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Introduction Bari region is a biggest region of Puntland states of somalia, the region located in far Eastern of Somalia, The region was consist a Six districts in which was recognized by former Somali Government but the Puntland authority has expanded in to three regions including Bari, Gardafu( Alula district)  and Karkaar regions, The Somali Federal government is still recognizes as composes its previous districts including Kandala, Alula, Iskushuban, BanderBayla,Qardo and Bosaso. All of the other districts receivefunds for development and relief projects/programs provide by international donor community but Kandala district do not receive any proper reliefs and development funds due to access difficulty and security reasons, The Means of transportation is very difficult because of the districts and its villages locate in mountainous area of Golis range. Addition to that the terrorist’s group of pro ISIS captured Kandla town.  For sake of that safety and security of the aid workers being seems difficult to visit and implement in Kandala. In mid of the 2017 military offensive by Puntland authority were took place in the town and closest areas; several times were launched a bombardment on the strongholds of terrorists by American Drones, after that the terrorist militias were eradicated in the main areas in which they were settled. An assessment conducted  by TSS was estimated the inhabitant  population which had fleet from  the areas captured by the    terrorist and settled   to other neighbored villages plus pervious nomadic missed for their animal and most vulnerable people live in the visited villages are   over 2500 families with proportionately least accepted number per family is calculates 15,000 persons  including women, children, aged persons, sick persons, and etc. in addition to that there have been recurrent drought hit in 2018 in the area which was caused a huge problems nomad had also increased to settled in/around the, main villages, this has been worsened the situation of food security and livelihood of a huge number of populations live in that area. Kandala represents post-war recovery, this district with very limited access to basic services such as education and health service and safe water. According to figures by the assessment the current poor population stands at approximately 3500 families including bankrupted nomadic families, many of whom are from Kandala currently are IDPs, previous IDPs,+ nomadic IDPs and some families from Yemen who have returned from Yemen. Despite periods of violent and conflict, the areas was enjoying relative stability and there are movements towards economic development through fishing in frankincense harvesting. Dacish and Al-Shabab terrorists are not actively involved in the Kandala District It’s really happened that the terrorist militia had captured some locations including Kandala town for sometime but in the mid of 2017  Puntland military ( PMPF and Puntlandderwish forces ) had swept out from the town and terrorists militias were fleet over mountainous areas in which they mean to survive themselves for long time, but existed situation could not allow them to survive for ever  because of  this part of Golis range is very dry, this will not allow them to find a water  except the rainy season.  Rainy season of Gu’ was under performed. Secondly, they killed and forced the local people to provide food and water therefore they made enemy in areas in which caused that they cannot get what they want. Thirdly endless bombardment was continued by drones, therefore they missed where to hide for themselves. Fourthly, two terrorist militias (Dacish& Al-Shabab) fought each other, this had engaged them to flee from the areas, because once they fought their information has being easily revealed by Puntland forces and American drones. This is very good news for the local people, they can normally continue for their daily activity and the international and national organization can be easily reach the areas and support the needy peoples in district of Kandala. Objectives of the assessment The objective of the assessment was to find out the initial humanitarian gaps in Kandala areas and to analyzing the current situation of the missed and neglected population. Objectives of the assessment was to consider exist gaps of primary education, health facilities, water and sanitation, nutrition, livelihood and food security and the result of the poor Gu’ rainy season in 2019, the long dry spell ‘xagaa’ from March 2019 to August 2019 as well as the residual effects of the past drought in 2018. Methodology. The assessment team was consisting the four persons from TSS and four persons from Local authority especially health professionalisms, educationists and elders it was agreed that the assessment teams to use the Initial Investigations Tool which covers questions relevant to all thematic areas. The teams conducted interviews with selected beneficiaries including key informants as well as focused group discussions with diverse members of the community such as women and men in each location visited. The teams also employed direct observation throughout the assessment where photos of vital community structures such a health facility, education and schools’ premises s water source to show the condition of water, pasture and the livestock. Upon the end of the assessment, data entry of the Initial Investigation forms collected from the field was done for further analysis of the data per cluster. This was helpful to extract data from the forms under each cluster for our analysis. Challenges and Limitations The assessment conducted by TSS organization with help of local authority, the assessment was   financed by TSS; duration of the assessment was taking 12 days.  There have not been any major challenges encountered or reported by the assessment teams. However, the limited time for the assessment in terms of preparation and field work was a little bit a challenge. Composition of teams and locations to be assessed The below table shows the assessment, teams’ composition, villages and locations visited by the assessment teams covering all locations and villages of Kandala district. As per recognized by Puntland administration, The Kandala district was divided in to districts namely  Kandala and Balidhidin, each team was assessed in specific areas like

