It, therefore, has developed a three-year Consolidated Appeals process (CAP) in 2012, in order to refocus humanitarian programming from life-saving interventions to resilience-building. She stated that the Humanitarian Country Team in Somalia has recognized that the best and most efficient way of averting crisis is to invest in preparedness and disaster risk reduction programmes. OCHA Somalia Deputy Head of Office a.i., Ms Edem Wosornu, provided an overview of the humanitarian situation in the country and indicated that despite gains made in the last couple of years and in particular since the 2011 famine there are more than 2.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. He raised the importance of collaboration between humanitarian actors to jointly address the pressing humanitarian and development challenges that communities face. Representatives from the Humanitarian Affairs Department in the Federal Government of Somalia also participated in the one day meeting.ĭr Hany el Banna, president of THF chaired the meeting and welcomed the progress and relative stability that Somalia has witnessed over the last eight months. The roundtable meeting was attended by 40 senior representatives of leading humanitarian actors from UN agencies, Red Crescent societies, international and national organisations. On the 25 April, the United Nations Office for Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and The Humanitarian Forum (THF) held a strategic roundtable meeting in Mogadishu to discuss the humanitarian situation in Somalia. * Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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