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Executive summary This paper provides a synthesis of ten social and material systems functional within Mogadishu city. It looks into how the systems have been shaped by historical events and...

1 INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mogadishu remains Somalia’s most contested urban space, and this has serious implications for the physical safety of its residents. 1 Since the total state...

SUMMARY This paper is underpinned by insights gathered from interviews with local authorities, IDPs and residents of informal settlements, NGOs, business people and members of the host community...

Erik Bryld, Christine Kamau & M. A. Mohamoud ABSTRACT Since the mid-1990s, informal power structures in the form of self-established gatekeepers have emerged within internal displacement areas in...

Author: Finn Skadkaer Pedersen, Tana Copenhagen, June 2020 Introduction The ‘triple nexus’ is an approach that aspires to transform the way that humanitarian, development and peace activities are...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Due to an increase over the last decade in violent conflicts —in the numbers of affected populations, costs and new conflict patterns—efforts to bring more people out of poverty...

Tana has recently finalised a project to support the Benadir Regional Administration in formulating a IDP policy. This is the first IDP policy for the Benadir Regional Administration (BRA), developed...

Summary Following a pilot study in Mogadishu, Tana Copenhagen continued to test their Accountability in Informal Settlements (AIS) approach in two other Somali locations, Bossaso and Kismayo...

Tana is currently formulating the new Danish Country Programme for Uganda 2018 – 2022. The programme will have a budget of 750 million DKK for the period. The country programme will consist of 2...

In the vacuum generated by the Somali conflict over the last 20 years, informal power structures have emerged to address security and service delivery where the government or the international...

Summary Gatekeepers remain one of the most resilient local-level governance structures in Mogadishu. Formal stakeholders, including government and the international community need to engage with them...