Integrated livelihood and Resilience Support to Refugees and Host Communities in Awubare District of

Somali, Regional States, Ethiopia

Proposal submitted to WFP by Islamic Relief and its Partners

NAME & ADDRESS OF

ORGANIZATION/NGO: Islamic Relief (IR), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (international NGO)

Located in Addis Ababa, Kirkos Sub City, Woreda 03 House No

1021, P.O.Box27787 code 1000 Tel: 251-11-4700973/66 Off Mob
No. 251-910-233656

Consortium Members Wako Gutu Foundation (WGF)and

Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC)

PROJECT LOCATION (Region (s) & Refugee Somali Regional State, Fafan Zone, Awubare Woreda at Awubere
Camp(s)
and Shedder Refugee Camps
IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD April 2019-March 2023

CONTACT PERSON Ahmed Abajobir, Country Director

E-mail ahmed.abajobir@islamic-relief.org.et

Phone:+251114700973
P.O.Box: 27787 Code 1000

DATE PROPOSAL SUBMITTED March 13, 2019

Propose Budget $ 4,660,700.00

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ACRONYMS

ARRA Agency for Refugees Returnees Affairs

CCFC Christian Children Fund
CD Country Director
CFW Cash for Work
CO Country Office
CRM Compliant Response Mechanisms
CSOs Civil Society Organizations
DICAC Development and Inter Church Aid Commission
DRR Disaster Risk Reduction
FFT Food for Training
FSL Food Security and Livelihood
GBV Gender based Violence
GOE Government of Ethiopia
HCs Host Communities
HHs Households
ICTs Information and Communication Technologies
IRC International Rescue Committee
IOM International Organization for Migration
IR Islamic Relief
IRW Islamic relief Worldwide
LWF Lutheran World Federation
MFI Micro finance Institution
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NRM Natural Resource management
OSD Operation support Department
PM Project Manager
PO Project Officer
RaDO Rehabilitation and Development Organization
RDPP Regional Development Project Plan
SEE Save your Environment Ethiopia
SHGs Self Help Groups
SME Small and Medium Enterprise
UK United Kingdom
UNHCR United Nation Higher Commission for refugees
WFP World Food Program

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................................................. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................................... 3
PART 1: BACKGROUND / PROBLEM ANALYSIS/ (PARAGRAPH) ............................................................. 4
PART 2 PROJECT OBJECTIVES................................................................................................................ 9
2.1 General Objective ...................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 Specific Objectives/Outcomes ..................................................................................................... 9
PART 3: PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY .................................................................................. 9
PART 4: EXPECTED PROJECT ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................ 13
PART 5: ORGANIZATION’S PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE ............................................................................. 16
PART 6: COMMUNITY/COUNTERPART PARTICIPATION : ...................................................................... 21
PART 7: PROJECT INPUTS REQUIRED .................................................................................................. 22
PART 8: EXPECTED OUTPUTS, INDICATORS AND TARGETS ................................................................ 23
PART 9: REPORTING and MONITORING ARRANGEMENTS .................................................................... 23
PART 10: MAINSTREAMING GENDER STRATEGY ................................................................................. 24
PART 11: RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS-Abraru ........................................................................................ 26
PART 12: EXIT STRATEGY ..................................................................................................................... 27
ANNEXES as relevant .......................................................................................................................... 28

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PART 1: BACKGROUND / PROBLEM ANALYSIS/ (PARAGRAPH)

Ethiopia has a long standing history of hosting refugees. Continued insecurity within neighboring states has
resulted in refugee movements, either directly as a result of internal conflict and human rights abuses or as a result
of conflict related to completion for scarce natural resources and drought related food insecurity. Ethiopia is the
second largest refugee hosting nation in Africa, with 905,831 refugees and asylum seekers as of 31 August 2018.
The refugees are South Sudanese (46.6%), Somalis (28.4%), Eritreans (19.2%), Sudanese (4.9%), Yemenis
(0.2%) and other nationalities (0.7%). The majority of these refugees reside in camps located in remote areas near
their respective countries borders, with limited schools, health facilities, food, clean water, sanitation, and
household energy (UNHCR 2018).

The recent history of Somali refugees in Ethiopia is the result of the prolonged civil war in Somalia since late 1991.
The situation was further worsened due to consecutive drought that hit the east African countries. By December
2018, Ethiopia hosted 257,283 Somali refugees in different refugee camps. Most of these refugees sought asylum
and 4.1% are settled in Fafan Zone while 24.2% in Dolo Ado Zone of Somali Regional State of Ethiopia. The areas
where these refugees are currently residing is inhibited by the people that shared similar language, religious
practices with different economic backgrounds. The host communities are largely dependent on livestock and
farming. The proposed project is designed to address refugees from Somalia currently located in the two camps
of Awubare Woreda, that is, Awubare and Sheder camps in Somali regional state of Fafan zone.

In mid-February 2019, IR sent its mission to Fafan Zone and conducted the need assessment for developing this
proposal. It was observed that both the refugees and host communities live in harmony, in sharing the meagre
resources available in the area and as a result there has been significant environmental, social and economic
impact on the local natural resources such as soil, grazing land, water and wild life.

The over-exploitation, deterioration and degradation of natural resources in Awbarree woreda is prevalent and at
critical situation due to the impact of refugees in the Woreda at two camps. One of these camps is located at the
outscurt of the woreda capital, Awbarree, and the second, Shedar, is 17 km away from Awbare with estimated
refugee case load of 13,056 and 11,065 respectively.

The impact of refugees on environment has been evident especially contributing to deforestation and de-vegetation
mainly due to high demand for fuel wood. Women and children are forced to walk often longer distance in search
of wood that is resulting in increasing work burden on women and children and putting them in danger of physical
assault. The host communities experienced shortage of wood for construction and fuel and prices for fuel in local
markets rise which is affecting the livelihood of both refugees and the host communities. There are instances that
some refugees are also forced to sell part of their food rations in order to obtain the fuel needed to cook the
remainder. This will inevitably contribute to reduced dietary intake and increased levels of malnutrition.

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The impact of poor sanitation on the refugees themselves is also extremely intense affecting the health of large
numbers of people. Lack of proper disposal of wastes is contributing to deterioration of environmental sanitation.

Based upon the Ethiopia Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) 2016, poverty is the main challenge facing refugees and
host communities at Awbare and Sheder camps. These camps are among one of the camps where refugees are
facing a challenge for energy access. This obliges refugees to use firewood for domestic uses, such as cooking,
lighting, and heating. The lack of household energy leads to sell of food rations (refugees buy firewood from the
host population by selling part of their food rations.), collection of fire wood and consequently impacting on child
care practices, protection and host community relations. It also leads to sub-optimal cooking conditions, especially
the utilization of the traditional three-stone fire, which compromises food quality, health and safety. Look the
predicament listed by the report. The lack of livelihood opportunities also leads to hopelessness and idleness
among host communities, and some cope with these challenges by chewing khat, or developing other self-
destructive habits or engage in other social evils. Some were even resorted to survival sex in order to meet their
basic needs.

