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DECEMBER 2019 - MARCH 2020 FLASH 2019-2020 APPEAL DECEMBER 2019 - MARCH 2020 DJIBOUTI 01 DJIBOUTI FLASH APPEAL TOTAL POPULATION PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE TARGETED REQUIREMENTS # HUMANITARIAN OF DJIBOUTI (US$) PARTNERS 960K 150K 150K 14.3M 13 Alaili Dadda OBOCK Dorra Obock TADJOURAH Randa Balha 2 Tadjourah DJIBOUTI YobokiI ARTA DILKHIL ALI SABEH Dilkhil Ali Sabeh As Eyla This document is produced by the office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator for Djibouti on behalf of humanitarian partners in support of the Government of Djibouti’s national emergency response plan. It covers the period from December 2019 to March 2020 and is issued on 11 December 2019. The Government will lead a Post Disaster Needs Assessment that will guide the longer-term resilience and development programmes needed to support Djibouti to recover from the effects of the floods. DECEMBER 2019 - MARCH 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE FLASH APPEAL AT A GLANCE 04 OVERVIEW OF THE CRISIS 05 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 07 OPERATIONAL CAPACITY AND ACCESS 08 SECTOR RESPONSE STRATEGY 09 HEALTH AND NUTRITION 10 WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE 12 3 EDUCATION 14 MULTISECTORAL: FOOD SECURITY & LIVELIHOOD; NON-FOOD ITEMS & SHELTER 16 COORDINATION 19 DJIBOUTI FLASH APPEAL THE FLASH APPEAL AT A GLANCE PEOPLE IN NEED AND TARGETED BY SECTOR NUMBER OF PARTNERS PEOPLE IN NEED 150K 150K People in need People targeted 135K INGOs 120K 120K 2 150k 113K 13 NNGOs 3 8 UN 72K partners PEOPLE TARGETED 58K 58K 20K 150k 13K 13K Health & Food security & WASH NFIs Shelter Education REQUIREMENTS Nutrition livelihoods FUNDING REQUIREMENTS BY SECTOR (US$) FUNDING STATUS $14.3M ealth Nutrition 5.3m $1.6m funded WAS 3.4m (11%) $12.6m $14.3M funding gap Food seurity 19m (89%) required livelihoods multisetor Shelter multisetor 16m 04 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1 Ns multisetor 11m Save lives and Eduation 05m alleviate the suffering of oordination 005m flood-affected people by providing integrated and MAP OF AFFECTED AREAS multi-sectoral lifesaving Djibouti: Floods - Affected Locations Countrywide and in Djibouti City MA006 and life-sustaining O B O C K assistance and protection. ! Indication of Flood Extent ! Flood trace T A D J O U R A H ! ! ! Flooded area Affected Population STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2 ! Affected Population <1000 D!J!I B O U T I Promote ! ! ! 1001 - 2500 ! resilience- ! ! ! 2501 - 5000 5001 - 10000 Du lateau ! A R T A building and >10000 ! Arrondissement comple- ! Nombre_de ! Quartier A L I 10 - 50 mentarity with S A B I E H ! 51 - 100 DJIBOUTI D I C K I L development partners’ ! ! ! 101 - 150 ?????? ! 151 - 300 interventions. 0 50 ! 301 - 1000 remier km Cinquieme Deuieme Troisieme Balbala uatrieme ????? ´ Data Sources: Government of Djibouti, 0 0.5 1 2 3 Copernicus EMS, OSM Map created by MapAction (09/12/19) km DECEMBER 2019 - MARCH 2020 OVERVIEW OF THE CRISIS Djibouti experienced heavy rains between 21 and 28 Some 5,000 extremely vulnerable people (women, November, triggering flash floods and destruction children under age 5 and disable people) took shelter of infrastructure, homes and livelihoods across the in collective centres in the first four days of the crisis, country. While Djibouti’s yearly average rainfall is 127 where the Government and humanitarian partners mm or less, in Djibouti city the equivalent of two years provided them with hot meals and some medical of rainfall occurred at the peak three-day period of 21-23 assistance. Not all those in need could however be November, with over 295 mm of rainfall recorded. At housed there. One week after the start of the rains an least 11 people have been killed by the flash floods, estimated 10,000 individuals were still sheltering with including seven children. Current forecast indicates a family or community members as their dwelling were possibility for more rains to occur, which will further still flooded, despite sustained pumping and cleaning compound the already precarious humanitarian up operations. Some of the most vulnerable were situation. sheltering in flooded dwellings as they had no alternative. Vulnerable households are struggling to cope with the According to the Government-led Interagency Rapid floods devastating effects and many unable to repair Assessment, an estimated 250,000 people have been their damaged homes or recover their livelihoods. At affected (one fourth of the population, countrywide) least 25 per cent of those affected (approximately by the floods. Of particular concern is an estimated 19,000 people) need urgent emergency shelter support 150,000 people, including migrants and refugees, who as their – often precarious – dwellings have been further are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance. damaged by the heavy rains and floods. An estimated Djibouti hosts over 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers, 75 per cent (112,000 people) need support to replace of which some 49 per cent of them are children. In key household items as they are forced to prioritize addition, over 100,000 migrants, mostly Ethiopian, live what little income they have on other essential goods. 