MISSION UPDATE #14 COVID-19 Preparedness and Response 21 - 27 June 2020

SITUATION OVERVIEW

The humanitarian crisis in Somalia, characterized by both natural and man-made factors, is one of the most complex and longstanding emergencies in the world. 2,894 Somalia is currently facing Locust crisis, mainly in northern and central regions, with CONFIRMED CASES1 potential further expansion to southern Somalia, therefore categorized at the highest threat level, “dangerous” whilst Somalia simultaneously entered the Gu rainy season in March, displacing over 400,000, although some flood displaced communities were able to return home. With 2.6 million displaced persons, COVID-19 continues to pose an additional challenge in already fragile context where it may further hinder access to basic services, leaving the population highly vulnerable. 2.6 million DISPLACED PERSONS2 As a key source, transit and, to some extent, destination country for migratory flows, Somalia continues to have an influx of migrants from neighboring countries through irregular migration routes, especially from . Hundreds of migrants are stranded in Bossaso as a result of border and sea-crossing closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. IOM data show that migration in the Eastern route is still taking place despite the new border restrictions in the region. While more people continue 400,000 to arrive in Bossaso, higher number of Ethiopian migrants are stranded in the city. NEWLY DISPLACED DURING IOM estimates that nearly 400 migrants are currently hosted by members of the GU RAINY SEASON Ethiopian community living in informal settlements around the city. Recognizing that mobility is a determinant of health and risk exposure, there is a need to urgently adopt innovative, systematic, multisectoral and inclusive responses to mitigate, prepare for 11 March 2020 and respond to COVID-19 amongst the migrant population. WHO declared COVID-19 The number of COVID-19 cases in Somalia is increasing. As of 29 June, Somalia a pandemic has confirmed 2,894 COVID-19 cases in the country, 90 reported fatalities and 932 recovered cases. The number of infections and mortality rate seems to be decreasing, particularly in Mogadishu and other urban centres, while transmission continues to 16 March 2020 take place at the regional level. Especially internally displaced communities in Somalia First confirmed case in Somalia continue to be at risk. On 23 June, Somaliland lifted the air travel restrictions that and suspension of all were in place since the COVID-19 outbreak, while preventive measures against international flights further spread of the virus remain in place.

IOM SOMALIA COVID-19 APPEAL 8 April 2020 3,500,000 TOTAL: 4.3M (As of 29 June) First reported fatality New funds Re-purposed 850K $18 M funds

*This is in line with 29 June 2020 IOM Somalia’s Preparedness and Response Plan 2,894 cases confirmed

1 As of 29 June 2020. 2 Somalia Humanitarian Response Plan 2020. (cumulative by all units during the reporting period)

SOMALIA MISSION UPDATE COVID-19 Preparedness and Response 21 - 27 June 2020

13,000 PEOPLE reached with HANDWASHING 284 24,000 PEOPLE Over 650,000 PEOPLE COVID-19 information at POINTS installed were screened at Baidoa, reached with COVID-19 (cumulative) Doolow, , Hudur information 7 FLOW MONITORING and Dhobley PoEs POINTS (FMP) (No suspected cases were recorded)

23 - IOM27 March SOMALIA 2020 COVID-19IOM SOMALIA PREPAREDNESS | COVID19 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE AND RESPONSE OPERATIONS As of 29 June 2020

PUNTLAND

Bossaso Bossaso Airport Seaport Lowyacado Flow Elayo Flow Monitoring Point SOMALILAND Monitoring Point Bossaso Flow Monitoring Point AWDAL Migration Reception BERBERA Centre (MRC) Bossaso

DHARAR Harirad Flow Migration Reception BARI Monitoring Point SANAAG Centre (MRC) Hargeisa Gebiley GARADAG Wajaale TOGDHEER Egal Int’l Airport WOQOOYI Burco GALBEED Airport

SOOL Buuhoodle Flow Garoowe Monitoring Point Airport NUGAAL

Galkacyo Airport GALMUDUG Cabudwaaq Airport ADADO

Cabudwaaq Flow MUDUG Monitoring Point HIRSHABELLE GALGADUUD IOM PRESENCE PER UNIT SOUTH WEST Ferfer Ceel Barde - Camp Coordination and Camp Management JUBALAND CCCM Doolow HUDUR Doolow Flow MHD - Migration Health Division Monitoring HIRAAN Belet xaawo Point Luuq SNFI - Shelter and Non-Food Items Baidoa Baidoa Airport WASH - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

MIDDLE SHABELLE DTM - Displacement Tracking Matrix GEDO

BAY AFGOOYE IBM - Immigration and Border Management BARDERE Baardheere Aden Abdulle Intl Airport PORTS OF ENTRY (PoEs) IOM SUPPORTS: Mogadishu Seaport

MIDDLE JUBA LOWER Landpost Seaport Airport SHABELLE Dhobley Afmadow Dhobley Flow RDS - Recovery and Durable Solutions Monitoring Point DHOBLEY MPA - Migrant Protection and Assistance LOWER JUBA

