LPI Somalia Programme 2020 - 2023
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The Multi-Level Conflict Transformation in South Central Somalia 2020-2023 initiative by the Life & Peace Institute (LPI) aims at contributing to a stable and peaceful Somalia by supporting inclusive reconciliation processes that address local grievances and root causes of conflict. The programme will focus on addressing persistent or recurring local-level cla...
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The Multi-Level Conflict Transformation in South Central Somalia 2020-2023 initiative by the Life & Peace Institute (LPI) aims at contributing to a stable and peaceful Somalia by supporting inclusive reconciliation processes that address local grievances and root causes of conflict. The programme will focus on addressing persistent or recurring local-level clan conflicts. The programme will be implemented from 2020 to 2023 with a total budget of approximately 94.35 MSEK, of which 48 MSEK will be funded by Sida. Key focuses for LPI will be capacity building for civil society, including women and youth advocacy’s towards decision making positions within the community, local administration and national government, developing and strengthening conflict prevention mechanisms and promotion of a culture of research and knowledge sharing.
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Result
The annual 2022 report submitted by LPI covers January 2022 to December 2022 and gave a good contextual analysis of Somalia with good quality content. The program contributed to a stable and peaceful Somalia supporting inclusive reconciliation processes that addressed local grievances and root causes of conflict. All the 2022 reports were submitted on time as per the agreement and reflect the objectives of intervention. The report gives important highlights of the context development on political, security, social economic, geopolitical dynamics. Additionally, As LPI faced funding deficit, they managed to secure funds from the Swedish Institute 500,000SEK and EU3,475,832SEK in 2022. This funding will start in January 2023.The report provided sufficient information to summarize and assess the LPI 2022 achievements. Below are highlights of some of the key achievements made in 2022 programming: Outcome 1: Conflict stakeholders at the community level use structured, nonviolent and collaborative ways of addressing conflict issues, thereby creating preconditions for peaceful coexistence. LPI's peacebuilding initiatives in Somalia's continued to contribute to reconciliation in a nonviolent way. Over 75% community stakeholders were reached including elders, women, youth, religious leaders, businesspeople, and local authorities. LPI and partners supported 1 intra-clan and 5 inter-clan dialogues in Hiran (mataban), Galgadud (Guriel), Middle Shabelle (Jowhar), and Jubaland (Kismayo) which caused communities to address water disputes, grazing land competitions, and blood money in a non-violently and collaboratively using diya payments. The intervention reduced community tensions in the localities and built inter-communal trust and transformative relationships. Additionally, the partner adopted a flexible approach to its peacebuilding work in Somalia responding to the growing humanitarian needs and tensions that arose in the fragile context during a time when local natural resources and markets were under extreme stress which affected peacebuilding activities.Sida supported a 3 month Integrated humanitarian drought response mainly focused on five towns of Mataban, Bergadid, Herale, Balambale and Guriel, and their surrounding villages that were targeted in the peacebuilding programme. The budget was SEK 7 562 826 and the activities included provision of drinking water through water trucking in the water-stressed locations; and targeted unconditional multipurpose cash transfer to a total of 4175 households(HH) (approximately more than 25,050 persons). Outcome 2: Increased inclusion and participation of women, youth, and other marginalized groups in peacebuilding processes. In Jowhar, Baidoa, Abudwak, and Kismayo, the peacebuilding process increased the agency of women, youth, and other marginalized groups. The Sustained Dialogue (SD) Platform has helped reach the target threshold set in the strategy, with 70% of participants perceiving an increase in their agency in peacebuilding. Women in Kismayo had a significant role in the clan system and have effectively influenced elders and other stakeholders to resolve conflicts and the youth mobilised communities and intervening in armed conflicts. The SD discussions have built trust and confidence among the youth and enabling women and youth articulation of their agenda for political inclusion in the parliament's 2021/22 indirect elections, resulting in a significant number of young candidates being selected. Outcome 3. Local authorities proactively support peacebuilding processes. LPI and partners efforts resulted in local authorities supporting peacebuilding initiatives, enabling progress to be made by the community, youth, and women's platforms in different federal member states (FMS) of Somalia.The authorities helped prevent immediate revenge in crisis intervention in Hiran and reduced inter-clan tension in Galmudug by resolving conflict over local councils. Peace platforms also held advocacy meetings with key authorities to enhance community policing and local governance mechanisms. As a result, some members of these platforms were appointed or elected to positions in the administration. Outcome 4. Targeted policy actors on national, regional, and international levels take action to create a more conducive political /governance environment for peace. LPI and its partners have established inclusive platforms advocating for youth and women's representation in district councils, reconciling clans in disputes over their representation, as seen in Balambale. The partners managed to generated policy material based on evidence to support local peacebuilding initiatives in policy discussions. International forums recognised LPI for their work to enhance women's participation in peacebuilding. LPI's managed to shared their experiences with women in Somalia at Stockholm's Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN) Member State meeting on the EU's approach to women, peace, and security. Significant Lesson from 2022 programme implementation include: 1.Triple nexus approaches should be integrated in humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding interventions to address the urgent need for humanitarian assistance in Somalia.LPI as institution is looking at the nexus approach to enhance their peacebuilding work.Currently there is an ongoing evaluation for Somalia strategy 2020-2023 by a third monitoring party company and LPI plans to incorporate the finding and recommendations into their next Somalia strategy development and learn to appropriately adapt its programming.The nexus rationale will be more clearer once the evaluation is out. 2.Inclusive clan-based identification and selection of recipients for humanitarian assistance and involvement of local elders across clans are key to ensuring conflict sensitivity and overall satisfaction among recipient communities. 3.Humanitarian relief can directly impact peacebuilding, contributing to greater inter group trust and understanding, while peacebuilding engagement during humanitarian crises can contribute to conflict prevention. 3.Working with community stakeholders has weakened the destabilizing effects of political elites' exploitation of clan based identity politics. Working to change communities' perceptions through community capacity strengthening, networking, and sensitisation increases local acceptance of women's and youths greater involvement in peacebuilding and leadership.
The LPI Multi-Level Conflict Transformation initiative aims at contributing to a stable and peaceful Somalia by supporting inclusive reconciliation processes that address local grievances and root causes of conflict. South Central Somalia continues to face substantial obstacles in the nations quest for peace and stability. The targeted conflict systems are not only hotspots of historic and recurrent violent clan-based conflict but have also been negatively impacted by top-down state-building processes and contribute to instability in South Central Somalia. In this light, LPIs programming will focus on addressing persistent or recurring local-level clan conflicts. LPIs partnership with wellconnected and experienced civil society partners will seek to create space for dialogue, negotiation and, ultimately, agreements as well as new collective behaviour to address clan-based, local level conflicts that receive little or no attention in the global and regional policy narratives, yet nevertheless are intricately connected to these other layers. LPIs three organizational strategic priorities include civil society support and inclusive engagement for peace, policy engagement and awareness-raising, and knowledge and learning to enhance practice, will function as an overarching framework for programming. The programme will build upon results achieved under the previous phase of the programme implemented between 2017 to 2019. The overall objective of the programme is to: contribute to a stable and peaceful Somalia by supporting inclusive reconciliation processes that address local grievances and root causes of conflict. LPI proposes to allocate funding for Phase 2 for the next four years from 2020 - 2023 according to 4 outcome areas: Outcome 1: Local conflict actors collaborate and nonviolently on conflict Outcome 2: Strengthening meaningful inclusion and participation in peacebuilding Outcome 3: Local authorities as peacebuilding supporters Outcome 4: Policy actors actions to create a more conducive environment for peace
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