Key Issues
The Government released a national Emergency Operational Plan for drought response for 2016. The plan lists out response plans per sector to needs identified in the 2016 Humanitarian Requirements Document.
The Ministry of Health approved 77 priority woredas in Amhara (6 zones), Oromia (3 zones) and Tigray (5 zones and Mekelle city) regions for scabies response.
HRF supports 13 WaSH projects at a cost of US$6 million.
The Emergency Shelter/Non-Food Items Cluster urges other cluster partners to account for the El Niñocaused drought displaced Ethiopians in their beneficiary targeting.
Ethiopia is responding to an El Niño-caused drought emergency: The El Niño global climactic event has wreaked havoc on Ethiopia’s summer rains. This comes on the heels of failed spring rains, and has driven food insecurity, malnutrition and water shortages in affected areas of the country. A well-coordinated response is already underway and expanding rapidly, although the scale of the developing emergency exceeds resources available to date. Given the lead times necessary for the procurement of relief items, the Government and its international partners have called for early action to this slow onset natural disaster.