Incidents of rape, killing and physical attacks on women and men can occur during firewood collection. The
presence of cattle raiders can be factors of insecurity during firewood collection (and collection of other natural
resources) as well as in accessing distant markets for selling forest products.

Furthermore, the lack of alternative sources of livelihood puts extreme pressure on available natural resources and
increase social tensions with the local/host population. Refugees and host communities are all relying on the same
natural resources for livelihood. Communities have not come to the realization that the current trend is
unsustainable in spite of noticing walking further and further away to collect different wood products.

The following issues emerged as relevant to initiate sustainable livelihood development and resilience building for
refugees and host communities in contributing towards solving the problem so as to reduce syndrome of
dependency and minimize the ever increasing cost of living for refugees.

 Depletion of natural resources due to extreme weather conditions

 Dependency on the already depleted natural resources for energy and other living requirements of
refugees and the host communities
 Limited livelihood opportunities for refugees to engage in economic activities due to restrictions by law in
the past
 Absence of market linkages due to limited movement and absence of access road
 Lack of technical knowhow and absence of financial support

Based on the assessment results obtained from the field, the refugees require durable solutions to sustainably
support themselves than depending on their ongoing food aid handouts. The project intends to economically
empower refugees and local communities with skill development, integrated agricultural activities, creating access

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to finance and productive assets, value chain development and initiate income generating ventures thereby
building livelihood and resilience within both the refugees and the host communities.

PROJECT JUSTIFICATION/DECRIPTION

In Fafan Zone of Somali Regional State, there are three camps (Kebribaya, Awbare and Sheder) that are currently
hosting refugees who fled from Somalia. The camps were established in 1991, 2007 and 2008, respectively. The
data obtained from field indicates that, there are around 36,916 refugee (17443 men and 19473 women) who live
in Awbare, Kebribaya and Sheder camps. The data further indicates that in three of the camps there are 1708
(Female 889 and Male 819) people with disabilities. However, the total for the two camps where this project targets
(Awubare and Sheder) the refugee population with disabilities is 1241 (Female 667 and Male 574).

The livelihoods of the communities living around the three camps are based on a mix of pastoral livestock
production (keeping mixed species of livestock 10%) and agro-pastoral production (livestock keeping coupled with
crop production and honey production 85%), with few business opportunities in the trade and services sector.
Although most of the refugees, largely rely on humanitarian assistance, some of them are engaged in some
informal economic activities `within the camp or in the neighboring host community markets. Lack of access road
to some of the camps is a deterant factor for Ambulance and Fire Brigade services to the refugees . Isolation of
the camps coupled with restrictions on access to labour, grazing land, markets and employment resulted in a
challenging environment for supporting sustainable livelihoods for the refugees.

However, based on IR and other multi-agency assessments there are opportunities that can be capitalized upon
in order to initiate and build livelihood and resiliance capacites within both refugees and host communities.
Although challenges still remain with regards to access to arable and grazing land and local jobs, the Current
progressive Ethiopian government policy towards refugees is expected to create enabling environment for
development partners and government agencies to develop suatnable socio economic oportunities for refugees
and their host communities.

As the current humanitarian funding and programming are neither sufficient nor sustainable, a more ‘development
oriented’ approach is necessary to provide durable solutions over the longer term. Stakeholders now acknowledge
the need to move away from humanitarian and relief interventions to supporting more sustainable livelihoods for
refugees (UNHCR, 2017) given that there are clear justifications for supporting the diversification of refugee’s
livelihood and building their confidence. The current practice of providing relief for the refugees at camps in the
form of basic needs (food, healthcare, shelter and other services) is built on the assumption that the refugee
situation is temporary with the hope that they will eventually return to their home countries is unsustainable,
especially in the face of funding shortfalls for protracted refugees and displacements. Secondly, self-reliant
refugees are better able to take care of themselves and their families. Furthermore, owing to the proximity of the
camps, the potential for refugees to serve as economic engines and develop these areas takes an added value.

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Accordingly, in response to WFP’s call for proposal, this project entitled ‘’ Integrated Livelihood and Resilience
Support for Refugees and Host Communities in Fafan zone of Somali Regional State’’ is initiated by Islamic Relief
(IR) and its partners, Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC) and Wako Gutu Foundation.

This project alligns with the UN-WFP’s core mandate of self-reliance, access to market and market systems
strengthening, gender and social protection strategies to food and nutrition security. It also complies with the
Ethiopian Growth and Transformation Plan II of enhancing and improving the livelihoods and social cohesion
among refugee and host communities. By complying with WFP’s policy, this integrated llivelihood and resilience
support for refugees and host communities project aims to mobilize, provide awareness-raising on food and
nutrition security, asset creation, livelihood diversifications and promotion of environment friendly and efficient
energy sources. IR and its partners ( CCFC and the Wako Gutu Foundation) will work with the refugees and host
communities to create income generation activities using tested innovative approaches including the famous
innovative project that has been implemented in other parts of ethiopia knmown as “From Trash to Cash” that
turns human and other wastes in to efficient clean eneregy source such as briquettes that can be locally produced
by the refugees themselves and sold in local markets thereby creating job and generating income opportunities.
Apart from creating employment opprtunities and income generation especially for the young women and men,
this project is deemed to significantly contribute to protection and restoration of natural resources, ensuring
cleanliness of the environemnt.

As sustainable livelihood options and sustainable environmental behavior go hand in hand source of energy for
household consumption is incorporated in the project design. The causes of various household energy challenges
are closely linked to lack of livelihood options which in turn impacts on relations between refugee and host
populations and on the protection of refugee communities for instance when refugees tend to use natural resources
extensively in order to generate income by selling firewood, charcol or other natural resources.

The use of firewood as sources of energy in refugee households has strong cross-cutting impacts on the
environment (environmental degradation of the camps’ surroundings), refugees’ health (respiratory problems), the
relationship between the host community and the refugee population (competition for natural resources and shifting
blames on refugees for environmental degradation) and gender-related issues (since collecting firewood is typically
considered as a feminine task; frequently, women and girls are harassed and attacked while collecting firewood).

The over reliance of refugee and host communities on natural resources such as firewood and charcoal as the
main source of income further exacerbates rapid deforestation. The provision of additional firewood is expensive
and environmentally harmful, since the firewood is being cut and transported from increasingly greater distances.

To respond to this challenge, the project promotes diversified income generating activities (IGAs) as a way of
helping the refugees and host population, providing them with a level of independence and self-sufficiency.
Diversifying IGAs/sources of livelihoods can empower persons so that they are able to influence their own lives
and guide their future.

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Thus, implementing Agencies of this project (Islamic Relief, Wako Gutu Foundation and Christain Children’s Fund
of Canada) intends to undertake integrated approach to the challenges with mix of measures to support alternative
and diversified livelihood opportunities, reduce exposure to risks and mitigate environmental degradation. To this
end, the project is a way of restoring dignity among refugee populations and an important source of self-confidence
and hope that they can bring about positive change in their own lives. With respect to women refugees, having a
livelihood is a protection tool and a powerful motivator for other women and young girls. IGAs help families to
secure much needed income for the purchase of necessities.

