Community and civil society organisations
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Somalia
The Norwegian Refugee Council has worked in Somalia since 2004. It reports helping 748,618 people in 2025 with shelter, water, food, schooling, legal help and cash. Mohamed Abdi is its country director.
What it does
NRC is a Norwegian humanitarian organisation that works with people forced from their homes. Its September 2025 fact sheet says it was established in Somalia in 2004 and has 13 international and 178 national staff (NRC fact sheet, September 2025). Its work covers shelter and settlements, water and sanitation, food security and cash, education, and information, counselling and legal assistance on housing, land and property (NRC Somalia).
What it reports doing
NRC says it assisted 748,618 people through its programmes in Somalia in 2025 (NRC Somalia). Its programme update for December 2025 reports 654,643 people supported through emergency response and 273,801 people reached in hard-to-reach areas (NRC programme update No. 20, via ReliefWeb).
Who leads it
Mohamed Abdi is NRC's country director for Somalia (NRC Somalia; NRC fact sheet, September 2025). The country office has met the disaster management agency, SoDMA, on the humanitarian response (Dawan Africa); see the disaster management agency.
The money
OCHA's Financial Tracking Service (FTS) records humanitarian funding that donors and agencies report to it. It is not the whole budget of an organisation, and recent years are still being filled in. FTS lists these amounts received by NRC for work in Somalia (OCHA FTS):
| Year | Humanitarian funding recorded (US$) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | US$33.0 million |
| 2025 | US$22.8 million |
| 2026, to November | US$19.9 million |
The same figures for 212 organisations are on this site's aid funding list.
What it says about 2025 and 2026
In August 2025 NRC said the UN appeal for Somalia was only 17% funded, and warned that more than three million Somalis would be left without help as aid shrank (NRC). In 2026 it has published statements on worsening hunger and on floods coming on top of drought and conflict (NRC, 2026; NRC, 2026).
How to use it
NRC publishes fact sheets and monthly programme updates for Somalia (NRC Somalia). Displacement figures from UNHCR and IOM are on the UNHCR and IOM pages.
Sources
- NRC fact sheet, September 2025 · nrc.no
- NRC Somalia · nrc.no
- NRC programme update No. 20, via ReliefWeb · reliefweb.int
- Dawan Africa · dawan.africa
- OCHA FTS · fts.unocha.org
- NRC · nrc.no
- NRC, 2026 · nrc.no
- NRC, 2026 · nrc.no
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