ETHIOPIA Access Snapshot - Guji zone (Oromia region) January - April 2021 The humanitarian access situation in Guji continues to deteriorate as SIDAMA a result of an increase in violence which has significantly restricted Bore West Arsi partners' movements and operations. Few partners remain operation- ETHIOPIAMena al in the area, and several have pulled out due to budget constraints Afele Kola 9 Ana Sora violence or threats New IDPs per year and other factors. Services such as health, water, and education Haro Walabu Girja against humanitarian 2017: 40,000 have been largely curtailed, with dozens of health centers and . Gedeo schools vandalized. Private transporters are reluctant to provide freight services to Uraga Bale personnel, assets 2019: 80,000 hotspot areas due to security concerns. In a recent OCHA mission to the area, Adola and facilities 2021: 3,000 partners reported that parties to the conflict had occupied an unconfirmed number Wadera % of incidents by type of health centers and schools. Odo Shakiso 2% During the reporting period, partners reported 70 incidents of violence/armed- 11% conflict, particularly in Goro Dola, Gumi Eldelo, Liben, and Saba Boru woredas. West Guji Goro Dola Meanwhile, tensions have also increased in neighboring areas with West Guji and Guji 70 70 Borena zones. Violence has significantly affected relief activities, forcing partners Aga Wayu Incidents Nagelle Incidents to interrupt life-saving activities multiple times. From the second week of Saba Boru Town reported mid-March, partners stopped all movements in Gumi Eldelo, Liben, Goro Dola, and Liben reported parts of Saba Boru woredas. This affected assistance to an estimated 50,000 87% IDPs. Critical health and mobile nutrition services stopped, and livelihoods recov- Active hostilities Liban Violence aginst aid workers, ery interventions such as the distribution of farming tools and seeds were halted. Accessible 88% Gumi Eldalo assets and facilities Further, the lack of government counterparts at local/zone levels affected relief Partially Accessible Borena Denial of existance of needs activities that require joint targeting and delivery, such as emergency food distribu- Hard to reach Accessible road # of incidents by woreda tions. The situation has slightly improved in April, but access to hotspot locations Partially Accessible road Goro Dola 23 remains a challenge. Region boundary Daawa Liben 19 Civilians continue to withstand the worst of the conflict, with their safety at stake Zone boundary Woreda boundary Gumi Eldalo 17 as hostilities occur within their communities/places of displacement. Violence Saba Boru 5 has forced IDPs to move from place to place multiple times and exposed them to People in need People in need People in need Wadera 2 enhanced protection risks. While many have been displaced for over a year now Woreda in accessible areas in partially accessible in hard to reach Adola 2 areas areas Bore 1 (some since 2017), according to Zone DRMO, an estimated 3,000 have been newly Nagelle Town 1 displaced from Liben to Negelle town and 80,000+ IDPs have not received food Aya Wayu 3,200 20 assistance since March 2020. Goro Dola 11,00 21,500 #Humanitarian of incidents byPartners month (*) During the reporting period, aid workers have been subjected to intimidation, physi- Cluster Partners Gumi Eldalo 13,000 19 cal assault, and detained by security forces as well as unidentified military- Agriculture ANE,16 CACH, COOPI Liben 16,500 14 elements. Further, partners have denounced the misappropriation of their assets ESNFI 12 COOPI, GOAL, MC Saba Boru 13,000 and vehicles by parties to the conflict, compromising their ability to operate in such Food RDRMC a volatile environment independently and neutrally, putting aid workers and affected Wadera 5 1,400 Protection 3 GOAL, IMC communities at risk. In one incident, an NGO water truck was forced by a security 1 WASH Jan FebCOOPI,Mar GOAL,Apr IMC, MC, force to deliver water to a military camp, and one week later, the same truck was set RWB, PIN Denial of existance on fire allegedly by UAG. (*) No dataHostilities for NutritionViolence and Educationof needs The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations Creation date: 30 April 2021 Sources: OCHA Feedback: [email protected] www.unocha.org/ethiopia http://www.humanitarianresponse.info/operations/ethiopia www.reliefweb.int/country/eth.