To have smoother exit strategy the project is planned from the outset not only to fully comply with WFP’s policies
and expectations but also to esnure , active participation of the key project stakeholders, particularly, the Regional
Government, ARRA, UNHCR, other partners and above all the beneficiary Refugee and Host Communities
themselves.

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PART 2 PROJECT OBJECTIVES

2.1 General Objective

The overall objective of the project is building self-reliance and sustainable livelihood for refugees and host
communities.

2.2 Specific Objectives/Outcomes

This project has the following three outcomes:
Outcome 1: Improved income of 3402 persons (60% women) by 60% from the baseline. (Beneficiaries 540
households)
Outcome 2: Improved utilization and uptake of nutritious food for 22,750 persons (refugees: 13,650 and host
communities: 9100) by the end of 2023. (Beneficiaries: 3500 Households)
Outcome 3: Improved the adoption of best-bet natural resource management practices and utilization of energy
efficient technologies among 75 % of the target households (beneficiaries: 4875 Households).

PART 3: PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY

The proposed intervention will support and complement the Government's and other humaniterian actors efforts
by mobilizing resources to support the implementation of integerated livelihood and resilience project for refugees
and host-communities. The total number of beneficiaries targeted by this integrated livelihood and resilience
support project are 6,300 HHs or 40,200 persons.This project will be implemented within the framework of the
current law of the country and WFP strategy to support the refugee communities in integration with host
communities. Responsibilities for decesion making,planning and implementation of the proposed development
actrivties will be done inconsultation with those government offices located at Woreda level and representatives at
the refugee camp. Therefore, the strategies selected for the implementation of this project will be based on the
following seven basic principles:(i) working in partnership by bringing knoweldge and skills of consortium together
(ii) Use the principles of community targetting where community members involve in the selection process (iii)
Voluntary membership of income generating groups (iv) Give opportunity for both refugees and host communities
to choose their areas of involvement for livelihood program (v)building upon the knoweldge, previous exposure
and skills within the community (vi)Strengthenning local government and community based organizations to
support members and (vii) Integration and complementarity of results. The project will follow the following
strategies so as to implement the project:

(i) Working in Partnership: This project will be implemented by consortium of NGOs with diverse experiences,
indiginious community knoweldge and implementation of different reseilience building and livelihood projects.
Consortium members through its lead organization (IR) will hire a Project Manager and other technical project
officers who will be based at Awbare field office and will provide technical support to and closely work with refugees
and host communities to improve their livelihoods and build their confidence The collaborative effort of the

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consortium members will enhance the practice of environmental sanitation, gender mainstreaming, promotion of
natural resource management and create market linkages and generate income for the families at risk. The three
collaborating members create/strengthen partnership among NGOs, relevant government organizations at various
levels and Jigjiga University to ensure gender, disability and those at risk population.

(ii) Use the principles of community targetting where community members involve in the selection process:
Beneficiary selection and recruitment committee will be established both in the refugee and host communities
settings. Committees that represent both refugees and host communities will be established and orientated on the
selection criteria to be developed for each and every activities set on the project proposal. Attempt will be made to
have equal representation of both sex within the committee.

(iii) Voluntary membership of income generating groups : Host communities and refugeess will be organized
in groups so as to initiate the income generating ventures. In this regard, memebers are prompted to make
application on their specific interest for trainning, running business and choose their areas of engagement. Each
member of a group will be assumed to be guarantor for the other. Members have free to choose their groups.

(iv) Give opportunity for both refugees and host communities to choose their areas of involvement for
livelihood program The project will serve as a tool for strengthenning the bondage among the host communities
and refugees so as to promote social cohesion. Both refugees and host communities have common demand and
interest to work together and hence giving them equal opportunity to be involved in liivelihood program be sought
as one of the strategy to keep all memers of the group as owner of development to systain the program. In this
project attempt will be made to involve the host community (40% of the total project beneficiary) in all thematic
areas proposed.

(v)Building upon the indiginious knoweldge, previous exposure and skills within the community: The host
communities and refugees have developed their own coping mechanisms to withstand the drought and stresses.
Refugees have their own knoweldge and skills they brought with and attempts to practice it within their contexts.
Similarly the host communities have knoweldge and experiences that will be tapped to promote livelihood
programs. Further other humaniterian partners intiated different programs that supports the refugee communities
though its linkage with the structure of the community is limited. Therefore, the project capitalizes on the existing
community knoweldge on natural resource management, livelihood diversification initiatives and promotion of food
and nutrtion focussed natural resource. The project also ensures learnning, and sharing best practices within the
communities and likeminded organizations using appreciating enquiry and social learnining networks.

(vi) Strengthenning local government and community based organizations to support members: The
project aimed at mitigating the impact of the protracted livelihood situation of host communities and refugees crisis
on the local natural resources, social cohesion, food security and economies of the most severely affected

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communities by stimulating rapid and sustainable development for most vulnerable group of people. This is also
inline with the local demands as reflected durung the discussions made. Therefore, there will be regular multi
stakeholder platforms where all reflects and learnning from. In addtion to this, the project attempts to strengthen
the capacity of the local employees and enterprises such as technical and vocational education and trainning
(TVET) centers that will serve both refugees and host communities in common. The project works towards bringing
the attention of the local government to extend its support to refugees in concerted manner.

(vii) Integration and complementarity of results : All the proposed results of the project are interelated and
interconnected.There are ground and surface water sources in the area that contributes for the livelihood program.
In the light of alternative livelihood creation to refugees and host community, the proposed project endeavors to
provide adequate water for animal consumption, production of vegetables, poultry and to support seedling
preparations. Agro pastoral communities will be benefited from constructed earth dams and drilled shallow
boreholes that fitted with agro-solar kits will ensure to provide reliable water sources for animal consumption further
these sources will help to maintain irrigation production during dry periods. Construction of earth dams will reliable
water for refugee and host communities who are engaged in different livelihood activities that used to be suffer due
to lack of water sources. Location of earth dams will be done with care to locate at a strategic sites that is amidst
to the refugees and host communities where they can access water at permissible distance. Wells drilling site
location will be selected in consultation with the host communities with technical support of Regional Water Bureaus
experts. Ground water potential will be assessed prior to the commencement of the drilling.

A feasibility study will be undertaken in order to fully ensure technical feasibility, economic viability, social
acceptability and environmental sustainability of proposed structures. A complete feasibility and or detail design
study will be conducted to perfectly locate earth/Haffier dams construction and shallow well drilling sites. The
complete assessment and investigation of all available water and land resources in the area possibly at the closest
distances to the refugee community will be done. Accordingly best intervention technology and location will be
selected together with beneficiaries.

IR will assign own drilling machine with its full crew to drill all potential identified sites on the bases of the
recommendation of the hydrogeological survey to maximum drilling depth of 60m. The project will cover drilling
personnel and operation costs (fuel, lubricants drilling foam, bentonite, casings, staffs per dimes and others). To
facilitate the drilling activity and provide full service for the drilling crew, IR dump truck that always follow the rig
machine and provides transportation service for drilling tools, drilling machine, compressor and other field camping
materials. IR will complete wells and made ready for pump test, which is going to be done by RWB team.

