SLSUN: Forced evictions in Somalia remain a major protection concern with catastrophic consequences for millions of displacement affected individuals, families and communities.
These evictions cause physical and mental trauma, homelessness, loss of wealth and assets, loss of jobs, loss of access to health, education and other services, and destruction of family and survival networks.
Additionally, forced evictions pose a key obstacle to the attainment of durable solutions. Evicted households already demonstrate extreme levels of vulnerabilities and, faced with limited or no viable options, may relocate to other eviction prone or insecure locations could subject them to further risks of eviction and displacement.
Beside the human impact, forced evictions have resulted in immense loss of infrastructure investments, consequently undermining critical access to essential services such as water, sanitation, nutrition, health, housing, and education among others. An analysis of major eviction incidents that have taken place across Somalia and other regions between January and October 2022 has shown that over 4.6 million USD in infrastructure and investments has been lost as a result of forced evictions, and this is mainly attributed to insecure land tenure.
This Norwegian Refugee Council report gives a detail account of the human and financial loss and damage caused by forced evictions and insecure land tenure.
Read the full Norwegian Refugee Council report Loss and damage – Cost analysis of losses in investments and infrastructure due to forced evictions in Somalia and other regions-evictions-in-somalia-and-other-regions.pdf
