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HIGHLIGHTS
- Nearly 30 million children1 in Eastern and Southern Africa face life-threatening risks from conflict-driven displacement, escalating malnutrition, recurrent cholera and measles outbreaks and overlapping climate shocks. Household coping capacities are exhausted, and essential services are under severe strain just as children need them most.
- UNICEF will protect children’s lives while sustaining essential services and working with governments, regional bodies, civil society and community partners to strengthen preparedness and a localized response, prioritizing the most affected and hardest-to-reach populations. A strong emphasis on anticipatory action and shock-responsive systems will help prevent crises from escalating while building local capacity to respond and recover in communities repeatedly impacted by displacements, droughts, floods and disease outbreaks.
- To meet urgent needs and sustain critical emergency readiness across the region, UNICEF requires $129 million in 2026 to deliver life-saving support in nine countries and to provide surge capacity, technical expertise and coordinated cross-border preparedness and response across 22 country offices.
IN NEED
17.9 million women and children in need of primary health care
5 million people in need of nutrition assistance
6.8 million people in need of MHPSS
3 million children in need of access to school
14.7 million people lack access to safe water