FAO - Building Resilience in Middle Shabelle (BRiMS)
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The project will substantially increase the resilience of vulnerable people’s livelihoods to food crises by addressing key underlying causes of vulnerability in Middle Shabelle, within Somalia’s breadbasket. The area faces recurrent drought, flooding, non-functioning irrigation infrastructure, widespread insecurity and access challenges that impede farmers’ pr...
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The project will substantially increase the resilience of vulnerable people’s livelihoods to food crises by addressing key underlying causes of vulnerability in Middle Shabelle, within Somalia’s breadbasket. The area faces recurrent drought, flooding, non-functioning irrigation infrastructure, widespread insecurity and access challenges that impede farmers’ production, related supply chains and market potential. In light of recent, recurrent drought and flood emergencies, the main vulnerability addressed by the project centres on water: primarily water access, management and its productive use.
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The fourth agreement amendment was signed with a new project activity end date of 30 June 2025. This 1,5 year extension period mainly focus on rehabilitation and recovery after the El-Niño floodings in end of 2023. The project also contributes to recover farmland and irrigation systems for agricultural communities in area surronding the Shabelle River. The rehabilitation of the Burey irrigation scheme - a total of 33.55 kms and its ancillary structures was completed by March 2022. Technical assessments for additional canals included in the 2021 top-up funds were done by MUDRO and a validation workshop was conducted with participation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MoAI) FGS and Hirshabelle State. However, the technical assessment process took longer than planned due to security challenges that resulted in delays in the overall canal rehabilitation timelines. Therefore, in November 2022, FAO requested for a four- month no- cost extension and a budget re-alignment to complete additional canal rehabilitation. This activity is ongoing and is expected to complete by end of April 2023. FAO has completed the tendering process for the new additional canals Kalundi Secondary canal and Labaale Secondary canal as well as two permanent river embankments to be completed before April 2023. FAO's technical partner, PDA conducted a training on climate smart agriculture practices to 75 farmers (26 female) of the farmer cooperatives in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture officials in Hirshabelle in August 2022. The 75 farmers were selected from 5 targeted farmer cooperatives under 5 major project irrigation canals in Jowhar. The MoAI FGS officials provided technical trainings to water committees on public and private asset management, crop production in irrigation, different types of irrigation methods, and irrigation canal management in December 2022. During this reporting period, the letters of understanding (LoU) with the MoAI at the FGS and Hirshabelle State were amended to enable them to continue monitoring and supervising project activities on ongoing canal works in the field and also to provide seasonal analysis reports on food security. The project continues to face challenges linked to the insecurity situation in Somalia that has affected the delivery of key activities particularly infrastructure rehabilitation in the target locations. Jowhar continues to experience more sporadic security incidents perpetrated by armed militia as well as resource- based conflicts due to the ongoing extreme drought. Despite challenges encountered in the field, activities and achievement of results over the last 3 years has continued and the project team expects to meet the project outcomes by the end of the NCE period. Follow-up action will be required, however, to fast-track the completion of the additional infrastructure works and finalize all monitoring and reporting activities during the no-cost-extension period. In terms of the project design, FAO does not foresee any need for alterations for the project targets and outcomes.
This project is aligned with FAOs Strategic Framework, specifically Strategic Objective 5: Increase resilience of livelihoods to threats and crisis. The anticipated impact of the project is Increased resilience and production capacity for smallholder farmers in accessible areas of Middle Shabelle. The Building Resilience in Middle Shabelle (BRIMS) project aims to address recurrent drought and flooding challenges along the Shabelle River. The specific expected outcomes of the project are: 1. Water access is restored and protection from flooding is increased in irrigated areas; 2. Farmers are aggregated for enhanced resilience; 3. Capacity of public institutions supporting water management and agricultural production is enhanced.
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