ANNUAL REPORT-2023 .

Introduction
The year 2023 began amid an anticipated scale-down in humanitarian assistance due to insufficient funding where, approximately 8.3 million people were focused to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food insecurity outcomes in the second quarter of 2023. This unprecedented level of need within Somalia was driven by the impacts of five consecutive seasons of poor rainfall. 
While still struggling with the shocks caused by the above calamity &the impacts of the past locust infestation in parts of Somalia, the exceptionally high food prices caused by the war in Ukraine worsened the situation for the vulnerable population of Somalia…..