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SOMALIA FACT SHEET February 2021 SOMALIA FACT SHEET February 2021 CGI Shelters constructed by ACTED in Baidoa CLUSTER SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CO1: Ensure that persons affected by conflict and natural disasters have protection from the weather and privacy through provision of shelter and NFIs. CO2: Improve the quality of shelter and NFI assistance and ensure accountability through effective complaint and feedback mechanisms. Somalia Shelter Cluster 3W map for January 2021 NEEDS ANALYSIS Around 3.2 million people are in need of Shelter and NFI assistance in Somalia. According to PRMN report and p artner assessments, conflict and drought has displaced over 90,000 people in 2021 alone. Most of the SHELTER CLUSTER CONTACTS displaced have arrived in Gedo, Lower Shabelle, Bay, Galgaduud and Banadir regions. In Wanlaweyn district, conflicts between AS and local Cluster Coordinator clan militias has led to displacement of an estimated of 5,000HHs. The Pankaj Kumar Singh displaced are in urgent need of emergency shelter and NFI. [email protected] / +252 613350988 GAPS / CHALLENGES Deputy Cluster Coordinator • There is very limited NFI stocks and no shelter stocks available with Nurta Mohamed Adan Shelter Cluster partners in Somalia. Prepositioning of shelter and NFI [email protected] / +252 615682233 kits is very critical for effective shelter and NFI response. • Shelter Cluster has been underfunded affecting humanitarian shelter Shelter Cluster Support Associate response in timely and effective manner. Padmore Ochieng Okal [email protected] / +254 723 793 105 RESPONSE During the month of February 2021, the Shelter Cluster partners assisted: • 32,850 people with non-food items (NFI) kits. Standard non-food items KEY DOCUMENTS kit consists of plastic sheet, blankets, jerry cans, sleeping mats, mosquito • https://www.sheltercluster.org/response/somalia net, solar lamp and kitchen set. • 44,368 persons were assisted with Shelter. A shelter assistance includes emergency shelter kit, and provision of transitional shelter. KEY LINKS • https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operatio Cumulatively in 2021, the Shelter Cluster partners have reached 53,504 ns/somalia/emergency-shelter-and-nfi individuals (2%) of 2.3 Million targeted with NFI assistance, and 63,297 • http://reliefweb.int/country/som individuals (3%) of the 2.4 million targeted with shelter assistance. REACHED AGAINST TARGET (Individuals) KEY FIGURES As of February 2021 22 3.2M / 2.5M Cluster partners People in need / targeted 0%100% FUNDING (source: Cluster Partners) 2% 98% 0% Total funding required: 3% 97% 100% $ 58 M K 500K 1.M 1.5M 2.M 2.5M Funded Gap Reached Gap SOMALIA FACT SHEET February 2021 A roof over my head, Finally! In this edition of the Somalia Shelter Cluster factsheet, our focus story is a highlight of Radio Ergo feature story about Shelter assistance to IDPs in Mogadishu city and its environs. The story discloses some very touching statements from some of the 566 beneficiaries of a shelter project implemented by HINNA through Somalia humanitarian pooled funds (SHF). Some of the statements are sampled below. Photo: Typical Emergency shelter constructed for IDPs by HINNA featuring a lockable door. “We were sleeping outdoors, but today we are waking up in our home! It is made of wood and we locals know it as filibiin,” said Naimo Aidurus Jama, a widow, who had been sheltering with her children under a piece of cloth stretched across stick posts. “I slept under this tree with my children for some time but now we feel like we are living in an apartment,” said an excited Mumino Hassan Abdi, who fled from Barire in Lower Shabelle where their small farm was first invaded by locusts and then washed away by floods. Farhiya Hassan Omar, a mother of eight children, also felt relieved to move out of the cramped house of another camp family, where the children and two grandparents lived for two months. Photo:Farhiya Hassan Omar, one of the beneficiaries sitting at the door of her new house/Ahmed Mohamed/Ergo “It was tough at night, my dad used to sleep in the room that was given to us by the host family since he can’t withstand the cold. The rest of us slept outside. But now we thank God,” said Farhiya. The Shelter Cluster partners in Somalia are targeting more than a half a million people with shelter and NFI assistance. These are mainly internally displaced persons living in makeshift shelters in very congested IDP settlements or under trees. Limited funding available for shelter and NFI interventions is main challenge in delivering life-saving shelter and NFI assistance to the population in need. The full Radio Ergo story can be found here: shorturl.at/aioKU .
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