Somalia

 To achieve graduation from extreme poverty to self-reliance for displacement affected communities - including refugees, returnees, internally displaced and vulnerable host communities - by enabling sustainable livelihoods, wellbeing and dignity in Somalia. 

1. Enabled adoption and / or continuation of positive coping strategies of the extremely poor and displacement affected households by improving their immediate access to food and basic services and strengthening community productive assets.
2. Increased extremely poor households’ access to food and basic commodities through provision of conditional and unconditional assistance.
3. Improved community productive assets which will positively contribute to economic self-reliance.     

Despite being a signatory to the 1951 convention, the protection environment for PoCs remains weak. Xenophobia and discrimination effects basic services for PoCs including livelihoods leading to high unemployment rates, low income levels and limited access to financial services especially for Ethiopian caseloads - this is largely due to differences in cultures and tradition. Additionally, access to civil documentation is challenging for PoCs due to high costs and lack of centralized registration. A lack of documents can lead to arrests and deportation, additionally, PoCs report SGBV, being denied wages as well as harassment (GFI). Somalia’s fastest growing sectors are construction at 33% and communication at 25%. The sectors with the highest demand include tailoring at 15% and teaching at 15%. Furthermore, 27.2% of Somalis work as laborers, 13.8% work in trade and 7.3% as farmers.