Sustainable flood management and risk reduction action - applicability of nature-based solutions for flood and drought management in Somalia

The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources (MOEWR) in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is carrying out the project “Sustainable Flood Management and Risk Reduction Action”, ongoing from August 2021 to March 2022. UNEP’s scope of work under this project includes activities designed to support the implementation of NWRS in the aforementioned aspects and the objectives laid out by FCDO, by supporting MOEWR with the following project objectives:

1. Data, information and tools to carry out flash flood risk assessment
2. Research on applicability of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for flood and drought mitigation
3. Workshops for sharing of findings, collection of feedback and capacity-building.

This report documents the work pertaining to the second objective, with emphasis on flood mitigation.