UNICEF Ethiopia – 10 January 2017 1) ETHIOPIA Humanitarian Situation Report Mobile health and nutrition team providing service at Kori, Afar Region ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Tesfaye SitRep #11 – Reporting Period December 2016 SITUATION IN NUMBERS Highlights: 9.7 million people require relief In December 2016, UNICEF has deployed 60 water trucks in Oromia food assistance in 2016. (HRD, August Region to benefit an estimated 120,000 people with access to safe water. 2016). UNICEF has also dispatched US$650,000 worth of household and community-level water treatment chemicals to different regions; and 420,000 children are expected to supported the rehabilitation and maintenance of sustainable water supply require treatment for SAM in 2016. systems, which together benefitted around 700,000 people. (HRD, August 2016) Between January and October 2016, 271,927 children with severe acute 3.9 million people require access malnutrition (SAM) were admitted to the national Community Management to safe drinking water. (HRD, August of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Programme. Out of these, 21,667 children 2016) (8 per cent) had complications and were admitted to in-patient care. There are 783,401 refugees in In response to the new influx of South Sudanese refugees, UNICEF Ethiopia. (UNHCR, November 2016). supported the Regional Health Bureau of Gambella to vaccinate 23,543 children between 0 to 15 years and 21,863 children between 6 months and 14 years against polio and measles, respectively. UNICEF requires US$124 million for its humanitarian work in 2016, UNICEF reached more than 695,000 people with basic hygiene messages including US$115.5 million for the on acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) prevention and control in Oromia, SNNP drought response and US$8.5 million and Somali regions. for refugee programming. UNICEF’s Key Response with Partners in 2016 Funding Status UNICEF & Partners Sector/Cluster Indicators UNICEF Ethiopia 2016 HAC UNICEF Cumulative Cluster Cumulative Target results (#) Target results (#) WASH: People in Carry-over: US$26.9 m humanitarian situations 3,200,000 4,814,248 8,000,000 12,575,015 accessing water for drinking Funds and cooking purposes 2016 funding received to Nutrition: # children 6-59 requirements: 420,000 271,927 420,000 271,927 date: months with SAM admitted to $124 m therapeutic care Funding gap: US$81.77m US$15.2 m Health: # of children and women accessing essential 5,850,000 1,122,886 N/A N/A health services Education: # of school-aged children accessing formal 430,000 317,826 4,000,000 3,100,000 and non-formal education *Funds available includes funding received for the current Child Protection: # of appeal year as well as carry-over from 2015. children reached with critical 74,500 64,415 530,000 75,071 child protection services *Results updated as of 31 December 2016. Nutrition results as of 31 October 2016. (See Annex 1 for further details). 1 UNICEF Ethiopia – 10 January 2017 Situation Overview and Humanitarian Needs The Meher harvest from November 2016 has improved the food security situation in many parts of the country. The National Disaster Risk Management Commission reports that, as a result of good seasonal rains from June to September 2016, the number of people requiring food aid in 2017 has decreased to 5.6 million people as compared to 10.2 million people at the beginning of 2016. However, in many other areas where rains (June to September 2016) were poor and where the effects of the El Niño drought were severe, effects will continue to negatively impact millions of poor households. On the other hand, the effects of the negative Indian Ocean Dipole led to serious water shortfalls in Somali and parts of Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNP). In the coming months, these areas will require an extensive humanitarian response as the regions progress into the dry season. The next seasonal rains in these pastoral areas are expected in April 2017. The Humanitarian Requirements Document (HRD) which indicates humanitarian needs for 2017 is expected to be released in January 2017. In Afar, early cessation of the Karma rains (June to September) plus poor and erratic distribution in some areas of the region led to water shortages in Chifra (zone 1), Awra and Gulina (zone 4) and Telalak (zone 5). There are reports of abnormal livestock migration within and out of the region to neighbouring Amhara and Tigray regions. Milk production has also reduced and could not cover household consumptions needs. The acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) situation in the country is improving in most affected regions as a result of coordinated response, extensive hygiene and sanitation promotion interventions and strengthened surveillance. Addis Ababa, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Dire