The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) is a multi-donor country-based pooled mechanism created in 2010 to allocate funding for the most urgent life-saving interventions in Somalia. Combining flexibility and strategic focus, the Fund ensures timely allocation and disbursement of resources, enables effective humanitarian action and strengthens coordination.
With the SHF, governments and private donors can channel their contributions into a common, unearmarked fund to deliver life-saving assistance to people who need it most.
SHF funds are prioritized and managed locally. The Fund supports the highest-priority projects of the best-placed responders - mainly international and national NGOs and some UN agencies - through an inclusive and transparent process that meets priorities set out in the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). This ensures that funding is available and prioritized locally by those closest to people in need.
The Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia decides on SHF allocations based on strategic prioritization led by the inter-cluster coordination structure and upon the endorsement of the SHF Advisory Board. On a day-to-day basis, the SHF is managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Since inception, the SHF allocated more than $700 million for critical humanitarian response in Somalia, gaining trust from donors due to its distinct comparative advantages – the unearmarked nature of the Fund and its flexibility, its robust and established accountability systems and its integration within the existing coordination systems.
The Somalia Humanitarian Fund’s (SHF) demonstrate its comparative advantages through the un-earmarked nature of the Fund; its accountability systems; integration within the existing coordination systems; and flexibility, which also allows for a quick deployment or redeployment of the SHF funds in sudden onset situations.
The following principles and priorities are guiding the SHF allocations in 2023:
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The SHF beneficiaries and other stakeholders are encouraged to provide feedback, complaints or concerns regarding the implementation of SHF-funded projects to the SHF accountability team through phone number +252 613661199 by way of direct call, voice recording, SMS or WhatsApp.
Complaints regarding the SHF process or decisions can also be brought to the attention of OCHA Somalia senior management through the confidential feedback email shf-feedback@ochasomalia.org.
Your feedback will be treated confidentially.
The SHF thanks our donors for their generous support in 2022.
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