UNFPA Somalia prioritizes the continuity of essential and life-saving SRH and GBV services during humanitarian crises, targeting vulnerable women and girls, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and persons with disabilities. During the month of May 2022, UNFPA and its partners reached 46,671 persons, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), with SRH services and 22,164 persons with prevention and response to GB...

Fatima Abdullahi has five years of experience working as a midwife in Hudur District in the Bakol region of Somalia. Fatima managed to overcome the socio-economic challenges facing young Somali women by enrolling in a UNFPA-supported midwifery training program, where she learnt new skills and graduated as a qualified midwife. Fatima is using her midwifery skills to provide better health services in her community, esp...

When men and boys are forced to move with their livestock in pursuit of graze and water, women and girls are left alone without the protection of their family. This leaves women and girls at risk of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), especially when having to travel long distances to collect water, fire-wood and other necessary items for the household.