As source of income generation and ensuring food and nutrtion security, the community will be organized into
different groups to work on crop and livestock production, apiculture, bakery, vegitable production, running small
scale business groups, etc. The groups will be provided with techincal backstopings from professionals of partners

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and local supporters. Business skill trainnings, all the necessary equipment and tools will be provided in group.
The community will be given options to select areas of interest. Partners will also facilitate the linkage with
microfinance to access credits and provide working capital. Each participants of the Income generating groups
will be encouraged to save regularly for further investment and expansion of business.

The natural resource management (multi-purpose tree planting, forage production, moisture conservation and
rehabilitation of degraded land) directly contribute to food and nutrition security of the target households as their
livelihood activities are entirely depend on agriculture (livestock rearing and crop production as a source of food
and income).The project will emphasize on actively engaging all stakeholders in natural resources management
in the Woreda. It will first create awareness and increase knowledge about natural resource management among
religious and community leaders, government and non-government stakeholders through sensitization workshop
which will be also used to reach on consensus on commitment and accountability of each stakeholders. The project
will support the local government in developing bylaw for Natural Resource Management at Woreda and kebele
level that will strengthen the local NRM system.
Experience sharing on natural resource management will be organized for key community leaders and influential
community members and training will be delivered on conflict management between refugee and cost community
and within the host community and benefit sharing for representatives of refugees and religious/community
leaders from host communities.Based on the experience of partners, a well-designed, inclusive, participatory and
action-oriented Community Conversation (CC) is effective knowledge and information delivery mechanisms and
behavior change communication. Thus partners will conduct community conversation and awareness raising
campaigns on natural resource management to reach at least 2,200 households. The degraded areas and other
lands use potential areas for grazing will be and delineation (social fencing) for assisted natural regeneration and
enrichment of vegetation.

The knowledge and skill on natural resource management practices of the target host communities will be
improved through well-tailored practical –oriented training on appropriate natural resource management practices
including multi-purpose tree planting, forage production, moisture conservation/micro-basin and mulching/ and
rehabilitation of degraded land through enrichment planting.

Partners will promote energy saving technology that contribute to reducation of fuel wood consumption, improving
environmental in refugee camps and in the host communities, and improve income of the target households who
willbe enagaged in production of fuel saving stoves and briquettes. The supply chain management will be in place.
For instance the groups producing briquetts will also sell it for bakery groups. Similarly, those who produce stoves
will sale to communities and refugees.The project will use “trach to cash” approach where briquettes which are
a good substitute for wood, clean (free of smoke) and easy to handle, are produced from wastes.

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The project will also ensure the availability of alternative fuel/energy source through production, accessibility and
marketing of briquettes that can be used as a substitute for wood and charcoal which will also reduce pressure on
natural vegetation and improve livelihood.

PART 4: EXPECTED PROJECT ACTIVITIES

Outcome 1: Improved income of 3402 persons (60% women) by 60% from the baseline. (Beneficiaries 540
households)

Activities:

1.1. Support Refugees and Host communities to engage in income generation activities
 Establish Milk processing groups
 Train target groups in milk processing
 Provide milk processing tools for target groups
 Establish bakery IGA groups
 Tainting of bakery IGA member in bakery operation
 Construction of Bakery oven construction with mud bricks
 Provide different bakery tools
 Establish IGA groups to open shops of consumer goods
 provide start up goods for Group IGAs operating shops
 Establish livestock fattening IGA groups
 Provide start up livestock for fattening groups
 Provide fattening training to fattening groups
 Form Construction group IGA
 Provide Training on low cost shelter and energy saving stoves construction
 support the IGA with small scale construction tools
 Provide technical and vocational training to refugee youth (Hair cutting, masonry, Mobile
maintenance…etc.)
 Form group IGAs for vocational and technical training graduates
 Provide tools necessary tools and working capital for vocational training graduates
 Provide Entrepreneurship training to all IGA operators
 Train all IGA operators in book keeping

Outcome 2: Improved utilization and uptake of nutritious food for 22,750 persons (refugees13, 650 and host 9100
communities) by the end of 2023. (Beneficiaries: 3500 Households)

Activities:

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2.1. Support target communities in crop production (both refugees and agro-pastoralists

 Provide agricultural tools to agro-pastoralists

 Provide improved and early maturing seeds
 Construction of agricultural produce storage facility
 Training crop producers on agro-economics ( modern agricultural practice)

2.2. Support local communities with livestock production

 Provide start up small ruminants for target communities ( 100% refugees)

 Train target refuges in modern livestock rearing
 Construction of earth dams for Animals watering and to support livelihood activities
 capacitate veterinary clinics and heath posts ( materials support)

2.3. Promote poultry production for refuges

 Train refugees in modern poultry rearing

 Provide locally viable chickens to refuges for poultry rearing
 Poultry shade construction
 Train target community members in nutritious poultry feed production
 Support target community members with poultry production tools
 Provide donkey carts for water transportation

Outcome 3: Improved the adoption of best-bet natural resource management practices and utilization of energy
efficient technologies among 75 % of the target households (beneficiaries: 4875 HH).

Activities:

3.1. Enhancing the capacity of local community, government partners and other stakeholders on effective
natural resource management system and practices

 Conduct awareness creation and sensitization workshop for 180 religious and community leaders,
government and non-government stakeholders.
 Develop bylaw for Natural Resource Management at Woreda and kebele level
 Area identification and delineation (social fencing) involving 20 for assisted natural regeneration and
enrichment of vegetation of degraded land.
 Experience sharing on natural resource management (50 key community leaders and influential
community members)
 Training on conflict management between refugee and cost community and within the host community
and benefit sharing for 75 representatives of refugees and religious/community leaders from host
communities

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  Conduct inclusive, participatory and action-oriented Community Conversation (CC) on natural resource
management practices.
 Conduct inclusive, participatory and action-oriented Community Conversation (CC) on natural resource
management practices reaching 2,200 households: Assign 20 community lay social workers for
Community Conversation on natural resource management (to facilitate 2 sessions per social worker for
month 36 months.
 Training for social workers on community conservation facilitation skill (20 social workers for 3 days)
 Provide training for 1200 host community and refugee on natural resource management practices
including multi-purpose tree planting, forage production, moisture conservation/micro-basin and
mulching/
 Introduce enrichment planting materials (forage: pigeon pea, vetch, lupine, and multi-purpose trees and
shrubs) on 1,500 hectare degraded area.
 Provide seeds and planting materials of forage/feed seeds (elephant grass, alpha-alpha and Sudan grass
and sesbania) for 100 households
 Support tree planting management: Pitting, planting and moisture conversation, seedling survival rate
count)
 Identify and organize 20 user groups (each group with 30 members) (among pastoralists, agro-pastoralist
for village level natural resource management.
 Provide material for shrubs and forage pruning tools, thinning for 20 groups.
 Organize Six nursery groups (each with 10 members, unemployed youth) and provide training on nursery
management for six nursery groups to run nursery
 Provide fast-growing dry-tolerant trees and forage seeds/planting materials and tools for 6 groups (six
nursery plots).
 Distribute fast-growing dry-tolerant trees and forage seedlings to 300 households (150 refugees and 150
host community members) for planting,
 Provide seeds of multi-purpose and multi-story plants for community backyard gardening for 90
households (30 refugees, 60 households in host community).

