Key Issues
CERF’s new contribution of $17 million will enable WFP feed 1.37 million food insecure Ethiopians and provide supplemental feeding to at least 164,000 malnourished people.
With a three to five month lead time, the window of opportunity to procure and preposition emergency food and nutrition supplies for early 2016 is rapidly closing.
The revised hotspot woreda list is expected in two-three week time.
Between July-October, 53,400 people were displaced due to the ongoing drought, as people moved to other areas in search of food, water, pasture and livelihood opportunities according to IOM.
Ethiopia is responding to an El Niño-caused drought emergency: The impact of the failed spring belg (mid-February-May) rains was compounded by the arrival of the El Niño weather conditions that weakened summer kiremt (June-September) rains, whose harvest feeds 80 to 85 per cent of the country. This greatly expanded food insecurity, malnutrition and devastated livelihoods across six affected regions of the country. The level of acute need across virtually all humanitarian sectors has already exceeded levels seen in the Horn of Africa drought of 2011 and is projected to be far more severe throughout an 8-month period in 2016.