Kismaayo Airport LHD - Labour Mobility and Human Development Kismaayo Seaport Main Office Field Offices Ras Kamboni Satellite Offices

* ForIOM the purpose SOMALIA of reporting, | Elayo COVID-19 and Bossaso are Preparedness considered as one FMP.and In Responsetotal, IOM supports 7 flow monitoring points. For more information contact Programme Support Unit: [email protected] Not to be disseminated further without prior IOM approval. iom.int/countries/somalia [email protected] www.iom.int/countries/Somalia Follow us: IOM Somalia SOMALIA MISSION UPDATE COVID-19 Preparedness and Response 21 - 27 June 2020

PROGRAMME UPDATES

In coordination and partnership with relevant actors at the national, regional and IDPs reached: global levels, IOM continues to contribute to the overall objective of the National Preparedness and Response Plan for COVID-19, UN COVID-19 Country 428 INDIVIDUALS Preparedness and Response Plan (CPRP), as well as the IOM and WHO Global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plans to halt further transmission of COVID-19, and reached in Doolow mitigate the impact of the outbreak, including the socio-economic impact. To ensure including 8 IDP leaders that IDPs, migrants, communities in hard to reach locations, returnees and vulnerable Indirect beneficiaries: 2,789 populations are assisted, IOM will build its response on existing partnerships with relevant actors at global, regional, national and sub-national levels. IOM continues to 69 INDIVIDUALS address cross-cutting humanitarian and development needs through expansion of its programmes designed to engage directly with communities. reached in Kismayo Indirect beneficiaries: 5,923 IOM continued to raise awareness on COVID-19, particularly targeting migrants who are crossing the borders of Somalia. So far, IOM reached over 13,000 320 INDIVIDUALS people crossing Somalia’s border with COVID-19 information. IOM also mapped reached in Baidoa the eastern migration route, one of the main migration routes between the East and Horn of Africa and the Arab Peninsula, and the exposure to COVID-19 of including 84 IDP leaders migrants along this route. Furthermore, IOM continued its training on Indirect beneficiaries: 12,432 psychosocial support and trained 11 health staff in Kismayo and Afgoye. The trained Joint activities of CCCM, MHD and WASH health workers will include information on mental heath in their health education messages.

Awareness raising activity with local community leaders in Baidoa IDP site. © IOM Somalia 2020

CAMP COORDINATION CCCM continues to conduct trainings on COVID-19 prevention AND CAMP MANAGEMENT (CCCM) to different stakeholders

IOM continued to disseminate information to ensure IDPs are aware of the risks, FRONTLINE STAFF signs and symptoms and mode of transmissions of COVID-19 and know the IDP COMMISSION appropriate mitigation measure to reduce the risks. Awareness raising sessions LOCAL NGO STAFF were conducted at the information centres, marketplaces or during community SITE LEADERS meetings, with a highlight on how to practice social distancing.

During the reporting period, two IDPs in Baidoa confirmed with COVID-19. In coordination with: This has caused fear that the virus will spread further in the crowded IDP sites. To HEALTH CLUSTER MINISTRY OF HEALTH involve women in the COVID-19 response, IOM started a women’s participation project ‘Safe from the Start’ in Baidoa. The women groups will contribute to the WHO PARTNERS IDP LEADERS installation of handwashing stations, development of awareness raising materials, IDP COMMISSION OFFICES distribution of cleaning materials. Furthermore, they will receive a training on how IDP GROUPS & COMMITTEES to conduct awareness raising campaigns and how to produce non-medical masks. RELIGIOUS LEADERS

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MIGRATION HEALTH DIVISION (MHD)

People screened at Points of Entry (PoEs) across Somalia:

871 PEOPLE entering Dhobley from Kenya

1,106 PEOPLE entering Doolow from Ethiopia

294 PEOPLE entering Baidoa through airport or road

24 PEOPLE entering Hudur through road

No suspected cases were recorded *IOM also screens at Kismayo PoEs. No new entries during the reporting period.

Awareness Raising session and screening on COVID-19 in Lower Shabelle region. © IOM Somalia 2020 IOM and the Ministry of Health, through 40 health facilities, continued to screen patients for COVID-19 symptoms and to conduct awareness sessions about COVID-19 preventive DISPLACEMENT TRACKING measures. IOM conducted a training on COVID-19 screening MATRIX (DTM) to seven health facility frontline workers in Dhobley. IOM also continued its training on psychosocial support, which focused on DTM continues to raise awareness among migrants crossing addressing social stigma and self-care during COVID-19 pandemic. the border at seven Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs). During the Seven health facility staff were trained in Afgoye and four in reporting period, 3,804 people, entered and exited Somalia. Kismayo. The trained health workers will integrate psychosocial COVID-10 information was shared with 1,846 (49%) individuals key messages into health education sessions in IOM-supported who reported to be unaware of the COVID-19 situation. IOM health facilities. published a map that shows the indicative migration Eastern COVID-19 awareness raising sessions in health routes and overlaid with districts affected by COVID-19 to facilities and IDP sites reached: illustrate the risks to which the migrants are exposed. 909 IN AFGOYE FMP INCOMING OUTGOING TOTAL 773 IN HUDUR Bossaso 475 663 1,138 820 IN DHOBLEY Buuhoodle 529 131 660 371 IN BARDHERE Abduwaq 387 0 387 605 IN KISMAYO Harirad 399 0 399 1,430 IN BAIDOA Lowyacado 79 54 133 653 IN DOOLOW Dhobley 257 293 550 Doolow 409 128 537 Activities are closely coordinated with the Ministries of Health GRAND TOTAL 2,535 1,269 3,804 at Federal and Member State level and with local authorities.

