Mogadishu (RBC) According to latest UNOCHA report on Somalia Humanitarian Activities, In 2013, the first year of Somalia’s 2013-2015 Consolidated Appeal $558.23 million (48 per cent) of the $1.15 billion revised request was received with funding per cluster ranging between 22 and 71 per cent.
Sustained funding and continued commitments from donors is required in 2014 to ensure implementation of life-saving activities and to shore up resilience programmes for the 870,000 people in crisis and emergency and 2.3 million people who teeter on the margins of food insecurity.
While 2013 saw some improvements in the humanitarian situation, gains are fragile, and even modest shocks can knock vulnerable people back into emergency and lead to recurrent humanitarian crises.
With only half of financial requirements covered in 2013, humanitarian partners have had to prioritize life-saving activities, limiting investment in basic services, safety nets and resilience programmes and thereby jeopardizing the objectives of the multi-year humanitarian appeal.
Only with timely, adequate and sustained funding will humanitarians be able to effectively build on the gains made through investment in resilience to mitigate and avoid crises, and support the transition from aid dependency to sustainability.
In 2013, the pooled Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) allocated $36.57 million to partners through the standard allocation ($28.84 million) and emergency reserve ($7.73 million) supporting 55 partners to implement 95 projects in 15 regions in Somalia. The standard allocation focused on life-saving assistance and support to resilience activities in 22 priority districts in Somalia.
The majority of the funding available under the emergency reserve window was allocated in the second half of the year supporting life-saving and livelihood activities. This included $2.65 million to health and nutrition projects to support 11 health facilities previously run by the aid group Médecins Sans Frontierès, targeting an estimated 335,000 people and $1.2 million to boost the response to floods in Jowhar and parts of Balcad districts in Middle Shabelle.
About $545,000 will support the establishment of seven temporary health posts and referral services to over 80,000 people displaced by floods and conflict, and $632,000 will support access to safe water and sanitation facilities. An additional $1.2 million was allocated in late December through the emergency reserve to support life-saving health services to children and women of child-bearing age through Child Health Days in Banadir, Galgaduud, and Gedo regions, targeting about 1 million people.
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