CPD in partnership with the Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH) supported more than 6,900 people in Jowhar District in the Middle-Shabelle region and Bahdo and Cadakibir villages of Galgaduud region with Food and WASH assistance as part of our wider post-flood and conflict recovery efforts in the South Central of Somalia.
The interventions, facilitated through the ToGETHER Program, aimed at improving flood and conflict-affected households’ immediate access to food, hygiene and sanitation assistance.The project targeted the internally displaced people that abandoned their livelihoods and settlements in rural areas due to floods and conflicts. The massive displacement of these population groups into the urban areas triggered the establishment of new IDP camps while in some areas overcrowding the existing camps. As a result, triggering hikes in food and non-food items in the host towns, diminished social capital, and an increase in domestic protection risks such as GBV due to the vulnerability of displaced households members, where the population are predominantly female-led households.
The huge influx of these internally displaced population resulted negative coping mechanism coupled with a low humanitarian response in the region necessitating the ToGETHER project to provide food and non-food assistance to the affected people as a stop-gap measure, cushioning them from the negative impacts of the floods and conflicts while on the other hand improving their livelihood situation.
