Quick Assessment
Excluded Camps in Baidoa Hosting Marginalized and Minority IDPs
Conducted from 17th to 18th of May 2023
Baidoa - SWS
Background
Save Somali Marginalized and Minorities Organization (SASMO) conducted a quick assessment of the
IDP camps in Baidoa hosting the marginalized and minorities with the objective of assessing and
verifying if these IDP camps do receive the humanitarian assistance provided by the UN agencies and
International and National NGOs (INGOs and NNGOs) operating in Southwest State.
The IDPs hailing from the marginalized and minority communities are usually faced with exclusion
and discrimination due to socio-economic and political factors and are often skipped in assessment
and verification exercises because of the dormant behaviours of these communities and influences by
the non-marginalized and non-minority groups who tend to gate-keep the marginalized and minority
IDPs because the latter have greater access to government and humanitarian offices, and to
resources enabling the establishment of IDP sites such as plots of lands. However, this does not
necessarily mean that the displaced people from the marginalized and minority communities do not
have IDP camps and cannot access the government and humanitarian offices, as SASMO is one of the
local NGOs with origins of marginalized and minorities advocating with government authorities, UN
agencies and other humanitarian organizations for humanitarian support and development assistance
to these groups of populations.
Marginalised people are not fewer than non-marginalized people and are, as in great numbers as
other groups, affected by the humanitarian crises and shocks. However, due to the above-referred
socio-economic and political factors they have little or no access to humanitarian services since
members of these communities are not included in the humanitarian decision-making platforms
where they can advocate and plead with the decision-makers and are denied to the opportunities of
access to services and resources.
The members of the marginalised and minority communities especially children under five years of
age happen to be the most affected and most vulnerable groups of the population and have the
highest rates of acute malnutrition, high prevalence of diseases, high illiteracy and are prone to
protection concerns. These results have been featured in several reports of the humanitarian
agencies during the severe drought in 2022.
SASMO conducted the rapid assessment of the IDP camps that host the marginalized and minority
communities in an effort to identify the gaps and needs existing in these IDP camps and advocate for
urgent humanitarian assistance provided to these groups. In addition, SASMO verified that the IDP
camps are not identified and registered with the CCCM and eligible for humanitarian assistance by the
humanitarian agencies. Unfortunately, none of these IDP camps the least of which hosts a minimum
of 30 households have ever been assessed and verified by the CCCM despite meeting the
requirement of an IDP to be eligible for humanitarian support and assistance.
Objective
SASMO quick assessment of the IDP camps in Baidoa hosting the marginalized and minority
communities aimed to identify the IDP camps with marginalized and minority IDPs, assess their
humanitarian situation and the gaps and needs had by these groups as well as ensure their inclusion
in the emergency humanitarian responses by the UN and other humanitarian actors in Southwest
State of Somalia (SWS).
Assessment Methodology
SASMO used various methods to assess the humanitarian situation of the Internally Displaced People
(IDPs) in these camps and identify the gaps and needs of these IDP settlements. The methodology
included the following:
Observation
SASMO team who assessed these IDP camps observed the IDP settlements in terms of shelter,
facilities, access to basic humanitarian services such as water, sanitation and hygiene, health and
nutrition and availability of food and cash assistance. The team conducted transect walk across
the camps to identify the gaps and needs of these communities.
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Key Informant Interview
SASMO team interviewed the leaders of the camps who hail from the marginalized and minority
groups. Issues discussed in the interview with the camp leaders included; the general
humanitarian problems they IDPs in the camps are faced with, engagement with other
community members in the vicinity and participation in communal activities, any relationship with
humanitarian agencies and camp verifying agents such as IOM/CCCM, reasons for not receiving
humanitarian support and being eligible for humanitarian assistance.
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Focus Group Discussion (FGD)
SASMO conducted focus group discussions with groups of displaced people in the identified
camps to learn the concerns and issues they have and their perception to participation in and
exclusion from the humanitarian interventions provided by the humanitarian actors based in
baidoa of Southwest State of Somalia (SWS). The participants made grave concerns about not
having equal access to humanitarian assistance in the state and that they have been sidelined
from any humanitarian assistance. Since they do not have connections with the humanitarian
service providers, they were always neglected.
Key findings
After it carried out this assessment of the marginalized and minority IDP camps in Baidoa, SASMO
indentified the humanitarian gaps, needs and key findings below:
General situation
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The assessed IDP camps are located in Baidoa (Operational Priority Zones 2, 3, 4, 5) and
have never been assessed and verified by IOM/CCCM
These camps host extremely vulnerable Internally Displaced People (IDPs) purely from the
marginalized and minority groups
The IDPs in these camps are excluded from any ongoing or planned humanitarian
interventions in these Baidoa operational zones and have not been assisted to date.
Most of these people were displaced from rural villages in Bay and Bakool regions due to the
recent drought and conflict, as well as pressure from armed groups on their farmlands and
livestock.
Most of the children of the marginalized and minority are child labourers working in stonebreaking and shoe-shining services in order to feed their families, thus resulting in the
children’s lack of schooling and education.
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Women from these marginalized groups do menial jobs such as working as housemaids or
selling firewood to survive because they are not included in the humanitarian assistance such
as the food and cash-based assistance to avoid such jobs
Men from these IDP groups are often casual labourers such as working on farmlands on wage
basis to provide sustenance to the household; thus the casual labour is often unavailable
Vulnerabilities are high with these marginalized and minority IDPs, and protection concerns
are the most vulnerability risk since the marginalized and minority girls and women are
susceptible to sexual and gender-based violence by the wandering armed groups around
IDPsettlements.
