Welcome to the website of the Somali Reconstruction & Development Programme (RDP). The RDP is a national plan that lays out, in a prioritized, sequenced manner, Somalia's 5 year key national recovery, reconstruction and development priorities, priority actions, outcomes and their financial implications.The RDP is coordinated jointly by the UN&WB supported by donors and undertaken jointly with Somali Authorities.

The RDP was developed through a 'post-conflict' needs assessment process called the Somali Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) which was carried out in 2005-7 and involved a national assessment of rehabilitation and transitional recovery needs.

The RDP higlights three key national recovery priorities:

I.  Peace, Security and Good Governance

II. Basic Services and Social Protection

III. Private Sector led growth to expand employment and reduce poverty

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This site contains 400+ key reconstruction and development documents on Somalia and is primarily intended as a one stop resource cente for all practitioners working or interested in working in Somalia.

  If you are a new practitioner coming to work in Somalia, click here to view the top 5 documents per sector that you should read!

To access more information click on the links below:

To understand more on the Somali Joint Needs Assement and related documents, click on the JNA tab.

To see the RDP reports please click the link on the left entitled Somali Reconstruction & Development Programme.

To see some quick statistics on Somalia, click on 'Somalia at a Glance' tab.

To see reports and summaries of meetings relating to the RDP, click on the Meeting Summaries, Updates and Outputs link.

To see over 400 reports on Somalia, click on Resource Centre.

To see frequently asked questions, click on the FAQ tab.

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