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Drought-proofing Somalia’s rangelands

Ali Abdirahman by Ali Abdirahman
August 5, 2021
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Across Somalia, climate change is altering the seasons, worsening natural disasters and extreme weather events. In 2017, after the rains failed for three seasons in a row, a severe drought caused widespread hunger, disease and livestock deaths and left over 6 million people food insecure.

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Puntland’s Shaxda village is especially prone to droughts. The village is mainly made up of camel herders and farmers, who are completely dependent on the rangelands and have struggled to access clean drinking water for their livestock and communities. “Lack of water was a challenge before… I have lost a lot of camels,” says herder Mohamed Hirsi.

Camel herder, Mohamed Hirsi, but the earth dam where his camels can now drink in the dry season. (UNDP photo: Tobin Jones)

In response, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Puntland’s Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Climate Change, with funding from the Global Environment Facility, have constructed 10 new dams which provide camel herders, their livestock and the wider community with clean water.

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The site of the dam in Shaxda was chosen specifically because of its central location so that animals and people from all the surrounding regions can benefit from it.

“Water is given to those who need it.” says Abdishakur Ise, Shaxda District Commissioner, “We serve the hospitals, all the schools and the poor people who live here.”

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Across Somalia, UNDP’s water infrastructure projects provided water to over 53,000 households in 2019. We are also working with the government to improve policies and train officials so that this most precious of resources is better conserved in the years ahead.

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