3.2. Promoting Energy Saving Technology

 Organize 6 groups (each group with 10 members, and 3 group each from refugees and host community)
who will be engaged in fuel saving stoves production and selling. The group will be supported in
developing bylaw and business plan.
 Train 60 members of the groups on fuel saving stove production and basic business management training
(book keeping, saving, group management)

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  Conduct cook stove demonstration along with food preparing – for better nutrition for 250 model mothers
from refugee and 114 model mothers from host community
 Provide basic initial production materials (galvanized iron and other inputs for mold and stove production;
and construction materials for production shelter and store).
 Provide 2,322 solar light lanterns for 2322 households as an alternative source of light.
 Organize 8 groups each group with 15 members who will be engaged in briquettes production and selling
(supporting in developing their bylaw and business plan).
 Train 120 group member on production of briquettes and basic business management training (book
keeping, saving, group management.
 Conduct demonstration on use of briquettes for cooking for 490 households: 320 refugee and 170 host
community members)
 Provide basic production materials for production of briquettes producer groups (8 groups)
 Provide construction materials and support construction of shelter and store (for briquettes production)
for the 8 groups
 Create and strengthen market linkage (product/commodity identification and value-chain assessment and
sharing assessment result to individuals) for two refugee camps and 2 host communities.

PART 5: ORGANIZATION’S PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

The project will be implemented through a consortium involving three organizations, i.e. Islamic Relief (IR),
Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC), and Wako Gutu Foundation (WGF). All Consortium members will be
direct implementers of the activities that contribute for the set outcomes. Although there will be overlap of the
activities, members of the consortium will work towards their respective thematic areas defined as outcomes in
bringing their professional expertise and experiences together. IR shall be the leading agency providing the overall
coordination on management, monitoring and evaluation of the project and will be the principal channel of
communication with WFP on top of its contribution towards outcome 1 and 2.The consortium members will
exchange human and technical resources to build on each organization’s previous experience. In this way the
skills and the collaborative efforts will be coordinated to realize the objective of the project. Experience of the
leading agency and partners is presented here below:

Islamic Relief is an independent humanitarian and development organization with a presence in over 40 countries
around the globe. Islamic Relief has been fighting poverty and injustice for 32 years, in a world in which over
three billion people still live in poverty. Islamic Relief Worldwide was founded in 1984 in Birmingham, Uk, and
works with refugees and host communities in 26 countries around the world. Its work globally includes both
emergency response and development programs aimed at saving lives as well as rehabilitating affected
communities and supporting them rebuild their livelihood and resilience capacities.

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. As an international aid agency in the forefront assisting refugees, displaced people and returnees,, IR have
developed partnerships with numerous governments and key institutions, notably the United Nations. In 2013,
Islamic Relief was listed as one of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) top ten
international implementing partners.

IR globally has started operation in the humanitarian sector and guided by two major goals that include reducing
the humanitarian impact of conflicts and natural disasters and empowering communities to emerge from poverty
and vulnerability. In its first major goal areas it considers, reducing the suffering and losses resulting from conflicts
or natural disasters, provide timely, adequate and relevant emergency assistance for people affected by conflicts
or natural disasters, and support households and communities affected by the disasters to rebuild their livelihoods
while in its second major goal it deals with poverty reduction and alleviation, addressing basic social services, and
improve the quality of life for vulnerable groups especially women and children through investments in education,
WASH and health services. More importantly, Islamic Relief triggers rehabilitation of socioeconomic
development interventions in the aftermath of crisis and keep up long-term development programs to
sustain and eradicate poverty across the world.

Islamic Relief has been operational in Ethiopia since 2001 and started its work in response to the severe droughts
of 2000 that affected the Somali region. Islamic Relief strategically situates itself in the most vulnerable Zones of
the region namely Afder, Liban, Sitti and Fafan. It has 6 field offices excluding temporary offices that are established
along with projects. Its coordination offices for Somali program are located at Jijiga town, the Somali Regional
Capital, and Hargele town, Afder Zonal capital. Its project office in Liban is located at Dekasuftu Woreda while Sitti
is located at Muli (Mieso). Furthermore, , Islamic Relief has been operational in Afar and Oromia Regional state
and works towards improving the livelihood of these communities with similar engagements.

In the Somali Region, IR has been engaged in strengthening animal health services through training of Community
Animal Health Workers and the establishment of private vet pharmacies. It also supports income diversification,
including small scale irrigation, fodder production, supplying and training communities on locally appropriate
irrigation pumps and multipurpose solar pumps, mining of salts and improvement of crop and animal production.
IR has also been active in exploring and expanding alternative non-traditional markets, with a focus on gums and
resins honey production, backyard gardening and animal fattening programs. IR retains a strong focus on
cooperative development, and has been instrumental in behavioral change activities around improved locally
appropriate sustainable natural resource management that improve farm production without negatively impacting
on the environment. So far it established cooperatives working in various sectors, saving and credit groups, and
running small scale business.

Apart from its experience of livelihood improvements of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, it took part in the
drilling of water wells for livelihood development using its own rig machine and drilling crew. Currently, it introduced
multipurpose use of deep well at Afar for use of irrigation scheme. Generally, IR works with local communities
across the Somali Region of Ethiopia in order to improve the livelihoods of the most marginalized groups through

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integrated planning of interventions that target basic education, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, child
protection and livelihoods improvement. All the activities with which IR engages focus on sustainability, with
significant emphasis on building the resilience capacity of existing groups at community level.

Islamic Relief seeks to offer vast experience accrued from implementing several projects globally and at country
level in the areas of Livelihood that were funded by various donors.

Islamic Relief has been implementing 10 projects that focused on improvement of the livelihood of pastoralist and
agro pastoralist situation in 9 proposed intervention Woredas located in Somali, Afar and Addis Ababa. Some of
these projects that describes IR experience in the livelihood projects were listed as an example in the Table here
below:

Donor Project name Project value Year of

(USD) Implementation
EU Support to reducing vulnerability and improving 868,299 January 2007-
livelihood in the pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of December 2009
Southern Somali Regional state-Ethiopia
SIDA Integrated Emergency Response and recovery project 762,860 January 2017-
December 2017
Forum SYD Empowering Vulnerable Pastoralist Communities 145,830 January 2017-
June 2018
IR UK Improve pastoralist livelihood 300,000 March 2016-
September 2017

IR has currently well-established office at field level in the proposed project areas whose overall program is led by
Regional Coordinator supported by sector program officers and other support staff. This office is supported by and
reports to the program manager at the Country Office located in Addis Ababa. For the implementation of this
specific livelihood project IR uses its Jijiga Main office and will establish Satellite office at xxx project site depending
on the demand. The project will open new positions to manage and implement the project and will have full time
project coordinator who oversees the overall implementation of the project activities. The coordinator is responsible
to provide a monthly and quarterly project progress reports. Besides, staff members that have technical knowledge
on proposed sectors will be deployed as full time employees to technically assist the project coordinator and
beneficiary communities. Other IR staff together with partners will also contribute their expertise and will be allotted
time for this project as part of IR contribution. IR will cooperate with private and government vocational training
institutes/centers. The Joint team comprising of the project-implementing partners (sectors, supporters and

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enablers) will carry out quarterly formal monitoring. Following each round of monitoring, arrange workshop to
discuss the findings, issues arising and solution required will be done. A final project evaluation will be undertaken
to evaluate the impact of the project on the target refugees phase by phase.

