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UNICEF has been working in Somalia since 1972 when its first office opened in Mogadishu. Today UNICEF has 300 staff working in Mogadishu, Baidoa, Garowe, Hargeisa and also Nairobi. Together with more than 100 international and national NGOs and community-based organizations, UNICEF delivers services in Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education and Child Protection, and responds to emergencies and supports peacebuilding and development.

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42°E 44°E 46°E 48°E 50°E Esri, DeLorme, GEBCO, NOAA NGDC, and other contributors SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 work aimedatpreventingarepeatofthehumanitarian crisiswewitnessedin2017. services andtheircapacitytoplan,managemonitor recurrentshocksandstresses.Thisiscritical of individuals,householdsandcommunitiestoquality basicnutrition,health,waterandsanitation development programming.Welaunchedanewjoint programmewiththeWFPtoenhanceaccess The droughtbroughtnewurgencytoourresilience work,bringingtogetherhumanitarianand Rights Bill. progress ontheConventionRightsofChild aswellthelaunchofdraftingChild and finalizingwatersystemsforfourtownsinSomaliland. Wesupportedthegovernment’sreporton We alsocontinuedourdevelopmentwork,whichincluded strengtheninghealthsystemsinPuntland progress isnotlost. the emergencyresponseatsameleveltoensurethatSomalipeoplearefullysupportedand Unfortunately, thedroughtcontinuesandauthorities,UNICEFitspartnersaremaintaining to violenceorwhohadpreviouslybeenwitharmedgroups. time, andweprovidedcriticalsupportforchildrenwhohadbeenseparatedfromtheirfamilies,subject transfers. Thousandsofchildrenaffectedbythedroughtweregivenaneducation,manyforfirst emergency healthservices,1.8millionwithsafewaterandnearly19,000familiesmonthlycash treated 270,000childrensufferingfromlife-threateningmalnutrition,provided1.3millionpeoplewith Committees, wescaledupoperationsearlyintheyearacrossallsectors.Byendof2017had At UNICEF,thankstounprecedentedlevelsoffundingfromourdonors,includingUNICEFNational agencies suchasUNICEFandWFPworkingcloselytogether. us. Donorssteppedupquicklywithsubstantialfunding,andtheaidcommunitymovedfast,UN government andmemberstatestooktheleadincoordinatingresponseworkingcloselywith And yet,despitethedesperatesituationanddirepredictions,afaminewasaverted.Thefederal heartbreaking storiesoffamiliesthathadlosteverything. over amillionbecamemalnourished.WhereverItravelledheard Children alreadyweakfromhungersuccumbedtosicknessand cholera, whilemeaslescasessoaredintheovercrowdedcamps. The droughtledtoamajoroutbreakofacutewaterydiarrhoea/ homes tomakeshiftcampsindesperatesearchofassistance. we sawanimalsdie,cropsfailandahugeexodusofpeoplefromtheir the Gu(April/May)andDeyr(November/December)rainsfailed, UNICEF scaledupitsoperationstomitigatetheworsteffects.Asboth The devastating2017droughtwasfeltthroughoutSomalia,and Foreword Representative, UNICEF Somalia Steven Lauwerier Table of Contents 4 Emergency Response

7 11 Health Nutrition

14 18 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education (WASH)

21 24 Child Protection Cross sectoral

3 4 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 © UNICEFSomalia/Kate Holt Emergency malnourished 1.2 million assistance andprotection children, requiredhumanitarian population), including 6.2 million 700,000 children displaced in 1 million Situation support accesstobasicservices with monthlycashtransfers to 18,979 householdsprovided affected environments opportunities inemergency- safe andprotectedlearning 174,355 childrenaccessed services emergency lifesavinghealth displaced, providedwith including 1.3 million Progress Response people internally 503,183 internally childrenacutely people(halfofthe womenandchildren, 2017, includingover 3.4million A Refuge from the Drought After two days of walking she had covered 35 kilometres and was only halfway to the camp Hundreds of thousands of people – the vast when she ran out of money. Residents in the majority of whom are women and children – village where she stopped collected funds to help have been forced by the drought to leave their her complete the journey. homes in a desperate search for food and water. “Some families stayed behind because they were Many of them come to the sprawling settlement expecting the rains to start,” she said. “There known as KM13 on the outskirts of Mogadishu. are new families joining the camp every day and UNICEF supports a health and nutrition centre others are on their way from the village I came called Sablale just outside one of the settlements from. for the displaced families. “Since we arrived, we have been given food and Sahra and her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, water. We hope to get more help while we are Sabirin, who is suffering from severe acute here in the camp. Once the rains begin we’ll be malnutrition, recently visited the health centre. able to go back to our village and start our lives Sahra is 30 years old and pregnant with her ninth again.” child. She left her husband back in their village in Qorioley district in Lower Shabelle, where they raised animals and crops, and brought her eight children to KM13.

“Due to drought we lost all of our cattle and weren’t able to harvest anything because the rains have failed for the last two seasons. We had to sell our last goats to pay for transport to Mogadishu,” she said. “We decided to join other families who were travelling to the camp.”

Many of the children at the Sablale camp, home to over 2,000 people, are malnourished and sick. Local families say 80 children have died since it was established two months ago. Nearly 500 people arrived in May at Sablale, which is named after the area many of them came from.

Habiba Mohamed Adan, a 30-year-old mother and her eight-month-old baby, Fadumo Osman Hassan, are also at the camp. Fadumo was sick and needed medication so they came to the centre, which is also supported by the local NGO SOYDA.

