AAH COUNTRY PROFILE

SOMALIA : AAH-I Operational Map Action Africa Help International (AAH-I) is a regional not- April 2014 for-profit humanitarian and development agency with Gulf of Aden Caluula

Bossaso headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and Country Programmes DJIBOUTI Zeylac (! Qandala

Laasqoray Bossaso SANAAG in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia. Lughaye Iskushuban AWDAL Berbera Baki (! Ceel Afweyn Berbera BARI (! Borama Iskushuban WOQOOYI Sheikh Ceerigaabo GALBEED Qardho AAH-I has over 20 years’ experience working with Gebiley Owdweyne Hargeysa (! Burco (! Qardho Bandarbeyla (! Hargeysa Caynabo communities in conflict and post-conflict situations and Xudun SOOL Taleex Bandarbeyla TOGDHEER has been in operation in Somalia since 1991. Buuhoodle Garoowe Laas Caanood NUGAAL Eyl Burtinle AAH Somalia projects target a variety of populations and cover the following areas: ETHIOPIA Jariiban Galdogob Gaalkacyo Livelihoods/Self-Reliance Project with refugees in

Cadaado Hobyo Cabudwaaq Hargeisa, Somaliland (Daami, Huisbigar, Statehouse Dhuusamarreeb and Hera-Awar Districts). Activities include: support to GALGADUUD

Xarardheere Ceel Barde Belet Weyne Ceel Buur development and strengthening of community structures

Rab Dhuure Xudur HIRAAN Luuq Ceel Dheer and groups; training to promote groups savings and loans; Doolow Bulo Burto KENYA Waajid Tayeeglow Adan Yabaal Belet Xaawo business and entrepreneurship training and support to Jalalaqsi Garbahaarey Baydhaba Cadale Jowhar Indian Ocean development of business plans; micro-enterprise grants Qansax Dheere Wanla Ceel Waaq Buur Hakaba Weyn Balcad BAY and monitoring and support to businesses. Initially Afgooye BANADIR Baardheere Diinsoor Qoryooley (! Mogadishu Marka primarily focused on Ethiopian refugees many of whom Kurtunwaarey Saakow Bu'aale Sablaale had stayed in Somaliland for 10 years or more, the project Baraawe

Afmadow Jilib has expanded activities to reach Yemeni refugees escaping Jamaame the conflict there.

Kismaayo AAH-I Project Sites Badhaadhe Logistics Support to UNHCR Somalia: AAH Somalia (! Current site (! Previous site manages two warehouses in Mogadishu for UNHCR

0 95 190 kms Map data source(s): ensuring effective management of UNHCR supplies such Map Symbol All Admin. layers: UNDP Somalia (1998) Areas of interventions: Action Africa Help International District boundary International boundary Map Reference: 140422_Resillience_Livelihood_Consortium_districts Disclaimers: as sleeping mats, cooking utensils, and even generators. Creation Date: 22/04/2014 The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever Somali disputed border Projection/Datum: Geographic/WGS 84 on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning Web Resources: http://www.unocha.org/somalia the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its River E-mail: [email protected] authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. These are picked up from the warehouse by other UNHCR Nominal Scale at A4 paper size: 1:6,250,000 implementing partners. The warehouse is managed according to UNHCR warehouse management standard AAH-I GOVERNANCE operating procedures. AAH Somalia is governed by the AAH-I International Board and registered with the Federal Government of Somalia and with the Somaliland government. AAH Somalia is managed from the country office in Mogadishu, and has an office in Hargeisa, Somaliland. AAH Somalia is committed to supporting the people of Somalia to develop their communities and regions and especially to assisting the reintegration and sustainable return of Somalia returnees from Kenya and other neighbouring countries. Our current focus areas include Food Security and Livelihoods, Health including WASH, and Civil Society Strengthening and Peace Building.

AAH Somalia Donors • UNHCR • Bread for the World • USAID • European Union

Total operational budget 2014/2015- USD 1,100,487

Somalia Country Program Manager: Christine Kalume | Tel: +252 616 681 071 | Email: [email protected] FAR REACHING EXPERIENCE IN MANAGING HUMANITARIAN Operations, LOGISTICS AND MULTI SECTORAL REFUGEE ACTIVITIES

AAH-I Somalia Projects Achievements

Project Title: Gedo Integrated Livelihood Project The Somalia County Programme recently launched a community Date: June 2015 to June 2018 rehabilitation project in Elwak District, a three year project focusing Donor/Client: Bread for The World on integrating WASH, food Security and livelihoods interventions Contract Value: 1.4 million Euros in El Wak District, Gedo region, South Central Somalia designed to Project Area: El Wak District, Gedo region, improve food security and reduce hunger. The project has received South Central, Somalia. initial funding from Bread for the World and is awaiting confirmation of longer-term funding through one of the initiatives of the German Government.

