Persistent insecurity, climate effects and displacements, delays seasonal rainfalls, and their impacts on agricultural production and staple food prices continue to worsen the general coping mechanisms and living standards of already vulnerable households. Most of the agro-pastoralist destitute households have experienced recurrent shocks, which have depleted their livestock and forced them to urban centers in search of alternative households. Notably, those who have managed to reach in the urban district have no help for food and shelter and Wash.

HIRDO food security and livelihoods interventions are focusing access to essential needs and sustainable livelihood support to drought and conflict affected populations from climate-impacted areas. HIRDO major FSL interventions include improving the livelihoods and resilience of communities through supporting agricultural production and creation of community assets, providing agricultural farm inputs and tools as well as farmer training on food farming techniques and crop production. During emergencies, our activities focus on emergency response such as cash interventions for immediate relief of the most vulnerable households where there is lack of access of food and cash. HIRDO has implemented four FSL projects in Benadir, Hiran and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia while more than five hundred households benefited from the projects during the emergencies and after the humanitarian crisis.