IR will procure one vehicle to run the program and will deploy its own vehicles in the inception phase until the
proposed cars will be in place.

The current proposed project further developed on the bases of experiences that was tapped from working with
communities. This project complement the on-going projects currently running by other stakeholders in the area
since it has components of natural resource management and livelihood programs that ensures sustainability.
Among NGOs experienced in such field are Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC) and Wako Gutu
foundation (WGF).

Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC) is a child-centered, community based international development
organization devoted to addressing the needs of children, their families and other vulnerable communities in fragile,
conflict and crisis situation.

For the last three decades, CCFC has been managing multi-sectoral development programs including sustainable
livelihood development, nutrition, natural resource management and emergency response interventions in
Ethiopia. CCFC has been using innovative approaches that has brought about positive results on the lives of
marginalized and vulnerable children, families and communities.

CCFC has over 30 years of experience in building resilience capacity of communities to withstand disasters and
enhancing coordination among development actors to create effective harmonization and synergic effect of
interventions to maximize program impacts.

CCFC is a signatory of the Red Cross Code of Conduct, and a member of Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and
it works according to internationally agreed standards Core Humanitarian Standard and Sphere Humanitarian
Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response and resilience building. It has also rich experience in
building the capacity of community members and emergency task forces on EPP (Emergency Preparedness Plan)
and undertaking Participatory Vulnerability Analysis; enhancing climate change adaptive capacity of communities
by providing training and drought –resistant crop seeds/ planting materials and small ruminants to families in
drought prone areas and supporting Community Managed Renewable Energy Programme: increasing access to
solar energy/ solar power and promoting the use of fuel or wood saving stove technologies; promoting conservation
based agriculture and improving agricultural productivity in a climate-smart manner; strengthening drought,
livestock and crop insurance mechanisms; and support efficient value chain and marketing systems; and

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enhancing livelihood diversification programs and asset building of communities; and promoting gender equality
so that girls and women are empowered to overcome inequality.

CCFC Ethiopia Country Office is directed by well-experienced and prominent leader in International NGOs at
national and international levels with skills in strategy and partnership development and engagement, advocacy
and policy influence, networking, knowledge management, resource mobilization, staff capacity development and
large grant portfolio management.

CCFC has over 100 technical, administrative and support staff with different discipline, who render higher
management support, coordination, and technical backup to programs and projects. CCFC Ethiopia Office has
professional and experienced staff who are currently managing public health, nutrition, reproductive, maternal,
newborn and child health, and HIV/AIDS prevention and control, education, WASH, natural resource management,
environmental, , livelihood development, food security and agricultural development, disaster risk management,
climate change adaptation and resilience building, behavioral Change Communication, development
programs/projects and humanitarian intervention management, Program Quality Assurance, program monitoring,
evaluation, learning and knowledge sharing.

CCFC has to-the -standard and sound human resource, program and financial management system. It has its own
internal control mechanism and conducts regular internal audit and program and financial performance reviews.
CCFC follows a competitive, transparent and fair process for staffing and the procurement of goods and services.
CCFC is recognized as top-rated charity by Charity Intelligence Canada, 2017.

CCFC has high recognition among communities, donors and government offices for the quality of development
programs it is delivering and its contributions to addressing the social and economic development of the
communities it works with resulting in significant changes in the lives of children and their families. CCFC and
CCFC-supported programs have received awards and recognition for their best performances and won award of
best practices competition organized by Consortium for Christian Relief and Development Association (CCRDA)
in 2017.

CCFC Ethiopia is active member of Canadian NGOs Network (CANGO), Basic Education Network, Consortium
for Christian Relief and Development Association (CCRDA), HINGO (Humanitarian International NGOs), and UN-
led clusters (Nutrition, WASH, Shelter/Non-Food Items…), National Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Technical Working Group, ECD Research Advisory Board and other various networks and taskforces mainly for
information, knowledge and experience sharing.

The other partner experienced in the areas of livelihood is Wako Gutu Foundation. It is specialized in livelihood
diversification and women empowerment. The organization has long been emerged as a force of change in
pastoralist livelihood settings in organizing self-help-groups, saving and credit associations, and irrigation
cooperatives. Currently, it has over 20 self-help-groups (each SHG has 15-20 members), 3 saving and credit
associations (each of which has more than 100 members), and 4 cooperatives (each has more than 400 members).

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Besides, the foundation effectively empowered and uplifted over 400 very poor pastoralist women through goats
husbandry, apiculture farming and horticulture agriculture.

The foundation has team of energetic technical staff with versatile background who have broad swath of exposures
in areas of livelihood strategy design, food security, nutrition, irrigation, WASH, displacement, conflicts and social
tensions, human rights and women rights, sexual and gender based violence, and so forth. Currently, WGF has
field office presence at Jigjiga town. The organization has an experience of intervention at Kebri-Beyha before five
years. Currently, the foundation is implementing a project titled “Mobile Phone-Enabled Agricultural Livelihoods
and Health Extension for Agro-pastoralists Life transformation in hinterlands” in Tulu Gulid district. Besides, the
foundation has already secured a grant from Bread for the World-Protestant Development service Protestant for
Diakonia and Development/PADD on the project dubbed as “REHABILITAION RETURNEES OF INTERNALLY
DISPLACED PEOPLE (RRIDPS) IN Rayitu Dalbi District, Bale zone and Somali region namely Sallad district

The organization has adequate motors and cars for implementation of this project. The foundation first recruits,
trains and deploys community lay social workers both in the refugee and host communities who in turn create
appropriate link with local traditional leaders like UGAs and Jiffos, and HIGOs, and also serve as focal contacts for
socio-economic data as well as tracking changes due to this specific project.

PART 6: COMMUNITY/COUNTERPART PARTICIPATION

The implementing partners will mobilize local stakeholders including communities , NGOs operating in the target
areas and local government authorities to participate on planing, implementation, monitoring and follow up of
project activities. The implementing partners will organize rapid baseline survey on which local partners and
community represantatives will participate. This will help the implementing partners and local stakeholders to
establish common bench marks to track the changes that will hapen during the execution of project activities.

