
Somalia at a Crossroads: Progress and the Threat of Regression
25 March 2022
Somalia has been at a crossroads in recent years, with one pathway leading towards forging state-building and re-establishing democracy and another threatening a regression on the substantive gains made on many fronts. Narratives of Somalia’s growth and potential fronted on social media by ordinary…

Somalia’s Famines, Government Apathy and the Aid Industry
28 January 2022
Failed government leadership, the lack of accountable partnerships between aid partners and the government, rampant corruption, and psychological dependence on aid have kept Somalis on life support. Somalia faces yet another severe drought that is threatening the country with famine if immediate…

LAND-at-scale Somalia: land governance to contribute to durable solutions for Internally Displaced People in three Somali cities
25 January 2022
The Netherlands Enterprise and Development Agency (RVO) and the Somalia department of the Netherlands Embassy (EKN) in Kenya are pleased to announce their collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN-Habitat and the Regional…
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State of Land Data & Information in East Africa: Catalyzing East Africa's Land Data Ecosystem
There is no doubt the Global Data Revolution has reached the land sector. Government data portals, open access academic journals, community mapping initiatives and other citizen-generated data - there is a palpable positive drive across the world that allows processes such as data collection to be…