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After nearly two decades of conflict and without basic services,Somalia continues to face a complex emergency and humanitarian crisis.
Humanitarian crises are also reproductive health crises. In times of upheaval, pregnancy-related deaths and sexual violence soar.Reproductive health services –including prenatal care, assisted delivery,and emergency obstetric care– often become unavailable. Women and men become more vulnerable to HIV infection and gender-based violence.
The United Nations’ approach in Somalia aims at making a transition to greater peace and stability. Boosting development and progress towards the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and the objectives of the national Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) will enable Somalis to make the transition successful.
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund,is an international development agency that supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.

UNFPA works throughout Somalia and has five field offices covering the following areas:
• Baidoa Office covering South Central zone;
- Mogadishu Office;
• Garowe Office covering Puntland;
- Galkayo office;
• Hargeisa Office covering Somaliland.
Working with its partners on the ground, UNFPA’s humanitarian assistance is focused on the provision of reproductive health information and services. In this context, equipments and supplies were delivered to service delivery points, health care providers and individual women and men. Women at reproductive age as well as men received hygiene kits, and clean delivery kits were distributed to pregnant women and birth attendants to assist in clean deliveries. The package provided to health institutions and staff includes emergency obstetric care, sexual and gender-based violence medical treatment and management of sexually transmitted diseases.
UNFPA is also undertaking early recovery and development projects.It works to generate and make more resources available in support of population and reproductive health programmes.Addressing emergency obstetric care and obstetric fistula management,supporting the formulation of gender policy frameworks and boosting the statistical capacity of ministries and universities are some of UNFPA’s ongoing projects.

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