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Nancy Balfour

Nancy Balfour is Founding Trustee at the Centre for Humanitarian Change.

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Pastoralists come to Harshim town from neighbouring woredas and Somalia looking for water in Fafan Zone Somali region in 2017 - Image by Michael Tsegaye / UNICEF Ethiopia -

This policy brief outlines some of the key actions the Federal Government of Somalia, and development and humanitarian partners financing climate-related activities can take to accelerate climate action.

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Camels drinking from a trough. Credit: Jackson Wachira / Center for Research and Development in Drylands Blog

New SPARC research in Ethiopia and Kenya should change perceptions about how water development is affecting pastoralist communities.
Collecting water at the UNDP-funded dam in Baligubadle, Somaliland, northwest Somalia. Credit: UNDP Somalia / Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0) Blog

Water is at the core of investment needs in Somalia. It is the essential prerequisite for a rural economy, and the main determinant for the viability of fast-growing urban centres. It is also a resource in increasingly short supply.

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