World Vision Ethiopia - Situation Report 8

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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Key highlights on World Vision's response to the hunger crisis, as of end of July 2017: 

Rising needs: 7.81 million people have now been identified as in need of urgent humanitarian food assistance and may increase in late July when the National Disaster Risk Management Commission releases an assessment of the number of those in need of urgent humanitarian food assistance.

WASH: A total 10.48 million people are now in need of WASH interventions, an increase from 9.1 million. Given the context of high health risks where water plays a crucial role and a lack of sufficient rain in the current drought hit areas, humanitarian partners and the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity have updated humanitarian requirement figures for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). About $102 Million US is required to reach those affected . 

Increasing Need for Therapeutic Feeding: Treatment for an expected 303,000 severely malnourished children is ongoing. Between January and April 2017, 110,676 children were identified with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and admitted for treatment. With food shortages in drought affected areas further predicted, the number of children with SAM is expected to grow between July and September. The majority of cases are expected from drought-affected pastoralist areas of Somali, Afar, Southern parts of Oromia and SNNP regions.

Ongoing response: In response to the 2017 drought, World Vision Ethiopia is reaching nearly one million people in the regions of SNNPR, Oromia, and Somali. So far World Vision Ethiopia has secured 14.6 million US dollars of the 21 million US dollars required. Further funding is required to sustain response in drought-affected areas.