DRC Protection assessment Report in IDP sites in Afder Zone October 2018 1 Contents 1. Introduction ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 2. Scope of the assessment -------------------------------------------------------------------------3 3. Objective of the assessment ---------------------------------------------------------------------4 3.1 General Objectives--------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 3.2 Specific Objectives------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------4 4. Composition of the Assessment team---------------------------------------------------------- -4 5. Ethical considerations -----------------------------------------------------------------------------5 6. Methodology and assessment tools---------------------------------------------------------------5 7. Major challenges during assessment-------------------------------------------------------------6 8. Key Findings----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 8.1 Bare 01 IDP site ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 8.2 Den Adine IDP site ----------------------------------------------------------------------------10 8.3 Weydkal IDP site ------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 8.4 Allana IDP site ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------12 8.5 Darso IDP site-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------14 8.6 Waldaye Gebare IDP site ---------------------------------------------------------------------16 8.7 Koraley IDP site --------------------------------------------------------------------------------18 9. Conclusions---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21 10. Recommendations: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------22 2 1. Introduction The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization, which has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC is currently implementing a range of activities across Ethiopia and Djibouti, including WASH and shelter provision, child and youth protection, gender-based violence prevention and response, awareness raising on migration risks, protection monitoring and livelihoods support for returning migrants or those at-risk of migration. People have been displaced due to conflict and drought in the Somali Region. According to DTM round 12, a total of 1,091,210 people has been displaced and living in 385 sites in Somali region. Among those sites, 168 sites are conflict-induced IDPs and 206 are due to periodic drought occurred in the region. Out of those 64,571 people have been displaced and living in 31 sites in Afder Zone. The reason of displacement for 26 of the sites was drought, for 3 sites seasonal flood and 2 sites conflict. The IDPs have lost most of their livestock and almost all their resources because of the drought. The IDPs in Afder and Liben Zone are underserved compared to the IDPs in Fafan Zone as DRC protection team has observed. To respond to the unmet humanitarian needs in Afder and Liben Zone, DRC has conducted a multi- sectoral assessment in 7 IDP sites in Afder Zone. The main purpose of this assessment was to identify the protection needs, risks and coping mechanisms that exist within the displaced community in Dollobay and Bare woreda. The findings from this assessment can serve as an important source for humanitarian actors that have or are planning to have interventions in the region. 2. Scope of the Assessment Afder Zone consists of ten woredas including Dollo Bay & Bare woredas. There are 9 IDP sites in Bare woreda. According to DTM 12, Weydkal, Bare 01kebele and Dana -Adine are the sites with the highest household numbers. The reason for the displacement is drought. In Dollobay woreda, there are only 4 IDP sites, Alan (3707), Darso (5930), Koraley (2240) and Waladaya Gabare (2855) 3 that have high population numbers and have received better humanitarian assistance compared to sites in Bare woreda. The current assessment covers seven (7) drought affected IDP sites in Bare & Dollo Bay Woredas, which are preselected for mobile protection EHF 2018 project. Table 1. Assessed IDP Sites S/n IDP Site Name Kebele Woreda Total HH Total individuals 1. O1 Kebele O1 Kebele Bare 412 2494 2. Weydkal Weydkal Bare 550 3300 3. Allan Allan Dollo Bay 603 3707 4. Darso Darso Dollo Bay 972 5930 5. Waldaye Gabare Waldaye Gabare Dollo Bay 457 2855 6. Koraley Koraley Dollo Bay 367 2240 7. Dana-Adin Dana-Adin Bare 325 1964 3. Objective of the Assessment 3.1 General Objective The general objective of this assessment is: 1. To identify the protection risks and needs of the community. 2. To collect baseline information for EHF 2018 funded project. The finding of the assessment is a determent to select areas of intervention for DRC and to design an appropriate response for the identified protection risks. 3.2 Specific objective 1. To assess the situation of IDPs and its prolonged impact on the life of the displaced people and the host community. 2. To assess the available services and needs for humanitarian assistance. 3. To identify protection risks and concerns, community coping mechanisms and existed networks. 4. To identify the most vulnerable groups of the community. 4. Composition of the assessment team The assessment was conducted between September 3-7, 2018. The assessment team comprised of DRC’s Protection Manager, Senior Protection Officer and 2 Protection Officers as well as the 4 Woreda women and children affairs officer and a representative from the Disaster preparedness and prevention bureau (DPPB). Table2. Name of participants Name Organization Title Solomon Tazeb DRC Protection Manager Mohamed Kalif DRC Senior Protection Officer Hafidha Mohamed DRC Protection Officer Hussein Noor DRC Protection Officer Noor Wali Bare Woreda DPPB Head of DPPB Fartun Abdullahi Farah Bare Woreda WOCAO WOCA Expert Abdirahman Arab Dollo Bay Woreda DPPB Head of DPPB Abdifatah Emi Dollo Bay Woreda DPPB DPPB Expert 5. Ethical Consideration DRC protection staff have conducted a preliminary discussion with Bare & Dollo Bay Woredas Administration Office, WOWCA and DPPO about the overview of the project and the objective of the assessment. As a result, all the duty bearers approved the mission to conduct an assessment in both Woredas and respective IDP sites. Informed consent: Information about the overall project, objective, outcomes and activities of the assessment has been provided to the participants. Ethical data collection: This assessment took into consideration the cultural and socio-political context of Afder zone. Confidentiality: To ensure confidentiality was assured, personal details of respondents are not going to be shared with other agencies. Voluntary participation: The participants were informed that participation in the assessment is voluntary, and that they could withdraw from the discussion at any time. On the same time, they were informed that have the right to refuse to answer a few or all questions. 6. Methodology and Assessment tools To get diverse information about the IDPs, DRC applied the purposive sampling technique. The number of participants, the role of some of the respondents, who should participate (diversity) and the sex of the participants were defined before the assessment. The data collection tools were: A. Semi structured interviews with women and girls. 5 B. Semi-structured interviews with men (Youth, persons with disability, Elders and other). C. Key Informant Interviews with local authorities or religious leaders or community representatives. D. Protection observation Table 3. Total number of participants for all assessment tools Assessment tool Total Total sessions Facilitator participant conducted Semi structured interview with 30 6 Hafida Mohamed IDP women and girls Semi structured interview with 29 6 Hussein Noor IDP men (youth, elders, persons with disability and others) KII (community representatives, 12 6 Mohamed Kalif religious leaders Protection observation - 6 (one for each site) Mohamed Kalif Total 71 7. Major Challenges encountered during the assessment: The road was very challenging to access most of the IDPs sites. There was no network access and light in Afder Zone. Most of IDPs were very discouraged, reflecting a sense of hopelessness and insecurity because of the government change. The IDP communities expressed their dissatisfaction about the constant assessments conducted coupled with limited attention and humanitarian assistance provided in the sites. Almost all the IDPs in Dena Adine moved to other IDP sites and Dollo (Somali) in search of better assistance. 6 8. Key Findings 8.1 Bare 01 Bare woreda is 105 KM far away from DRC’s office located in Dollo Ado. Bare 01 Kebele is an informal IDP site that has been established as a result of drought-displacement of people from the surrounding kebeles in 2017. According to DTM 12, there are 412 households and 2,277 individuals displaced in the site. Access to services: Food: The IDPs received Corn soya blend plus and benefited from Targeted supplementary Feeding programs (CSB and TSFP) once before. The government provided sorghum and edible oil the previous month before the visit and the amount of food was only enough for one month. The