Always Moving Always Sharing Somaliland

WHAT WE DIDN’T COVER
While the team is highly experienced in rapid
immersion projects, a short study of this nature
necessitates prioritisation. We would have preferred:
• More focus on young females, especially those
with or sharing mobile phones who primarily stay
at home.
• To travel to Eastern regions (including Sanaag &
Sool) where pastoralist population is highest (this
was partly logistical, partly security concerns).
We acknowledge that this is a rapidly moving market,
and recommend a short follow-up project in nine to 12
months time. For example, the Zaad shilling launch is
planned for late May 15, 2015. Patterns of behaviour
likely to settle three months after launch.
With more time, we would have spent extra days in
Berbera port, to better understand transactions such as
secondhand cars, livestock trade to the Middle East,
refugees and returning migrants from the war in
Yemen.
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