WARDO – Organizational Structure 2023

WADAJIR Rural Development Organization WARDO conducted a Humanitarian Needs Assessment in Baidoa district of Southwest state of Somalia. The assessment applied qualitative method of data collection from the communities with that involved Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with various community groups that included men, women and youth. It is worth of mentioning that all data has been collected from both the rural and urban settings of the surveyed districts. The findings show that the situation in the surveyed districts is almost similar in their needs. However, it has been observed that Baidoa has more pressing needs with IDPs compared to Baidoa. On the other hand, Baidoa has serious challenges with inter-clan conflicts. Additionally, assessment data shows that during the last four years the people in both the locations had experienced shocks and vulnerability which affected their food and nutrition security, livelihood, education, health and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) among others. Some of the major shocks experienced by interviewed households were loss of harvest, loss of food stock, an increase of debt and failure to repay at the result of extreme weather, impact of Covid-19, natural disaster (drought, floods), lack of planting seeds, an increase of market prices for main food and non-food items, animal diseases, croppers outbreak, severe sickness/death of breadwinners. It also shows women are more vulnerable than men for any of the above-mentioned shocks. Main sources of income for men were agriculture, livestock and labor and women’s main source of income were agriculture and livestock. This assessment also shows that the average income of interviewed households was reduced greatly as a result of the cyclic drought and the impact of Covid-19.