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Internally displaced families at Bariga IDPs settlement in Bossaso city of northern Somalia. Women and children are particularly exposed to additional safety risks and suffer multiple hardships during their displacement..Conflict, insecurity, drought and famine have defined Somalia throughout the past two decades. Currently, a third of the population (2.51 million people) is still in crisis and in need of immediate food security and livelihood assistance. .UNICEF is scaling up its emergency response in coordination with local authorities and more than 100 national and international partner organizations, while leading the education, nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) clusters and the child protection sub-cluster. .UNICEF humanitarian action encompasses more than rapid response. It also involves reliable preparedness and calls for investment in early recovery from the very onset of a response. UNICEF increasingly recognizes the need for all its programmes (both development- and emergency-related) to build resilience and reduce risk..
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Internally displaced families at Bariga IDPs settlement in Bossaso city of northern Somalia. Women and children are particularly exposed to additional safety risks and suffer multiple hardships during their displacement..Conflict, insecurity, drought and famine have defined Somalia throughout the past two decades. Currently, a third of the population (2.51 million people) is still in crisis and in need of immediate food security and livelihood assistance. .UNICEF is scaling up its emergency response in coordination with local authorities and more than 100 national and international partner organizations, while leading the education, nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) clusters and the child protection sub-cluster. .UNICEF humanitarian action encompasses more than rapid response. It also involves reliable preparedness and calls for investment in early recovery from the very onset of a response. UNICEF increasingly recognizes the need for all its programmes (both development- and emergency-related) to build resilience and reduce risk..