Country: Somalia
Closing date: 05 Jan 2018
Terms of Reference
Joint Evaluation of the Humanitarian Cash-Based Response
Somalia Response 2017
1.Background
A famine alert was issued for Somalia in January 2017. This was the third rainy season in a row that was below average. The cumulative effect was that crop harvests and livestock productivity declined sharply. By May 2017, 6.7 million people were considered to be at risk of food insecurity. Following the post-Gu assessment by FSNAU in August 2017, an estimated total 6.2 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance, and over 3.1 million people were facing acute food insecurity and classified as being in Emergency Phases 3 and 4 as per the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC). Overall, some 388,000 acutely malnourished children were in need of critical nutrition support, including life-saving treatment for more than 87,000 severely malnourished children. Since November 2016, 1.2 million people have been internally displaced, mainly by drought but also by conflict. Cholera/acute watery diarrhea and measles outbreaks also remained a big concern.
The humanitarian community mobilized quickly when the famine alert was raised in an effort to prevent famine and save lives. A significant part of the response was delivered as cash based assistance (CBA)[1]. CBA has been used in humanitarian response in Somalia since 2003. During the 2017 famine prevention response, the use of CBA significantly scaled up, reaching up to three million individuals each month. Somalia’s robust markets and dependence on imported foods unaffected by drought, as well as humanitarian access constraints across much of the country limit the transport of in-kind assistance and mean that CBA is seen as an essential tool to meet needs across much of the country.
The large majority of the 2017 CBA (75-85% each month) has been delivered through the food security cluster with the objective of meeting food security needs. However, CBA is also used to meet water and sanitation, shelter, education and protection needs, as well as multipurpose cash intended to cover multiple basic needs. The assistance is delivered as cash or vouchers, and through various transfer mechanisms, including electronic payment cards, mobile money or cash-in-hand. Data collected through the clusters shows that the vast majority of CBA delivered during the response has been unconditional and about half of the CBA has been restricted (primarily vouchers) and about half unrestricted.
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How to apply:
The applications should be submitted by 5th January 2018 to somconsultants@care.org and quoting “Joint Evaluation of the Humanitarian Cash-Based Response”as the subject heading.