Enhancing Community-Led Protection -SSWC

About this project

This project strengthens inclusive, community based protection structures in conflict and climate affected district by combining Group Cash Transfers (GCT) with targeted capacity building. Through the GCT approach, community groups receive flexible funding to identify protection risks and implement their own context specific solutions, fostering local ownership and sustainability. Somalia’s protracted crisis continues to expose civilians to intersecting layers of conflict, displacement, and socioeconomic hardship. Communities face persistent insecurity while simultaneously recovering from drought, adapting to rapid urbanization, and coping with rising living costs all of which heighten predictable and preventable protection risks. Women and girls are routinely exposed to harassment and violence during daily livelihood activities, while men and adolescent boys face movement restrictions, coercion, and extortion. Children are increasingly pushed into hazardous labour or early marriage as families struggle to meet basic needs. In Beledweyne,a city divided by the Shabelle River in Hiraan region, climate related shocks further intensify vulnerability. The area experiencesrecurrent flooding and drought, with recent floods submerging extensive farmland and severely undermining local agriculture and household resilience. Restricted freedom of movement due to conflict dynamics and the presence of non state armed actors further compounds protection concerns. Despite these widespread r…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 1No Poverty

Published by

Oxfam Novib · International NGO

Countries

Somalia

Sectors

Relief co-ordination and support services

Published by Oxfam Novib to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 12 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27108436-A-07792-03:SO.

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