Mogadishu (RBC) The Somalia Consolidated Appeal (CAP) funding coverage for 2013 improved to 48 percent of the requested $1.15 billion by mid-November, up from 39 per cent a month earlier. The 2013 appeal is the first of the 2013-2015 multi-year CAP.
Due to slow funding levels this year, humanitarian actors have focused on life-saving activities, while insufficient resources have been devoted to the resilience building needed to address widespread vulnerability among the Somali people.
In October, humanitarian partners came together to look at the projected humanitarian needs in Somalia for the coming year. The priority focus areas for humanitarian action in 2014 were identified as: a) acute and chronic food insecurity and high levels of malnutrition; b) inadequate and poor basic services; c) violations against civilians; and d) displacement and returns.
The main elements of the 2014 strategic direction include a leaner CAP, based on realistic ability to implement, which is contingent on access and technical capacity. Protection and assistance to returning refugees and displaced people will also be given due emphasis.
The scope of resilience programmes will be better defined; modalities adopted that ensure gains made are built on and articulate the need to establish an early action trigger mechanism for early warnings on disaster.
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