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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
The Heshiis Beeg is a participatory research tool which seeks to support efforts by Somalis to establish a rigorous evidence-basis for work on peacebuilding, reconciliation, social cohesion, resilience and stability. The Somalia Stability Fund Phase 3 (SSF III) commissioned this project to generate evidence for decisionmakers, to track progress on reconciliation, and to identify entry points for building peace and stability.
The Heshiis Beeg is a representative quantitative sociological survey1 which has collected the perspectives of 1648 randomly selected Somalis from six pilot districts2 in Puntland and Southwest State. It is a fully contextualised tool designed ground-up, to understand and measure phenomena and dynamics of individuals and communities, as experienced and reported by Somalis. It captures their concerns, priorities, attitudes, behaviours and hopes. The Heshiis Beeg measures the challenges Somali communities face, and the endogenous resilience they have developed, to inform further interventions. The Heshiis Beeg has also engaged more than a hundred leaders, civil society members, and officials at district, state and federal level first to design the research, select the indicators, direct the analysis, and finally to validate the findings.
The design of the Heshiis Beeg is based on Somalia’s National Reconciliation Framework (NRF) and National Transformation Plan (NTP) 2025-2029, both in terms of its core research questions, and of the indicators selected.