Requesting Organization : Center for Peace and Democracy Allocation Type : Standard Allocation 1 (Jan 2017) Primary Cluster Sub Cluster Percentage Food Security Improved Food access: Blanket Household support-Food 100.00 100 Project Title : Emergency Food Assistance for the Drought Affected Populations in Hobyo and Xaradheere Districts, South Mudug Region Allocation Type Category : OPS Details Project Code : Fund Project Code : SOM-17/3485/SA1 2017/FSC/NGO/4570 Cluster : Project Budget in US$ : 326,210.90 Planned project duration : 6 months Priority: Planned Start Date : 01/04/2017 Planned End Date : 30/09/2017 Actual Start Date: 10/04/2017 Actual End Date: 10/10/2017 Project Summary : The proposed project targets to support 1,040 most vulnerable drought-affected households in Hobyo and Xaradheere districts with cash relief to enable them access immediate basic food items. The cash relief will be availed to the beneficiaries in two categories: A Safety Net for 750 households that shall receive Unconditional Cash through their mobiles for 3 consecutive months and 440 households to be provided with Conditional Cash transfer in a Cash-for-Work program for the rehabilitation/desilting of 10 communal water reservoirs for one month. The cash relief interventions are life-saving whose purpose is to help drought affected households to immediately access food so as to cushion them from the risks of succumbing to hunger. The most basic food items are available in the local markets of Hobyo and Xaradheere districts. CPD will ensure that at least 70% of the beneficiaries registered representing the affected households for the Conditional Cash Transfer Program will be women, while 70% of the Conditional Cash. Each of the 650 Safety Net beneficiaries will be receiving $ 84 per month for three consecutive months through the mobile phones; the cash transfer being facilitated by Hormuud Telecommunication Company which is the only telecommunication company with a mobile network coverage in the project area. From Hobyo district, 400 HHs to receive the Unconditional Cash will be registered after a vulnerability assessment carried in Hobyo Town, Xinlabi, Bacadwayn, Xin Barwaqo, Wisil and Qararow locations/settlements. From Xaradheere district, 200 Conditional Cash Beneficiaries will be registered at Camaara and Ceel-Huur locations/settlements. These 8 target located/settlements in Hobyo and Xaradheere districts for the Unconditional Cash Transfer Program have been identified by CPD because of the high number of drought-affected people who have been settling there since December 2016 after losing their livestock to the drought and are still coming in numbers as they seek refuge in these settlements. The 440 targeted households for the Conditional Cash Transfers (Cash-for-Work) will be paid after rehabilitating 10 Communal Water Reservoirs in Hobyo and Xaradheere districts that have been identifed by CPD. A total of 7 Communal Water Reservoirs (Qurac cawer, Saqira, Sisib, Xin Barwaqo, Shabelow, Suguule and Cascas) are targeted in Hobyo district while 3 Reservoirs (Yacgos,Galdhig and Wacanri) are in Xaradheere District. Out of the 40 Cash-for-Work Beneficiaries, 400 will be unskilled and 40 will be skilled/supervisors. In each of the 10 Communal Water Reservoirs, 44 Cfw labourers (40 unskilled and 4 skilled/supervisors) will be doing the rehabilitation. Each of the 400 Unskilled CfW labourers will be paid $ 5 per day ($ 150 for a month) after the rehabilitation while each of the 40 Skilled/Supervisors will be paid $ 7 per day($ 210). CPD will contract Hormmud Telecommunication Company to transfer the Conditional Cash to the 440 CfW labourers. CPD will procure the necessary tools (80 Axes, 80 Shovels and 40 Wheelbarrows) to be used by the CfW labourers to rehabilitate the Communal Water Reservoirs. Direct beneficiaries : Men Women Boys Girls Total 5,686 8,379 1,862 2,793 18,720 Other Beneficiaries : Beneficiary name Men Women Boys Girls Total Pastoralists 5,686 8,379 1,862 2,793 18,720 Page No : 1 of 12 Indirect Beneficiaries : N/A Catchment Population: N/A Link with allocation strategy : The proposed project fits with both the 2017 Humanitarian Response Objectives 1,2 & 4 and the Food Security Cluster’s specific Objectives 1 & 3. The project’s proposed intervention of providing Unconditional Cash and Conditional Cash to 1,040 most vulnerable drought affected Households in Hobyo and Xaradheere districts is in line with the Food Security Cluster’s objective 1 which is to “Improve household immediate access to food through provision of unconditional transfer depending on the severity of food insecurity as per IPC classification, vulnerability and seasonality of the livelihoods”. Moreover, the Unconditional