SomReP

Enhancing Resilience in Somali

As Somalia changes, SomReP is also evolving to address emergent threats and take advantage of new opportunities. The consortium draws upon the best-practices of its eight NGO members, as well as network of local and international partners to develop and refine technical approaches to address the underlying causes of vulnerability to climate shock. In the years ahead, the program will scale new approaches aimed to support gender and social equality, develop fair and equitable market systems, and social cohesion whilst still remaining adaptive to climate shocks through its crisis modifier

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What we do

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

SomReP employs the Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) approach to disaster risk reduction planning and response, building the capacity of first-responders to monitor and respond to environmental and other types of shocks and take own actions. We develop the capacity of Early Warning Committees (EWC) to monitor lead indicators in their own context through simple to understand tools to facilitate pro-active planning at the community
Natural Resource Management (NRM)

Somalia’s land-based livelihood systems are heavily dependent on the state of the natural ecosystem. To mitigate negative effects of hazards on agriculture (farming, livestock, and fishery), SomReP promotes the development of Natural Resource Management (NRM) plans and techniques to improve soil and water quality, reduce erosion, increase water retention and enhance pest and disease control, including Cash for work reseeding, tree planting and pruning and development, rehabilitation and upgrading of erosion control and water management infrastructure.
Governance

To ensure positive transformational changes, government stakeholder need to have the capacity to establish an enabling environment for resilience with appropriate regulatory frameworks and policies to sustain agriculturally-led inclusive economic growth activities. They need to be able to engage with systems, value chains and regulatory frameworks. SomReP provides technical capacity building for government stakeholders through training courses and promotes their participation in assessments and monitoring of community projects.
Economic Development

One of our key features of “Push” strategy to support greater economic development, is to create a high-performing market system in which livelihoods and income generating opportunities are tertiary benefits, emanating from improved productivity. SomReP supports groups to generate income from agricultural value chains beyond production and prepares women, youth, displacement-affected and people with disabilities with capacities to take up new strategies by equipping them with skills, networks and strategies through saving schemes, TVET, Business Skills Development and Life Skills.

Where we work

SomReP’s geographic footprint is guided by the intent of its members to make long-term, multi-sector investments within specific districts in addition to reaching the most vulnerable and marginalized groups within the country. Our current operational presence spans in the countries of Somali, South Sudan and Sudan in locations depicted in the map.

The program leverages its members’ existing and historic relationships and on-going complementary, multi-sectoral programming as a base to establish long-term resilience initiatives whenever resources become available and wherever access permits.

SomReP's Operational Presence

Resilience Impact

67, 143 agro pastoral farmers have been trained on fodder production, value addition and have been linked to markets to increasing local trade volumes and growth of sustainable value chains that provide better farm gate value for producers
1,533,400 livestock have been vaccinated and treated to protect breeding stock to address emergency response priority actions to mitigate disease incidence during droughts
256,000 Households engaged various resilience interventions including Cash based interventions layered to support rehabilitation or construction of productive community assets
3.5 million metric tons of agricultural input have been distributed to boost production volumes paired with 77Ha of land that are under Good Agricultural Practices