Publications

COVID-19

•  MESH COVID-19 Impact Round-table: Panel Presentations. (June 2020) Round table discussions where data and findings were shared amongst actors responding to COVID-19 in Somalia.

• Evidence, Experiences and Adaptation in Somalia during COVID-19. (May 2020) Summary report on the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations in Somalia.

Social Transfers

• From Economic Darkness to Hope: A Rapid Review Assessment of Somalia’s Individual Debt & Credit. Rahma Hersa; DFID. (Jul 2020) Faith and culture play an important role in the daily lives of the Somali people. It’s not just in the ritual practice of prayer and fasting, but in how Somalis interact with money and conduct business.

Health

• Rapid Review of District Health Information Software (DHIS2) Used in Somalia and for Key Health Partners. Bonventure Amollo; DFID. (Jan 2020) 2 years after the role out of a DHIS-based national data management and reporting platform, MESH analysed the quality of data reported through the DHIS to identify its strengths and weaknesses.  

SHARP Programme Evaluation

SHARP focuses on enabling people across Somalia to become less reliant on international aid. This includes being better able to prepare for, withstand, and recover from shocks (resilience), being able to integrate into new urban communities through sustained housing and livelihoods, increased protection, and civic engagement.

• Programme Evaluation: Overview & Methodological Note.

• Executive Summary of of the Danwadaag Local (Re)Integration Assessment (LORA) Results. Danwadaag supports recent IDPs and returnees integrate into urban environments.

• Programme Evaluation: Annual Report 2020. Andrew Pinney, Jane Poole & Nicolas Greliche. MESH & DFID (June 2020)

• Annual Report 2019/2020 – BRCiS Analysis. Andrew Pinney, Jane Poole & Nicolas Greliche. MESH & DFID (June 2020)

• Annual Report 2019/2020 – Danwadaag Analysis. Andrew Pinney, Jane Poole & Nicolas Greliche. MESH & DFID (June 2020)

Protection

• Assessing Child Protection and Gender-based Violence Services. Dorian LaGuardia; MESH & DFID. (NOV 2019) This review assessed protection services (psychosocial support, community-based reintegration, family tracing and reunification, and awareness raising) for children and women affected by armed conflict and other humanitarian crises in Somalia.

Resilience

• Assessing Resilience Levels in DFID Supported Communities. Dorian LaGuardia; MESH & DFID. (OCT 2019) This review was based on a survey of 175 households in 15 communties regarding how they prepare for, withstand, adn recover from crisis.

• Shocks & Hard Knocks: The Impact Of Resilience Programming in Somalia. Dorian LaGuardia & Andrew Pinney; DFID. (FEB 2019) This impact evaluation shows that DFID’s multi-year support was successful in preventing a famine in 2017.

AAP

• Collective Accountability to Affected Populations (CAAP):From Principles to Action. Dorian LaGuardia; MESH. (July 2019) Overview of Collective Accountability for Affected Populations (CAAP) and the emerging best practices and options for CAAP in Somalia.

CASH

• Cash, Social Transfers and Adaptive Management in Somalia. MESH. (Jan 2020) Summary report on learning workshop that included the UN, INGOs, loca NGOs, and donors who arrived at key programming insights and actions regarding cash programming.

• Analysis of DFID Cash Programming. Dorian LaGuardia; MESH & DFID. (APRIL 2018) Did people receive the right amount of cash? Did they have to divert any of the money to anyone else for any reason? How did they use the cash?

Technology

• Rapid Performance Review of the DFID MESH Programme. IMC Worldwide & DFID. (April 2017) Using emergent technology, MESH creates cutting edge approaches to deepen data analysis and in support of decision-making.

Early Response Funding

• DFID’s Internal Risk Facility: Changing the Humanitarian Financing Landscape for Protracted Crises? Dorian LaGuardia & Lydia Poole; DFID. (April 2016) The IRF is a rapid response financing mechanism designed to mitigate against the negative impacts of crises. It has been effective in addressing key humanitarian needs and evidence of longer-term positive outcomes and impact.

Gender

• Gender Review: How to Increase the Focus on Women & Girls. Sagal Ali & Tanja Chopra; DFID. (March 2016) While activities are gender-balanced, assessment methodologies are often not explicit about how the needs of women and girls were accounted for. More clarity on the overall ‘gender’ goal in programming will help mainstream gender.

DFID MYHP

• A Catalyst for Change and Results? DFID’s Approach to the 2013 – 2017 Humanitarian Programme in Somalia. Dorian LaGuardia, Alex Lawrence-Archer and Hana Abukar; DFID. (March 2015) Implementing partners largely understand the Humanitarian Programme’s approach and agree with its objectives and principles. Most are highly committed to doing business differently. Thus, the programme is poised to be a catalyst for change should serve the most vulnerable Somalis while enabling partners to improve how they work.