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Photo Albums and Reports
weekly reports
week 1 (pdf file) week 13 (pdf file)
week 2 (pdf file) week 14 (pdf file)
week 3 (pdf file) week 15 (pdf file)
week 4 (pdf file) week 16 (pdf file)
week 5 (pdf file) week 17 (pdf file)
week 6 (pdf file) week 18 (pdf file)
week 7 (pdf file) week 19 (pdf file)
week 8 (pdf file) week 20 (pdf file)
week 9 (pdf file) week 21 (pdf file)
week 10 (pdf file) week 22 (pdf file)
week 11 (pdf file)
week 12 (pdf file)
accidents and incidents (pdf file)
UXOs (pdf file)
IDP settlement summary (pdf file)
IDP Settlement rehabilitation Programme Survey 2007-8 (pdf file)
Photo albums
week 1
week 2
week 3
week 4
week 5
week 6
Mogadishu Emergency IDP Settlement Rehabilitation Programme
On 13 September 2007, SAACID signed a contractual agreement with UNDP/UN-OCHA and the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) to fund a 12-week programme to clean up the then 260 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) settlements in Mogadishu City.
A successful citywide mobilisation workshop was held on 29-30 September to introduce the programme; and to hand over ownership of the programme to local communities in the city.
Throughout the 12 weeks, 16 district-based work team cleaned IDP settlements throughout the city without any serious incident; this despite the high level of conflict and insecurity that continued to pervade the city.
The programme employed 780 IDPs (96.3% women) – 3 each from the 260 IDP settlements.
At the end of the 12-week period, some 154 of the 260 IDP settlements that were surveyed and identified in the DRC-UNHCR February 2007 comprehensive survey were cleaned. What remained was 106 settlements from the 260 sites, plus 37 new sites that were identified in UNHCR’s November 2007 survey of IDPs settlements in Mogadishu City (297 total). Thus, there were some 143 sites remaining to be cleaned in Mogadishu.
SAACID proposed to extend the current Emergency IDP Settlement Rehabilitation Programme for another 12 weeks to complete the cleaning process in all IDP settlements in the city (Phase II). UN-OCHA has agreed to provide the bulk of the funds necessary to implement this extension; and the programme should be underway by mid-February 2008. DRC is still considering an extension. This proposal for extending the initiative had the unanimous support of all community, IDP and district leaders. In fact, they wanted it extended with increased capacity, so as to take more IDPs from the larger settlements in the city. SAACID will continue linking this programme with DDG’s UXO initiative in Mogadishu. Further, the programme now provides excellent access for very targeted health and sanitation, water, shelter, employment and education responses into those settlements.