About the Somalia Humanitarian Fund

Combining flexibility and strategic focus, the Somalia Humanitarian Fund ensures timely allocation and disbursement of resources, enables effective humanitarian action and strengthens coordination.

AT A GLANCE

The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) is a multi-donor country-based pooled mechanism created in 2010 to allocate funding for the most urgent life-saving interventions in Somalia.
With the SHF, governments and private donors can channel their contributions into a common, unearmarked fund to deliver life-saving assistance to people who need it most.
The Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) oversees the funds and its allocations. The Fund supports the highest-priority projects of the best-placed responders - mainly international and national NGOs and some UN agencies - through an inclusive and transparent process that meets priorities set out in the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). This ensures that funding is available and prioritized locally.