Inter-Agency Multi Sector Rapid Needs Assessment Report on IDP Return Areas of East Wollega Zone, Oromia
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Inter-agency Multi Sector Rapid Needs Assessment Report on IDP Return Areas of East Wollega Zone, Oromia 21st – 23rd May 2019 Multisectoral Rapid Needs Assessment – Returnees – East Wollega Zone, May 2019 Table of Contents List of Figures ................................................................................................................................................ 2 List of Tables ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 3 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 6 1.1. Context .......................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2. Objective ....................................................................................................................................... 7 2. Methodology .......................................................................................................................................... 7 3. Agriculture ............................................................................................................................................. 8 3.1. Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 8 3.2. Issues and Challenges .................................................................................................................. 8 3.3. Recommendations ........................................................................................................................ 9 4. Shelter and Non-Food Items ................................................................................................................. 9 4.1. Context .......................................................................................................................................... 9 4.2. Issues .......................................................................................................................................... 10 4.3. Priorities & Recommendations .................................................................................................... 11 5. Health, Nutrition & Food ...................................................................................................................... 12 5.1. Health & Nutrition overview ......................................................................................................... 12 5.2. Food overview ............................................................................................................................. 13 5.3. Recommendations ...................................................................................................................... 14 6. Protection ............................................................................................................................................ 15 6.1. Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 15 6.2. Safety & Security concerns ......................................................................................................... 15 6.3. Vulnerability in access to services .............................................................................................. 15 6.4. Recommendations ...................................................................................................................... 17 7. Water, Sanitation & Hygiene ............................................................................................................... 18 7.1. Water Supply issues and recommendations ............................................................................... 18 7.2. Sanitation and hygiene issues and recommendations ............................................................... 19 7.3. General WASH Recommendations ............................................................................................ 21 8. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................... 21 9. Recommendations .............................................................................................................................. 22 1 Multisectoral Rapid Needs Assessment – Returnees – East Wollega Zone, May 2019 List of Figures Figure 1. Landscape in Haro Limu woreda. ................................................................................................. 6 Figure 2. Map of Benishangul-Gumuz, East and West Wollega showing key return movements of IDPs. (OCHA, 2019). .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Figure 3. Use of donkeys instead of oxen for land cultivation in Guto Gida woreda. .................................. 9 Figure 4 Totally damaged tukul in Haro Limu woreda, East Wellega. The family were sleeping outside due to the condition of their home. Note much of the vegetation that could be used to rebuild has also been burned. ............................................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 5. Partially damage home in Shambelele, Sasiga woreda, East Wellega. The home has no windows or doors, reducing privacy, the roof does not provide protection from the weather. .................... 10 Figure 6. Health center at Arkumbe 01. The building was damaged and medical supplies and equipment looted during the conflict. ............................................................................................................................ 12 Figure 7. Cooking items destroyed and burnt in Dipo, Guto Gida. ............................................................ 14 Figure 8. Access to Lopo site, Haro Limu woreda from Suge is by dirt road. Access is only possible in dry conditions and the location is not accessible by truck. ............................................................................... 16 Figure 9. Open latrine with no privacy in a transit site in Guto Gida. ......................................................... 17 Figure 10. Spring catchment requiring rehabilitation, Simentegna. ........................................................... 18 List of Tables Table 1 Summary of the number of households and total populations returned to their original place in East Wollega Zone, by woreda. .................................................................................................................... 3 Table 2. Table summarizing team participants for the assessment. ............................................................ 8 Table 3. Response Matrix for Shelter & NFI support. ................................................................................. 11 Table 4. Summary of the status of existing water schemes in East Wollega Zone returnee sites. ............ 19 Table 5. Summary of Sanitation and Hygiene Practices Findings and recommendations. ....................... 20 2 Multisectoral Rapid Needs Assessment – Returnees – East Wollega Zone, May 2019 Executive Summary By May 2019, East Wollega Zone, Oromia, hosted more than 150,000 IDPs from the villages adjoining the border with the Kamashi zone, Benishangul-Gumuz and from within Kamashi zone as a result of the conflict that broke out in September 2018. The majority displaced are Oromos, along with Amaras. More than 150,000 were located in 22 collective sites and with host communities in 7 woredas in East Wollega. The government and humanitarian actors responded to the emergency needs; UN agencies started the response from January 2019. The government initiated a return of IDPs in April 2019 and mandated to complete this in a short period of time. Government authorities confirmed that a team representing multisectoral departments consulted the IDPs and received consensus return to their places of origin. The return process of IDPs was completed by the third week of May 2019. In East Wollega Zone a total of 7,691 HHs or 45,946 people are returned to their original place between May7-20,2019 in the kebeles found at the boarder of Benishangul-Gumuz in 6 woredas. However, 99% of the IDPs are returned to 4 woredas; Haro Limu (58%), Sasiga (25.1%), Guto Gida (9.9%) and Limu (5.6%). The number of IDPs returned to their original place are summarized by woreda in Table 1. Table 1 Summary of the number of households and total populations returned to their original place in East Wollega Zone, by woreda(Returned between May7-20,2019) # Household Heads # People Woreda % M F Total M F Total Diga 18 6 24 65 59 124 0.3% Gida Ayana 60 17 77 168 186 354 0.8% Guto Gida 888 127 1015 3299 1236 4535 9.9% Haro Limu 2866 937 3803 10171 16458 26629 58.0% Leka Dullecha 31 12 43 81 73 154 0.3% Limu 397 141 538 1310 1282 2592 5.6% Sasiga 1912 279 2191 5986 5572 11558 25.1% Total 6172 1519 7691 21080 24866 45946 100% A humanitarian team in East Wollega representing OCHA, IOM, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, Goal Ethiopia, World Vision, Save the Children, IRC, FIDO conducted Rapid Need Assessments in the border areas of Oromia