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Ethiopia

Humanitarian Response Monitoring Ad Hoc Survey, 10 October-20 October 2016

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Methodology and limitations

• Time period covered: 10 October - 20 October 2016

• The National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) collaborated in calling DPPB and other woreda officials in 214 priority 1 and 2 woredas.

• Results presented here have had no further triangulation

The report allows for analysis of progress of the ongoing drought response, including the impact of recent unrest, and the more recent State of Emergency (declared on 8 October); it also reveals concerning new indications of humanitarian challenges being faced in southern and eastern parts of the country.

Some major headlines:

• Since the declaration of the State of Emergency there has been a significant improvement in the dispatch and distribution of relief assistance, including to a majority of the 22 woredas highlighted by food partners working under the coordination of the NDRMC-led ‘Prioritization Committee’and the Emergency Nutrition Coordination Unit (ENCU) as being of most concern due to earlier relief food delays and nutritional surveillance data. There are still many woredas that have not been receiving relief food assistance and PSNP transfers as planned.

• During the unrest there were delays and disruptions to the relief program and PSNP across large parts of the country, including in areas unaffected by protests, e.g. SNNPR (due to major government relief food depots being unable to dispatch / commercial transport companies being unwilling to drive).

• There are concerning indications that the La Nina phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, and more significantly of the current negative Indian Ocean Dipole may affect water availability, livestock health and Meher harvest performance in parts of southern and eastern Ethiopia.

• Many of the areas hard hit by the El Nino drought in Northern Ethiopia –parts of Amhara and Tigray - seem to be anticipating a better-than-average Meher harvest.

• On the scale of the El-Nino drought response, the survey reveals strong coverage of emergency nutrition services, with a major-ity of children and women identified as having Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) able to receive Targeted Supplementary Food (TSF), although there is variance in coverage.

• The survey also reveals strong coverage of response for the treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) amongst under five year old children and pregnant and lactating women. A majority of ‘Priority one and two’woredas have over five Outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) facilities in operation, and strong coverage of Stabilization Centres for complicated cases of SAM that are treat-ed on an in-patient basis.

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