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WFP Ethiopia Country Brief, April 2016

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Highlights

  • 10.2 million people are in need of food assistance in 2016 across Ethiopia, a number likely to grow in the months ahead.

  • WFP currently needs USD 570 million to support 7.6 drought affected people in 2016, and USD 30 million to provide food assistance to refugees hosted in Ethiopia.

  • An additional 300,000 children under five and pregnant and nursing women are being targeted under the Targeted Supplementary Feedingprogramme following the revision of the Priority Hotspot woreda-classification finalized on 07 April, bringing the revised 2016 total to 2.5 million.

WFP’s Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 200712 addresses acute food insecurity, currently exacerbated by the ongoing drought. The PRRO allows WFP to support and complement the government's social protection, disaster risk management and nutrition programmes by providing emergency food assistance, engaging productive safety net activities and addressing malnutrition. WFP and the Government’s National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) are assisting 7.6 million people in six regions identified for emergency food assistance in 2016.

WFP’s PRRO 200700 provides food assistance to about 600,000 refugees in Ethiopia. Around 10 percent of the refugees receive a combination of cash and food in five camps. Refugee children attending primary school in 18 camps also benefit from the school meals program. WFP also provides blanket supplementary feeding for pregnant and nursing women, and children aged 6 – 23 months in camps with high malnutrition rates. In addition, WFP supports targeted supplementary feeding program for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition among children under five in all camps.

The Country Programme (200253) comprises: 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 P4P.