The Somalia Stability Fund is a multi-donor fund with contributors from Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, the European Union (EU), Germany and the United Kingdom UK). The Stability Fund is open to further funding.
Representatives from each of the seven Stability Fund’s donors sit on the Joint Donor Committee, which is facilitated by the Secretariat Office. The role of the committee is to oversee the strategic direction of the Fund; act as a forum for agreeing on wider policy issues for donor engagement.
The Secretariat Office comprises two policy advisors and two secondees from the Netherlands Government and the UK’s Department for International Development and is accountable to the Joint Donor Committee.
The secretariat:
ASI manages and implements the Somalia Stability Fund with a team that includes programme design, management, finance, risk, procurement, monitoring and evaluation and communications expertise. The team includes a large Somalia based team spread out across five locations: Mogadishu, Garowe, Kismayo, Baidoa, Dhusamareb. The ASI team have in depth contextual understanding and lead on investment design, management, learning and stakeholder engagement. The Fund’s role is to: