Project profile — East Africa Drought (Somalia) - Oxfam Canada 2011

• Somalia (100.00%)

• Emergency Response: Material relief assistance and services (72010) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

(August 2011) 2011 is proving to be the driest year since 1951 in many parts of east Africa as a result of an increasingly severe drought. Successive seasons of failed rains, combined with increasing food prices, conflict, and limited humanitarian access, have resulted in food insecurity, water shortages, and acute malnutrition rates well above emergency thresholds. More than 12 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. With CIDA's support, Oxfam Canada is helping to alleviate suffering, prevent loss of life and reduce the vulnerability of displaced and drought-affected households in the Afgooye Corridor area of Somalia by providing access to cash grants. This program allows beneficiary households to meet their basic life-sustaining needs and avoid reverting to negative coping strategies (including selling off vital assets, early marriage of children, and prostitution) to survive the drought.

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