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The
Horn of Africa faces multiple persisting and/or recurrent challenges such as environmental degradation, climate change, conflicts, political instability, fast population growth, rapid urbanisation and natural calamities leading to vulnerable livelihoods, widespread poverty, food insecurity, and famines. In general, most of the rural population relies heavily on livestock to sustain their livelihoods.
The geographic focus of
SDC’s HoA regional programme is Somalia and the culturally and socio-economically interlinked marginalised (semi-)arid lowlands in south and South-Eastern Ethiopia and North-Eastern Kenya. SDC has provided significant humanitarian assistance and development cooperation support in the region since 2013, following a conflict-sensitive approach. SDC aims at continuing to use a regional approach to address shared challenges and seize promising opportunities in the areas of intervention across the three countries.