Ethiopia: Humanitarian Response Priorities and Critical Funding Requirements and Gaps (July - September 2025)

Executive Summary

This Humanitarian Response Priorities and Critical Funding Gaps document outlines Ethiopia’s immediate humanitarian priorities and corresponding funding requirements for the period July to September 2025.

The Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG), under the guidance of the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), conducted a critical funding gap analysis to identify interventions in regions and population groups most affected by severe and overlapping shocks, including conflict, food insecurity, public health crises, and displacement. Priority interventions include integrated health and WASH responses to contain ongoing cholera outbreaks; multisectoral support to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in high-severity sites; food security and nutrition response in underperforming Belg areas and Meher benefiting areas affected by conflict/insecurity and poor rainfall; anticipatory and rapid response to floods and landslides in high-risk; targeted assistance for recent returnees, especially in western Oromia and northern Tigray.

Each cluster identified priority interventions against these thematic responses, and estimated funding gaps for the July–September period, excluding resources already secured or committed. The analysis also identified pipeline gaps requiring urgent procurement and prepositioning through December 2025 to ensure uninterrupted delivery of critical supplies. Notably, there is a critical gap for ES-NFI with very low supplies prepositioned for any potential displacement scenario.

These priorities reflect a coordinated, needs-based approach that directs limited resources to the most urgent and impactful interventions. The document calls on donors to provide timely and flexible funding to sustain and scale up the humanitarian response amid growing needs and complex risks. Without immediate support, life-saving operations face suspension due to critical shortages. Adequate financing will allow humanitarian partners to expand multisectoral assistance and uphold humanitarian principles, ensuring vulnerable populations are not left behind. There are serious concerns with regards to potential developments in Tigray and the need to revisit readiness measures and prepositioning of resources.