Humanitarian gaps in Kandala District
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
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