Resilience systems analysis: Somalia

Somalia - from fragility to resilience Twenty-four years after the start of Somalia’s civil war and just three years since parts of Southern Somalia faced famine, the country continues to face inter-connected and complex challenges that constrain development progress. Around 3 million Somalis continue to face food insecurity; suspected cases of measles have tripled since 2013; and an estimated 40 per cent of the Somali population still depend on money that friends and family send from abroad to meet their needs for food, clothing, medicine and education (Humanitarian Bulletin for Somalia, UNOCHA, February 2015). In the face of these continuing challenges, the Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP) and the Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS) consortia convened a Resilience Systems Analysis, in February 2015, with assistance from the OECD and support from the European Union, FAO, WFP and UNICEF.