) to map out gaps, plan activities to ensure complimentarily and share share learning and experiences whenever required. This will aim at optimizing resources use for maximum impact

Porteur du projet : Norwegian Refugee Council

Financement : Nations Unies

Contribution : 300,000.00 $

United Nations Development Group