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Somalia

For decades, poverty, marginalization, armed violence, insecurity, political instability, natural hazards and lack of development have driven up humanitarian needs in Somalia.

Key figures

Humanitarian Response Plan: Funding Update

HRPs are the result of OCHA’s work with humanitarian partners around the world to identify the most critical humanitarian needs, plan responses and determine the budgets needed to address them. Requirements for this year are outlined below.

Total Requirement

$2.6 billion

Funding to date

$810.7 million

Funding gap

$1.8 billion

Top 5 Donors

United States of America $554.9 million (68.5%)
Germany $55.4 million (6.8%)
European Commission $44.7 million (5.5%)
Central Emergency Response Fund $25 million (3.1%)
Netherlands $21.7 million (2.7%)

Top Funded Sectors

Food Security and Livelihoods $210.6 million
Not specified $77.4 million
Health $49.5 million
Nutrition $34.8 million
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene $34.6 million

Somalia Humanitarian Fund (HF)

Humanitarian Funds are set up for complex emergencies and support the highest-priority projects of the best-placed responders (including international and national NGOs and UN agencies) through an inclusive and transparent process that supports priorities set out in Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs). Figures below are for this year.

Total Amount

$60.3 million

Total Paid Amount

$60.3 million

Total Pledged Amount

0

Top 12 Donors

Donor Pledged Paid
Netherlands $21.7 million
Germany $9.1 million
Canada $6.7 million
United Kingdom $6.3 million
Norway $5.4 million
Ireland $3.2 million
Sweden $2.9 million
Australia $2 million
Switzerland $1.7 million
Luxembourg $1.1 million
Portugal $53.9 thousand
Estonia $21.6 thousand

Donors

12

Funding for OCHA Somalia

The following donors contributed earmarked funding for this year.

Total Requirement

$10,865,397

Earmarked Contributions

$6,955,381

Opening Balance **

$50,647

Total (Contributions + Opening Balance)

$7,006,028

Earmarked Donors

Donors USD
Canada 372,287
European Commission (DG-ECHO) 537,359
Germany 857,449
Japan 462,962
Sweden (Sida) 432,266
Switzerland (DEZA/SDC) 335,196
United Kingdom (FCDO) 1,257,862
United States (USAID-BHA) 2,700,000

Unearmarked Donors

OCHA received unearmarked contributions from the following donors:

  • Australia
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Japan
  • Luxembourg
  • Monaco
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Private Contributions
  • Russian Federation
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom

Unearmarked contributions (or commitments) are those for which the donor does not require the funds to be used for a specific project, sector, crisis or country, leaving OCHA to decide how to allocate the funds.

** May include unearmarked and earmarked funding with implementation dates beyond the calendar year Excludes miscellaneous income (e.g. adjustments, gain/losses on exchange rate etc.)

Funding information from the OCHA Contributions Tracking System

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