Â鶹ÊÓƵ navigated through a dynamic landscape, overcoming numerous challenges such as supply chain disruptions, funding gaps to logistical hurdles to ensure the effective procurement of essential goods and services for humanitarian operations regionally. Despite these obstacles, Â鶹ÊÓƵ remained steadfast in its commitment to delivering timely and efficient procurement services, contributing to the organization¡¯s mission of addressing hunger and food insecurity.
In 2023, the Eastern Africa region faced unprecedented operational, economic, and access challenges. Despite these hurdles, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Logistics remained a resilient backbone of its operations. Our logistics operations were agile, efficient, and swift, ensuring that we reached people affected by crises.
In 2024, Â鶹ÊÓƵ continued the provision of humanitarian assistance in Eastern Africa, including in response to the effects of the Horn of Africa drought earlier in the year and El-Nino-enhanced flooding later in the year, against a backdrop of widespread insecurity and conflict in the region. All enabled by the generous contributions from our donors, crisis response accounted for 85 percent of Â鶹ÊÓƵ resources in the region.
In Eastern Africa, the year 2023 witnessed a concerning rise in the number of people, particularly children under 5 years of age and pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls (PBWG), requiring nutritional support primarily attributed to a combination of climatic shocks, including droughts and El Ni?o events, compounded by ongoing conflicts in the region.
In 2023, Eastern Africa faced rising humanitarian needs due to conflict, climate hazards, and economic shocks. The number of food-insecure people doubled over five years to 63 million.
Even though decreased humanitarian funding strained Â鶹ÊÓƵ's capacity to deliver vital aid, Â鶹ÊÓƵ introduced prioritization measures, still managing to reach nearly 40 million people with food and nutrition assistance.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is committed to scaling up Anticipatory Action programmes and protecting more people before extreme weather events strike. This page displays the activations that occur throughout the year. It shows the number of people reached and the types of anticipatory actions being implemented in each country. These AAs aim to prevent and/or lessen the humanitarian consequences of predicted shocks, while delivering a quicker, more cost-effective, and more dignified response.
This outcome document reflects the conclusions reached at the 2022 Anticipating Food Crises workshop and is intended to support the work of policymakers and practitioners in Anticipatory Action.
This fourth edition of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Eastern Africa Regional Achievements reflects Â鶹ÊÓƵ's capacities in numerous domains, among them emergency preparedness and response, food system, gender, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, innovation and digitalization, staff wellness, environment, knowledge management, and evidence generation. This publication additionally celebrates our work and the difference we make.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ spends more than US$745 million annually in East Africa. This spending is vital to the humanitarian operations, and also affects local economies, potentially creating large income and production impacts.
To support increased emphasis on food systems approach, and in complement of the Local Economy Wide Impact Evaluation (LEWIE), Â鶹ÊÓƵ Regional Bureau for East Africa (RBN) commissioned this ¡°thematic evaluation of supply chain outcomes in the food system in Eastern Africa¡±.
This strategy supports the Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa, and
the countries in the region, to capture, manage, use, and share knowledge emerging from their Country Strategic Plans (CSP) implementation effectively and efficiently.
This third edition of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Eastern Africa Regional Achievements celebrates our work and our impact, highlighting Â鶹ÊÓƵs capacities in a wide range of areas, including emergency preparedness and response, food system, gender, nutrition, school-based programming, social protection, supply chain, innovation and digitalization, staff wellness, environment and knowledge management and evidence generation.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa in Nairobi (RBN) and covers the period from January 2016 to December 2020. It was carried out in 2021.
This corporate emergency evaluation assessed Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response to the COVID-19 pandemic from February 2020 ¨C June 2021. The evaluation was conducted under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, including Â鶹ÊÓƵ in emergency mode; travel and movement restrictions; and the need to avoid unduly burdening country offices. Accordingly, it adopted a ¡°retrospective developmental¡± design, which focuses on providing evidence to support adaptation in dynamic environments.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ policy on South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) issued in 2015, has been evaluated in the sixth year of implementation, in line with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Evaluation Policy 2016-2021.
