STORY: Somalia boosts peacebuilding efforts with focus on

state-building priorities
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LANGUAGE: SOMALI/ENGLISH NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 18/FEBRUARY/2019, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, participants attending the Peacebuilding Fund launch

2. Close up shot, Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation of the
Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), Abdi Mohamed Sabrie, speaking at the launch
3. Med shot, participants taking notes
4. Med shot, FGS Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation, Abdi
Mohamed Sabrie, and the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-
General (DSRSG) for Somalia and also the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator
for Somalia, Peter de Clercq taking notes
5. Med shot, participants listening
6. Close up, FGS Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation, Abdi
Mohamed Sabrie
7. Close up shot, FGS Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation, Abdi
Mohamed Sabrie taking notes
8. Wide shot, DSRSG Peter de Clercq speaking at the launch
9. Close up shot, FGS Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation, Abdi
Mohamed Sabrie
10. Close up shot, DSRSG Peter de Clercq speaking
11. Med shot, participants at the launch
12. Wide shot, participants listening
13. Med shot, participants listening
14. Wide shot, DSRSG Peter de Clercq speaking
15. Close up shot, a participant listening
16. Med shot, participants using their computers
17. Wide shot, participants at the Peacebuilding Fund launch
18. Med shot, participants clapping
19. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Abdi Mohamed Sabrie, Minister of Interior, Federal
Affairs and Reconciliation of the Federal Government of Somalia
“Each of these five projects is important. Our area of focus is the liberated areas and
areas that have weak administration. The objective is to assist them in the areas of
reconciliation and help set up administration structures to enable them to develop.”
20. Med shot, FGS Minister of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation, Abdi
Mohamed Sabrie shaking hands with DSRSG Peter de Clercq
21. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Abdi Mohamed Sabrie, Minister of Interior, Federal
Affairs and Reconciliation of the Federal Government of Somalia
“The fact remains that we have to deal with the reality and handle them [Internally
Displaced Persons] like other residents of our cities and help them access education,
clean water, housing and medical care.”

22. Close up shot, DSRSG Peter de Clercq

23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter de Clercq, Deputy Special Representative of the UN
Secretary-General for Somalia and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for
Somalia
“These programmes are intended to be what we call catalytic which means that we
are trying out quite risky approaches towards peacebuilding, so where normal
donors would not necessarily put their money because they think that it is too risky
to invest, this is where the PBF [Peacebuilding Fund] will go.”

24. Close up shot, Minister

25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter de Clercq, Deputy Special Representative of the UN
Secretary-General for Somalia and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for
Somalia
“This country is quickly urbanizing not just in Mogadishu but in other places like
Baidoa and Bossaso and it is very important that we support that urbanization
process that is actually fueled by internally displaced people, either as a result of
drought or as a result of conflict. The longer they actually stay displaced, the less
likely they are to return where they once came from.”

Somalia boosts peacebuilding efforts with focus on state-building priorities

Mogadishu, 18 February 2019 - The Federal Government of Somalia and the United
Nations today unveiled the 2019 portfolio of the UN Secretary-General’s
Peacebuilding Fund, with $14 million earmarked for support of new state-building
projects in the country.

The Fund will support five new projects focusing on stabilization, internally displaced
persons, reconciliation and state-building processes, land for peace and the
leveraging of the contribution of women to peacebuilding and promoting gender
sensitivity in the national programme on disengaged combatants.
“Each of these five projects is important. Our area of focus is the liberated areas that
have weak administration. The objective is to assist them in the areas of
reconciliation and help set up administration structures to enable them to develop,”
said the federal Minister of Interior Federal Affairs and Reconciliation, Abdi
Mohamed Sabrie, during the launch at an event he co-chaired with the Deputy
Representative of the Secretary-General and UN Resident Coordinator for Somalia,
Peter de Clercq, in the Somali capital.

The event was also attended by senior officials of the federal government, the five
federal member states, UN agencies in Somalia and other development partners.
The Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund has supported Somalia’s peacebuilding
process since 2009, and investments to date amount to approximately $45 million.

Mr. Sabrie said that Somalia has more than 2.5 million internally displaced persons,
most of them living in the major cities, who need help to access basic necessities like
food, water and shelter.
“The fact remains that we have to deal with the reality and handle (internally
displaced persons) as other residents of the cities by helping them access education,
clean water, housing and medical care,” the minister observed.

Mr. de Clercq noted that the fund was intended to provide a coherent and
coordinated approach by the federal government, the UN and other partners to
provide durable solutions to a number of problems caused by conflict and extreme
weather conditions.

“These programmes are intended to be catalytic, which means that we are trying out
risky approaches towards peacebuilding, especially where donors would not
necessarily put their money because they think it is too risky to invest,” said Mr. de
Clercq.

The senior UN official noted that there is a need to support the stabilization and
reconciliation efforts in Somalia by comprehensively tackling the problem of
displacement.

“This country is fast urbanizing not just in Mogadishu but in other towns like Baidoa
and Bosaso, and it is very important that we support that urbanization process
fueled by internally displaced people, either as a result of drought or as a result of
conflict,” Mr. de Clercq said.

The Fund aims to address Somalia’s peacebuilding priorities as outlined in the

Peacebuilding Priority Plan, the National Development Plan, the National
Stabilization Strategy, the Wajadir Framework and the National Reconciliation
Framework.