Overview
Humanitarian partners in Sudan launched a Famine Prevention Plan in April 2024 to scale up response to millions of people in acute need. More than 25.6 million people are facing acute levels of food insecurity, including 755,000 at risk of famine. Of the 9.3 million people targeted for support, 6.4 million have benefited from at least one form of humanitarian assistance. While this represents a broad reach in absolute terms, affected populations require access to multiple rounds of multi-sector assistance to meet survival needs.
Overall, humanitarian response to priority risk of famine areas has scaled up, but existing and emerging needs continue to outstrip resources to respond. Acute conflict-related vulnerabilities continue to be compounded by catastrophic food insecurity and nutrition deficits, a near total breakdown in basic services, and inability to consistently access humanitarian and protection assistance.
While humanitarian assistance has scaled up significantly over the reporting period, particularly food distribution and seasonal support, many activities require multiple rounds of assistance and sustained access to in-patient services. Since its launch in April, the humanitarian community has revised Faming Prevention response targets based on emerging data from IPC assessments and SMART surveys. Looking ahead, partners will continue to utilize dynamic prioritization approaches to assess and respond to emerging needs and will focus on scaling up efforts to provide integrated assistance in priority risk of famine areas.
In the context of increasing humanitarian needs and a simultaneous rise in operational complexity, the humanitarian community’s ability to respond to conflict-induced famine needs will be contingent on an enabling access environment, assurances of aid worker safety, and respect for humanitarian principles.
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