Peace Anchor Network operates nationwide across Somalia · Partner with us
Promoting sustainable peace, protecting civilians, and ensuring humanitarian access, especially in hard-to-reach and underserved communities across Somalia.
Our Mandate
To promote sustainable peace, strengthen civilian protection, and enhance safe humanitarian access by delivering services in hard-to-reach areas and building trust between communities and security actors through inclusive, conflict-sensitive approaches.
3.8 million people internally displaced across Somalia
Why We Exist
Families fleeing drought and violence face a gauntlet of checkpoints, unofficial tolls, and unmarked hazard zones. What is a two-hour route in normal conditions stretches into a multi-day ordeal. Elderly, pregnant women, and children bear the heaviest cost. Movement is not merely inconvenient — it is life-threatening.
Field Data
47
checkpoints recorded on a single major corridor in Bay Region
The communities that need help most are precisely the ones that humanitarian systems are worst at reaching. Geography, insecurity, and broken trust conspire to keep the most vulnerable invisible. PAN exists to make them visible and to stay when others cannot.
Geographic Coverage
PAN maintains operational presence across 15+ regions, with priority given to areas facing active conflict or classified as hard-to-reach.
PAN Operational Zones
Representative coverage map
Banaadir
· SouthUrban displacement & protection
Bay
· South-CentralCheckpoint & access barriers
Bakool
· South-CentralHard-to-reach communities
Hiraan
· CentralIDP population & movement
Galgaduud
· CentralConflict & drought intersection
Galmudug
· CentralTrust-building & security
Mudug
· CentralPeacebuilding dialogues
Nugaal
· North-EastMine action & risk education
Bari
· North-EastHumanitarian access
Togdheer
· NorthCommunity engagement
Woqooyi Galbeed
· NorthCapacity building
Lower Shabelle
· SouthCivilian protection
Middle Shabelle
· SouthDisplacement & access
Lower Juba
· SouthHard-to-reach & UXO
Middle Juba
· SouthDialogue & mediation
Priority classification reflects protection risk levels, access constraints, and displacement concentration. PAN continuously revises its operational footprint in response to evolving field conditions.
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PAN publishes field updates, situation reports, and programme dispatches directly from Somalia. No filter. No delay. Just ground truth.
