[{"bbox": [96, 153, 1164, 234], "category": "Text", "text": "term endeavour requiring sustained support. In the framework of EU's long-term engagement, the support needs to be structured in such a way to allow for a dynamic response to the evolving political and security situation, while responding to recurrent natural disasters exacerbated by climate change."}, {"bbox": [96, 243, 1164, 405], "category": "Text", "text": "The Multiannual Indicative Programme for Somalia (2021 – 2027) identifies 3 priority areas: i) Governance and peace building; ii) Inclusive and green economic growth and iii) Resilience building and social inclusion. These priority areas are designed to address key challenges facing Somalia among them the root causes of instability and fragility as well as supporting inclusive and sustainable development to mitigate the impact of natural disasters and supporting the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. The humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach is an integral part of the MIP and will be promoted."}, {"bbox": [96, 416, 1164, 603], "category": "Text", "text": "The Cooperation Facility will provide the necessary resources for the EU to play an active role in the international community's engagement with Somalia, not only at national level but also at federal and local levels. The facility will increase EU's capacity to effectively pursue a political and partnership agenda and engage in strategic communication and public diplomacy actions. On the basis of a strategic plan, to be drawn up by the Delegation, the Cooperation Facility will implement activities aimed at increasing awareness and communication of EU values, interests, Team Europe visibility and actions including public outreach events and campaigns. The strategic plan will also integrate the political communication aspects financed under the Press and Information budget."}, {"bbox": [96, 614, 1164, 696], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU will seek specific support to: (i) understand the local context, (ii) engage the services of third parties, and (iii) access to flexible logistics arrangements to facilitate timely high level engagement with relevant stakeholders in different parts of the country."}, {"bbox": [85, 708, 341, 739], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2 Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [96, 767, 1164, 902], "category": "Text", "text": "Recent progress notwithstanding, the federal and state governments continue to face enormous challenges in establishing functional and sustainable public institutions that provide services to Somali citizens. Financial resources are extremely scarce, institutional capacities still emerging, and access to skills severely limited, with a notable exception formed by an extensive diaspora. Accordingly, there continues to be need for sustained external financial and technical support to continue the state and institution building process."}, {"bbox": [96, 912, 1164, 1255], "category": "Text", "text": "The process of state building in Somalia is protracted, conflict prone, and riddled with past grievances and contestations. Rather than thinking of state building as the creation of structures from scratch, it has to be understood as a gradual transition from one set of governance arrangements to another, with a significant reconfiguration of who wields power and how such power is exercised. Accordingly, the transition is constantly shaped by potential winners and losers, requiring extensive negotiations and sometimes even resulting in violent conflict. In such a context, for the EU to be able to effectively pursue a political and partnership agenda, and engage in public diplomacy, it requires specific support to understand the local context, engage the services of third party monitors to visit areas that EU staff are not able to access, and have access to flexible logistics arrangements to facilitate timely high level engagement with relevant Somali officials in different parts of the country to mediate in conflict and more generally diffuse tensions as they arise, including over the distribution of resources made available under cooperation programmes. Likewise, with sizable investments of EU resources in various sectors across Somalia, strategic communication and public diplomacy initiatives are key to foster increased understanding by the Somali citizens of EU values, objectives and actions."}, {"bbox": [96, 1269, 1164, 1483], "category": "Text", "text": "Accessibility to various parts of Somalia continues to be a challenge owing to security, unreliable air transport system and poor/non-existence road networks causing difficulties in implementation and monitoring of programmes in parts of Somalia. The Somalian airspace remains risky owing to the security situation. The European Union Aviation safety Agency, for example, assessed in January 2021 that the risk of operation and overflight below FL 250 in Somalia is high. Most international aid agencies and diplomatic missions continue to prohibit their staff from using the services of the commercial operators serving Somalia on safety and insurance grounds. Those that are allowed to travel face complex connections to their final destinations. Further, these companies serve only the major hubs, in principle (although not reliably) once a week; there is limited service to the eighteen additional airstrips around the country."}, {"bbox": [96, 1494, 1164, 1628], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition to a complex political and security situation, Somalia is under constant attack from natural calamities, made increasingly worse due to the impact of climate change: floods, droughts, and more recently locust invasions regularly destroy livelihoods and trigger humanitarian crises. Official development assistance (ODA) received by Somalia in 2019 was about EUR 2bn, comprised of roughly equal volumes of humanitarian and development aid. Humanitarian and development actors have separate structures for coordinating among themselves and with"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 5 of 14"}]