According to the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) of the United Nations (UN), cash and vouchers programs play a critical role in the response to shocks and crises when farmers, pastoralists, and fishermen can no longer buy food or the productive inputs...
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Unconditional Cash Transfers: Life-Saving Support to Drought Affected Communities in Mandera County
According to the UN OCHA, Horn of Africa Drought Press release, February 2022, the region is experiencing one of its worst droughts in recent history. This follows three consecutive below-average rainy seasons severely affecting 12-14 million people in Ethiopia,...
Accessing Sanitation Facilities in Tafta Tag
Anab Bulle, a 35-year-old housewife and her family of six live in Tafta-Tag IDP camp, Garbaharey District, Somalia. They have to queue for 20 to 30 minutes just to use the community latrine. The camp population has relied on a few old and dilapidated block latrines...

EDUCATING CRISIS-AFFECTED CHILDREN IN KAHDA AND GARASBALEY IDP CAMPS, SOMALIA
Ismail Hussein (right) together with his classmates Ibrahim Hussein, a 15-year-old student in Al-Hidaya camp in Garasbaley district, Banadir region, Somalia, attends Nadifo Primary School as a sixth-grade student. He and his family were forced to move from Daare village in the Lower Shabelle region due to conflict and severe drought conditions. Their journey to the IDP camp took 15 days and was challenging, with a lack of food and water, and walking barefoot in the heat. Eventually, they...