ETHIOPIA Humanitarian Situation Report Child on treatment for severe acute malnutrition, SNNPR ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2017/Tsegaye SitRep # 1– Reporting Period January 2018 SITUATION IN NUMBERS Highlights 320,000* Children in need of treatment for ▪ Due to drought and large-scale displacement in the southern and south- severe acute malnutrition in 2018 eastern lowland areas of Ethiopia, humanitarian needs remain significant. 7 million* People in need of access to safe ▪ Ethiopia is the second largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, with drinking water and sanitation services 892,555 registered refugees and asylum seekers, 58 percent of whom are children. ▪ In 2018, an estimated 320,000 children will need treatment for severe 2.2 million* School-aged children, acute malnutrition, while outbreaks of malaria, measles and Acute including adolescents, in need of emergency school feeding and learning material assistance Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) will continue to threaten children’s well-being. 7.4 million people will require access to safe water and 600,000 people will need protection services. 1.696 million** Number of internally ▪ With improved access to internally displaced people in Oromia and displaced people in Ethiopia (64 percent displaced Somali Regions, UNICEF has provided life-saving interventions through due to conflict) Government and humanitarian partners. Since January 2018, UNICEF has provided medical treatment for 4,360 IDPs including 2,724 children. ▪ UNICEF’s provision of technical support and prepositioned WASH 892,555*** Registered refugees and asylum supplies has contributed to a sharp decline in the reported number of seekers in Ethiopia. cases of acute watery diarrhoea in the Somali Region. However, critical needs remain unmet. *2018 draft Humanitarian Requirement Document (7.02.18) **Ethiopia: Conflict displacement situation report, January 2018, NDRMC and OCHA UNICEF’s Response with Partners *** Registered refugees in Ethiopia (UNHCR, December 2017) UNICEF Sector/Cluster Funding Status 2018* UNICEF Total Cluster Total Funds received Target* Results Target** Results to date: US $1.19m Nutrition: Children under 5 Carry-over: US 22.97m (1.1%) years with SAM admitted for 333,500 - 320,000 - treatment to therapeutic care (20.5%) programme Health: Women and children under 5 accessing essential 400,000 62,335 maternal and child health 2018 Funding services Requirements: WASH: People accessing safe 3,110,000 203,649 5,331,010 203,649 $111.8m water Child Protection: Vulnerable children receiving 58,300 - - - psychosocial support Education: School aged Funding gap: 300,000 - 2,200,000 - children with access to US $87.65m emergency education (78.4%) *Funds available includes funding received for the *UNICEF target includes 320,000 Ethiopian children with SAM and 13,500 refugees. current appeal year as well as carry-forward from the **2018 draft Humanitarian Requirement Document (7.02.18) previous year. Situation Overview and Humanitarian Needs Ethiopia is currently faced with a complex crisis of drought and conflict displaced populations. As of December 2017, approximately 1.69 million people were estimated to be internally displaced. An estimated one million people have been displaced because of conflict along the Somali-Oromia regional borders while more than 528,000 are displaced because of climate induced1 factors. The populations have been displaced in areas that are already experiencing ongoing drought. Below average rainfall, triggered by La Niña, is projected in parts of the south, south-east and north-east during the Feb – May 2018 rainy season which will further exacerbate existing vulnerabilities of the displaced, especially populations in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas. According to draft 2018 Humanitarian Requirement Document (HRD)2, in 2018, an estimated 320,000 children will need treatment for severe acute malnutrition, while outbreaks of malaria, measles and Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) will continue to threaten children’s well-being. 7.4 million people will require access to safe water and 600,000 people will need protection services. Some 2.2 million school aged children will need school meals, water and sanitation services and educational materials to go and stay in school. Evolving political and emergency situations in neighbouring countries has led to an increase in people seeking refuge in Ethiopia. As of 31 December 2017, 892,555 refugees were living in the country with the majority being South Sudanese, Somalis, Eritreans and Sudanese. Humanitarian Leadership and Coordination The humanitarian response in Ethiopia is led by the National Disaster Risk Management Commission through the federal and regional Disaster Risk Management Technical Working Groups (DRMTWGs). UNOCHA