Somalia

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

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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

$611.1 million

Funding gap

$2 billion

Top 5 Donors

United States of America	$541.1 million (88.5%)
Germany	$26.9 million (4.4%)
Japan	$8.6 million (1.4%)
Canada	$8.4 million (1.4%)
Somalia	$7.2 million (1.2%)

Top Funded Sectors

Food Security and Livelihoods	$329.7 million
Nutrition	$76.6 million
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene	$50 million
Shelter and NFIs	$19 million
Protection	$16.8 million

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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

$1.7 million

Total Paid Amount

Total Pledged Amount

Top 2 Donors

Donor	Pledged	Paid
Germany	$1.2 million
Switzerland	$555.6 thousand

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Funding for OCHA Somalia

The following donors contributed earmarked funding for this year.

Total Requirement

$10,865,398

Earmarked Contributions

$1,431,485

Opening Balance **

Total (Contributions + Opening Balance)

$1,431,485

Earmarked Donors

Donors	USD
Germany	968,523
Japan	462,962

Unearmarked Donors

OCHA received unearmarked contributions from the following donors:

Australia
Belgium
Canada
Estonia
Iceland
Ireland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
South Africa
Sweden
Switzerland

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