OUR WORK
USAID’s five-year strategy (2020 - 2025) aims to help Somalia and its people more effectively withstand disruptions and increasingly drive their own development.
Humanitarian Assistance
Funding Provided in FY 2021: $369 million
USAID provides life-saving humanitarian assistance in response to natural disasters and complex crises around the world. In Somalia, USAID meets the basic needs of vulnerable populations, providing food assistance, healthcare, nutrition services, water, sanitation and hygiene, protection, and livelihood support. USAID also works with the Somali government and other partners to reduce disaster risk and help families and communities recover from crises and rebuild their lives.
Democracy, Stabilization and Governance
Democracy, Stabilization and Governance
IOM Daryeel Durable Solutions Grant
Total Contribution: $1 million
Start-End Date: May 2021 – April 2023
Years of conflict in Somalia have eroded trust between communities. USAID contributes to IOM’s Daryeel Durable Solutions program to promote stability and peace, and restore trust between communities and between communities and local leadership. Daryeel is rebuilding the social contract between Somali citizens and state institutions, extending state authority, supporting the state to degrade and disrupt al-Shabaab, and providing a bridge to longer-term development interventions.
Expanding Access to Justice (EAJ)
Total Estimated Cost: $25 million
Start-End Date: August 2018 – August 2023
EAJ expands access to justice by supporting existing local organizations and structures with effective mechanisms to resolve grievances and feelings of injustice - addressing one of the primary causes of violent extremism in Somalia. EAJ is partnering with local justice organizations to help vulnerable Somalis advocate for justice and to reform justice institutions across Somalia.
Bringing Unity, Integrity, and Legitimacy to Democracy (BUILD)
Total Estimated Cost: $31.5 million
Start-End Date: March 2016 – June 2022
Years of protracted conflict have led to the exclusion of most Somali citizens from the political process. BUILD encourages greater citizen participation in political and electoral processes, improves the media’s capacity to cover and disseminate information on these processes and supports political parties to become more competitive, inclusive and representative.
Joint Program on Local Governance & Decentralized Service Delivery (JPLG)
Total Contribution: $1.5 million
Start-End Date: July 2018 – June 2023
JPLG supports nascent local governments to become more inclusive, representative, and accountable to the needs of their citizens.
Customs Reform and Trade Enhancement Somalia (CRATES)
Total Contribution: $5 million
Start-End Date: August 2018 – July 2022
USAID is partnering with the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to increase customs revenue, Somalia’s primary source of domestic revenue, and improve the efficiency of international trade. CRATES does so by helping draft new customs policy, legislation, and regulations and creating new systems that increase the efficiency and transparency of revenue collection.
World Bank Multi-Partner Fund (MPF)
Total Contribution: $12.1 million
Start-End Date: September 2016 – September 2023
USAID’s investments in the World Bank-managed MPF strengthen public financial management practices and domestic resource mobilization, the financial sector, and public debt management capacity, all critical to Somalia’s continued progress toward debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.
UN Electoral Support Program
Total Contribution: $2.5 million
Start-End Date: January 2020 – December 2024
The United Nations Electoral Support Program works with federal and state electoral management bodies to plan for and deliver Somalia’s federal elections.
Social Services
Bar ama Baro (BAB)
Total Estimated Cost: $49 million
Start-End Date: October 2019 – October 2024
An estimated three million Somali children and youth are out of school. BAB is increasing access to quality accelerated basic education (ABE) for children who never had the chance to enroll in formal schools and those who dropped out. BAB also strengthens the Somali government’s capacity to effectively oversee the delivery of ABE instruction.
Girls’ Education Challenge Transition (GEC-T)
Total Contribution: $5 million
Start-End Date: September 2018 – April 2022
GEC-T improves access to quality education for Somali girls and young women in this $33.7 million project, jointly funded by USAID and the United Kingdom’s FCDO.
Adolescent Girls Education Somalia (AGES)
Total Contribution: $15 million
Start-End Date: July 2021 – August 2024
AGES, a joint venture with the United Kingdom’s FCDO, provides young Somali women excluded from education opportunities with basic skills in finance, math, and other life skills. AGES is also supporting young women to form savings and civic groups that will create economic opportunities and strengthen their social networks.
Economic Growth
Solar Energy Hybridization Development Credit Authority (DCA)
Total Contribution: $350,000
Start-End Date: September 2019 – September 2029
USAID provides a credit guarantee to unlock private financing for solar-powered installations that reduce the cost of electricity and greenhouse gas emissions in Somalia. As of December 2021, USAID has leveraged $1.2 million of private sector investment to support 2.4 megawatts in new solar energy generation.
Cross-Cutting
Somalia Resilience Partnership (SRP)
Total Estimated Cost: $2 million
Start-End Date: October 2019 - September 2024
SRP is a collaboration platform bringing together development and humanitarian organizations to coordinate efforts to promote household and community resilience to recurrent crises in Somalia.
Resilience Portfolio-level Measurement Activity (RPM)
Total Estimated Cost: $9.8 million
Start-End Date: June 2021 - June 2026
RPM is helping USAID measure the contributions of its various investments to strengthening resilience in Somalia. This will help USAID identify the investments that have the greatest impact on the resilience of Somali households and communities for expansion.
