Highlights
There is a marginal improvement in food consumption for people assisted through relief operations, but in spite of the good progress, needs will remain high to the end the year. The situation remains critical for 10.2 million people in need of food assistance.
There is an imminent pipeline break for cereals in September. WFP currently requires USD 158 million to support 7.6 million people affected by drought for the rest of 2016.
The revised Humanitarian Requirements Document (HRD) is scheduled to be launched by the National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) in the first week of August. The results will modify the food response plan for the rest of 2016.
The Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 200712 addresses acute food insecurity, currently exacerbated by the ongoing drought. The PRRO supports and complements the Government's social protection, disaster risk management and nutrition programmes by providing emergency food assistance and productive safety net activities. WFP and the Government’s National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) are assisting 7.6 million people in six regions in need of emergency food assistance in 2016.
The PRRO 200700 provides food assistance to 600,000 refugees in Ethiopia — 10 percent of which receive a combination of cash and food assistance in five camps. The PRRO also supports the school meals programme, targeting children attending primary schools and nutrition interventions for prevention and treatment of moderate acute malnutrition. Prevention of moderate acute malnutrition targets children aged 6-23 months, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, while targeted supplementary feeding is for children under the age of five.
The Country Programme (200253) comprises of: support to the Ethiopian Government in disaster risk management; school meals programme; support to people living with HIV and AIDS; and support to smallholder farmers through Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative.
SO 200711 provides safe and reliable air transport to thousands of humanitarian personnel.
SO 200752 supports the construction of the Geeldoh Bridge to improve accessibility to two woredas (districts) in the Somali Regional State.
SO 200358 supports the development of the humanitarian logistics base in the Port of Djibouti in order to improve efficiencies in both humanitarian and commercial logistics.
SO 200977 supports and augments the logistics capacity of the Government of Ethiopia and other humanitarian partners in the drought response.
Operational Updates
According to the results of the Belg assessment and WFP’s May/June household food security monitoring survey, food consumption has improved slightly because of provision of food assistance and the Belg (March-May) rains. However, access to food is still severely limited and the situation remains of concern. In addition, the WFP May/June household food security survey showed that 80 percent of relief households and 37 percent of non-targeted households still cannot meet their minimum food requirements.
Based on the number of people targeted in the joint emergency relief response as per the current Humanitarian Requirements Document (HRD) of 7.6 million, the joint Government’s and WFP pipeline faces a pipeline break in September, particularly for cereals.
The logistics cluster is currently working alongside NDRMC staff in Addis Ababa, Adama and Dire Dawa Hubs, to support NDRMC’s efforts to improve the operations and the management of the logistics supply chain. These include support to the Ethiopian Maritime Affairs Authority (EMAA) to facilitate the implementation of the national logistics strategy and support port planning operations.
Thanks to recent contributions for the refugee operation, there will be not be an interruption in assistance for the remainder of the year. However, given that procurement of food commodities usually requires more than three months, an additional USD 20 million is required by September 2016 to avert a possible interruption in assistance in the first quarter of 2017.
The annual nutrition survey conducted in Dollo Ado indicates that global acute malnutrition (GAM) rates are above 20 percent in the camps. In response to the high GAM rates, WFP has extended coverage of its blanket supplementary feeding programme for the prevention of moderate acute malnutrition to children aged 24-59 months in Dollo Ado and reinstate SuperCereal in the general rations for all refugees.