Like many other families affected by the drought, they lost their animals and the harvest failed. Habiba had to leave her husband behind in their village in Sablale district. He has disabilities and Habiba and her baby at the health centre that provides health and nutrition services for families displaced by the drought. couldn’t make the journey. © UNICEF Somalia/Mohamed Elmi

5 6 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 World FoodProgramme (WFP). possible, UNICEF respondedjointlywith the management agenciesand clusters.Where coordinated withrelevant ministries,disaster forums. Humanitarianinterventions wereclosely as activeparticipationin other crucialstrategic support ofhumanitariancoordination aswell UNICEF maintainedkeyleadershiprolesin protection andeducationinemergencies. and healthservices,complementedbychild nutrition, water,sanitationandhygiene(WASH) Lifesaving programmeintegrationprioritized access areas. to expandpartnershipsandcoverageinhard-to- lifesaving coresuppliesandcontinuallylooking service provisioninhighest-needareas,procuring and earlyrecovery.UNICEFmaintainedcritical protection threatsandsupportresiliencebuilding excess mortality,effectivelyrespondtomounting services toaddresscriticalmalnutritionand UNICEF’s prioritiesweretoprovidelifesaving In total,theofficereceivedoverUS$300 million. port longer-termdevelopmentandresilienceefforts. large-scale, multi-yeardevelopmentfundingtosup- sustained levelsofbothemergencyfundingand boosted UNICEFSomalia’s credibility,leadingto to helpstaveofftheloomingfamine.Theresults a quickscale-upofhugeemergencyresponse amount ofdonorfundingeverreceived,enabling In response,UNICEFSomalia raisedthelargest settlements. households wereevictedfrommultipleIDP in DecemberBanadir,morethan5,000 displaced persons(IDPs).Inoneincident by forcedevictionsfromcampsforinternally in 2017,andtheproblemwasexacerbated More than1millionpeopleweredisplaced watery diarrhoea (AWD)/choleraandmeasles. and therewerediseaseoutbreakssuchasacute 1.2 millionchildren wereacutelymalnourished situation plungedSomalia intoacrisis.Some In 2017,adeterioratingfoodsecurityandnutrition Emergency achievementsin2017 4,189 householdstohelpthemresettle. unconditional cash-basedassistancepackageto ended inmid-2017,withUNICEFprovidingan households fromDadaabrefugeecampinKenya A UNICEF-WFPpartnershiptoassistreturnee and 13,099householdsinBaidoadistrict. households inWajid,2,887Hudur cash assistanceoversixmonths,including2,993 UNICEF reached18,979householdswithmonthly WFP. information managementplatformdesignedby needs throughtheSCOPEplatform,abeneficiary WFP, deliveringcashassistancefornon-food UNICEF carriedoutajointinterventionwith Baidoa andGarowe. Coordination Centres (DOCC)inMogadishu, members oftheinteragencyDroughtOperation Nutrition andEducationClusterswereactive and inaccessibleareas.UNICEFtheWASH, coordination andinterventionsinhard-to-reach regions. Thisprovidedaccesstoinformation, including sub-regionalcoordinators inover15 significant, withanetwork ofover140partners, capacity oftheUNICEF-ledClusters was and co-leadtheEducationCluster.Theoperational Clusters andtheChildProtectionWorkingGroup, continued toleadtheWASH andNutrition Working GroupandAccessTaskForce.UNICEF was alsoanactivememberoftheCivil-Military coordination ofhumanitarian programmes.UNICEF Group, whichleadstrategicandcross-sectoral Agencies meetingsandtheInter-ClusterWorking UNICEF participatedintheHumanitarianHeadsof As partoftheHumanitarianCountryTeam, Health

Situation

5.7 million people required basic health services

Over 79,000 cases of acute watery diarrhoea/cholera. Over 23,000 cases of measles

1 in 8 Somali children dies before the age of 5

1 woman dies every 3 hours from pregnancy-related causes

1 in 3 women gives birth in public health facilities

Progress

3.19 million people provided with health service coverage under the Essential Package of Health Services

1.3 million women and children received lifesaving emergency health services

2.1 million children received polio vaccines

2.4 million long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets distributed

43,000 cases of AWD/cholera were treated in 71 UNICEF- supported facilities

Over 193,000 babies delivered in health centres © UNICEF Somalia/Kate Holt

7 8 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 State, atthe measlesvaccinationlaunchinBaidoa. says IsakAliSubug, HealthMinisterofSouth West provide servicestoapopulation ofsuchasize,” overwhelmed andourstaff arenotprepared to arriving in campsinBaidoa.Ourfacilityis “Every day,therearenewdisplacedfamilies outbreaks suchasdiarrhoeaandmeasles. to cleanwater.Itisaperfectbreedinggroundfor almost nosanitationfacilitiesandlimitedaccess huge influxesofpeopleeverymonth.Theyoffer The overcrowdedcampsaroundBaidoasee like BaidoaandGalkayo. aid, desperatefamiliesarecrowdingintotowns of humanitarianassistance.Inhopefinding than halfofthepopulationdestituteandinneed triggered widespreaddisplacementandleftmore including AWD/choleraandmeasles.Italso The droughthasbroughtoutbreaksofdiseases and water.” seven daystocomeBaidoa.Weneedfood says Absalah’smother,Nuna.“Wewalkedfor “We losteverything.Allouranimalsaredead,” by theyoungerones. crushed andmixedwithwaterforeasierintake deworming tablet–chewedbyolderchildrenand children alsogetvitaminAsupplementanda deadly diseases.Inadditiontoashot,the in linetohavetheirlittleonesprotectedagainst mothers andsometimesfatherswaitpatiently the vaccinationpostssetupinvariouscamps, southern Somalia.Undertheblazingsun,at camps fordisplacedpersonsincentraland Scenes likethishavebeenrepeatedinmany healthy.” smiling. “Itisgoodforyou.Anditwillkeepyou comforting words:“Alright,alright,”shesays arm. Hisexasperationismetbyhismother’s like anychildhisagewhengettingajabinthe Two-year-old Absalahletsoutaloudsquealjust Drought, displacementanddisease must doitnowtosavelives.” make sureallchildrenarevaccinated.Andwe “The onlywaytopreventitfromspreadingis Jayne Mbakaya,UNICEFProgrammeManager. lesson welearnedfromthe2011famine,”says suffering frommalnutrition.Thisisonetragic “Measles killschildren,particularlythose subsequent months. with measlesvaccineinAprilandmanymore South Galkayoreachedsome45,000children the governmentsadministeringBaidoaand With thehelpofUNICEF,WHOandpartners, Absalah, 2,isimmunizedagainstmeasleswithhismother, Nuna, lookingon.Baidoa,BayRegion. © UNICEFSomalia/KunLi

