Programme Description

Somalia remains the second most fragile country in the world according to the Fragile States Index4
with the country recurrently affected by devastating natural disasters such as droughts, floods and
human-induced shocks (conflict and political instability). Rural livelihoods in Somalia in particular are
increasingly vulnerable to effects of climate change and conflict with consistently high populations in
Integrated Phase Classification (IPC 3) Crisis or worse season after season, necessitating billions in
humanitarian assistance year on year. Recurrent climate-related shocks, mostly drought and floods,
combined with conflict, have weakened household resilience. This has often led to vast cohorts of
population in need of humanitarian food assistance. The latest estimates indicate that between
September and December 2022, about 6.7 million people will be acutely food insecure (in IPC Phase 3
and above), out of which over 2 million people expected to be in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and another
300,513 are already experiencing famine conditions (IPC Phase 5 ‘Catastrophe’)5. Since January 2022,
over 1.1 million people have been displaced due to drought, of which more than 80 percent are women
and children6.