Somalia: Assessment of Drought & Anticipatory Action on Targeted Populations (November 2022)

Project Context

The UN OCHA facilitates collective Anticipatory Action to predictable humanitarian crises. This innovative approach has the potential to lead to faster, more efficient and more dignified responses. Between May – October 2021, the UN OCHA provided such anticipatory assistance (AA) to help populations in Somalia cope with the anticipated drought. More details about the AA allocation of 2021 are on the next page.

As part of the piloting phase, the learning framework brings together:

1. Documentation on the pilot setup
2. Monitoring and evaluation about the implementing partners’ activities;
3. Independent impact measurement carried out by 60 Decibels.

60 Decibels focused on listening to recipients’ experiences and measuring the impact of anticipatory assistance through phone surveys with 1,444 recipients who received assistance from 5 different UN agencies between February – August 2022. 60 Decibels trained in-country research assistants used proprietary and standardized survey tools to conduct the surveys.