coordinates the humanitarian response with UN agencies and NGOs to support the Government-led humanitarian response. The Government prioritizes its emergency response based on target hotspot woredas (districts).3 UNICEF continues to provide the Government of Ethiopia with crucial support to cluster coordination at varying administrative levels in water, sanitation and hygiene, nutrition, and education with Save the Children International. UNICEF also provides coordination support to the child protection and gender-based violence sub-clusters and plays a key supporting role with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Health Cluster Coordination. UNICEF has eight field offices in Afar, Amhara, Benishangul Gumuz, Gambella, Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) Region, Somali and Tigray regions serving the population through regional and zonal interventions. Humanitarian Strategy: Prepositioning and Partnerships The HRD4 for 2018 is currently being finalized and represents a first step in the development of a multiyear planning framework. More specifically, the HRD will seek to increase the quality and predictable delivery of a required multi-sectoral humanitarian response, mitigate future needs in areas that experience recurrent climate induced shock, and support the strengthening of national service provision to address chronic and acute needs and the recovery of affected communities. The current HRD seeks to provide assistance across three pillars: Pillar 1: Prevention and Mitigation; Pillar 2: Response and Response Preparedness and Pillar 3: National System Strengthening and Recovery. In line with its Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action, UNICEF will support the Government under Pillar 2 to respond to humanitarian situations and through its regular programming activities contribute to Pillars 1 and 3. UNICEF is working with all partners to ensure children have access to health, nutrition, education, protection, safe water, sanitation and hygiene services during emergencies. To respond to any rapid onset of a crisis in a timely manner, UNICEF Ethiopia has pre-positioned supplies, to meet the immediate life-saving needs of 120,000 individuals. Prepositioned stocks are kept in Addis Ababa and in two regional hubs in Gambella and Somali Regions. Summary Analysis of the Programme Response Nutrition UNICEF in 2018 will support the Government of Ethiopia to effectively treat and manage severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children under 5, provide technical and logistical support for Community Management of Acute Malnutrition, improve access to infant and young child feeding and counselling and support the Nutrition Cluster, led by the Emergency Nutrition Coordinating Unit. 1 Through collaboration with the NDRMC, displacement caused by environmental factors such as drought, seasonal floods, flash floods and landslides have been categorized as “Climate Induced” IDPs. 2 Draft 2018 HRD 7.02.2018 3 A woredas is an administrative unit under zone. The administrative hierarchy in Ethiopia is Region, Zone, Woreda and Kebele. 4 Draft 7.02.2018 The recently completed hotspot priority listing of woredas describes a critical situation in already drought affected regions in Ethiopia. In the Somali Region, for example, 81 of its 97 woredas are classified as priority one and 10 as priority two. Following the official release of the hotspot classification, the SAM caseload estimation exercise led by UNICEF and the Nutrition Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) took place in January. An estimated 333,500 children with SAM are expected to be treated in 2018, which includes 13,500 South Sudanese refugee children. It is very likely though that this figure will be revised mid-year. To support the Government of Ethiopia’s capacity to identify, treat and provide therapeutic care to children with SAM, UNICEF supported the facilitation of a national level Training of Trainers exercise for 36 health workers selected from all regions and two administrative councils (Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa) in January 2018. In areas where access can be unpredictable due to sporadic conflict, UNICEF and WHO, together with NGOs, are supporting mobile health teams to provide outreach services that offer flexibility and agility to deliver services if, and when access is available or where communities are hard to reach or have poor access to fixed site services. Within the Nutrition Cluster, significant funding gaps are anticipated in the first half of 2018. Further, a delay in the approval of therapeutic feeding programme (TFP) data is a major challenge for programme decision-making. The November 2017 TFP data has just been approved with no approved TFP data for December 2017 or January 2018. Health Key findings from the IOM Displacement Tracking