Project Title: Logistics In 2014, a total of 298,034 non-food items were dispatched to NGO Date: August 2013 to December 2015 partners. In 2015, warehouse management activities will focus Donor/Client: UNHCR on Mogadishu warehouses only. Critical actions in warehouse Contract Value: USD 624,649 management include storage (ensuring goods do not deteriorate in Project Area: Somalia – Mogadishu and Hargeisa the warehouse), safety management, repackaging, and dispatching and accountability measures.

Project Title: Livelihoods/Self reliance The project enhanced community self-management of beneficiaries Date: January to December 2014 by re-establishing functional legitimate leadership/management Donor/Client: UNHCR structures for 1,996 refugees and 6,821 asylum seekers. 50% of Contract Value: USD 163,785.70. active female participants in leadership/management structures Project Area: Hargeisa, Somaliland were trained and equipped with basic leadership,community mobilization and conflict resolution skills. A Market survey was conducted that informed programming for 2015 according to UNHCR Livelihoods framework 2014 – 2018. In 2015, the project will aim at expanding self reliance among refugees including Yemenis, asylum seekers and urban poor through supporting capacity building in group formation, business and entrepreneurship skills training, promotion of internal saving and loaning and provision of business seed grants.

Project Title: Consolidation and Strengthening of Health The project strengthened both supply- and demand-side aspects of Sector in Puntland and Central South Somalia the health system in Bari. Supply side issues included: strengthening Date: November 2007 to January 2010 management systems and procedures, implementation of the Donor/Client: European Commission Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS), implementation of the Managing Agent: COSV essential drug list, associated protocols and of the drug supply chain, Project Value: Euro 496,759 and adoption of a common Health Management Information System Project Area: Bari Region, Puntland (HMIS). Demand-side issues were designed to increase community awareness and ownership of health services especially for women, strengthen health seeking behaviour, increase willingness to pay for health care, and reduce the incidence of Female Genital Cutting/ Mutilation (FGC/M). The project also strengthened governance and coordination structures, in particular the Regional and District Health Board and Village Health Committees.

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Project Title: Support of the Health System Delivery in The main activity was rehabilitation of the 90-bed Bosasso Hospital — Somalia, Bosasso Hospital one of the two regional hospitals in Bari Region. Key areas addressed Date: February to November 2010 by the project included: the referral system, implementation of the Donor/Client: UNOPS Essential Package of Health Services, strengthening the Health Project Value: USD 177,646 Management Information System, a patient safety initiative, set Project Area: Bosasso District, Bari Region, Puntland State, up and management of a Human Resources for Health database, Somalia improving hospital waste management and the medicine procurement system.

Project Title: Solar cookers This project introduced solar cookers to the project communities; Date: 2006 to 2007 use of solar cookers reduces environmental degradation from Donor/Client: Aktion Afrika Hilfe Fordervereine.V (AAH.ev) deforestation. Solar cookers were also introduced in health Contract Value: Euro 2,000/ USD 2,742 institutions to sterilise medical equipment and in local households. Project Area: Gardo District, Bari Region, Puntland State, The project also encouraged tree planting as part of environmental Somalia. management.

Project Title: Integrated Basic Health Services This project, which operated through a period of insecurity and Date: May 2005 to April 2009 instability in Puntland, improved the health of the local population Donor/Client: European Commission /UNICEF through strengthening local human resources for health. The project Project Value: Euro 1,287,500 (USD 1,758,982) trained Community Health Workers, Village Health Committees, and Project Area: Gardo, Ishkushuban, and Bender Beyla District Health Boards, Maternal and Child Health (MCH) workers and Districts, Bari Region, Puntland State, Somalia laboratory technicians. This was followed by on-the-job training for Community Health Workers to enable them to manage common diseases

OUR IMPACT IN 2014

In 2014, AAH Somalia created impact in four programme areas:

34, 861 households 2 weighing supplied with NFI kits in 4 warehouses scales installed Mogadishu maintained in Mogadishu

Establishment of an 4,523 asylum seekers inclusive leadership to received items in Hargeisa 8092 POCs

Capacity building to 2041 refugees on conflict 1643 dignity kits for resolution and leadership women in Mogadishu

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