Ethiopia - Joint Report: Multi-Agency Initial Rapid Assessment -The drought situation in Dawa Zone Somali Region, 15-26 June 2022

Key Highlights

• GAM rate is about 38.75%, very high above emergency thresholds in dawa zone.
• The malnutrition trends of vulnerable groups on the rise and with aggravating factors.
• Livestock diseases continue to be reported in Dawa zone woredas.
• Urgent operationalization of 4 drilled boreles in kadaduma and Mubarak woredas needed.
• Erosion of resilience of host communities high inflation and low supplies driving food insecurity
• Water borne diseases malnutrition, malaria, skin infection, typhoid are top diseases in zone.
• 43% water facilities non-functional & 227,643 persons in 53 sites need water trucking support.