Somalia humanitarian response

“We do not wait helplessly”: How communities in Somalia are coping with a “double shock” drought

This report explores how communities enact strategies to navigate the 2025 drought amidst dwindling international humanitarian assistance.

• Research and Studies

Flagship Initiative Final Report

This final evaluation synthesises activities and learning that emerged from the Flagship Initiative.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Synthesis and meta-analysis of findings from crisis-specific inter-agency humanitarian evaluations covering the period 2015-2025

The IAHE Synthesis exercise pulls together the findings from seven interagency humanitarian evaluations (IAHEs) covering nine different crisis contexts between 2015 – 2025.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of Somalia WFP Country Strategic Plan 2022–2025

This evaluation serves accountability and learning purposes and informs the preparation of the next country strategic plan for WFP in Somalia.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The lives and livelihoods of internally displaced people in Baidoa, Somalia

This paper is part of a three-year project that aims to generate innovative and long-term thinking around livelihoods support in urban displacement.

• Research and Studies

Building a locally driven humanitarian future in Somalia

A research report analysing progress, challenges and opportunities in humanitarian localisation in Somalia, focusing on institutional capacity, direct funding access, power dynamics and local leadership within the evolving humanitarian system.

• Research and Studies

Understanding the path to inclusive aid and resilience: people-centred research to inform humanitarian action in Somalia

This resource shares findings from a July–August 2025 quantitative survey of 7,400 people across 11 districts in Somalia, conducted by Ground Truth Solutions and RAGSAAN. Informed by a community co-design process, the survey captures people’s priority needs and their own perspectives on resilience.

• Research and Studies

Somalia: Anticipated effects of drought on malnutrition drivers

An analytical report assessing how prolonged drought in Somalia is expected to intensify the drivers of malnutrition, offering forward-looking evidence to inform anticipatory planning and integrated humanitarian response.

• Research and Studies

Juxtaposition of women’s economic empowerment and innovation: is one a pathway to the other?

This report explores ways in which economically empowered pastoralist women initiate and or adopt innovations in Somaliland.

• Research and Studies

Ten ways to create people-centred early warning systems in conflicts and recurrent crises

This policy brief synthesises SPARC’s learning related to early warning systems.

• Research and Studies

Ten ways to reduce disaster risk in conflicts and recurring crises

This policy brief synthesises SPARC’s learning related to DRR in conflicts and recurrent crises.

• Research and Studies

Repositioning power: Strategic pathways to locally led humanitarian operations in East Africa

Evidence-based policy brief showcasing East African thought leaders' insights into concrete pathways for locally led humanitarian action.

• Research and Studies

Women: the hidden pillars of peace

This episode examines women’s roles in reconciliation and peacebuilding in Galmudug, Somalia and the conditions required to enhance their formal participation in peace processes.

• Commentaries

The role of women in reconciliation and peacebuilding in Galmudug, Somalia

A qualitative examination of women’s participation in peacebuilding and governance in post-war Galmudug, analysing structural barriers and offering evidence-based considerations for more gender-responsive reconciliation and state-building processes in Somalia.

• Research and Studies

Area-based durable solutions assessment: A global toolkit application

This report presents a qualitative, area-based assessment conducted in Baidoa as part of the pilot application of the Area-Based Durable Solutions Toolkit.

• Research and Studies

Research to action in Somalia

This webinar discusses the study 'Research to Action in Humanitarian Settings' (R2HC), which tested the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Cash Plus interventions on the wasting status of children under five and pregnant and lactating women.

• Research and Studies

Flagship Initiative: Second year learning report (April 2025)

This second annual external learning report summarizes the system-wide implications of the Flagship Initiative’s learning to date.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

What can humanitarians learn from Somalia’s response to the worst drought in four decades?

This HNPW session explored the successes and challenges of the humanitarian response in Somalia, along with ongoing efforts to enhance its effectiveness.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Food insecurity among internally displaced people in Somalia

This analytical report, jointly produced by FAO and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), examines how food insecurity has evolved among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia over the period 2017–2024, using time-series IPC data disaggregated by displacement status.

• Research and Studies

Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the response to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned