Benadir Regional Food Security Cluster Meeting Minutes

Venue: NRC Conference Room- Office

Time/Date: 23th – February, 2016

Agenda:

1. Introductions 2. Review and agreement of previous minutes 3. Review/follow-up actions from previous meeting 4. Access constraints 5. Presentation of district level information by response objective, activity and planned versus actual 6. Presentation on Recent Fire in Rajo IDP Camp (DRC) 7. Review of gaps per district and Response Discussion 8. Monitoring of IDPs movement patterns 9. AOB

1. Introductions The Banadir regional FSC meeting was held in Mogadishu on 23th- February, 2016, at NRC Mogadishu Office. The meeting was started at 9:20AM. The VC has welcomed the members and thanked for the sacrifice of their precious time to come and participate.

This month, the agenda of the meeting was quite long, but participants managed to focus on key points during the discussion, a round table introduction was started among the participants.

2. Review and agreement of previous minutes The minutes of the last meeting in January was reviewed and agreed as true records. The pending issues’ including engaging government authorities in the cluster meetings has postponed until the VC and FSC secretariat will jointly conduct an induction session to the concerned government authorities..

AP Description Responsible Status Follow Up (Pending/Completed) 1 FSC Planning to have an Banadir FSC/ Still pending Hassan/FSC CO induction meeting with the Nairobi concerned Gov authorities in Colleagues 1st Quarter of 2016.

3. Access constraints The access in Banadir is good and the security situation is relatively calm. However incidents, attacks and explosions are taking place sometimes unpredictably in Mogadishu.

 Claims on district a boarder among Daynile vs. Hodan and Dharkeynley vs. Kaxda on the other side is still challenging the programs, it is not directly affecting to the entire process but at the entry points. P a g e 1 | 4

150401_FSC_SOM_SECRETARIAT_MEETING_MINUTES Action Point: Proper communication to the respective districts and clearance before activities are implemented has been considered an essential to address this issue.

4. Presentation of district level information by response objective, activity and planned Versus Actual A number of FSC partners in Banadir have reached a needy IDPs and host communities in Banadir during the month of December & January.

. IOM: Supported 852HHs on Cash for Work Activities- CFW each has received $130, additionally there was 300HHs supported on small scale start- up grant on $ 800 for each HH.

. DRC, Supported 525HHs for CFW in Wedow area, both Daynile and Dharkeynley, each was given $180, while 53HHs-UCT in the same area was given $70.

. HCDO: Supported 300HHs in for food voucher, each was given 25kg-Sugar, 25kg- Rice, 25kg-flour, 3 litters of oil, 25 kg of maize, 50g of milk powder.

. SCI Targeted 300HHs for UCTs at Sarkuusta in and this was a response in some settlements where the nutrition cluster has reported an increment of malnutrition cases in the last month. SCI Also targeted 430HHs for food voucher, and 150HHs will undertake skill training on TVET program for duration of 6 months

. Concern World Wide, Reached 2,383HHs in Km-13 for UCTs transfer as monthly CTs, each received $ 86. Beneficiaries have received an extension for three months.

. WARDI, distributed food baskets over 2,500HHs in Dharkeynley, the basket contained ( 25kg-Rice 25kg flour, 15kg-sugar, 8 kg beans, 3 litters, 100 gram salts and tea leaves).

. OSPAD: Reached over 2140 recipient in Hodan WET centre and 2065 recipient in H/wadag wet feeding centre, registration on voucher based program is also underway.

. SOS: Targeting 1,000HHs in Hilwaa district for food for Peace program funded by OFDA, this will be a voucher value based for $ 50 of each HHs. it is a new cycle of subsequent projects that were running.

. Care International; reached 1,320HHs for Cash for Work Activities and Unconditional Cash Transfer in Daynile, Hodan and Wadajir each received $ 90 under CFW- 900HHs, while UCT- 420HHs @ $ 60.

. Gurmad: Conducted registration on 120 trainees, of which will start soon the life skill trainings.

. Mercy Crops Supported 900HHs for UCTs over 6 months in the corridor and Wedow area, each has received $ 65. Also CFW activities for 180HHs, it was intensifying both skilled rates of $14 per each and unskilled rate of $ 8 per each, additionally Mercy Crops engaged tailoring training over 32 female HHs undertaking 6 weeks training and were given start-up grant including the standard kit and SSB grant.

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150401_FSC_SOM_SECRETARIAT_MEETING_MINUTES . KAASHIF supported 45580 recipients in a WET feeding program in Dharkeynley and Karan. Additionally KAASHIF is targeting 321HHs selected from the respective WET feeding centre under KAASHIF and will receive Top up value as voucher.

. A number of actors were new this month and we are honour to have them on board with active programs that will roll out soon, I take this opportunity to welcome CESSVI, HCDO and Aid Vision to the cluster.

5. Presentation on Recent Fire in Rajo IDP Camp (DRC) ,

There was a fire on 11- February, 2016 in Rajo IDP Camp in , according to the DRC team who went there for quick assessment with OCHA and district authorities, the fire has affected 50HHs where by 3 Individuals has died, two of them from the same family, 4 serious injuries. Shelter and other belongs of the 50HHs were demolished, with the help of UNHCR, DRC has distributed, NFIs and Shelter kit, where registrations of UCTs program has been carried out by DRC staff, (DRC/ OCHA. Situational assessment on 11th –Feb, 2016 in Rajo), it was with great honour for all us on to have Abdullahi from DRC in our meeting who was part of the assessment team and shared with us a presentation of the findings.

6. Review of gaps per district and Response Discussion Banadir FSC members discussed on exiting gaps and response levels as per district. Different gaps have been identified in the many of the cluster operation areas in the region, these including:

 Limited humanities interventions in the districts, due to shrinking funds and donor fatigue in responding of immediate food access related interventions.

 Limited livelihood opportunities for the protracted populations in the region, due to the limited support and investment of productive and sustainable sources of income for those who has been in Mogadishu over years starting from 2011 crises.

 Lack of economic opportunities in Mogadishu, high un-employment rates and relive inflation which devaluated the Somali shilling.

 Even though the resources are limited, but again the coordination among the FSC members is considered an important issue to reach more beneficiaries with available resources.

AP Description Person Responsible 1 To figure out the specific gaps on the ground the VC will Banadir FSC, Partners & NBI draft TOR on share with the partners/ secretariat to secretariat conduct a holist technical FSC assessment for Banadir

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150401_FSC_SOM_SECRETARIAT_MEETING_MINUTES 7. Monitoring of IDPs movement patterns There is a continues IPDs movement patterns in Banadir due to unsecure lands tenures of which IDPs are living, evictions are happening on those who live in public and private land, to secure information sharing among FSC partners the members released to share a stand by committee and will be in charge to conduct assessments and being in touch with other cluster focal points, while the VC will coordinate on this process, the team will be called for a meeting to discuss further.

8. Any Other Business

The meeting was adjourned at 11:00AM.

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