Guidelines to Uphold Resilience in Somali Humanitarian Action

In Somalia, resilience—to climate, conflict, and economic shocks—has re-emerged as a key theme in 2025 and 2026. Welthungerhilfe leads resilience advocacy and coordination across the Somali aid architecture as co-chair of the Climate Change, Resilience & Adaptation Working Group (RWG) of the Somali NGO Consortium.

The RWG asserts that humanitarian actors must strive to avoid maladaptations that set back communities and households in the medium and long terms and create dependency on non-local and impermanent structures. The RWG developed the following 7-point guidelines in response to growing interest in resilience as a pathway out of recurrent crises that offers better value for money. The RWG encourages all aid practitioners to adopt these practical guidelines in humanitarian action toward our common and complementary goals in Somalia and beyond.