Extraordinary intervention for food security of internal refugees and reduction of conflicts over access to water in Abudwak, Somalia

Objective: To support the food security of families in the area surrounding the city of Abudwak in the Somali region of Galgaduud, intervening extraordinarily in situations of greatest hardship and increasing the availability of water for livestock and agricultural activities in order to conditions for refugees and residents to raise their livestock without resorting to the city's water reserves and without entering into conflict for them and to produce vegetables and vegetables in a sustainable manner at the family level by strengthening the food security of the most vulnerable families and the role of women in this area.

Context

Abudwak is an important district of Galgaduud Region located in the central part of Somalia, bordering the Somali Region of Ethiopia to the west, the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia in the north, the Federal State Galmudug of Somalia to the east and the Hiiraan region of Somalia in the south. The population, which due to the civil war that still rages in the center-south has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, lives in sheep farming in an area characterized by frequent episodes of drought and a constant lack of water, even with large resources at ground level but with wells mostly destroyed or abandoned due to the inaction of the state and the civil war. The conditions of food security as well as the sanitary conditions of the population, already extremely lacking, have evidently worsened further in recent years.

The displacement of displaced people, often camped in areas with scarce water resources and therefore agricultural and not suitable for the same grazing of herds, has contributed to the impoverishment of soils and the prolongation of famines. All of this translates into greater vulnerability especially for the weakest, in an increase in the already alarming levels of food insecurity.

Beneficiaries

About 1,200 families, both for an extraordinary and specific integration of food, and for the increased availability of water for herds in an area a few kilometers away from the city center in order to reduce the contamination resulting from the presence of thousands of animals, which for the realization through the availability of water of an area equipped for horticulture able to allow the realization of family gardens for 300 families. As regards the implementation of small gardens due to the increased availability of water, it is aimed at about 300 families of refugees, coming to a small extent from the Mogadishu area and to a greater extent from the south of the country, due to both drought that of the war.

The challenge

To understand the nature and extent of the problem, it is first of all necessary to underline how the economy of Abudwak has always been mainly linked to the breeding of livestock with a weak subsistence agriculture on a potentially fertile ground, but limited by the lack of water. The daily life of the population of Abudwak relies heavily on livestock supplying meat and milk, on limited agricultural crops for local consumption and on animal skins for sale. This means that those internal refugees who have reached the city particularly in the last four years, when they own animals are likely to come into conflict with local pastors for the competition for water and when they do not own animals, they find it very difficult to survive by not providing real economic alternative areas.

Expected results

  • Realized for the residents of the refugee camps of Baligarasle Camp, Allamin Camp, Harqabobe Camp, Baligish Camp and Dacan Camp an extraordinary intervention of food integration for families who do not have the possibility to generate income related to the possession of animals, reducing the vulnerability of families through better nutrition in the perspective of the direct generation of food in solidarity.
  • Increased availability of water in particular for animal use and agricultural use through the rehabilitation of the well of Dalsan and regulation of its use and its maintenance through the construction of a point for the regulated watering of livestock and the cultivation of family horticultural plots made available to the most vulnerable families of internally displaced persons with work capacity.
  • Farming places 100 family gardens in associated form for 300 families with the necessary initial technical assistance and the strengthening of an internal training-work dynamics and associated production
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