Running from January 2009 to December 2012

The Inclusive Growth and Development in Somalia project helps the Somali administrations to develop interventions to meet basic services needs and attain the MDGs. The project covers three areas:

• Human Development UNDP is preparing the Somalia Human Development Report (HDR) 2010. The report, focusing on youth, will facilitate the setting of the country’s future development agenda. By encouraging dialogue and policy-making with youth at the heart, it will support the sustenance of peace throughout the country. A participatory approach will be adopted at all stages of production. Advocacy initiatives will inform the audiences of the report, its theme and objectives, while encouraging wide participation during the preparation of the report.

• Monitoring of the Achievement of the MDGs and MDG Advocacy UNDP is intensifying advocacy to ensure that the MDGs lie at the heart of the country’s development agenda. It support Somalia’s federal, regional and district administrations with setting baselines, determining progress, and developing strategies for reaching the MDGs. UNDP also helps setting a more feasible set of goals and targets, fully owned by Somalis. Under this project, UNDP supports the MDG-based national development strategies by tailoring the MDGs to national circumstances and building them into national medium-term goals, including numerical and time-bound targets for human development and poverty reduction.

• Poverty Assessment, Monitoring and Analysis UNDP assists in establishing and strengthening the institutional capacity for poverty monitoring that will in turn influence poverty reduction strategies. The Poverty Monitoring and Analysis System (PMAS) for Somalia when fully established, will include data from Household Income Expenditure and Living Conditions Survey, public expenditure statistics, consumer price indices, nationwide multi-topic household surveys, and participatory poverty assessments. This initiative will enable the Ministry of Planning and partner institutions to make use of data to monitor the Poverty Reduction Strategy and progress towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals. Capacity development interventions are planned on data analysis and interpretation for the Poverty Monitoring Division and partner institutions. These activities seek to create awareness of the need for poverty monitoring, at both the national and district levels. At the same time, the project is assisting the administrations establish “national” poverty monitoring and analysis systems throughout Somalia.

Expenditure for this project: N/A (started in 2009).