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OVERALL PROGRESS
As an established national actor, the Somali Red Crescent Society plays a crucial role in reaching the most vulnerable population, including internally displaced people (IDP) and remote communities, in the delivery of humanitarian aid through its permanent local presence. The Somali Red Crescent Society continued to improve the provision of humanitarian services to vulnerable communities by strengthening communities’ capacity in disaster preparedness and response and by expanding the existing network of volunteers and members across the country. During the first half of the year, the Somali Red Crescent Society achieved the following:
• Maintained a strong network of regional/sub-branches with members, volunteers, and youth who can deliver effective humanitarian services.
• Mainstreamed community engagement and accountability (CEA) and protection, gender, and inclusion (PGI) in all programmes/operations.
• Disaster risk and management programs contributed to building institutional capacity to effectively prepare and respond to emergencies and disasters, as well as to deliver livelihoods, climate change adaptation, and community resilience programmes.
• Health programs significantly contributed to addressing key public health challenges, including but not limited to COVID-19, nutrition, malaria, availability of safe blood, non-communicable diseases, epidemic controls, provision of first aid training and services, supporting people with disabilities, and safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion.
• Strengthened financial management system, income generation, and resource mobilization through the initiation of Working with Project Partners (WWPP) cash transfer modalities, support on National Society Investment Alliance (NSIA) application grants and proposal development.
• Strengthened supporting functions, including the project monitoring, evaluation and reporting (PMER), finance, communications, information and communication technologies (ICT), and logistics.
• Strengthened partnerships and networking within/outside the RCRC Movement.
The Somali Red Crescent Society is implementing the Pilot Programmatic Partnership (PPP) funded by the DirectorateGeneral for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO). The ECHO PPP is implemented in
coordination with the Finnish Red Cross, the Danish Red Cross, the Norwegian Red Cross and the IFRC. The goal of the ECHO PPP is for communities and local organizations to be better able to anticipate, prepare for, withstand, respond, and recover from humanitarian and health crises. ECHO PPP utilizes a multi-hazard, multi-sectoral and integrated systems approach focusing on disaster risk management, epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response, humanitarian assistance and protection to people on the move. During this period, the Somali Red Cross has trained 25 volunteers as part of a National Response Team, reached 84,332 people with epidemic prevention and awareness information, provided healthcare services to 15,239 people, responded two 72 health alerts through the communitybased surveillance system, and developed a three-year cash and voucher assistance (CVA) action plan to establish a more effective and efficient cash preparedness mechanism.