Tender Description

Background

1. Somalia remains entrenched in one of the world's most severe and protracted humanitarian crises, now significantly exacerbated by compounding and under-resourced shocks. Unrelenting cycles of extreme flooding, escalating localized conflict, and severe environmental shocks (including the long-term impact of past locust infestations and persistent, intensifying drought conditions) continue to destroy livelihoods and overwhelm local response capacity.
2. Humanitarian estimates indicate that nearly 6 million people require urgent assistance. This pressure is accelerating displacement, adding to the estimated 4 million people already living in a state of protracted internal displacement (IDPs), many of whom reside in overcrowded camps with insufficient basic services.
3. Critical Humanitarian Indicators
4. The cumulative impact of this crisis has led to severe deterioration across critical sectors:
5. Nutrition: The country is on the brink of a nutrition catastrophe. An estimated 1.85 million children under five are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition, including approximately 421,000 cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), the most life-threatening form. This worsening crisis is concentrated in rural areas and IDP sites and is being compounded by cuts to vital humanitarian funding for therapeutic services.
6. Health: Somalia’s already fragile health system is struggling to cope with the high prevalence of malnutrition and a constant cycle of infectious disease outbreaks, including recurrent cholera, measles, and diphtheria. Climatic shocks, especially flooding and water scarcity, fuel the transmission of these diseases, leading to a critical malnutrition-disease feedback loop that disproportionately impacts children and contributes to one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. Access to essential health services is extremely limited, particularly for IDPs and those in remote, conflict-affected areas.
7. Protection: The crisis has severely exacerbated the pre-existing vulnerabilities of women and girls, leading to heightened risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), including sexual violence and exploitation, particularly in congested IDP settlements. Children are at the epicentre of the protection crisis, facing risks of family separation, recruitment by armed groups, psychosocial trauma, and the erosion of community-based protection mechanisms due to funding shortfalls. Tenure insecurity for IDPs also remains a major protection concern, with evictions increasing the vulnerability of already displaced families.
8. CARE is a humanitarian non-governmental organization committed to working with poor women, men, boys, girls, communities, and institutions to have a significant impact on the underlying causes of poverty. CARE seeks to contribute to economic and social transformation, unleashing the power of the most vulnerable women and girls.
9. Project Overview
10. CARE, in partnership with SSWC, is implementing a multi-country, multi-sectoral initiative that will reach 90,459 individuals, including IDPs, returnees, and host communities, in the Galgaduud and Banadir regions of Somalia. The project aligns with Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) through its strong focus on gender equality, human dignity and the protection of vulnerable populations.
11. The response employs a gender-responsive, survivor-cantered approach to mitigate acute threats to life and health, prioritizing the needs of women, girls, and vulnerable groups (including PWD and adolescents). Key interventions include:
12. Health: Rehabilitating facilities, training gender-balanced teams, and providing essential services, including Reproductive Maternal and Newborn Child Health (RMNCH) and the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP), with a focus on SRHR integration and Clinical Management of Rape (CMR).
13. Nutrition: Implementing Outpatient Therapeutic Feeding (OTP) and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programs (TSFP) for acute malnutrition, alongside community-based Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (MIYCN-E) support.
14. Protection (SGBV): Establishing Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces (WGSS) informed by risk analysis, offering MHPSS, case management, referrals for CMR and other essential services. . The project also i engages men and boys in GBV prevention and provides Multi-Purpose Cash Transfers (MPCT) in Somalia to meet acute needs.

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