The Cost of Inaction, July 2025
Unprecedented funding reductions have severely undermined the capacity to deliver essential, life-saving assistance.
Somalia
Key Documents
Somalia 2026 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP)
A comprehensive, multi-stakeholder shock analysis determined that 7.5 million people in Somalia are affected by the humanitarian crisis, driven by prolonged drought, conflict, disease outbreaks, and severe funding and access const
Somalia 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP)
A comprehensive, multi-stakeholder shock analysis determined that there are 9.1 million Somalis affected by the humanitarian crisis.
Somalia Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) 2024
According to the HNRP, an estimated 6.9 million people, a reduction of 17 per cent from last year, will require humanitarian assistance in 2024.
The Cost of Inaction, July 2025
Unprecedented funding reductions have severely undermined the capacity to deliver essential, life-saving assistance.
Somalia 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP)
A comprehensive, multi-stakeholder shock analysis determined that there are 9.1 million Somalis affected by the humanitarian crisis.
Somalia Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) 2024
According to the HNRP, an estimated 6.9 million people, a reduction of 17 per cent from last year, will require humanitarian assistance in 2024.
Interactive Dashboards
Somalia: Information Sharing Protocol
ReliefWeb results
Somalia
Somalia: Information sharing protocol (September 2021)
OVERVIEW This Information Sharing Protocol (ISP) is designed to support data responsibility in Somalia. Data responsibility in humanitarian action is the safe, ethical and effective management of personal and non-personal data for operational response, in accordance with…
OCHA Somalia Updates
ReliefWeb results
World + 7 more
Synthesis and Meta-Analysis of Findings from Crisis-specific Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations Covering the Period 2015-2025
The IAHE Synthesis exercise pulls together the findings from seven inter-agency humanitarian evaluations (IAHEs) covering nine different contexts spanning 2015 – 2025: Mozambique Cyclone Idai (2019), Ethiopia drought (2015-2018), Yemen (2015-2021), Afghanistan (2021-2023), Northern Ethiopia conflict…
Somalia
Somalia: 2025-2026 Drought Emergency - Situation Report No. 5 (As of 6 April 2026)
This is report is produced by OCHA Somalia in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It provides information on the current seasonal drought emergency as of 6 April 2026. The next report will only be published if the…
Latest Products
ReliefWeb results
Somalia
Radio Ergo Weekly Feedback Report, Issued: 17 Apr 2026
Brief Summary Calls about continuing drought dominated this week’s batch of feedback (9-15 March 2026) to Radio Ergo’s nationwide call-in platform, alongside a lesser number of callers reporting rainfall mainly in central and across scattered southern locations.…
Somalia
Operational Overview - January-March 2026
Background: Somalia Humanitarian Supply Chain & Access Overview Somalia is facing an intensifying humanitarian crisis driven by consecutive failed rainy seasons, a harsh Jilaal dry period, and an emerging national drought, particularly severe in Puntland, central, and…
Somalia
Drought-hit Lower Juba pastoralists flee towards the Somali-Kenyan border
(ERGO) – Drought displaced pastoralist families in southern Somalia’s Lower Juba region have arrived in Kulbiyow – a small town close to the Kenyan border – with no livestock, shelter, or reliable access to food. The families…
Somalia
Schools close across Galmudug due to drought
(ERGO) – More than 3,300 children from low-income and pastoralist families have been out of school this year since the closure of at least 33 primary and intermediate schools in rural parts of central Somalia. Families have…
Somalia
"We do not wait helplessly": How communities in Somalia are coping with a “double shock” drought
“Waabariste” – meaning “I suddenly found myself in it” – this is what rural communities in Jowhar and Baidoa have named this current drought, reflecting how it caught them off guard. This drought – which started in…
Other Drought Updates
ReliefWeb results
Somalia
Operational Overview - January-March 2026
Background: Somalia Humanitarian Supply Chain & Access Overview Somalia is facing an intensifying humanitarian crisis driven by consecutive failed rainy seasons, a harsh Jilaal dry period, and an emerging national drought, particularly severe in Puntland, central, and…
Somalia
"We do not wait helplessly": How communities in Somalia are coping with a “double shock” drought
“Waabariste” – meaning “I suddenly found myself in it” – this is what rural communities in Jowhar and Baidoa have named this current drought, reflecting how it caught them off guard. This drought – which started in…
Social Media Updates
