Updates (Reports only)

In addition to dealing with past disasters and conflict, humanitarians are mounting a new response to El Niño-driven drought. The plan targets 15.5 million people, including 10.4 million with food needs.

Humanitarian needs are immense and they continue to grow year after year. Climatic shocks such as drought and floods are recurring events, but the frequency and duration of droughts is increasing.

Changes in context During the first half of 2022 Ethiopia has seen growing humanitarian needs driven by the lack of a peaceful solution to the conflict in northern Ethiopia; the continuation of...

Response Plan Overview More than 20 million people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia in 2022, nearly three quarters of them are women and children. The 2022 Ethiopia...

Changes in Context Below-normal Deyr rains at the end of 2020 led to drought conditions in 128 woredas in Somali and Oromia region affecting 5.8 million people. These conditions were further...

Changes in context The drastic changes in the humanitarian context since the release of the 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) on 28 January 2020 warranted an immediate revision of the HRP...

*This Annex presents revisions due to the recent changes to the humanitarian context, and should be read as part of the 2020 HRP. Only the Needs and Risk Analysis and the Cluster Plans of the annual...

Foreword by the Humanitarian Coordinator Similar to 2018, the year 2019 saw positive socio-political developments in Ethiopia. At the same time, the Government of Ethiopia and its humanitarian...

CHANGES IN CONTEXT The Government and humanitarian partners are dealing with the triple challenge of drought impact in the eastern and south eastern parts of the country, localized flooding and the...

OVERVIEW OF THE CRISIS In 2018, Ethiopia was spared significant climate-related calamities such as the droughts of previous years. However, the significant spike in conflict-induced displacement,...

Ethiopia was spared significant climate-related calamities last year, but spikes in conflict-induced displacements in 2018, nearly doubling the number of IDPs, contributed to high humanitarian response needs in 2019.