WFP Somalia Country Brief, April 2021
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6,573 mt of in-kind food assistance distributed
US$ 210.3 million six months net funding requirements representing 54 percent of the total US$ 392.6 million for the next six months (May-October 2021)
1.6 million people assisted in April 2021
Operational Updates
Climate-induced shocks impacting food security
In April, dry conditions continued to cause severe water shortages for domestic, livestock and agricultural production in various regions across the country. For instance, in Mahadaay and Jowhar of Middle Shabelle, 5,000 farmers in riverine communities moved to Mogadishu in search of casual labour. According to the Federal Ministry of Health, cases of acute watery diarrhoea have been reported in some parts across the country due to limited access to safe drinking water. Additionally, desert locust infestation on crops and pasture continues to threaten livelihoods, particularly in Puntland and Somaliland. The deterioration of past
Somalia Seasonal Monitor April 23, 2021
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FEWS NET publishes a Seasonal Monitor for Somalia every 10 days(dekad) through the end of the current April to June Gu rainy season. The purpose of this document isto provide updated information on the progress of the Gu season to facilitate contingency and response planning. This Somalia Seasonal Monitor is valid through April 30, 2021 and is produced in collaboration with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Food Security andNutritionAnalysis Unit (FSNAU)
Somalia, the Somali Water and Land Information System (SWALIM), a number of other agencies, and several Somali non-governmental organizations(NGOs).
Start of the 2021 gu rains marked by delayed and below-average rainfall
Somalia Cash and Markets Quarterly Dashboard (January - March 2021)
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INTRODUCTION
Cash-based interventions have been used by humanitarian organisations in Somalia since 20031 . Initially, significant variations in transfer values were implemented by different organisations, occasionally leading to different transfer values in the same locations. It was against this backdrop, and as a response to the increasing number of agencies using cash-based interventions to respond to the 2016-2017 drought, that the Somalia Cash Working Group (CWG) started convening in February 2017. The aim of the CWG is to streamline the design, development, and implementation of cash-based interventions in Somalia.
Pursuant to these aims, the CWG provides quarterly transfer value recommendations, based on Somalia s standard minimum expenditure basket (MEB), to humanitarian organisations implementing cash-based interventions in Somalia.
70 coastal fishers in Somalia are setting out to strengthen the fisheries sector
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After years of livestock losses from droughts and multiple crises, fish have become a lifeline source of food for nutrition and income for coastal communities. The coasts sandy soils are not suitable for crops, and fishing and livestock are the main livelihoods. Much of the Somali coastline is likely to face acute food insecurity between April and June 2021, with long stretches in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or above, according to the latest technical release by FAO Somalia’s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU). To help coastal communities increase their skills and boost incomes in the fisheries sector, FAO launched the project “Protecting, Improving and Sustaining Food Security in Rural Somalia” in January 2020. Since the project launch, three Coastal Fishers Schools (CFS) have been created in the villages of Zeylac, Lawyo Ado and Toqoshi within Zeylac District, Somalia.
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