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CESVI’s strategic response in Somalia is grounded in an integrated, multisectoral framework aligned with the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus, designed to address acute humanitarian needs while strengthening community resilience to recurrent climate and conflictrelated shocks. Operating in a context characterised by protracted and widespread displacement, severe food insecurity, and environmental stress, CESVI adopts a flexible and adaptive approach that brings together immediate life-saving assistance with longer-term recovery pathways.
Present in Somalia since 2006, CESVI delivers integrated programming across the sectors of nutrition, WASH, health, and food security in Lower Shabelle, Banadir, Hiraan, and Mudug regions. As part of this programming, a strong emphasis is placed on community ownership, inclusion, and climate-adaptive approaches. The current strategy prioritises reducing acute malnutrition and vulnerability among crisis-affected populations while strengthening local capacities to anticipate, absorb, and respond to shocks. This is pursued through a multisectoral “clinic-to-community” model that connects facility-based nutrition and primary health services with community-level resilience interventions addressing underlying drivers of vulnerability. These include nutrition-sensitive livelihood activities, such as kitchen gardens and mother support groups, and hygiene promotion.
Crucially, Anticipatory Action (AA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and protection are systematically integrated as cross-cutting pillars of CESVI’s response. Working closely with local authorities, partners, and community structures, CESVI promotes AA and DRR through early warning systems, preparedness mechanisms, and community-based response capacities. Protection mainstreaming is embedded across interventions to ensure services are safe, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of vulnerable groups, particularly women and children. By reinforcing both institutional systems and community networks, CESVI supports sustainable service delivery while also enabling rapid scale-up should it be necessary to respond to an emergency.
Overall, this integrated approach enables CESVI to respond rapidly to evolving humanitarian needs and to simultaneously address the structural drivers of vulnerability, positioning communities and local systems to better withstand future crises while also meeting their urgent present needs.