Emergency Shelter response to IDPs and poor host communities in Kaxda district-Mogadishu

Objectives

This action seeks to ensure that vulnerable displacement-affected populations in Somalia, including those that are hard to reach, have adequate physical protection, safety and privacy, through access to basic services and livelihood opportunities. Somalia remains among the worst humanitarian crises in the world. A mixture of clan-related conflict, drought, flooding and forced evictions is resulting in increasing amounts of person becoming IDP’s. NRC will respond to shelter needs for newly displaced persons and host community in Kaxda district of Banadir region. This action will directly target 900 households or approximately 5,400 individual beneficiaries. The response will strive to improve access to locally appropriate shelter solutions through a combination of life-saving activities while creating conditions for more durable solutions. The action will consist of settlement planning training, the distribution of settlement planning tools, the provision of emergency shelter kits and solar lamps as well as cash transfers for beneficiaries to construct their own shelter. This should promote beneficiary participation as well as choice and ownership of the shelters. Through NRC’s Information, counselling and legal assistance (ICLA) core competency, the beneficiaries will be supported to obtain communal land tenure documents in order to avoid the risk of being forcibly evicted. Benefiting household selection and targeting will be based on needs, equity and access possibilities, and will be undertaken in coordination with the cluster and other humanitarian actors. NRC will also ensure that protection issues are mainstreamed throughout the implementation of the project.