OCHA Evaluation of Country-Based Pooled Funds—Somalia Country Report

The evaluation of Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPF) has two main purposes: to improve accountability and learning, and to examine the results of the humanitarian action supported by CBPFs between 2015 and 2018, with the purpose of drawing lessons on what has worked well. It also seeks to identify challenges to the effective functioning of CBPFs in order to provide recommendations on how to continue to strengthen them as a funding mechanism in support of timely, coordinated and principled humanitarian response for affected people. The evaluation of the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) is the first of five country case studies and was undertaken during the inception phase. A two-week trip was conducted by two members of the evaluation team who undertook interviews and focus group discussions (FGD) with key stakeholders in Kenya and Somalia including with communities which had received SHF-funded assistance.