The implementing partners will establish project steering committee both at woreda and target kebeles/camps level
consisting members from local government authorities, youth and women representatives participating on the
project, community openion leaders and representatives of people with special abilities in project target areas. In
addition, community based organizations will also participate in the project implementation processes. Selection
of primary participants in the project ( Direct beneficiaries) will be carried out by the steering committee on the
bases of selection criteria designed by the commitee themselves. The implementing partners will play the
facilitation role in formulating sellection criteria and selection of primary participants by the steering committee.

The communities will mobilze locally avalable resources like labour and land for implementation of project activities
that require these inputs. Particularly members of host communities identified as primary participants
(beneficiaries) of the project will avail land resources that are important for implementation of various activities of
the project. The members of project steering committee will closely work with the staffs of implementing partners
to ensure the willingness of primary participants to avail land resources for implementation of project activities.

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Two of the three implementing partners (IR and WGF) have physical presence at Jigjiga town with field coordination
office for other project that is under implementation in the region. This project is modorately furnished with human
resources relevant to the project and other material requirements. Furthermore, the implementing partners will
estalish woreda level project office for this project at Awber district and equip the office with required human
resources and materials that will help for efective implementation of the project.The project coordination office of
IR and WGF will support the establishment of similar office for this project in target Woreda.
In the nutshell, the implementing partners will closely collaborate with local partners and enhance the capacity of
local communities with particular focus on primary participants of the project to ensure sustainability of project
impacts. The major reason for organizing primary participants (Direct beneficiaries) of the project in to various
groups in line with diversified project activities is to enhance their capacity for ensuring sustainable service
deliveries by these groups after and beyond project period.

PART 7: PROJECT INPUTS REQUIRED

Project Personnel: The project aims to work predominantly with local personnel for both refugees and host
communities with a limited number of key Country office staff participation. Since training and capacity building are
central elements in the approach small financial top-ups or per diems will be made available to enable government
staff to actively take part in training and other capacity building elements for the realization of the project purposes.
The project will have full time staff that includes project management staff; Project officers; Community
Workers and project support staff. Further, the project will get managerial and technical inputs from the staff
based at Country Office levels with percentage share that ranges between 20 to 30% of their time.

Material and other Resources: Given the volume of activities and the need to do effective implementation, there
is a need for purchase of office furniture’s, laptops with printers for documentation, importation of vehicles (duty
free) and motor bikes as part of logistics, and procurement of consultancy services and training materials. Other
project inputs include construction and or rent of small office space in each of the refugee camps to ensure close
monitoring, supervision and follow-up on day to day basis in order to attain the objectives of the livelihood project.

The detailed project staff, project inputs, quantity and the detailed budget costs are annexed to this document. The
major materials required includes irrigation equipment, Generator for supporting drip irrigation, milk
processing(refrigerator for preservation),sewing machine, modern Bee hives, improved Seeds/seedlings for animal
feed production, livestock, medical supplies for animal health service (vet),revolving fund, raw materials and
equipment for producing briquette, cooking stoves and solar bulb for generating heat and light, training guides,
manuals, etc. The detailed project budget needed is $ 4,660,700 over 4 year’s periods.

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 PART 8: EXPECTED OUTPUTS, INDICATORS AND TARGETS

The total number of beneficiaries targeted by this integrated livelihood and resilience support project are 6,300 HHs
or 40,200 persons of which 60% are from refugee communities while the rest 40% are from the host communities.
The project will address the whole population of refugees that are 3,830 households or 24,120 persons residing
within the two camps and 2,470 households or 16,080 persons from host communities living around the refugee
camps located at Awbare and Sheder camps. The project used the average family size of 6.3 for refugees as set
by UNHCR in 2018 and 6.5 for host communities as set in the forecast of CSA 2017 report to calculate the actual
number of beneficiaries. This will be kept throughout the project life to keep it as standard set throughout the project
period document. Out of the total beneficiaries, 60 % will be women and young girls. The project considers the
participation of the host communities due to the fact that integration of the refugees with the local community,
common use of local resource and responding to the call are important factors to sustainability. The expected
outcome and indicators are described in the table here below:

Expected Outcome Indicator Target

Improved income of 3402 persons (60% women) by  % of households with increased 540
60% from the baseline. (Beneficiaries 540 income by 60%. Households
households)  % of households sustain running
their business.
Improved utilization and uptake of nutritious food for  % of people with reduced food gap
22,750 persons (refugees: 13,650 and host months.
1500
communities: 9100) by the end of 2023. (Beneficiaries:  % of HH with improved nutrition
households
3500 Households) status/ reduced underweight among
children under 5/.

Improved the adoption of best-bet natural resource  % of households reduced 4875

management practices and utilization of energy consumption of fuel wood households
efficient technologies among 75 % of the target  % increase in uptake of energy
households (beneficiaries: 4875 HH). saving technologies
 Increased area of land enriched and
covered with trees/shrubs/grass.
 Volume of waste converted to
energy.

PART 9: REPORTING and MONITORING ARRANGEMENTS

Islamic Relief country office has got well-functioning system for facilitating reporting and monitoring of different
programs and project activities within its MEAL framework. Besides, this livelihood project will recruit its own MEAL

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officer to be stationed at the duty station for the project. The MEAL officer creates joint team comprising of the
project-implementing partners (sectors, supporters and enablers) that will carry out quarterly scheduled/regular
monitoring. Following each round of monitoring, the MEAL officer arranges quarterly review workshop that involve
all stakeholders to discuss the findings and propose remedies and help the project management take informed
corrective actions. To realize this a Project steering committee will be formed composed of refugee and host
community representatives, the implementing partners, relevant government agencies who are actively expected
to take part in project monitoring review and evaluation activities.

Monitoring is a regular process, but, importantly immediate effects and intermediate outcomes are regularly
checked with timeline, quality and quantity lenses in order to improve the service quality. Monitoring also ensures
standards, observance of the various compliances and commitments are met responsibly. Following the approval
of this project and the baseline survey the project MEAL framework will be prepared to guide all the MEAL activities
of the project. The MEAL system will be established during the first six months of the project which is the
inception period.

Reporting as one tool of monitoring will be prepared and shared as per the WFP guidelines and will be done on
monthly, quarterly and annual basis with final reports submitted at the end of the project. There will be base line
and end line evaluation of the project at the beginning and end of the project period respectively. Regular reports
are prepared and shared to meet donor, government and the implementing organizations requirements at all levels.

PART 10: MAINSTREAMING GENDER STRATEGY

All the implementing partners of this project have mandatory gender mainstreaming policies in their development
interventions promoting participation of both women and men, youth girls and boys in all their development efforts.
Narowing gender gaps in primary participants of the project and ensuring equal participation of both women and
men in planing, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of project activities with respect to this project is a
binding strategy that the implemnting partners will persue. One of the implementing partners (IR) has conducted a
brief need assissment in the project target areas in which the participation of women representatives was
sufficiently ensured. Hence, the implementing partners attempted to make sure that needs of both women and
men are well addressed in the project design.