Health Achievements in 2017 or her fifth birthday. The leading causes of under- five deaths are pneumonia, diarrhoea, neonatal In 2017, through the rapid expansion of disorders and measles. integrated lifesaving activities, UNICEF reached over 1.3 million women and children under five Somalia is the fourth worst country in the world with lifesaving health interventions, including for neonatal deaths, with 1 out of every 26 over half a million IDPs, through 175 health children dying in the first 28 days. The maternal facilities, 133 integrated mobile units and 36 mortality ratio remains at 732 per 100,000 rapid response teams across Somalia. live births in 2015. Access to maternal health services remains low, with approximately A five-fold increase of AWD/cholera cases was one-third of births attended by skilled birth observed from 2016, with 78,853 suspected attendants. cases and 1,119 deaths recorded. The case fatality rate was 1.4 per cent. In response, The UNICEF-supported Essential Package UNICEF supported 70 cholera treatment centres/ of Health Services (EPHS) includes child units, providing essential supplies and on-the-job immunization; reproductive, maternal and training for health workers in case management, neonatal health; nutrition packages; malaria prevention and community awareness. A total treatment, first aid and care of the critically of 42,771 AWD/cholera patients were treated ill and injured; and management of common in UNICEF-assisted cholera treatment facilities. illnesses and HIV through support to an In addition, essential AWD/cholera drugs and increasing number of facilities and communities. supplies for more than 40,000 patients were prepositioned in known high-risk outbreak areas The EPHS was rolled out in 47 districts in 10 in preparation for an expected resurgence of regions through 18 implementing partners. AWD/cholera in the coming months. Comprehensive obstetric care services were available in 11 hospitals, and 135 health centres Two rounds of oral cholera vaccination (OCV) offer basic obstetric care around the clock. A campaigns were conducted in Banadir, Belet quarter of the population – 3.4 million people – Weyne and Kismayo, reaching 453,920 had access to EPHS services. people. And 866,357 people were reached with AWD/cholera information, education and Infant deliveries in institutions increased from communication materials. More than 23,000 over 77,000 in 2014 to nearly 130,000 in 2016 suspected cases of measles were reported and over 193,476 in 2017 in 135 obstetric in 2017, representing more than a six-fold and newborn care facilities. Almost 30 per cent increase compared to 2016, with 84 per cent of babies were born in a facility. The number of these children under ten years of age. Most of infants who received their first pentavalent measles cases came from Banadir, Togdheer, vaccine – a combination of five vaccines in one Mudug, Lower Shabelle, Bari and Bay regions. against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping In response, UNICEF vaccinated over 602,000 cough), hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza children aged 6-59 months in 35 hotspots. type B – increased to over 416,898.

Overall, while there has been some progress UNICEF supported a large proportion of primary made in reducing under-five mortality in Somalia, health care services, including the provision of the rate of annual reduction (0.4 per cent) has incentives, essential medicines and supplies, been low and insufficient to achieve the target of vaccines, cold chain and other equipment. the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One UNICEF also supported the introduction of the out of every eight Somali children dies before his district health management information system

9 10 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 © UNICEFSomalia/HornConnect reported inthesouthandcentralregions of malariacases(around60percent)were Puntland arenowbelow1percent.Themajority management. PrevalenceratesinSomalilandand health workersweretrainedinmalariacase people weretreatedformalariaandover600 insecticide-treated bednets.Over32,800 distributed over2.4millionlong-lasting, and Malaria.In2017,themalariaprogramme from theGlobalFundtofightAIDS,Tuberculosis recipient ofHIVandmalariagrantsforSomalia Since 2002,UNICEFhasbeentheprincipal under-five withoralpoliovaccine. regions, targetingover700,000children vaccination campaignsinthesouthandcentral samplings inBanadirregionledtomass derived poliovirusfromtwoenvironmental August 2014,theisolationofcirculatingvaccine- Although Somaliahasbeenpoliofreesince and HealthPosts. System toolsforMotherandChildHealthclinics to improveHealthManagementInformation

national andregionallevels. Group andhealthcoordinationmechanismsatthe Development PlanthroughthePillarWorking work, includingprogressontheNational authorities andsupportedpolicystrategic strengthened thecapacityofhealth States withpartnersandotherUNagencies the FederalMinistryofHealth,Member UNICEF, theFederalGovernmentofSomalia, after ayear. the survivalrateofpeopleonARTis80percent are currentlyonantiretroviraltherapy(ART)and patients hasbeenscaledup.Over2,640people HIV amongpregnantwomenandtuberculosis overall incidenceof0.24percent.Testingfor per centinsouthandcentralregions,withan Somaliland, 0.29percentinPuntlandand0.07 infections wasrecordedat0.48percentin women andpatientswithsexuallytransmitted Report, HIVprevalenceamongpregnant Based onthe2016HIVSentinelSurveillance Nutrition

Situation

1.2 million children suffered from acute malnutrition

17.4% prevalence of acute malnutrition, exceeding WHO emergency threshold of 15%

1 in 6 children aged 6 to 23 months ate fewer than the recommended four food groups/ day

65% of those in acute/emergency food insecurity are IDPs

Progress

271,000 children given lifesaving nutrition treatment for severe acute malnutrition at 800 therapeutic sites and 62 nutrition stabilization centres

320,031 children aged given two doses of vitamin A supplement

285,171 children aged 12-59 months de-wormed

592,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women given multiple micronutrient supplements © UNICEF Somalia/Sebastian Rich

