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Interventions included the following: - Intervention 1: unconditional cash transfers. FAO plans to reach riverine, agro-pastoral, pastoral and
fishing households (HHs) within its Cash+ Programme. Of these, 30
percent of target households will be female- headed. These households
will receive unconditional cash transfers valued at 80 percent of the
food minimum
expenditure basket per month by region. Cash transfers are intended to improve
households' immediate access to food and other basic needs, thereby
preventing worse food outcomes, displacement, and allowing households
to participate in livelihood activities.
- Intervention 2: conditional cash transfers. The focus of this
intervention is to provide immediate access to cash to improve
household’s access to basic goods and services, while engaging them to
rehabilitate, or enhance critical community productive assets. Cash is
delivered through conditional cash transfers for households
participating in the cash-for-work scheme.
- Intervention 3: Transitional Cash
and Livelihood Programme . Under this intervention, FAO proposes
to target vulnerable, drought-affected rural and coastal households
in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) 3+ districts with medium-term cash support. The focus of this
intervention will be on building on the food security and livelihood
gains realized in the recent Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded emergency assistance
projects.
- Intervention 4: SWALIM (Somalia Water and Land Information Management) . In this project, SWALIM proposes
two main activities to inform drought management interventions in
Somalia. These activities are a follow-up of the annual national water
source survey conducted in February/March 2022: i) weekly monitoring of 300 selected strategic water sources across the
country to inform humanitarian and development actions by the
government, humanitarian and development actors, resource partners and
other stakeholders, and ii) expansion of existing groundwater
monitoring network by additional 15 stations (divers), targeting
boreholes for long term monitoring of productive aquifers against over
exploitation and effective management of the groundwater resources.
Both activities will include training of government staff to improve
their capacity to carry out water monitoring activities in the near
future.
- Intervention 5: desert locust (DL) control and surveillance.
Under this project, FAO shall continue to support Somalia Desert
Locust units to undertake required surveys in Somaliland, Puntland
and Galmudug, where DL remains a threat. FAO shall also conduct
trainings on DL early warning systems to both the government and
target communities in DL hotspots. In addition, FAO shall equip the
recently constructed DL centres in Hargeisa and Qardho, as well as the
transit storage area for chemicals at the Puntland Ministry of
Agriculture and Irrigation’s compound in Garowe.
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