Futhrermore, the implementing partners have planned that women will share up to 60% of the total primary
participants (Direct beneficiaries) of this project. The number of beneficiary women in food and nutrition security
component of the project is even higher than this. This targeting is delibirately done in recognition that women are
more vulnerable than men when it comes to food and nutrition security in both host and refugee communities of
target areas. The implementing partners will also identify local practices that encourage participation of women
and will build on such practices broaden opportunities for women.

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On the other hand, there are number of practices that undermine the role of women in development and social
transformation in target communities that require systematic approaches to change social attitudes against such
practices. Creating continues social awareness on equal opportunities for both women and men members of the
society is the major strategy that the implementing partners will follow in this project. Esatablishing gender dialogue
forum among religious leadres, male youth groups household heads on equal opportunity for women will help to
bring attitudanal change among various social groups on the role of women in the society. Economic empowerment
of women by ensuring their effective participation in livelihood improvement components of the project will also
contribute to ensuring economic self reliance which will promote social and political participation of women in the
community.

Gender based violence (GBV) is an issue raised by the community as proved during the focuse group discussions.
Rape cases were reported in the area that leads to conflict between the host and refugees that calls for intervention.
However, this project will address domestic gender based violence in mainstreaming along with other activties and
in working towards activties that minimizes the GBV among the target communities. Introduction of alternative
energy sources as one component of the project will reduce the domestic workload of women and girls and
minimize their exposure to domestic violence by reducing the efforts of fire wood collection in open field which is
mainly considered as the role of women and girls.The implementing partners will closely work with legal authorities
and will enhance the capacity of local legal institutions (police, attorny and woreda court) to effectively enact the
legal provisions against gender based violance.
Strenghtening women’s participation in desicion making process helps to ensure the inclusion of needs and
expectations of women that the development intervention must address for them. To this end, the implementing
partners will make sure that women are equaly represented as men in project steering committee and will ensure
the inclusion of specific demands of women in project planing,implementation, monitoring and evaluation of project
outcomes.

IR, CCFC and WGF pursue the no harm startegy in their development interventions and will make sure that
participation of women in this project components as primary participants(direct beneficiaries) will not enlarge the
burdun on women either by increasing work loads or by expanding their responsibilities. In general, the
implementing partners will undertake gender mainstreaming in this project in alignment with the WFP gender policy
framework inacted from 2015 to 2020. In addition, the implementing partners are committed to mainstream the
interest of other community groups like people with special abilities in the project to make sure that no one is left
behind the impacts or negatively affected by this intervention.

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 PART 11: RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS-Abraru
The below table depicts the type of risks along with probability of occurrence and risk management.
Table 2: Risk management Matrix
Risks
Intermittent security problems
Limited experience/capacity of IP
Aggravation of social tension between
refugees and local communities
Limited local government capacity
Refugees obtaining assistance from other
agencies
Signing of project MoU with the regional
government take a long time
Poultry project is highly susceptible for bird
flue
Local finance (credit) providers could insist
not to provide loan/credit schemes
Women survivors of rape at woodland
might keep secret the issue and reluctant
to self-report
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Probability Impact Mitigation Strategy
Low Medium The consortium members lead by IR strengthen their
networks with other actors (such as UN, and government)
to effectively handle safety and security concerns of its
staff and the beneficiary target groups. The consortium
puts security plan in place to get update information on a
regular basis and to respond and react promptly to any
urgent security issues as they arise.
Low High The experiences gained by IRW and CCFC Globally as
well as at local level is coupled with intensive
experience of WGF in mobilizing and managing local
resources can be adapted and applied to effectively
implement the current livelihood project of refugees and
HCs. Through this partnership, the project employs over
40 years of programing in protection and improving
livelihood of refugees and host in Somali region
Low Low By capitalizing on the common value system of Somali
clans, the consortium members will work with local
authorities and religious leaders to maintain the peaceful
coexistence of the people.
Low Medium Reorienting and strengthening the capacity of government
organization’s as well as involving them in every project
cycle management.
Medium High Cross check with ARRA, UNHCR and other NGOs
working in the livelihood sector.
Medium High The best working relationship developed through IR and
WGF can be used to liaise with the bureau and to get
approval of the project on time
Medium High Dedicated veterinary professional will be assigned to
regularly scan the symptom of the disease. Based on this,
timely action will be taken
low medium The existing favorable government policy towards
refugees will be utilized towards lobbying and negotiations
high high Continuous awareness and sensitization on women rights
in general and those of refugees in particular, redress
mechanisms and available services.
PART 12: EXIT STRATEGY

Emphasis will be given to the livelihood activities included in the project proposal. Accordingly, the cash
programming (in the form CfW) is one of the project component that is included to facilitate the transitional solution
for the target groups. Moreover, the income generation activities are part of the regional government’s commitment
that will be considered in advance. The other key livelihood component is the integration of project activities and
social cohesion of the beneficiaries directed towards engaging the beneficiaries in various agricultural and livestock
activities. As a result of such integration, the project activities will be able to contribute to the long term effect of
durable solutions. The psychosocial and legal supports delivered for GBV survivors, children and women is
expected to have a sustained impact on the quality of their life, increasing their self-confidence, improve their
communications skills and assisting them to integrate socially and economically. Activities that are believed to
bring the beneficiaries together and strengthen the social cohesion includes provision of trainings, formation of
business and saving groups and assigning community members to handle conflicts. In order to create long-lasting
social cohesion among the target groups (refugees and local people), the project will invite participants from the
two target groups and strengthens their interaction to meet together within centrally located common places (such
as schools, market place and religious institutions like mosque. The benefits gained from these activities mean
more sustainable assistance for the families and communities and the efforts exerted will ensure that the program
outcomes will continue to have sustainable effect beyond the implementation period. A significant part of the
activities will be carried out by the federal and Somali regional government. Until then, the IP and relevant
government organizations in the region to lay the ground work for exit strategies.
In order to effectively manage and sustain the implementation of the proposed multi-year livelihood plan, the exit
strategy is used to facilitate the gradual shift of the livelihood interventions from resource-intensive external support
to long-term livelihood support (durable solutions). Moreover, the exit strategy is based on phasing out
interventions. Once benchmarks of project success has been attained, the phasing in activities needed to make
the intervention more sustainable. The goal of such a strategy is to create a path out of vulnerability, strengthening
livelihoods and building self-reliance of the beneficiaries to move away from dependence on humanitarian aid and
to rely on internal resources needed for improved wellbeing.
The livelihood project will be delivered with the underlying long-term objective and creating an enabling
environment for identified beneficiaries to engage in economic opportunities and building the self-confidence of the
targeted population. Community participation and building on local knowledge throughout the project cycle
management, capacity Building for the beneficiaries and the government counterpart/local institution, capitalizing
on partnerships and existing structures, pro-poor and market led approach, gender sensitivity, inclusive approach
and the DRR initiatives to enhance resilience are some of the major mechanisms used to create sense of
ownership and to ensure sustainability of the project outcomes and impact as well.

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ANNEXES as relevant
 Details of equipment and non-food items
 Project budget (with narrative)
 Work plan/schedule

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