11 12 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 weighed in a plastic bucket hung from the scales. weighed ina plastic buckethungfrom thescales. internally displaced.Ten-month-old Bintiisbeing country areinthesurrounding campsfor the Some ofthe highestlevelsofmalnutritioninthe families whentheirchildren aredischarged. World FoodProgrammealsoprovidessuppliesfor settlements forthedisplacedaroundBaidoa.The NGO runsthreeothermobileclinicscovering15 as ready-to-usetherapeuticfoodorRUTF).The supply oftherapeuticpeanutpaste(alsoknown any necessarymedicationandvaccinationsa measured andweighed,givenahealthcheck children intotheprogramme.Theare malnutrition. Thismorningtheyadmitted15 are currentlybeingtreatedforlife-threatening with UNICEFsupport,saysover160children coordinator ofthelocalNGOthatrunscentre Abdirahim MoalimMohamed,programme getting muchbetter.” without helpsowecamehere.Nowtheyare worried Ididn’tthinktheywouldbecomehealthy have thesesachetsforthechildren.Iwasso for theirthirdappointment.“Otherwisewejust maize,” saidBuley,whoisherewithherchildren ourselves ortosell.Thechildrenarejusteating “We didn’thaveanyharvestatallthisyearfor away aftertheybegantolookweakandlistless. the childrenherefromtheirvillage20kilometres hide betweenhismother’slegs.Shebrought walks aroundwhiletwo-year-oldAdamtriesto independent four-year-old,Faylow,confidently Mursal perchesonthelowconcretebench.Her Squashed betweenothermothers,BuleyAli peanut paste. cups ofwaterorchewonsachetstherapeutic strapped ontheirbacks,whiletoddlersplaywith worried motherssitquietlyonmats,babies Baidoa towninsouthernSomalia.Inthecentre, a modestnutritioncentreinthemiddleofdusty Hundreds ofchildren’sliveshavebeensavedby of thefamine A lifesaving centreattheepicentre hospital. to theinpatientStabilizationCentreatnearby Anisa’s conditionmeantshewouldbereferred weak aftergettingmeasles.Thedoctorsaid kilogrammes. Hawadsaidthelittlegirlbecame she canevenwalk.Sheweighsjustoversix by hermotherHawadanddoesn’tlooklike Anisa isthreeyearsoldbutbeingcarried the sameway.” children aroundourcampwhoaresufferingin the pastmonth,”saidHabiba.“Therearemany here andnowherhealthhasimprovedover “I sawBintiwaslookingveryweaksowecame trucks andshefetchesfirewood.Foodisscarce. husband makesasmallamountofmoneyloading crops, sowehadtomove,”saidHabiba.Her “All ourgoatsandcowsdiedsodidthe makeshift settlementfromtheirvillageamonthago. Her mother,Habiba,andfivesiblingsmovedtoa Adan AliMursal,accompaniedbyhismother, BuleyAli,isscreenedfor severe acutemalnutrition.Baidoa,Bay Region. © UNICEFSomalia/Athanas Makundi Nutrition Achievements 2017 High-impact curative services

Based on early warning signs, the nutrition UNICEF and partners continued to support the programme rolled out a 45-day emergency utilization of high-impact curative, promotional response scale-up plan targeting the most and promotive services along the continuum of vulnerable and socially marginalized populations. care. More than 320,000 children aged 6-59 To fast-track the response, existing partnerships months each received two doses of vitamin A provided a platform for rapid programme supplements through routine service provision, expansion, increasing outpatient therapeutic and 285,171 children aged 12-59 months were programme (OTP) sites from 578 in February to de-wormed. Multiple micronutrient supplements over 800. to prevent and treat anaemia were delivered to 591,572 pregnant or breastfeeding women, and UNICEF worked with the WFP to develop a joint 245,914 received iron folate. situation analysis and integrate moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition Over 283,373 pregnant or breastfeeding women (SAM) treatments. In the absence of a partner received at least one counselling session on with adequate capacity, UNICEF Somalia triggered individual infant and young child feeding (IYCF), the direct implementation of services for IDPs while 99,265 children delivered in health in Dolow in the south, enrolling 782 children facilities were put to the breast within the first with SAM. In 2017, 271,000 children received hour of birth. UNICEF completed the adaptation lifesaving services and 93 per cent recovered. of the generic IYCF materials to the Somali Monthly results and field monitoring allowed for context. Subsequently, certified IYCF trainers quick programme adjustment as required. The gave cascade training to 386 community health August 2017 report of the Food Security and workers and facility health workers who deliver Nutrition Analysis Unit showed the mortality rate IYCF services at the community and facility level. among children under five years of age remained below the emergency threshold, which indicates Breastfeeding policy that the lifesaving response was effective. The policy environment for implementing the Code UNICEF’s nutrition programme supply-chain of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes continued management delivered timely, quarterly supply to be strengthened. The code was drafted and the planning and distribution. SAM treatment centres interim breastfeeding policy was signed by the received sufficient nutrition supplies, with over federal Ministry of Health and states. 98 per cent of facilities showing no stock-out of ready-to-use therapeutic food. Scaling-Up Nutrition

Bottleneck analysis UNICEF played a leading role in providing both technical and financial support to facilitate UNICEF, with the Ministry of Health, the nutrition the government’s political commitment to the cluster and the WFP, completed the integrated global Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) movement. In management of acute malnutrition (IMAM) October 2017, the vice-president of Somaliland Bottleneck Analysis (BNA) to improve effective announced that Somaliland had become a coverage of MAM and SAM management. member of the SUN. In parallel, Somalia’s SUN BNA results showed that while the geographic secretariat finalized the nutrition chapter of the coverage of services was satisfactory (over 70 new National Development Plan (NDP), with a per cent), only 60 per cent of service providers focus on multi-sectoral approaches to address are trained on SAM management. the nutritional needs of children and women.

13 14 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 © UNICEFSomalia/Jamal (WASH) Water, SanitationandHygiene Abdi Sarman temporary safewater including IDPs,givenaccess to cholera-affected areas, 1.8 million services access improvedsanitation 298,264 peoplehelpedto sustained accesstosafewater 830,213 peoplegiven water treatment good hygieneandhousehold with themeanstopractice 1.38 million Progress Situation one time suffer fromdiarrhoeaatany 24% practise opendefecation 50% water. 53% access tosanitationfacilities. 34% services water, sanitationandhygiene 4.4 million haveaccesstosafe ofthepopulationhas of childrenunderfive of peopleinruralareas peopleindrought/ people needed people provided A village taps into clean water completion of this pipeline will have huge health benefits.” Seventy-four-year-old Mariam Omar Farah couldn’t hide her excitement when she heard her The local rain-fed water pan is about a kilometre town in western Somaliland would, for the first from the town, but the water is contaminated time, receive piped, clean water. Mariam lives by human and animal faeces and has caused in a shack with eight family members, including disease outbreaks. During the dry season the grandchildren, 100 metres from the main water dries up and people and water vendors reservoir tank of the new project. must travel to a seasonal river 15 kilometres away. The good quality water being distributed When she was told, she immediately sat up and in Wajaale is pumped from a borehole at a village said: “This is one of the best pieces of news I 24 kilometres away. While those living far from have ever had. I have lived in Wajaale for my kiosks will continue to rely on water sellers, the whole life and I have struggled to get water just price of water is expected to drop sharply. like those before me.” The water company is called Caafi, a Somali word Mariam is among some 40,000 people in Wajaale meaning “good health.” Shares in the company who will benefit from a water service project can be purchased by the private sector and it is developed through a public/private partnership expected to reinvest some of the profits from funded by the European Union and UNICEF. the expansion of the water supply, install the Wajaale was selected as one of four towns in distribution network, construct its own offices and Somaliland for the project. A UNICEF survey support the Water Users’ Association. found that just over half the households in Somaliland had access to safe drinking water.

