Cash Based Programming in Somalia: District-Level Food Security Aid

OCHA Somalia maintains this dataset tracking cash and voucher assistance (CVA) for food security across Somalia, aggregated at the administrative level 2 (district). Updated in March 2026, the records follow the 3W (Who is doing What, Where) humanitarian reporting framework. The data is provided in CSV and XLSX formats for regional aid coordination.

Use Cases

• Mapping food security interventions across Somalia districts using admin level 2 identifiers
• Analyzing the distribution of cash voucher assistance (CVA) by humanitarian organizations
• Coordinating 3W (Who is doing What, Where) activities to identify gaps in aid coverage

Strengths

• Aggregated at admin level 2 (district) for regional analysis
• Uses HXL (Humanitarian Exchange Language) standards for interoperability
• Produced by OCHA Somalia, the primary coordinating body for humanitarian aid

Limitations

• Lack of granular household-level data due to admin level 2 aggregation
• Specific column headers and record counts are not defined in the source metadata

Provenance

Source

OCHA Somalia

Collection Method

Reported via 3W/4W/5W humanitarian reporting frameworks

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Somalia