electricsheepafrica/africa-3w-matrix-for-somalia-ngo-consortium

3W matrix for Somalia NGO Consortium

Publisher: Somalia NGO Consortium (inactive) · Source: HDX · License: other-pd-nr · Updated: 2023-03-03

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Abstract

Information on projects that are ongoing or completed by members of the Consortium working in the three regions in Somalia: South Central, Puntland and Somaliland

Each row in this dataset represents subnational administrative unit observations. Temporal coverage is indicated by the start_date, end_date column(s). Geographic scope: SOM.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Education
Unit of observation	Subnational administrative unit observations
Rows (total)	936
Columns	13 (2 numeric, 9 categorical, 2 datetime)
Train split	748 rows
Test split	187 rows
Geographic scope	SOM
Publisher	Somalia NGO Consortium (inactive)
HDX last updated	2023-03-03

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Variables

Geographic — region_name (Gedo, Awdal, Togdheer), district (Hargeysa, Erigavo, Dolow), hr_info_district_name (Hargeysa, Ceerigaabo, Doolow), activity_type (Somali Democratisation Support Project (SDSP), Pillars of Peace (Phase II) Programme, DDG - Community Safety programme), activity (To initiate, strengthen, and connect democratisation processes in Somalia (Federal level, emerging regional states, Somaliland, Puntland), the Somali Democratisation Support Project (SDSP) was established to facilitate a structured experience transfer based on past Somali electoral processes. The SDSP orients electoral management institutions to specific contexts and inform and contextualize training, capacity building, advisory and technical support. The project is embedded in the ongoing Interpeace Pillars of Peace Programme (PoP), which provides a solid framework and platform for continuous action, reflection, and learning; this timely endeavour builds on Interpeace's long-standing engagement in democratization in Somalia., The vision of Pillars of Peace is to build social cohesion and goodwill in the societies of Somaliland, Puntland and south central Somalia by providing a peacebuilding perspective to nuance and underpin the ongoing statebuilding processes taking place in these regions. The programme seeks to enhance the ability of Somali society to use a peacebuilding approach to pursue specific statebuilding interventions. These interventions will lead to concrete impact on the priority areas identified by stakeholders: democratisation, decentralisation, security sector and rule of law, civil society, and social reconciliation., The Danish Demining Group (DDG - part of DRC) has implemented community safety activities in Somaliland since 2008 and in Puntland and SC Somalia since 2010. These activities are based on a Ôpeople centeredÕ approach, supporting the community members to identify and address their own safety & security issues. DDG supports: Local capacity building, small arms management, conflict management and peace, mine action, improved relationship between the formal security provide).

Temporal — start_date, end_date.

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-04).

Other — regn_no (range 11.0–28.0), dist_no (range 1101.0–2804.0), sector (Peace and Security, Protection, Livelihood), organisation (Interpeace, Danish Refugee Council (DRC), World_Vision_Somalia).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-3w-matrix-for-somalia-ngo-consortium")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
region_name	object	1.1%	Gedo, Awdal, Togdheer
district	object	0.0%	Hargeysa, Erigavo, Dolow
hr_info_district_name	object	0.7%	Hargeysa, Ceerigaabo, Doolow
regn_no	float64	0.7%	11.0 – 28.0 (mean 18.9236)
dist_no	float64	0.7%	1101.0 – 2804.0 (mean 1893.9419)
sector	object	0.0%	Peace and Security, Protection, Livelihood
activity_type	object	0.1%	Somali Democratisation Support Project (SDSP), Pillars of Peace (Phase II) Programme, DDG - Community Safety programme
organisation	object	0.0%	Interpeace, Danish Refugee Council (DRC), World_Vision_Somalia
activity	object	0.0%	To initiate, strengthen, and connect democratisation processes in Somalia (Federal level, emerging regional states, Somaliland, Puntland), the Somali Democratisation Support Project (SDSP) was established to facilitate a structured experience transfer based on past Somali electoral processes. The SDSP orients electoral management institutions to specific contexts and inform and contextualize training, capacity building, advisory and technical support. The project is embedded in the ongoing Interpeace Pillars of Peace Programme (PoP), which provides a solid framework and platform for continuous action, reflection, and learning; this timely endeavour builds on Interpeace's long-standing engagement in democratization in Somalia., The vision of Pillars of Peace is to build social cohesion and goodwill in the societies of Somaliland, Puntland and south central Somalia by providing a peacebuilding perspective to nuance and underpin the ongoing statebuilding processes taking place in these regions. The programme seeks to enhance the ability of Somali society to use a peacebuilding approach to pursue specific statebuilding interventions. These interventions will lead to concrete impact on the priority areas identified by stakeholders: democratisation, decentralisation, security sector and rule of law, civil society, and social reconciliation., The Danish Demining Group (DDG - part of DRC) has implemented community safety activities in Somaliland since 2008 and in Puntland and SC Somalia since 2010. These activities are based on a Ôpeople centeredÕ approach, supporting the community members to identify and address their own safety & security issues. DDG supports: Local capacity building, small arms management, conflict management and peace, mine action, improved relationship between the formal security provide
start_date	datetime64[ns]	0.1%
end_date	datetime64[ns]	0.1%
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-04

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
regn_no	11.0	28.0	18.9236	18.0
dist_no	1101.0	2804.0	1893.9419	1802.0

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 3 exact duplicate rows were removed. 2 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from Somalia NGO Consortium (inactive) and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_3w_matrix_for_somalia_ngo_consortium,
  title     = {3W matrix for Somalia NGO Consortium},
  author    = {Somalia NGO Consortium (inactive)},
  year      = {2023},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/3w-matrix-for-somalia-ngo-consortium},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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