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Crisis Prevention & Recovery

Crisis prevention and recovery
All UNDP Somalia’s work focuses on crisis prevention and recovery (CPR).Peace and security and the establishment of basic governance institutions are essential to provide the conditions for social, economic, and political recovery.  Since Somalia has been identified as one of the priority countries for crisis prevention and recovery in the Arab states region, UNDP Somalia is working in partnership with the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) in New York.  The document setting out the partnership framework can be downloaded by clicking here.

Under the partnership, BCPR support will promote integration of the cross-cutting issues that are critical to both the BCPR strategy and Somalia.  Of particular importance are gender, early recovery, and conflict and disaster risk prevention, the latter being strongly linked to environmental degradation in Somalia.

Projects from each of UNDP Somalia's main programme areas address crisis prevention and recovery in various ways, including increasing preparedness and enhancing response to natural disasters, establishing the judicial and law enforcement frameworks necessary for sustained recovery, and on building reconciliation from a local, community and district basis.

Additionally UNDP gave technical, financial and management support to 2007's National Reconciliation Conference which saw some 2600 delegates - including representatives from the diaspora and almost 30% women delegates - convened peacefully in the capital city. This was the first time inclusive reconciliation consultations of this magnitude had taken place inside the Somali capital since the collapse of order in 1991. The Congress deliberations lasted for six weeks and concluded with an outcome document containing recommendations for the Transitional Federal Institutions.

Relevant press releases
Major increase in UNDP resources for Somaliland for 2008, Friday 7 February 2008
UNDP and Puntland authorities review projects, Thursday 31 January 2008
Human Rights a focus of Somali police training, Friday 28 September 2007

CPR-related projects
Community-Based Peace Support
District-Based Peace Building
Judiciary
Law Enforcement
Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration

Gender and Human Rights
Mine Action
Shabelle Basin flood protection project