{"id":401266,"date":"2020-10-15T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=401266"},"modified":"2020-10-15T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:51:57","slug":"somalia-humanitarian-fund-allocates-us9-26-million-for-floods-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somalia-humanitarian-fund-allocates-us9-26-million-for-floods-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Humanitarian Fund allocates US$9.26 million for floods response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mogadishu<\/strong>(SONNA)-The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) has released US$9.26 million to scale<br \/>\nup priority life-saving assistance to nearly 300,000 people affected by floods in Somalia. These critical funds,<br \/>\npart of the SHF 2020 Reserve Allocation, will support national and international non-governmental partners<br \/>\noperating in Banadir, Hiraan, Lower Juba, Middle Shabelle and Lower Shabelle regions through integrated<br \/>\nand Cluster-specific interventions.<br \/>\n\u201cFunding from the SHF will enable aid organizations to scale up and sustain life-saving assistance to the most<br \/>\nvulnerable flood-affected communities in the worst-affected areas in the country,\u201d said Mr. Adam Abdelmoula,<br \/>\nthe Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia. \u201cAs the Deyr season persists, continuous donor funding will be<br \/>\nneeded to boost humanitarian operations and support recovery across Somalia.\u201d<br \/>\nA total of $8.18 million from the Reserve will be allocated towards priority interventions to provide food<br \/>\nassistance, non-food items and emergency shelter, support for health facilities, water services, sanitation and<br \/>\nhygiene (WASH). In addition, the SHF funds will support critical protection services with emphasis on child<br \/>\nprotection and gender-based violence. The funds will also support the Logistics Cluster to ensure timely<br \/>\ndelivery of essential humanitarian goods and personnel in hard-to-reach and underserved areas. Some $1.08<br \/>\nmillion of the allocation will support integrated health and nutrition activities as well as integrated education,<br \/>\nchild protection and WASH activities.<br \/>\n\u201cAlready, vulnerable communities due to persistent climatic shocks, locust infestation and the COVID-19<br \/>\npandemic, are facing severe food and water scarcity and are at risk of deadly communicable diseases such as<br \/>\ncholera outbreak and acute watery diarrhoea (AWD),\u201d said Mr Abdelmoula. \u201cWith limited resources and<br \/>\nfunding, the humanitarian agencies in Somalia are overstretched and in need of urgent support to provide timely<br \/>\nand deliberate response.\u201d<br \/>\nThe SHF &#8211; funded by Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg,<br \/>\nNetherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UN Foundation \u2013 has allocated $40.2 million to Somalia<br \/>\nto-date.<br \/>\nThe 2020 Deyr rainy season has started with moderate to significantly heavy rains reported in Puntland and<br \/>\ncentral regions of Hiraan, Bakool, Galgaduud, Mudug, Nugaal and southern areas of Sool region. The<br \/>\ncommunities living in the riverine areas along Juba and Shabelle rivers are at high risk of flooding. As heavy<br \/>\nrains are expected to continue in November and December, scaling up of livelihoods, improving and supporting<br \/>\nhealth services and WASH facilities is vital in order to prevent further deterioration in food security and<br \/>\nescalation of the public health crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) has released US$9.26 million to scale up priority life-saving assistance to nearly 300,000 people affected by floods in Somalia. These critical funds, part of the SHF 2020 Reserve Allocation, will support national and international non-governmental partners operating in Banadir, Hiraan, Lower Juba, Middle Shabelle and Lower Shabelle regions through integrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":401267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401268,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401266\/revisions\/401268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}