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Bringing Community into Area-Based Coordination in Somalia

What are the next steps beyond community engagement on the road towards community-led humanitarian programming in Somalia? The road...

Building Bridges: Community-led Humanitarian Coordination

In 2024, OCHA reported that international donors provided nearly USD $ 1 billion ($915 million) in humanitarian aid to Somalia through...

Humanitarian Change – the Art of the Possible

Shifting humanitarian practice begins with the courage to question the ethics of what we have been doing. This was the call made by...

Humanitarian Access in Somalia – For whom? For what? How?

This is the first of a series of discussion notes from a group of ECHO-supported humanitarian organisations that are finding new ways to...

Navigating Violence and Negotiating Order in the Somalia–Kenya Borderlands

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This working paper examines how communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict – including civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency – local people have relied on their own means of governance and mutual support to repair the damage and maintain life and livelihood.

Local Self-Governance on the Somalia–Kenya Border

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Thirty years of civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in Somalia and neighbouring northeastern Kenya have hollowed out state services and left borderland communities beleaguered. Yet in this apparently ‘ungoverned’ space, local self-governance persists. Citizen-led reflection shows how communities are repairing the social and physical damage wrought by violence, organising basic services, and providing public goods.