Mogadishu/New York, 20 December 2021 – The United Nations and humanitarian partners in Somalia have released the 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for Somalia, which is facing three consecutive...
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United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for Somalia 2021-2025
Joint Statement This United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2021–2025) represents the commitment of the Federal Government of Somalia and the United Nations to work together to...
UNCT Somalia Country Results Report 2019
This Country Results Report describes the UN’s collective contribution to Somalia’s peacebuilding and state-building achievements and development goals in 2019. It reports against the second full...
UN Strategic Framework Somalia 2017-2020
Following the finalization of a number of key political milestones in Somalia, including the completion of the federalization map, landmark parliamentary and presidential elections, endorsement of...
Somalia 2015-16 El Niño Contingency Plan, September 2015
STRATEGIC SUMMARY Somalia remains in a state of protracted crisis which increases the impact of the challenging climatic conditions, amidst inadequate coping strategies and development assistance...
The UN in Somalia - 2014
A little more about Somalia Early in the thirteenth century, Somalia had already been recognised as an ideal stopover for British ships travelling to India and other places. Italy and France had also...
Thematic Briefing of the United Nations Country Team Somalia - Issue 3: Youth [EN/SO]
"Young people in Somalia are not just the future of the country – they are also the majority. Nearly three quarters of the population is under 30 years old. Most are born after the overthrow of the...
Thematic Briefing of the United Nations Country Team Somalia - Issue 2: Environment [EN/SO]
“Change is in the air in Somalia. After decades of conflict, peace is at reach and emerging institutions have begun to tackle Somalia’s burning issues. Among these issues is one which more often than...
Thematic Briefing of the United Nations Country Team Somalia: GBV issue, January 2014
Widespread violence against women is a problem in Somalia. Cases of Gender -Based Violence (GBV) are still rampant in the country: over the last reporting period (July 2012-June 2013), thousands of...
Somalia Strategic Response Plan 2014
SUMMARY Strategic objectives Provide timely and quality life-saving assistance to people in humanitarian emergency Enhance resilience of vulnerable households and communities through investments that...
2014 Somalia Humanitarian Needs Overview (September 2013)
PRIORITY NEEDS Acute and chronic food insecurity and high levels of malnutrition An estimated 3.2 million Somalis need life - saving assistance and livelihood investment aimed at strengthening their...
Somali Women Heroes in Health: Edna Adan Ismail
Somalia's health care system was utterly destroyed by the civil war leaving the country with,among other problems, the highest rate of maternal and infant mortality in the world. A Somali woman gives...
Facts of life classes help Somalia's teenage girls stay in school
By Mike Pflanz BURTINLE, Somalia, 7 March 2011 - At first, the class of teenagers is a little shy when asked whether menstruation or early marriage is the more common reason why girls drop out of...
Statement from the UN in Somalia on the looting of UN compounds
Nairobi, KENYA - Two UN compounds were looted today in Baidoa and Wajid, Somalia. Al Shabaab men entered both compounds and took UN equipment and vehicles. In Baidoa, the looting of all emergency...
UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator calls for respect of Somali civilians caught in Mogadishu conflict crossfire
[GENEVA, 15 May 2009] The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mr. Mark Bowden, spoke out today regarding the plight of Somali civilians in Mogadishu, hundreds and...
Letter to the Somali people from UN HC/RC Mark Bowden
Expanding Humanitarian Aid where it is most needed Support from Somali communities I last wrote to you inJanuary of this year to share my thoughts, hopes and plans for 2009. In that letter I...
Abducted UN staff in Somalia released safely
[16 March 2009, NAIROBI] - The four UN staff members who were abducted early Monday morning, 16 March, were released unharmed late Monday night. "I am very enormously relieved that our staff are free...
Men and boys must play a bigger role in ending violence against women and girls in Somalia
Nairobi, 8 March 2009 - Somali men - both young and old - must be engaged in the struggle to end violence against women and girls. In Somalia, many women and girls are silent victims of violence,...
Somalia: Statement from the United Nations on two UN staff killed in Hargeysa UNDP compound attack
(Nairobi, 30 October 2008) - It is with great sadness that the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, confirms the death of two staff members in the car bomb...
Somalia: Statement from the United Nations on explosion at UNDP compound, Hargeysa
Office of the United Nations Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia (Nairobi, 29 October 2008): The United Nations confirms that at approximately at 10 o'clock this morning the UNDP compound...