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Titre : Contributing to self-reliance amongst displacement affected populations in Kaxda district through small scale business support - Somalia

Pays /Région : Somalie

Code projet : SOM-16/3485/R/FSC/INGO/3817

Durée : 01/01/2017 — 30/06/2017

Présentation
This six-months project targets mainly protracted internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kaxda district, Mogadishu. Women headed households will be given preferential treatment including youth and household heads with physical disability. The project aims to increase access to food and non-food items for these displacement affected communities. The overall objective of this project is : “Displacement-affected populations in Kaxda district, Mogadishu have improved food security and livelihood opportunities”, with the specific objective : “Displacement affected communities in Kaxda district have alternative livelihoods and resume productive activity” This project is designed in order to address the 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 employ conditional cash transfers (CCT) using electronic mobile money transfer as a modality to transfer money to beneficiaries because of safety, convenience and appropriateness. The project will target 300 households (1,800 individuals) in Kaxda district. Female headed households will be identified through community based targeting approach using NRC trained community based committees in the area. Beneficiaries will undergo 2 weeks training on small business and entrepreneurial skills training. Training will include short mentorship and lectures from people already in the business industry. At the end of the training, beneficiaries will be given a start-up cash input kit of $500. At program start-up immediately after beneficiaries have been registered, a Baseline survey will be commissioned to establish, amongst beneficiary households, key food security and nutrition indicators that shall be followed through across the project period. 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. For ease of identification, beneficiaries will be issued with token cards having unique serial numbers. Photographs will not be on the cards because of security reasons. Each card will have NRC complaints response and feedback (CRF) hotline 308 at the back for ease of reference whenever required. At the end of the project, an Endline survey, having similar indicators that were monitored at baseline, will be commissioned to ascertain the changes in beneficiary households that can be attributed to this project. NRC will liaise, network and coordinate with local leaders and actors in targeted districts to galvanize on their support in the project, facilitate unlimited access for remote parts of the district including participation in local dispute resolution

Porteur du projet : Norwegian Refugee Council

Financement : Nations Unies

Contribution : 224,048.80 $

United Nations Development Group