“For so long this expanding town lacked clean piped water,” said the mayor of Wajaale, Hashi Mohamud Abdi. “We had previously made plans to get water here but it never happened. When I was a child in the 1960s I heard my parents and older people always talking and dreaming of getting clean water here. Today we succeeded and our dream came true.”

For the next two months, residents will draw water from the main tank. Meanwhile, pipes are being laid to public kiosks with taps where the public will be charged for each jerrycan. For those who can afford it, water will be piped to private homes that will be fitted with water meters.

Mahboob Ahmed Bajwa, UNICEF’s chief of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), said the piped water would have great benefits for the town. “With the drought, there has been a huge increase in people suffering from waterborne Wajaale town is now connected to a borehole in Bator some 20 kilometres away diseases in Somaliland,” he said. “The successful © UNICEF Somalia/ Jamal Abdi Sarman

15 16 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 ODF status. Despite thespreadofAWD/cholera outcomes wereobserved incommunitieswith In GabileyregionofSomaliland, significanthealth communities wereverified andcertifiedasODF. open-defecation-free (ODF) statuswhile37 the program,45attained self-declared, and hygiene.Overall98communitiesjoined prioritized accesstowateroversanitation open-defecation-free Somaliaascommunities to aslowingdownofthemomentumforan the nationallevel.However,droughtled per centinruralareasandat39 Open defecationratesinSomaliastandat60 Buuhoodle. Marka, Bossaso,Garowe,Burco,Gaalkacyoand over 162,000IDPsinDoolow,Luuq,Baidoa, towns hostingthenewlydisplaced,serving UNICEF providedWASHservicesinmultiple and sanitationmessagesthroughthemedia. door campaignsanddisseminationofhygiene supported hygienepromotionthroughdoor-to- reaching 1,381,596people.UNICEFalso promotion inhotspotstocontaintheoutbreak water treatmentandsupply,aswellhygiene UNICEF scaledupitsinterventions,including In responsetotheAWD/choleraoutbreak, treatment facilities,benefiting298,882people. or de-sludgedlatrinesinIDPsitesandcholera reaching 830,213people.UNICEFconstructed rehabilitation of154sustainablewatersources, UNICEF alsosupportedtheconstructionor for operatingandmaintainingwatersources. source disinfection/chlorinationandsupport access tosafewaterwithtrucks, 1.8 millionpeopletogivethemtemporary health. UNICEFprovidedvoucherstoover IDP settlements–allthreateningchildren’s facilities andhygienepractices,especiallyin to safedrinkingwater,adequatesanitation The severedroughtcausedadeclineinaccess sanitation access tocleanwaterandproper Achievements inproviding benefiting 53,000 people. cholera treatmentcentres andnutritioncentres, children and150healthfacilities, including supply systems in 73schools, benefitting 26,000 UNICEF constructedand rehabilitated water carbon footprint. and tosomeextenthavehelpedreducetheir operating andmaintainingthesupplysystems These helpedtominimizethehighcostof and seveneachinSomalilandPuntland. systems –26inthecentralandsouthernregions installation of40solar-poweredwatersupply In 2017,UNICEFSomaliasupportedthe dry periods. store seasonallyavailablewaterforuseduring livestock. Thesestructuresarecurrentlyusedto to meetdrinkingwaterneedsandtheof equipped withsolarpumps,waterisextracted water belowgroundlevel.Throughshallowwells flow ofgroundwaterinseasonalrivers,storing obstruct theflowofsurfacerunoffand rainwater harvesting.Thesewaterstructures of sub-surfacedamsinthenorthaswell UNICEF Somaliasupportedtheconstruction responses. by empoweringcommunitiestoleademergency enhanced community-levelcopingmechanisms from themostvulnerablecommunities.This results anddirectlysupported94,129students piloted emergencycashgrantstoachievethese managed schoolfeeding.UNICEFSomalia WASH, hygienepromotionandcommunity- delivery platformtoprovidesafedrinkingwater, Schools wereusedasanintegratedservice- or rehabilitationofcommunitywaterpoints. to sustainedsafewaterthroughthedevelopment estimated 1.96millionpeoplehavegainedaccess Since 2011,withsupportfromUNICEF,an ODF status. members linkedthelackofAWDcaseswiththeir in ODFvillagesGabileyregion.Community cases, therewerenoreportedcasesofAWD © UNICEF Somalia/Athanas Makundi

17 18 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 © UNICEFSomalia/HornConnect and only 32% of school 4.9 million 3 million Situation vocational andlifeskillstraining youth (62%girls)completed 1,540 at-risk,out-of-school trained andreceivedincentives 3,419 teachers(16%women) Child Clubsempowered Committees and529Child-to- 503 CommunityEducation Education Centres had accesstoAlternativeBasic 52,344 children(46%girls) education support in crisisreceivedemergency 118,514 children(46%girls) formal primaryeducationin2017 were enrolledinformalandnon- 65,786 morechildren(45%girls) Progress are literate 25% by grade5 50% Education ofwomenaged15to24 of childrenareinschool of schoolchildrendropout children,outof 44% , estimatedtobeout of themaregirls

Child-to-Child club brings hope for One of the biggest tasks for Mohamed and his club members was to spread awareness of a better future to out-of-school education and encourage more children to join children their school.

