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title: "2023 BRCiS report: Urban-rural livelihood linkages for displaced women in Somalia"
description: "Understanding livelihood-related urban-rural connections for women from Displacement Affected Communities (DACs) in South-West State of Somalia: Comprehensive report on a multi-phased learning activity."
url: "https://www.flyktninghjelpen.no/ressurs/rapporter/comprehensive-report-on-livelihood-related-urban-rural-connections-for-women-in-south-west-state"
language: "no"
published: "2024-01-10T13:06:44Z"
modified: "2024-01-10T13:06:44Z"
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Rapport

# 2023 BRCiS report: Urban-rural livelihood linkages for displaced women in Somalia

Publisert 10. jan. 2024

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Understanding livelihood-related urban-rural connections for women from Displacement Affected Communities (DACs) in South-West State of Somalia: Comprehensive report on a multi-phased learning activity.

Developing durable solutions that enable displacement-affected communities in Somalia to better support themselves requires:

1. Insights into the **lives, livelihoods, and market and rural networks of women DACs** – who, along with their children, are at the center of the current displacement crisis; and
2. A better understanding of market and non-market **connections and flows between rural areas in Southwest State and urban Baidoa Town**, including Barwaqo resettlement site. This rural↔urban chain and the surrounding context together comprise the rural↔urban system.

This report represents the culmination of one of the most extensive community engagement processes conducted in Somalia to date: a six-month research and human-centered design activity that explored these topics through in-depth, exploratory, and participatory mixed-methods research and a three-day co-creation workshop. The activity involved 39 women DAC members of self-help groups, 16 of their trade linkages, and 18 key informants from government, financial service providers, training organizations, trade associations, and non-governmental organizations.