The Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS) Consortium was established in 2013 with the objective of improving the resilience of vulnerable communities and households in Somalia. BRCiS programming utilises a multi-year, flexible, and adaptable modality to respond to both short-term humanitarian needs and improve long-term resilience. Programming focuses on reinforcing social accountability and natural resource management capacities, nurturing economic opportunities, and enabling access to and utilisation of basic services through innovative approaches that strengthen existing services and adapt to learning, changing contexts, and demand-driven priorities.
The project under review is the FCDO funded BRCiS 2. It started in September 2018 and ended in March 2022. It was implemented in 407 communities across 34 districts of Somalia. The purpose of the midline evaluation is to provide clear and understandable feedback to practitioners in order to inform resilience programming in Somalia. The midline will be the last large quantitative survey in BRCiS 2.
Due to the ongoing drought in Somalia, a full endline survey will not be conducted as the beneficiaries and their livelihoods are greatly affected. The BRCiS Consortium collected the data used in this analysis. Four rounds of quantitative surveys have been completed to date, the baseline (Jun-Sep 2019), two smaller seasonal surveys (JanFeb 2020 / Sep-Dec 2020), and the midline (Feb-May 2021). Each covered a wide range of topics from demographic information to aspirations, with the baseline and midline being more robust and deeper than the seasonal surveys. The initial sample size was 7,513 during the baseline survey, which was reduced by roughly half for the midline due to constraints on movement and data collection imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resource collections
- Accountability to affected populations (AAP)
- ALNAP focus topics
- Climate emergency
- Droughts
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- Innovation
- Learning from crises (Natural hazards)
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
- Monitoring of humanitarian action
- Somalia humanitarian response
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience