Disaster

Deyr 2011-12 Seasonal Assessment Coverage

Field Access and Field Data Locations

Assessment was entirely carried out via teleconferencing with enumerators and key informants due to insecurity

Main Livelihood Groups

Sources of Food and Income

Livelihood Groups & Main Sources of Food and Income

2 Pastoral Livelihoods (Southern Inland and DawoPastoralists)

• Primary sources of income of poor: sale of livestock & livestock products

• Primary sources of food of poor: purchase and own production

• Primary livelihood assets of poor: camel, cattle and sheep/goat

I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES

· Three aid workers on a monitoring mission in Mataban, Hirran Province, Somalia died when a gunman opened fire on 23 December.

· Latest reports from UNICEF and KRCS indicate that flood waters in Kenya are subsiding, with most displaced communities returning to their homes.

· Inter-communal conflict in Moyale leaves 37 people dead, thousands displaced.

· Two grenades thrown at a club in Wajir district in north-eastern Kenya near the Somali border wounded at least seven people on 24 December.

This report is produced by OCHA Somalia in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It was issued by OCHA in New York. It covers the period from 21 December to 28 December 2011. The next report will be issued on 4 January 2012.

I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES

• Three aid workers on a monitoring mission in Mataban, Hiran province died when a gunman opened fire on 23 December.

Deyr season crop performance in South and Central Somalia

Key messages

• Despite on‐going, large‐scale humanitarian intervention, food insecurity remains at Emergency and Famine levels across most of southern Somalia.

• Crop production in southern and central Somalia is expected to be mixed. In Juba and Gedo below average harvests are expected, in Bay, Bakool, Hiran and the central agropastoral areas below‐average to average harvests are expected, and in the Shabelle regions average to above‐average crop harvests are likely.