Humanitarian and gaps in the camps
The quick assessment found general gaps in humanitarian services including health, nutrition,
WASH, education and protection that affect the marginalized and minority IDPs in these camps.
The following humanitarian gaps and needs were identified:
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WASH services: The most of the IDPs in these camps do not have access to water in their
settlements. They usually fetch water from distant areas and no water trucking provided in
their camps. There are not sanitation facilities i.e. latrines and the IDP practise open
defecation. Hygiene practices are poor as no hygiene promotion activities take place in these
IDP camps.
Food Security/Cash Based Assistance: The IDPs in these marginalized and minority
camps do not benefit from any food security assistance delivered by the humanitarian actors
in Baidoa as they are not eligible for humanitarian assistance because of CCCM eligibility, the
camps are not approached for food security and cash-based assistance amid ongoing FS and
cash emergency assistance in Baidoa – thus contributing to malnutrition in the marginalized
and minority camps
Health & Nutrition: These marginalized camps do not have health and nutrition facilities
set up in their locations but can access sites run by some humanitarian actors which are
distantly located. Mobile health and nutrition teams do not visit these IDP camps and children
are hardly screened for nutrition or have vaccinations creating a vacuum for surge in
malnutrition and diseases among the children. Many mothers do not know of the benefits of
healthcare and nutrition because no partner is actively responding in their IDP camps.
Shelter/Protection: The IDPs have shelter structures and makeshift houses which are not
adequate and are mainly made from recycled materials (cardboards and ragged clothes). The
camps are not fenced and the makeshift houses not lockable – increasing the risk of
protection and climatic adversities such as bad weather and rainfalls. The shelters are not
covered with plastic rain-sheets because partners distributing such materials are not
providing services in these camps.
Education: Children from the marginalised and minorities generally lag behind in education
and have the highest rates of illiteracy – this linked mainly to lack of access to enabling
services such as food security and nutrition. The children hardly go to school and no
education in emergency facility is constructed in any of these marginalized and minority
camps. There is a gap in education needs for the marginalized and minorities in the IDP
camps.
The vulnerabilities and risks facing these marginalized and minority communities in terms of
humanitarian aspects are greater than assumed. The gaps in needs and assistance that have
been raised actually exist and need to be addressed by humanitarian actors. SASMO studied
that these gaps have been left unaddressed and no attention paid to the plight of the
marginalized and minority IDPs. These IDP sites were not assessed and verified by the CCCM
and they did not receive the emergency support provided by the humanitarian actors.
List of Excluded IDP camps hosting marginalized and minority IDPs
S/N IDP Camp Name
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
War Odey Buurbakaar
Gubadi
Buur Nagaati
Beer Saranle Wiin
Caratuur 1
Eedin Waal
Daruur
Faajir Madiyay
Gaashaan Buur
Banbara
Lugun Dheeri
Cill Gugow
Qadiidle Wiin
Saruro Eyle
Xeydabaale
Location No. of
HHs
Horseed
Horseed
Horseed
Horseed
Horseed
Horseed
Horseed
Horseed
Horseed
Horseed
Berdaale
Berdaale
Berdaale
Isha
Insha
87
125
93
65
85
90
73
75
105
75
120
35
105
35
Latitude Longitude Camp leader
3.150813
3.150720
3.152375
3.149462
3.148401
3.147867
3.157470
3.139416
3.137484
3.148855
3.106464
3.129092
3.133319
3.101424
3.105108
43.668279
43.667881
43.667258
43.668378
43.668392
43.670650
43.671797
43.665690
43.662139
43.665105
43.667890
43.677352
43.676957
43.659393
43.660742
Adan Hassan Adan
Alinur Isack Ahmed
Muslimo Mohamed Ali
Abdullahi Isack Moalim
Ibrahim Daud Moallin
Habibo Abdirahman Adan
Idiris Buule Hassan
Mohamed Hassan Ali
Hassan Ali Isack
Sacdiyo Isack Abdirahman
Adey Mohamed Hassan
Osman Mohamed Yare
Isha Mayow Mohamed
Hussein Adan Mohamed
Faduma Ibrahim
Phone
number
0618727804
0615267137
0618331053
0615984115
0616140878
0619130383
0619264918
0612446907
0615759969
0614472729
0619632448
0618709531
0616795564
0610604331
0615956837
Conclusion/Recommendation
Having conducted this quick assessment of the IDP camps with marginalized and minority IDPs and
studied the humanitarian situation of these IDPs, SASMO recommends that:
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Urgent humanitarian response in all sectors particularly immediate food and cash assistance at
this critical time be extended to the IDPs in these indentified marginalized and minority IDP
camps
Routine programmatic services of WASH, Protection, Health and Nutrition, and Food Security be
implemented and available to these IDP camps like other camps in these operational priority
zones.
The CCCM assesses and verifies these IDP camps allegedly excluded from the humanitarian
assistance.
Partner(s) with origins of the marginalised and minorities be included in the local partners of the
UN agencies and INGOs to implement partner projects and ensure inclusion of the marginalized
and minorities in the humanitarian interventions.
Involvement of SASMO in the humanitarian decision-making forums and platforms be encouraged
so that it brings marginalized and minority expertise to the table of discussion and decisionmaking
Participation of needs assessments and service mapping be inclusive of representatives from the
marginalized and minority communities.
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