Livelihood activities project  in Gabiley District  Somaliland Introduction

Water is essential for sustaining life and access to drinking water is a fundamental need and
a human right, vital for health and well-being. The health and economic benefits of improved
water supplies to households and individuals (especially women, children and older people)
are well documented, particularly if the target population is characterized by high levels of
poverty, social exclusion and a lack of civil rights

Summary of the project implemented by SCAN LNGO

World Food Program of the United Nations (WFP) Somaliland  and Somaliland community action Network ( SCAN),  jointly implemented Food for work activities (CFW) Project in Gabilay District, Wooqooyi Galbeed region, Somaliland. This commenced as planned with all stakeholders (Somaliland Ministry of Agriculture, Gabilay Local administrators and the target village elders) involved in the project initiation and planning of the 8 targeted villages: Agamsaha, Huluuq, Boodhley, Biyo-macan , Carroyaanbo, Cabudla, Guul-alla and Abaarso.

 The project targeted a total number of1636 beneficiaries implementing FFA the  project activity targeting 2 Water catchments and 28,308 soil bunds where beneficiaries were drawn from all the 8-targeted villages in Gabiley District.

The project started on the 1st Feb 2022 and was completed on the 31th July2022.The initial time frame was 6 months.

IMPACT AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PROJECT

The community benefitted from the rehabilitation of 2water catchments with lining geo-membrance one of the water catchment and also we done 28,308 soil bunds (farm rehabilitation).

In the implementation of this project, a total of US $785,280 was injected into the local economy. Directly, a total of 1636 households benefitted from the project each HHs received 80 USD per month. From the proceeds of the income generated working for the rehabilitation of community infrastructure, some of the beneficiary households increased their livelihood assets such as livestock while other have opened small businesses for sustained income generation