and Conditional Cash Transfers to these 1040 drought affected Households that CPD is proposing fits with the 2017 Humanitarian Response Plan’s Strategic Objectives 1 and 2 (The First Strategic Objective of the Fund is to “Provide life-saving and life-sustaining integrated multisectoral assistance to reduce acute humanitarian needs among the most vulnerable people”. The Second Strategic Objective is to “Reduce acute malnutrition levels in settlements for internally displaced and host communities through integrated multi-sectoral emergency response.”) Therefore, the cash relief (both Unconditional and Conditional) that CPD is proposing is aimed at improving the targeted households’ immediate access to food in order to save lives and reduce the acute malnutrition levels in 18 targeted pastoralist settlements in Hobyo and Xaradheere districts. Sub-Grants to Implementing Partners : Partner Name Partner Type Budget in US$ Other funding secured for the same project (to date) : Other Funding Source Other Funding Amount Organization focal point : Name Title Email Phone Mohamed Yarrow Ali Executive Director [email protected] 0618137983 BACKGROUND 1. Humanitarian context analysis A Somalia Food Security Alert issued on 17th January by FSNAU stated that following a poor April to June 2016 Gu season and failed October to December 2016 Deyr season, food security has deteriorated significantly across Somalia, with an increasing number of people facing Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) acute food insecurity, and in need of emergency food assistance. It is feared that a failed or below average 2017 Gu’ rains could lead to a famine in Somalia. Already, a series of analyses conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicate that a dry 2017 Gu season is likely, though the severity of this dryness is unknown. Hobyo and Xaradheere districts are among the most affected areas by the drought in Central Somalia. The projected food security outcomes, February to May 2017 places the Addun Pastoral (Hobyo) and Coastal Dheeh (Xaradhere) areas in a CRISIS level (IPC 3) according to the FSNAU’s SOMALIA Food Security Outlook (OCT 2016- May 2017). This assertion is further reinforced by the findings of an Inter-Agency Assessment carried out in the entire Galmudug State between 18th and 27th December 2016. The assessment was led by the Galmudug State Government and OCHA. CPD was among the agencies that carried out this assessment. The key findings of assessment include: - An estimated 250,000 rural people comprising mainly of nomadic pastoralists and agro pastoralists are experiencing drought related stress in different ranges in parts of Galgaduud and Mudug regions. Some of the drought affected rural people have begun to migrate to urban areas where they perceive they may get humanitarian assistance. The livestock prices have dropped by 30 - 40 per cent due to reduced body weight following the drought, trade ban on animals imposed by Arab countries, animal disease outbreak, increased livestock supply in the market and low animal body weight which demotivates human consumption. Before and during this drought spell, Hobyo and Xaradheere districts have never been fully accessed by humanitarian agencies due to security fears from Al-Shabaab and pirates. Only ery few organizations, CPD being one, have had operations in these areas in the past few years. This limited accessibility coupled by frequent conflicts between warring clans of Sa’ad, Saleeban, Ceyr and Qubeys has aggravated the sufferings of the drought victims whose movement in search of water and pasture, and trade has been hampered by these conflicts. Al- Shabaab’s frequent confiscation of the nomad’s animals as forceful Zakat payment further deprives the pastoralists of their few animals that survive the drought. This forceful Zakat collection by Al-Shabaab has in many times caused conflicts between them and the pastoralists that caused deaths and injuries. Livestock is the main economic backbone for the communities living Hobyo and Xaradheere districts. The weak state of the drought hit animals, the recent fights between Galmudug State and Puntland over Galkaio territorial boundary, and the intra-clan conflicts in Galmudug State resulting to trade movement restrictions has all led to poor markets for the animals hence exerting pressure on the prices of basic food commodities. In Hobyo and Xaradheere districts, the food prices are spiraling and is close to what the prices were in the year 2011. CPD has observed that Xaradheere Town, Hobyo Town, Amara Location in Xaradheere District and Bahdo Location in Adado District are some of the areas that people who have been displaced by the drought are currently converging in the hope