Mohamed Ali Sheikh, 11, is one of the 200 “We reach out to the camp’s children, inform students enrolled at Aflah School in a camp them about our school. We tell them how for the displaced persons on the outskirts of important it is to be a student, to carry books Mogadishu. and pens,” explains Mohamed about his job.

“I arrived here a year ago with my family,” says Since the start of the awareness campaign three Mohamed. “We escaped from our remote village months ago, Mohamed and his fellow students because we had nothing left to eat. There was have managed to convince nine children to be also constant fighting between AMISOM and Al enrolled as fulltime students. Shabaab. So my parents decided to leave.” “At first, we ask the children to visit our school Once arrived in the KM 13 area of Mogadishu, and see what’s going on there. Next day, we Mohamed’s family settled in a camp and the would find them standing there, ready to join us. children were enrolled in the camp school. That’s how we do it,” he says. “Our message is Mohamed’s leadership skills were soon recognized very simple: ‘please join our school, it is free’. by his schoolmates and teachers, and he was For each child joining us, it’s a big victory for elected to head the school’s Child-to-Child club. us.”

From time to time, Mohamed and his team encounter refusals. “Some parents can be difficult - they prefer their children to stay home, work and earn money to help with the family,” says Mohamed. When this happens he uses his own experience to try to convince the parents.

“Where I came from, there were no schools. Boys like me herd goats every day, that’s the most important job for us,” says Mohamed. “But now, things are different. I am in school and learning. I can afford to have a dream.”

Mohamed’s dream is to become a teacher one day so that he can help other children, including those from his home village, to also realize their dreams.

With the help of children like Mohamed and his Child-to-Child club members, UNICEF and partners will continue to reach more children with education, especially those affected by the Mohamed speaks to his classmates as the head of the Child-to-Child club in ongoing drought and conflict. his school. KM 13 area, Mogadishu. © UNICEF Somalia/HornConnect

19 20 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 education servicesandhumanitarian assistance. to beunderservedorneglected byformal by conflict,displacement ordroughtandcontinue Currently closeto2million childrenareaffected per centfromtherichestquintile. are enrolledineducation,comparedtonearly60 from thepoorestquintile(includingurbanpoor) for IDPchildren.Only23percentofchildren children under4percentand17 the grossenrolmentratiorateforpastoralist excluded. Educationalinequitiesarestark,with provision, particularlyforthemostsocially quality teachingandlearningweakservice 5, illustratethechallengesstemmingfromlow school level,exceeding50percentbyGrade by Grade4.Highattritionratesattheprimary learning competenciesforliteracyandnumeracy Less thanaquarterofchildrenachieveminimum than publicschools. of primaryageattendtraditionalQuranicSchools domestic financingforeducation.Morechildren weak quality-assurancesystemsandinsufficient infrastructure, shortagesoftrainedteachers, of money,geographicalaccess,inadequate school tendtostartatalaterageduelack Children inSomaliawhodoattendprimary caseload ofIDPs. fled tourbanareas,addingthealreadyhigh communities inareasthreatenedbyAlShabaab per centofenrolledchildrenoutschool.Many than 10percent.Thedroughtforcedaround9 nomadic communitiestheenrolmentrateisless only 18percentofchildrenareinschool,and of childrenareinschool.Inruralhouseholds primary school-agedchildren–only32percent one oftheworld’slowestenrolmentratesfor benefits ofastablechildhood.Somaliahas opportunity forformaleducationandother generation ofSomalichildrenhavelostthe After morethantwodecadesofconflict,a Current Situation Somalia. emergency andnon-emergency settingsacross children couldaccesslearning opportunitiesin incentives toremaininschool andensure pedagogy and psycho-social support and received cent female)weretrainedonlearner-centred of Somalia.Over3,400teachers(25per for Somalilandandthefederalgovernment Education SectorStrategicPlans(ESSPs) UNICEF alsosupportedthecompletionof Basic EducationCentres. pastoralist communitieswhoattendedAlternative school childrenandadolescentsfromrural education servicesincludedsome52,000out-of- Those accessingformalandnon-formal education andenrolmentcampaigns. Child Clubswereempoweredtoadvocatefor (CEC) weresupportedand374Child-to- Over 503CommunityEducationCommittees environments. people wereabletolearninsafeandprotected in thecountryduring2017,ensuringthatyoung over 65percentofalleducationclusterresults localizing humanitarianassistance,accountedfor materials. UNICEF,throughitsstrategyof of emergencyandweresupportedwithlearning than 118,000accessededucationincontexts learning materials(includingtextbooks).More pathways and over 54,000 received teaching and in formalandnon-formalprimaryeducation adolescents (46percentgirls)wereenrolled In 2017,anadditional65,786childrenand Achievements in2017 parents fromenrollingtheirdaughtersinschool. norms thatfavourtheeducationofboysinhibit of femaleteachers,safetyconcernsandsocial availability ofsanitationfacilitiesforgirls,lack are onlyslightlybetterforboysoverall.Thelow to 24areliterate.Participationandliteracyrates school, andonly25percentofwomenaged15 Fewer than50percentofgirlsattendprimary Child Protection

Situation

4,160 children affected by grave violations

Over 76% of survivors of recorded gender-based violence are IDPs

1,585 children recruited by armed groups – 95% in Southern and Central Somalia, mainly by Al-Shabaab

Progress

89,334 people accessed protection services

4,633 children and women who either experienced or were at risk of sexual violence received support

1,234 children (including 241 girls) formerly associated with armed forces/groups supported © UNICEF Somalia/Sebastian Rich

