THE EFFORTS OF UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) IN IMPROVING HUMAN SECURITY STABILITY IN SOMALIA 2010-2017
Abstract
In Human Development Report (HDR)1994, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) introduced a new dimension of human security concepts. The report examines that international threats divided to 7 categories, there are: food security, environmental security, health security, community security, personal security, economic security, and politic security. Then, along with the end of cold war, the human security become one of the important issues in international relations studies. In the other hand, Somalia is a country in the Horn of Africa that well-known as country with low score of humanitarian indicator. The low humanitarian indicator was a result of prolonged civil war conflict that appears in Somalia. Besides that, Somalia also suffers from poor governance, chronical disease, famine, drought, and mortality rate. Of course, these things are regarded as the threat of human security stability of Somalia. Therefore, as the United Nations (UN) development agency, UNDP promotes partnership with Somalia government and carry out strategic programs/projects that aim to improve human security stability of Somalia in 2010-2017. The purpose of this research is to know the strategic efforts conducted by UNDP in overcoming the security threats in Somalia by providing several programs or project in assisting Somalia to improve its human security stability. Thus, to achieve the research goal, the writer will use the concept of International Organization and Human Security.