To be submitted by the Cooperating Partner to WFP Area Office within 15 days after end of projects. PUN-CP/TSS/835/FFA/2018 PROJECT FLA NO. 1.1 Region 1.2 District 1.3 WFP Area-office 1.4 Cooperating Partner 1.5 No. Beneficiaries 1.6 Project Start & End Dates 1.7 Report Submission Date Bari Qandala Bosaso TSS 460 1 Aug TO 31 Dec 2018 27 Dec 2018 1.8 Project Activity Type(s) 1.9 CP Staff Member Name and Title (person completing this form and certifying accuracy) 1.10 CP Staff Member Contacts Water catchments Abdirashid Yusuf /Director 7799317 Qandala district is currently undergoing a serious humanitarian situation resulting from a prolonged drought, and poor social services as well the displacement of the local residents. The drought situation has intensified due to the failure of several rainy seasons which has caused severe water shortage and depletion of pasture and this has seriously affected the lives of the pastoral communities and urban poor who directly and indirectly depend on livestock. There is severe water shortage which adversely affected the lives of the poor communities in the district whose main income source is livestock, farms, agro pastoralist livelihoods ) Most effected people whom are women and children with limited/lack of access to food, water, shelter and sanitation. The target villages of Qandala and Buruc have been identified due to extreme water and food shortages due to recurrent droughts. The drought and displacement also caused very high food prices contributing to the deterioration of the food security situation of the vulnerable communities. The overall objective of the project is to improve and increase the availability of the water and satisfy the water needs of the community, livestock and farming in those targeted districts through food for asset/work project while constructing Water Catchments and Fodder production. To meet the increasing demand of water. To reduce the run-off which jokes the drain. To reduce soil erosion. Supplement domestic water needs. Job creation vulnerable HH 4.1 Participants (Workers/Trainees) & Beneficiaries 4.2 Project Committee Females Males Total Females Males Total Planned Participants 100 200 300 Members 4 10 14 Actual Participants 90 170 260 Leadership 2 5 7 Planned Beneficiaries 230 230 460 Actual Beneficiaries 194 266 460 4.3. Targeting – Explain how beneficiary households were selected, including criteria used and selection process ·         460 households receive food voucher for 5 months for participating in the construction of planned projects ·         Communities obtain safe, reliable grazing land. ·         Communities obtain safe, potable water for both human & Livestock. ·         Improve environmental& Soil conservation management. ·         Safeguard the environment by creating an alternative source of livelihood for drought affected & charcoal burners. ·         In the targeting process we selected the different types of the community, we gave the percentage of male and female of the beneficiary households and then selected the needy ones yet suitable to perform the job. We have selected from the youth, community leaders, local government workers by male and female. Commodity Commodities In Commodities Out I. Closing Stock   (D-H) A. Specify Waybill Number B. Opening Stock C. Receipts D. Total In Stock (B+C) E. Distributed F. Return to WFP G.   Losses H. Total Out (E+F+G) Cereals Pulses Veg Oil CSB Salt Other Total Item Source (Community, CP, WFP, Other) Quantity Planned Quantity Provided 1 Wheel barrow 14 WFP , 26 TSS 40 40 2 Mattocks 141 WFP 141 141 3 Spades 76 WFP, 4 TSS 80 80 4 Bucket WFP 100 100 5 Corrugated Roofing TSS 44 44 7 Lumber TSS 40 40 8 tanker-bar-digging TSS 20 20 9 Water tank TSS 8 8 10 Water Tube TSS 2 2 Activity Units Planned Actual Percent Total Excavation – 1st layer M3 5022 5022 100% Excavation – 2nd layer M3 4544 4544 100% Diverting inlets M3 1202 1202 100% Haulage M2 10767 10767 100% Embankment – 1st layer M2 376 376 100% Embankment – 2nd layer M2 376 376 100% Excavation – 3rd layer M3 13615 13615 100% Excavation – 4th layer M3 12180 12180 100% Haulage M2 7746 7746 100% Embankment – 3rd layer M2 376 376 100% Embankment – 4th layer M2 376 376 100% Bush clearance M2 67 67 100% Total Workdays ·         Improved access to assets and basic services including community and market infrastructure. ·         The rehabilitation of 2 water catchments completed ·         460 Households were assisted with cash/vouchers distributions where each family received $ 90 per month for 5 months. The total value of cash & vouchers distributed was $ 207,000.0] ·         Reduce water shortage and access water point. The project addressed the socio-economic problems faced by both men and women. Water shortages affected both genders. Men had to migrate long distances with livestock to reach water. Women had to walk long distances to water sources to collect water for household use, exposing themselves to security risks and increasing their work burden. TSS made all possible efforts to facilitate women participation in the activities where possible. An estimated 40 percent of beneficiaries of monthly household transfers were female and 60 percent male. About 43% of the project management committee at community level were women. TSS encouraged active women participation in discussions and decisions regarding the project and 2 women had been included in the top leadership of the project management committees. The project implementation went very well in terms of food distributions, voucher distributions and progress of planned activities. All expected project deliverables were achieved satisfactorily. However, there were some minor technical challenges which caused some people to miss the food during distributions and be paid at a later stage. These were mainly due to fingerprint issues and no voucher cases, but we received prompt assistance from the technical people in WFP and resolved the issues immediately. As of now, all the people have received their full entitlements. On the other hand, the people were happy to receive cash & voucher transfers more than the in-kind food and requested next projects to be totally cash and vouchers. Thanks to WFP for support vulnerable community, the rehabilitation of water catchments was