Dawa and Gambella reported zero cases for more than four weeks. In Oromia, the AWD outbreak is contained in most areas except in East and West Hararghe zones. However, the situation in Somali (still badly affected), SNNP, Afar and Tigray is of concern with regard to further outbreaks. The Government and humanitarian partners are further strengthening their AWD interventions in these regions. Scabies outbreak is currently spreading to SNNP and Oromia while Amhara and Tigray continue to report cases. In SNNP, 82 out of 148 woredas (55 per cent) are affected while the East and West Hararghe zones reported new scabies cases in 10 woredas. Partners’ interventions are ongoing. Preliminary reports indicate that some 23,764 families in Afar, Oromia, SNNP and Somali regions urgently require non-food items (NFIs) as they are displaced due to drought and conflict. Humanitarian partners are working on prioritization to distribute the required items including shelter materials, kitchen sets, blankets and sleeping mats. UNICEF, in partnership with the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) is preparing to send 11,780 NFI kits for immediate distribution. In Ethiopia, it is estimated that there are more than 718,000 internally displaced people (130,000 households) due to flood, drought and conflict. Ethiopia is hosting the largest refugee population in Africa with a total of 783,401 refugees as of November 2016. South Sudanese refugees constitute the largest group (41.9 per cent), with 328,145 residing in Gambella and Benishangul-Gumuz regions. They are followed by Somali (31.4 per cent), Eritrean (20.7 per cent) and Sudanese (5.1 per cent) refugees. Since September 2016, following renewed conflicts, 54,033 South Sudanese have arrived in Ethiopia. Of these new refugees, 51,984 were registered and relocated to Jewi, Kule, Ngyenyyiel and Tierkidi camps in Gambella. Humanitarian Leadership and Coordination The Government of Ethiopia’s National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) leads the overall humanitarian coordination through the federal and regional level Disaster Risk Management Technical Working Groups (DRMTWGs) and brings together various taskforce/sector cluster partners to coordinate drought and flood response efforts. Together with the Government of Ethiopia, UNICEF continues to provide cluster leadership for WASH, nutrition, and education (co-leadership with Save the Children International) and sub-cluster co-leadership, with UNFPA, for child protection and gender based violence; and plays a key role in the health cluster coordination. WASH, education and child protection clusters have developed action plans to strengthen clusters at regional level. Education in emergencies workshops have been conducted at the national level with federal and regional level participants; child protection in emergencies workshops were held in Tigray and Oromia. WASH workshops at the regional level are expected to be held. Cluster Core Functions and Inter-cluster coordination are included in the trainings. 2 UNICEF Ethiopia – 10 January 2017 Humanitarian Strategy: Prepositioning and Partnerships The Government of Ethiopia and humanitarian partners’ strategic priorities as detailed in the HRD 2016 include: 1. Save lives and reduce morbidity related to drought 2. Protect and restore livelihoods 3. Prepare for, and respond to other humanitarian shocks – natural disasters, conflict and displacement The release of the revised August 2016 HRD has not changed the overall response strategy outlined in the January 2016 HRD. In line with its Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action, UNICEF is supporting the Government of Ethiopia to achieve priorities one and three. UNICEF is scaling-up its response to mitigate the impact of the current drought on children and women. UNICEF is working with all partners to ensure that children have access to education, health and nutrition care, child protection and safe water, sanitation and hygiene services during emergencies. - Ongoing support is provided to community resilience-building efforts aimed at reducing the vulnerability of women and children. - In drought-affected pastoralist areas, UNICEF is supporting Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams (MHNTs) to provide access to life-saving health and nutrition services. - UNICEF and partners are supporting the Ministry of Health in the prevention and control of diseases, including scabies, measles, meningitis, and AWD. - UNICEF is supporting the treatment of severely acutely malnourished children through the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM). - In addition, UNICEF is complementing life-saving WASH interventions with the establishment and rehabilitation of water sources and the dissemination of water treatment chemicals as well as sanitation