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MIDA23 - 27 March HEALTH2020 EXPERTSIOM SOMALIA | COVID19 IN SOMALIAPREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE LABOUR MOBILITY AND

PUNTLAND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (LHD)

SOMALILAND On 21 June, the UN Special Representative to Somalia, Mr. AWDAL Berbera Ceerigaabo James Swan visited the main referral hospital in Mogadishu Borama SANAAG BARI for COVID-19 patients. IOM supported the hospital with 20 Hargeysa Gebiley TOGDHEER ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients and assigned health WOQOOYI Burco GALBEED staff to the hospital to assist in the COVID-19 response. Buuhoodle Laas Garoowe CaanoodSOOL The diaspora expert, Dr Mustafa Yusuf, who is part of the NUGAAL COVID-19 response team, welcomed the SRSG and guided him through the hospital to see how the hospital is responding GALMUDUG to the COVID-19 crisis.

MUDUG

HIRSHABELLE GALGADUUD SOUTH WEST The Communications Expert placed at the Ministry of Foreign

BAKOOL Affairs and International Cooperation worked on assisting JUBALAND

HIRAAN Somali nationals abroad to enable their return.

Baidoa

MIDDLE SHABELLE The Tuberculosis expert, working at the Erigavo Hospital GEDO BAY organized a meeting with the hospital staff on how to improve Mogadishu COVID-19 case management while ensuring staff safety. This MIDDLE JUBA LOWER SHABELLE meeting is vital as the number of cases in Erigavo is increasing.

LOWER JUBA Director General for the Ministry of Health Development Kismayo in Somaliland has inaugurated two Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines in Berbera and Buroa. Three MIDA FINNSOM IV experts based in Buroa, who are part of the

IOM SOMALIA | COVID-19 Preparedness and Response regional COVID-19 taskforce, played a critical role in the For more informationMIGRANT contact Programme Support PROTECTION Unit: [email protected] fundraising process for the PCR machines. In addition to that, Not to be disseminated further without prior IOM approval. iom.int/countries/somalia AND ASSISTANCE (MPA) the National Laboratory diaspora advisor led installation and training process. The PCR machines will improve the testing In Mogadishu, IOM continued to support 97 migrants who capacity in Somaliland. returned from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and provided them with shelter, accommodation and basic services. Ten migrants WATER, SANITATION were assisted to their final destination in Puntland. & HYGIENE (WASH) In Bossaso and Hargeisa, IOM continued its services through IOM continued its community mobilization and sensitization the Migration Response Centres (MRCs) and the Ethiopian sessions on good community hygiene and sanitation practices Community Centres and reached 165 people from the migrant to IDP communities. and host community with COVID-19 awareness information. 5,156 HOUSEHOLDS reached with HYGIENE PROMOTION activities in Mogadishu, Jubaland, South West State and Somaliland

360 HOUSEHOLDS received SOAP and HIGYIENE KITS in Afmadow district

Inauguration of two PCR machins in Berbera and Buroa HANDWASHING POINTS installed, © IOM Somalia 2020 10 in Daynille district, Mogadishu

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DONORS WHO HASN’T HEARD OF COVID-19? MORE THAN YOU THINK

IOM informs an IDP in Weydow IDP site in Mogadishu about COVID-19. © Hamza Osman/IOM Somalia 2020

A half-year into the most momentous pandemic in decades, it’s hard to imagine that anyone, anywhere has not heard of the coronavirus. But scores of migrants arriving in Somalia tell IOM teams at Flow Monitoring Points (FMP) that they are unaware of COVID-19. Read the full story for Associated Press here.

IOM GLOBAL INITIATIVES The current outbreak of COVID-19 has affected global mobility in the form of various travel disruptions, restrictions and blockages. To better understand how COVID-19 affects global mobility, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been working to map the impacts on human mobility, at Global, Regional and Country level. Subsequently, the IOM globally have initiated the following activities:

COVID 19 Travel Restriction Monitoring;

COVID 19 Country Points of Entry (POE) Status Baseline Assessment.

The different products (Interactive Dashboards, Reports, Static Maps, Databases), along with the different methodologies can be foundhere.

The data from Somalia is based on input provided by IOM Somalia's DTM team.

CONTACT IOM SOMALIA

COVID19 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE Irfan Hameed - Coordinator for COVID 19 Preparedness and Response

[email protected]

PROGRAMME SUPPORT UNIT Yuko Tomita - Programme Support Coordinator [email protected] http://www.iom.int/countries/Somalia

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