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FMR 64
26 Climate crisis and local communities
www.fmreview.org/issue64 June 2020

Oxfam/Pablo Tasco

Women head to the water point in Eilmidgan village where Oxfam has built a water desalination plant.
perpetrators who are then released back sticks and torches, while elderly women
into the community, and the formal systems collect water or look for missing livestock.
are inaccessible due to distance and cost. Men in fear of revenge killings stay away
Many women are raped during the night from homes at night, either sleeping in
while sleeping, especially in those areas hiding, staying awake in shifts, or sleeping
where clan conflicts happen frequently: outside and posting guards. Many men
carry guns for their protection, travel in
“My husband brought us here and left to find work. groups, use torches and keep in touch to
I have eight daughters and two sisters with me in warn each other of potential danger.
this IDP camp. They are all under 17 years. I don’t
sleep at night. I keep on watching them to sleep Local response and programming
safely. I try to sleep at noon time.” (Woman from The response to rising humanitarian needs is
Fadhigaab IDP camp, Sanaag region)
being met largely by the UN and international
When struggling to secure livelihoods, NGOs (INGOs), to whom most of the donor
families will often marry their daughters to funding flows directly. However, much
wealthy men and this was one of the main of the response is delivered by local and
issues raised in focus group discussions, national NGOs, especially in conflict areas,
with many of the girls interviewed to which international agencies lack access.
fearing early and forced marriage. Through the Grand Bargain agreement and
Communities have developed a variety of the Charter for Change, donors and INGOs
coping mechanisms to deal with the gendered have committed to localisation – giving
effects of climate crisis and displacement. local and national organisations and Somali
To avoid sexual violence and rape, women government agencies more direct funding
and girls travel in groups, change times they and more space to lead humanitarian
leave camps, do not share their movements responses by, for example, increasing
with men for fear of being stalked, and carry their participation in decision making.