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Independent Evaluation services for Joint Galmudug & Puntland Peace Initiative Project
I. Summary
CARE and its consortium members implemented SSF III Joint Galmudug & Puntland Peace Initiative Project in Mudug region. CARE is seeking to procure the service of an external consultant to undertake endline evaluation for the SSF III project that has high demands in terms of the quality of data and information to be collected, in order to generate robust evidence in peace building process, outcomes and impact.
CARE has been working in Somalia since 1981, providing humanitarian relief and long-term development support with a strong focus on women and girls. Its work addresses the root causes of poverty through three mutually reinforcing areas: promoting education and gender equality by strengthening government capacity, building youth life skills, and supporting local organizations; advancing climate justice, food security, and nutrition through climate-smart agriculture, diversified livelihoods, WASH, and early warning systems; and delivering humanitarian assistance in emergencies, including food security, health, nutrition, education, protection, and recovery support, while promoting women’s leadership in crisis response.
II. Background
Mudug sits at the administrative and social frontier between Puntland (to the north) and Galmudug (to the south), with Galkayo as the region’s economic and political hub. The city itself is historically divided into northern and southern administrations, and the wider rural periphery is traversed by pastoral migration routes that shift seasonally with rainfall and rangeland conditions. This geography produces both interdependence and friction. Access to water points, rangeland, and markets links communities across the state line, while layered authority structures including state administrations, district councils, traditional elders, religious leaders, security actors, and civic groups compete or collaborate in managing  everyday disputes.
Over the last decade, localized violence in Mudug has periodically flared around land tenure and settlement growth in periurban areas, taxation and control of transport corridors, and resource use in dry seasons when herds concentrate around boreholes and berkads. These pressures are amplified by climatic shocks (droughts/floods), population movements (IDPs and returnees), and the proliferation of small arms. Clan relations, particularly among communities on both sides of the administrative boundary remain a critical factor shaping risk and resilience. While ceasefire understandings and dialogue platforms have reduced largescale confrontations in the region, the peace is fragile, with recurrent triggers including rumors and misinformation, youth mobilization, competition, and unresolved grievances from past incidents.
At the same time, there are important peace assets to build on: established elders’ councils and districtlevel peace and security committees; joint incidentmanagement practices that have emerged around hotlines and adhoc negotiations; active women’s and youth groups engaged in social reconciliation; and trusted radio and community media voices that can carry credible information across communities. However, these mechanisms are uneven in capacity and inclusivity, and they are not consistently linked across the state boundary limiting their ability to prevent escalation or to enforce agreements.

Joint Puntland & Galmudug Peace Initiative (SSF III) was designed to consolidate and extend the fragile gains in Mudug region crossborder corridor. Led by CARE with local partners (PSA and CPD), the project combines four mutually reinforcing workstreams:

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