Annual Country Report 2022: Somalia. Country Strategic Plan 2022-2025

Annual Country Report 2022: Somalia. Country Strategic Plan 2022-2025

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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In 2022, Somalia faced the most protracted drought in recent history resulting from five consecutive seasons of below-average rains. The drought conditions were exacerbated by transformational effects of global food crisis, lack of stability and weakened security, and persistent levels of subnational conflict leaving 6.7 million people severely food insecure. To respond to increasing humanitarian needs, WFP scaled-up its humanitarian assistance, increasing the number of targeted food insecure people by 50 percent (from 4.5 million to 8.9 million). WFP’s timely food and nutrition assistance helped avert famine in 2022. WFP reached 9.8 million direct beneficiaries across its operations (59 percent females, 41 percent males), of which 6 percent were people living with disability. Out of these, WFP reached 6.9 million unique beneficiaries with General Food Assistance. WFP delivered its assistance using cash-based transfers (CBT) and in-kind modalities. In 2022, WFP doubled its CBT compared to 2021 distributing USD 470 million, the largest CBT transfers in WFP globally. Use of CBT in emergencies is critical to building resilience against droughts and other crises in the longer term and ensuring assistance is timely while also strengthening local economies. WFP delivered first line assistance to vulnerable populations, in line with the integrated response framework for Somalia. This intervention focused on expanding access to populations in hard-to-reach areas and covering new internally displaced persons in formal and informal settlements across the country. Over 290,000 new beneficiaries received WFP’s first-line assistance across 13 hard-to-reach areas. WFP leveraged the potential of Baxnaano to deliver USD 6.7 million of CBT, providing early support to 201,534 people under its largest drought anticipatory action intervention in Eastern Africa. This was complemented by a public information campaign on climate and weather risks enabling communities to pre-empt and mitigate the impact of worsening drought. WFP scaled up treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) programme, reaching 1.6 million children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWGs) with specialised nutritious foods. WFP implemented the prevention of acute malnutrition programme which reached 710,782 children aged 6-23 months and PLWGs. This prevented children and PLWGs from recurrent cycle of acute malnutrition. Monitoring has shown strong outcomes of the malnutrition treatment programme, with a recovery rate of 97.7 percent, well above SPHERE Standards (>75 percent). Livelihoods, resilience, and food systems interventions reached 123,462 drought-affected beneficiaries. These programmes work to protect, build and rebuild vulnerable livelihoods and local food systems in times of drought and other crises.

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