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Highlights
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ACO HAC US$ 26.6M funding requirement funded by 54 per cent.
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763,199 children between 6 and 59 months vaccinated against measles and rubella.
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583,361 children under five years of age in humanitarian situations were screened for acute malnutrition in the provinces of Benguela, Bie, Cuando Cubango, Cunene, Huila, Luanda and Namibe.
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A total of 119,202 children with severe wasting were identified and admitted for treatment in UNICEF supported nutrition treatment centres, reaching 213% of the intended target of 55,933 children with treatment. 337 health facility staff trained on nutrition practices for the prevention and treatment of malnutrition.
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43,331 children accessing formal or non-formal primary education, including early learning.
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321,341 people with access to safe water.
Situation in Numbers
3.9 million children in need of humanitarian assistance
7.3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance
321,341 people reached with access to safe water
583,361 children under 5 years screened for malnutrition
Funding Overview and Partnerships
Inadequate humanitarian funding continues to significantly impact on UNICEF’s ability to upscale its humanitarian interventions in Angola and to address increasing nutrition, WASH, and education needs. Currently, ACO humanitarian interventions are funded by close to 54 percent of which, a significant portion of the funds arrived in Q2 of 2022 with the remainder 3.7 percent being carry forward from 2021. Major funding contributions to the humanitarian action for children (HAC) in 2022, include ECHO (European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department), Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, USAID, Banco Fomento de Angola, Government of Japan, Global Humanitarian Thematic, and UNOCHA-CERF. However, critical funding gaps continued into Q3 and Q4 of the year, limiting both scalability of humanitarian interventions in the south and timeliness. In the second semester of 2022, drought conditions improved somewhat in the southern provinces, particularly in the provinces of Cuando Cubango, Cunene, Huila and Namibe resulting in improved economic and nutritional conditions among household’s dependent on rain-fed agriculture. Timely, flexible, and adequate funding however remains critical for an effective humanitarian response in the south without which, UNICEF’s ability to provide life-saving nutrition support for the most vulnerable children is limited. Furthermore, there is clear need for the implementation of multisectoral, time-critical and life-saving interventions across nutrition, water, sanitation and sanitation, health, education, and child protection sectors, including gender-based violence services. Currently, ACO has partnership agreements with non-governmental organisations including World Vision, MENTOR, PanAfricare, ForAfrika, People in Need (PIN), CUAMM (Doctors with Africa) and ADRA, with whom we implemented key HAC interventions in 2022.
Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs
In 2022, the southern provinces of Angola began its recovery from the worst drought in 40 years. Despite more favourable weather conditions in 2022, rising food prices continue to place households at increased risk of food insecurity and contributed to elevated numbers of children screened with severe acute malnutrition in need of life-saving treatment. This figure represents an increase of 138 per cent compared to 1.6 million people who faced food insecurity in 2020/2021. The FEWSNET Angola Report Monitoring Update (https://reliefweb.int/node/3861931/) found that in southwestern Angola most poor households in the region have limited to no access to own-produced crops and are relying entirely on food purchases, with food prices in these areas above the national average due to limited supplies in markets. With lower-than-normal purchasing power, an expected normal start to seasonal rains, and the lean season, poor households in Cunene, Huila, and Namibe will continue to face crisis (IPC Phase 3) food security outcomes from August 2022 through January 2023. While UN CERF UFE interventions have converged geographically, and programmatically in Huila province to optimise resources and improve the outcome of humanitarian interventions, food and nutrition insecurity expands beyond and affects other provinces in the south as well, including Huambo, Bié, Benguela and Cuanza Sul.
Drought has forced families into internal displacement and cross border migration to Namibia. At its peak the Government reported there were 1,823 returnees living in temporary accommodation camps of whom 747 children under 5 and 365 children between 5 and 10 years. In addition, there were 16,000 IDPs including 8,000 children who settled 2 km away from the camp. The drought continues to have negative impacts across sectors. Data collected by UNICEF from provincial education authorities in June 2021 suggest that 8.3% of students in Namibe, 20.1% of students in Huila, and 69.1% of students in Cunene have experienced reduced access to schools due to the drought. In focus group discussions with school communities in Ombadja, Cunene in June 2021, caregivers and teachers consistently noted that the lack of food and access to water made it difficult for many children to attend school.