Even when cards are provided to genuine IDPs, they do not guarantee the provision of rations: after food has been distributed and any aid agency personnel or monitors have left, IDPs are often required to ‘sell’ their food back to the gatekeepers, at a cost of 100,000 Somalia shillings (roughly equivalent to four dollars, and a fraction of the value of the assistance).
Even when cards are provided to genuine IDPs, they do not guarantee the provision of rations: after food has been distributed and any aid agency personnel or monitors have left, IDPs are often required to ‘sell’ their food back to the gatekeepers, at a cost of 100,000 Somalia shillings (roughly equivalent to four dollars, and a fraction of the value of the assistance).