21 22 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 process totryuniteherwithfamily,she in. WhilethestaffatSEDHUROstartedatracing and providedwithcounsellingtohelphersettle Sabiriin arrivedshewasimmediatelyregistered local partner,SEDHURObybystanders.When She wasbroughttotheshelterrunbyaUNICEF town beforeKismayo,shedisappeared.” me. Butassoonwegotoffthetruckin promised myparentsthatshewouldlookafter shyness, speaksinaclearvoice.“Arelative to work,”saysSabiriin,9,who,despiteher “I wassentbymyparentstocomeKismayo mother anddaughter. convinced thatSahroandyoungSabiriinare that theybothhappentobewearingleaveone and thecolour-coordinatedpurpleheadscarfs The brightsmilesthatcouldlightuparoom A homeaway fromhome Foster motherSahroIsmailMusa andSabiriinJamaWarsame, © UNICEFSomalia/Sebastian Rich 9. Kismayo,LowerJubaRegion. affected bytheongoingdrought. to monitorherasvillageisamongthose with hermother.However,theywillcontinue family, thestaffatshelterreunitedSibiriin Nine monthsafterbeingseparatedfromher of themgirls. supported withmedicalandlegalservices,athird survivors ofgender-basedviolencewerealso and supportservicesin2017.Around4,600 children (1,693girls)withfamilytracing,care supported 4,275separatedandunaccompanied With anetworkofNGOpartners,UNICEF UNICEF chiefofchildprotection. population displacement,”saysJeanLokenga, to violence,abuseandexploitationduring protection work,astheyarethemostvulnerable children isonekeyelementofUNICEF’schild “Supporting unaccompaniedandseparated of violenceagainstchildren. receive trainingonchildcareandtheprevention monetary andmaterialincentives.Theyalso Foster motherslikeSahroaresupportedwith from thedayshewasbroughttomyhouse.” just likeanyofmyownchildren.Iwelcomedher her realmotheris,”saysSahro.“Forme,sheis “In myeyes,achildischild,nomatterwho foster mother,Sahro. was putinatemporaryhome,whereshemether Current situation 40 children, all boys, were handed over to a UNICEF partner in Garowe, Puntland, for access In 2017, the Country Task Force on Monitoring to interim care and rehabilitation services. and Reporting (CTFMR) documented 5,071 grave However, all the children carry sentences of at violations allegedly committed by armed groups/ least 10 years’ imprisonment for their association forces, of which 3,700 children (620 girls) were with Al-Shabaab. The effective reintegration victims of recruitment (42 per cent), abduction of children and their family reunification can (32 per cent) and killing and maiming (18 per only happen when the children are pardoned or cent). An Al-Shabaab forced-recruitment drive complete their sentences. in Bay contributed to increased IDP movement in September, including as many as 500 UNICEF Somalia, with the United Nations unaccompanied children fleeing conscription. Assistance Mission in Somalia, continues to play a pivotal role in leading advocacy efforts With the onset of drought in Somalia and in for children in armed conflict in line with response to the deteriorating safety and security the Human Rights Due Diligence Policy. The environment, UNICEF provided protection Country Taskforce on Monitoring and Reporting services to 89,334 people (19,092 boys, 20,951 Mechanism, co-chaired by UNICEF and UNSOM, girls, 18,490 men, and 30,801 women) by sent advocacy letters each quarter to the African scaling up existing development programmes and Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on human launching nine short-term emergency projects to rights violations, including child rights violations meet surging needs. allegedly committed by troops from AMISOM- contributing countries. The Monitoring and Some 4,633 survivors of gender-based violence Reporting Mechanism (MRM) on grave child- (GVB) – 1,504 girls, 193 boys, 2,727 women, rights violations was strengthened, resulting in 209 men – were provided with access to medical timely collection and reporting of information on assistance and psychosocial support. Another violations reported against children, affecting 4,275 separated and unaccompanied children 4,160 children (652 girls, 3,508 boys). (1,693 girls) received family tracing, care and support services; 1,234 children (241 girls) UNICEF Somalia launched a preparedness associated with armed forces/groups received project for children on the move in Puntland and reintegration support; and 79,192 people Somaliland, with an emphasis on action research, (15,324 boys, 17,513 girls, 18,281 men and case management and systems strengthening. 28,074 women) benefitted from messages aimed at preventing family separation and GBV. UNICEF Somalia organized a workshop in Addis Abba in October with Somali government Approximately 40 per cent of the children representatives from ministries in charge of affected by the Al Shabaab forced-recruitment justice and social affairs from Somaliland, drive received services, including medical and Puntland and Federal Government of Somalia psychosocial support. On the policy front, to discuss progress and challenges on access following advocacy from the CTFMR, the to justice for children and bottlenecks on birth Ministry of Defence signed a General Command registration. Government officials committed to Order on 21 August to prevent child recruitment strengthen access to justice and birth registration and other grave violations against children during in the 2018 annual workplan, in particular in the armed conflict. policy and legal framework.

Building on work in 2016 to secure the release of children associated with Al-Shabab in Puntland,

23 24 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 © UNICEFSomalia/Athanas Makundi Cross Sectoral Communications for Development services and improve communities’ capacity to plan, manage and monitor recurrent shocks in Building on work begun in 2016 in partnership 15 districts in Benadir and Gedo. It includes the with Africa’s Voices Foundation (AVF) and integration of community workers for treatment MediaINK, UNICEF broadcast interactive of MAM and SAM, with complementary WASH programmes on 27 radio stations, reaching an and health services, strong government capacity estimated 70 per cent of the population. Topics building and planning, and use of ONA/SCOPE included immunization, maternal and neonatal technology for beneficiary management and health, water, sanitation and hygiene, malaria, monitoring. UNICEF, WFP and FAO finalized an nutrition, HIV/AIDS, child marriage, girls’ access agreement known as Joint Resilience Action to to education and juvenile justice. Through an ensure that families are healthy, well-nourished innovative feedback and analysis process, and resilient by making food security and UNICEF Somalia received over 250,000 text nutrition the core building blocks of resilience and messages from around 52,000 people. Around focusing on the family and community. 43 per cent of the respondents were women, and most were 10 to 29 years old. Close to 20 Joint Programme on Local per cent of those reached were IDPs, 41 per cent Governance (JPLG) and were in areas with high cholera prevalence, and 65 per cent in areas with high GAM rates. AVF Decentralized Service Delivery produced several short analytical products giving insights on behaviours and key themes. UNICEF supported bottom-up planning exercises in 17 districts across Somaliland and Puntland, In addition, more than 2,600 radio and television which led to the articulation of District spots were broadcast across 10 radio and five Development Frameworks that set out each TV stations covering 2.5 million people and over district’s vision and development priorities for the 40 radio talk shows and dramas were aired. In next five years. In Puntland, almost 6,000 people addition, 17,000 posters, 15,000 flyers and attended the consultations, 60 per cent of whom 25,000 cholera guides reached approximately were women. 866,000 people in health facilities, schools and nutrition centres. In Somaliland, 273 regional and UNICEF supported the development of civic district social mobilizers supported community education resources and partnered with civil mobilization and house-to-house visits. society organizations to make community members aware of their civic rights and Training was given to 108 federal and regional responsibilities and prepare them for engagement medical officers, surveillance officers and with local authorities. Some 90,000 people, community mobilizers, and 496 hygiene trainers, including 2,000 school children, were reached who subsequently reached approximately 1 through civic education campaigns on radio and million people. Additional cascade training was television, and through theatre performances, given to 1,121 mobilizers and 280 religious school debates and social media. leaders. Ten district councils were assisted in carrying Resilience out their devolved service delivery functions through service delivery models (SDM). As a A new joint WFP and UNICEF resilience result, 61,000 students in 272 primary schools programme on combating malnutrition was and 43 health facility users benefitted from launched. The programme will provide access local government investments in infrastructure to quality basic nutrition, health and WASH extensions and maintenance, regular electricity

