Resilience is an important lens through which viewing humanitarian and development work in situations of recurrent shocks and crisis. It highlights the importance of improving people’s absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities to changing shocks and crisis as well as underscoring the importance of working across sectors through a diverse stakeholder group in a coordinated way. The Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP) is the culmination of multiple donor efforts over 5-years to build the absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of communities in Somalia.
The project “Consolidating Resilience Gains in Somalia” targets chronically vulnerable communities, supporting them to strengthen their disaster management, diversify livelihoods, improve productive capacity and formalize social support mechanisms to better cope with shocks and stressors. SomReP’s inclusive economic growth approach will employ “Push/Pull” strategies to develop inclusive market systems which can support trade in raw agricultural products while simultaneously promoting the development of enterprises linked to income generated from processes beyond production.
Having started in August 2020, the overall objective of the project is to increase the resilience of chronically vulnerable Somali people, households, communities and systems to climatic shocks and other related risks in targeted pastoral, agropastoral, coastal, and peri-urban livelihood zones by 2023.
