This factsheet is an extract of the 2019 solutions analysis conducted in Somalia focusing on three urban centres: Mogadishu, Baidoa, and Kismayo. It delves into achievements, challenges, and opportunities for the 2019/2020 period in four key areas: housing, conflict management, livelihoods, and social cohesion.
Key achievements highlighted include the adoption of a holistic housing approach integrating services and employment opportunities, an emphasis on conflict management in urban settings through engagement with security actors, displaced communities, and key stakeholders, alignment of activities to foster coherence and social interaction among diverse groups, and diversification of livelihoods strategies to address immediate cash needs and long-term skill development.
Major challenges identified encompass the lack of comprehensive livelihood and economic inclusion strategies that address both demand and supply aspects of the labor market, hindered private sector involvement due to high service costs like water and electricity, varied profiles, expectations, and perceptions among different groups such as IDPs, returnees, and hosts, and absence of a defined and comprehensive approach for promoting social cohesion.
Opportunities highlighted include developing a programmatic approach for social cohesion that addresses perceptions of access to services and opportunities, formulating a strategy linking social cohesion and inclusion with public services and economic prospects, transitioning from a mere livelihoods approach to a more inclusive economic approach integrating market systems and value chains, leveraging robust value chain analyses as a preliminary step towards achieving economic inclusion, and integrating durable solutions into national social protection policy development.