25 26 UNICEF SOMALIA ANNUAL REPORT 2017 VoA, Xinhua andTF1aswellSomali media. AFP, AP,theGuardian, NewYorkTimes, media visitswerearranged includingAlJazeera, UNICEF’s massiveresponse. Severalinternational on thedevastatingeffects ofthedroughtand Communication andadvocacy workfocued communications Public advocacyandexternal schools. and sanitationfacilitiesinhealthcentres emergency response,aswereimprovedwater management kitsweredeliveredthroughthe changing radioprogramme.Menstrualhygiene activities andparticipantsinaninteractive,norm- in preventionandcommunitymobilization including communitymemberswhoparticipated GBV-related preventionandresponseservices UNICEF supported82,492beneficiarieswith on GBVandfemalegenitalmutilation/cutting. focused interventions,suchasprogrammes UNICEF alsoengagesindistinctgender- data wasanimportantareaoffocusin2017. the collectionandreportingofsexdisaggregated states intermsofgenderequality.Supporting Somalia isrankedlastamongthe54African Gender equality households. and resiliencebuildingforvulnerableSomali protection iskeytoenablingpovertyreduction UNICEF, recognisingthatchild-sensitivesocial delivery ofsafetynets.Thisremainsapriorityfor developing astrongenablingenvironmentforthe protection policyandsystems,keyactivitiesfor federal governmentinthedevelopmentofsocial UNICEF continuedworkwithWFPsupportingthe Social Protection demonstrating ahighlevelofownership, the targetdistrictsnowcomefromlocalsources, security. Almost50percentofSDMfundsin and watersupply,improvedhygiene for theEducate-A-Child (EAC)project for of healthsystems.UNICEF awardedcontracts Development (BMZ)tosupport thestrengthening Federal MinistryforEconomic Cooperationand Infrastructure Projectfunded bytheGerman and alsolauncheda powered warehouseunitatacostof$300,000, and installatemperature-controlledsolar- worked withtheMinistryofHealthtoprocure In Puntland,theSupplyandLogisticsteam with governmentpartnersacrossallsectors. UNICEF Somaliaheldregularconsultations worth US$5,382,868forGAVI. and procurementservicesofgoods local procurementcomponentofUS$8,917,419 was estimatedatUS$70.8millionincludinga UNICEF Somalia’stotalprocurementsin2017 Supply management drafting process. coverage ofthelaunchChildRightsBill meeting inPuntlandforWorldChildren’sDayand a childtakeoverofPuntlandGovernment page. Eventsfocusedonchildrightsincluded English subtitlesandaCRCfocusedFacebook version withcartoons,fourdramavideos the RightsofChild,includingachild-friendly support workonimplementingtheConvention Advocacy materialwasproducedinSomalito UNICEF beingthemostrecognisedUNagency. by Communicationviamobilephonesshowed Hargeisa andaperceptionsurveycommissioned child rightstookplaceinMogadishu,Garoweand from IDPcamps.Threetrainingsforjournalistson various subjectsandsendingreportsonevictions continued withformerparticipantstweetingon Facebook. TheDigitalReportingInternsproject 30,000 followersonTwitterand110.000 times associalmediacontinuedtoexpandwith on watercollectionwasviewedover12million Daily Maverick.Aninnovativesocialmediavideo various outletsincludingtheHuffingtonPostand wide coveragealongwithblogsandreportsin Over 20pressreleaseswereissuedgenerating €23,499,682 Healthand the rehabilitation and construction of 43 UNICEF and Puntland authorities schools worth $881,232 and $781,560 in the Central and Southern regions and Somaliland open new solar-powered respectively. warehouse

UNICEF Somalia continued its collaboration with UNICEF and the Ministry of Health of Puntland key government partners. Activities conducted State opened a temperature-controlled included assessing logistics systems and their warehouse unit powered by solar energy to store environment and conducting Logistic System pharmaceuticals and nutrition supplies. The unit Assessment Tool assessments to identify issues was procured by UNICEF for the Ministry of and opportunities and from these a series Health to help strengthen the health supply chain of workshops and exchange activities were in Puntland. organized. Puntland’s Vice President, Abdihakim Haji Omar Amay, and UNICEF Representative, Steven Lauwerier, opened the facility – the first that UNICEF has used for the supply chain – with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by representatives from partner organizations and the local community.

The warehouse will be used to store temperature- sensitive nutrition supplies (such as therapeutic peanut paste) and pharmaceutical products previously stored in a warehouse that was not temperature controlled. It will be jointly managed by UNICEF and the Health Ministry and UNICEF will also support the installation of a Logistics Management Information System to record transactions and deliveries of the supplies.

“We are working together with the Puntland authorities to ensure essential supplies are always available through efficient practices, which leads to a reduction in costs, stock-outs and wastage and improved performance,” said Puntland’s Vice President, Abdihakim Haji Omar Amay (left), and UNICEF Mr Lauwerier. “We will continue to support the Representative Steven Lauwerier at the inauguration of the warehouse. Ministry to build more units like this, which will © UNICEF Somalia/Kun Li contribute to ensuring the health of children today and Puntland’s future tomorrow.”

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