05 in the country, and an additional 300-400 travel through Outside Djibouti town, 3,667 households were affected Djibouti on daily basis. The most severe impact of in Arta region, with at least 887 in need of emergency the rains occurred in Djibouti city, where an estimated food, shelter and NFI support. In Ali Sabieh region, 2,310 200,000 people (21 per cent of the total population of the families were impacted and 360 households in Obock country) are impacted and 120,000 people require urgent region need urgent life-saving shelter and NFI assistance life-saving assistance. The devastating consequences as the rain has severely affected shelters and the are most acutely felt by those most vulnerable, including temperatures have dropped. those living in extreme poverty, children, widows, the elderly, disabled and people on the move (refugees, Flooding has impacted household food security, with migrants and IDPs). An estimated 15 per cent of 95 per cent of affected households reported losing affected families are female-headed households (mostly key household food stock in Djibouti town. Prior to widowed). the inundations, about 280,000 people (one third of the total population) were facing chronic levels food Affected areas are the same hosting vulnerable insecurity, according to the 2018-2022 IPC Chronic Food populations that were hit by Cyclone Sagar and Insecurity Analysis. A recent SMART survey conducted subsequent flooding in late May 2018, many of in 2019 found that severe acute malnutrition was above whom were still recovering from last year’s natural emergency thresholds (>2 per cent) with 2.6 per cent disaster devastating effects. This is testimony on how and global acute malnutrition was serious across the the climate crisis is adversely affecting those most country at 10.3 per cent. Households spend 68 per cent vulnerable in Djibouti, where two years of subsequent of their budget on food and are extremely vulnerable to large-scale flooding events are unprecedented, and shocks. Following the floods, many households have present a major challenge to systems and populations resorted to negative coping mechanisms, with 89.5 per that have little learned coping mechanisms to deal with cent (17 of 19) neighbourhoods interviewed in Djibouti flooding and other climate change related events such city saying that, on average, the total amount of food as the raising of sea levels and stronger tides. This is people consumed has decreased since. The floods also a stark reminder of the need not only to act quickly have disproportionately affected women, who bear the and provide life-saving assistance to those in need, but primary responsibility for food within the home and are also to ensure that humanitarian and recovery activity struggling to cope with the additional strain. The rapid embrace in full the concept of resilience and ‘build back assessment found that market access was hampered better’, as similar events are likely to occur with even for a few days in five districts of Djibouti town, and many more frequency and intensity. small shops owners’ stock was affected by the flooding. DJIBOUTI FLASH APPEAL Further compounding chronic food insecurity is the rain forecasted in the coming days, heightening the loss of crops, rearing animals and the expansion of the alarming potential of both water and vector-borne desert locust invasion, triggered by the heavy rains. disease outbreaks. Given the concerning sanitation The most affected is the coastal region of Tadjourah, situation, coupled with limited access to safe water, with an estimated loss of between 35 to 50 hectares the risk of potential outbreak is rising. Recurring water- of cultivated land (or 96 per cent of the total) and borne diseases, including acute watery diarrhoea about 1,000 hectares of natural pastures for free-range (AWD), are endemic, and have been affecting the whole grazing (or 50 per cent of the total). More than 100 rural population—residents, IDPs, refugees, and migrants— households lost all their livelihood assets (over 200 over time. In 2018, some 3,450 AWD cases have livestock heads), and the surviving livestock are reported been recorded, particularly along migration routes, to be in poor condition. Other affected regions are Obock, where water scarcity is severe, and in the capital. The Dikhil and Ali-Sabieh. In the coastal areas of Arta region, Government took steps to curb the malaria epidemics, reported loss of vegetables and fodder production (25 which cases have been dramatically increasing year on hectares), have occurred due to excessive and prolonged year, from 24 cases in 2012, to 14,000 in 2017, 22,000 in water stagnation. Reduced availability of livestock feed 2018 and a peak of 43,000 in 2019. The gains made are has immediately reduced milk production, weakening now lost.