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Humanitarian Assistance for Somalia

Swedish humanitarian assistance is twofold: it aims to provide specific assistance in acute situations, but also provides annual voluntary contributions to international organisations working in Somalia.

The Swedish humanitarian assistance to Somalia reaches to the following areas:

  • food security (assessment of food security situation, livestock production, agricultural production and market processes)
  • operational health interventions (medicines, capacity building of health personnel)
  • water and sanitation,
  • education (material for primary schools)
  • reproductive health
  • implementation of the HIV/AIDS strategy
  • protection of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and children
  • coordination of humanitarian action
  • security of humanitarian staff to ensure continued humanitarian access

Annual voluntary contributions to organisations’ budgets 2006/2007
A total commitment of SEK 54,8 million has already been made for 2007 but the total humanitarian aid is expected to reach some SEK 100 million at the end of the year. Sweden also provided some SEK 72,94 million in 2006 as contributions to general budgets of various humanitarian organisations.

2006 (MSEK) 2007 (MSEK) Areas
Under the UN CAP
UNICEF 12 16 Health, education, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health and child protection
OCHA 11 15 Coordination and Support Services and Humanitarian Response Fund (water and livelihoods, primarily in Southern Somalia)
FAO 7 12 Food security (livestock/agricultural production, market processes), Food Security Assessment Unit
WHO 2 - Field operations in health sector (medicines, capacity building of health personnel)
UNDSS 2 - Security of humanitarian staff
UNHCR 5 5 IDP Programme
Total UN CAP 39 48
WFP 1 6,8 2006: Air support of humanitarian relief operations in response to the Tsunami
ICRC 13,8
Swedish Red Cross/IFRC 15
Grand total 68,8 54,8
MSEK= Million Swedish Kronor

So far, the following decisions on funding have been approved in 2006 and 2007:

2007
Decisions and commitments already approved for 2007 so far mainly concern the UN Consolidated Appeal (CAP) as highlighted in the above table, as well as support to the following organisations:

Danish Demining Group (DDG) for continuation of its mine and unexploded ordnance clearance work (5 MSEK).

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) for information, counselling and legal assistance as well as literacy and skill training for youth activities in Somaliland and Puntland, with a potential extension to the South and Central region (2,5 MSEK).

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) for the continuation of its income-generating and water and sanitation projects (1,2 MSEK).

International Federation of the Red Cross and Swedish Red Cross (31,2 MSEK for the East African region, part of which is allocated to Somalia).

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2006
In 2006 assistance to drought and flood affected people were the main areas funded in addition to the yearly support to UN agencies through the CAP.

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Drought and flooding relief, 2006
Sweden provided a total of some SEK 11.4 million as emergency relief to populations affected by drought and flooding in Somalia in 2006 (as well as SEK 4 million to OCHA’s regional drought appeal in 2006 that also benefited Somalia). This aid was channelled through:

Organization MSEK Areas
International Aid services (IAS)   0,9 Water supply
Swedish Rescue Services Agency 1,5 3 air movement officers for 3 months through the WFP Humanitarian Air Service3
Oxfam GB 4 Food security and emergency livelihoods programme
UNICEF 5 Immediate life-saving interventions for up to 350,000 flood affected people in acute need of assistance
Total 11,4
 MSEK= Million Swedish Kronor


 
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