From Climate Vulnerability to Investment: Financing Resilience, Adaptation and Climate Mobility in Somalia

Background and Rationale
Somalia is among the countries most exposed to recurrent droughts, floods, rising temperatures, environmental degradation and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. These climate pressures affect livelihoods, food and water security, economic activity, human mobility and long-term development.
The impacts are particularly severe for communities that depend on climate-sensitive sectors such as livestock, agriculture, fisheries and natural resources. Climate shocks can trigger livelihood losses, displacement and rural-to-urban migration, while existing poverty, conflict, infrastructure gaps and limited institutional capacity intensify vulnerability.
Somalia has made important progress in climate policy, climate information services, early-warning systems, disaster-risk management and engagement with international climate-finance mechanisms. A central challenge remains translating climate evidence and national priorities into adequately financed, implementable and locally relevant investments.
This session will bring together government, academia, regional organisations, international partners and civil society to examine how Somalia can move from identifying climate vulnerability toward financing and implementing practical resilience solutions.
2. Session Objective
The overall objective is to strengthen dialogue on how climate evidence and national priorities can be translated into climate finance, investment and practical resilience interventions in Somalia.
• Examine the principal climate-finance and investment challenges facing Somalia.
• Discuss how evidence on climate vulnerability, livelihoods and human mobility can inform investment priorities.
• Explore opportunities for strengthening access to international climate finance and climate-based investment.