Project Overview
Federal Republic of Somalia | Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MoAI) | Financed by the African Development Bank

About the project
The Beero oo Barwaaqee Soomaaliya (BBS) Irrigation Project is an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, financed by the African Development Bank. The Project aims to restore and expand irrigation infrastructure in Somalia’s productive agricultural corridors, strengthen the resilience of smallholder farming households to climate variability and recurrent flood and drought shocks, and improve food security and rural incomes.
Project activities include the rehabilitation and construction of water infrastructure (canals, barrages, flood-control and water-control structures), the restoration of command areas for irrigated production, support to priority crop value chains, and institutional strengthening of federal and Federal Member State irrigation and agriculture institutions.

Project coverage
The Project is implemented across the Federal Member States of Galmudug, Hirshabelle, Jubaland and South West State, together with Somaliland, covering 22 districts and 136 proposed sites.

Environmental and social approach
The Project is classified in accordance with the African Development Bank’s Integrated Safeguards System (ISS, 2023). Site-level environmental and social screening has been carried out for the proposed sites, and the Project’s environmental and social instruments have been prepared to identify, avoid, minimise and mitigate potential adverse environmental and social risks and impacts, and to enhance project benefits for affected communities.
Instruments disclosed include;