The humanitarian situation in the Eastern Africa region is characterized by shocks, fragility, and conflict in many countries, which continued to highlight the importance of social protection as a way of meeting essential needs, responding to crisis, and building resilience to shocks. Â鶹ÊÓƵ enhanced partnerships with governments, donors, and international financial institutions (IFIs) to mitigate the impacts of this situation through supporting the scale-up of shock responses, refugee inclusion, systems strengthening and enhancement of policy and institutional frameworks.
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.
Ahead of the October-December 2022 rainy season, forecasts indicated that there was an increased chance of a failed rainy season in Ethiopia¡¯s Somali region. Â鶹ÊÓƵ and its partners implemented three anticipatory actions, anticipatory cash, early warning information and rangeland enclosure and fodder production.
Ahead of the October-December 2022 rainy season, forecasts indicated that there was an increased chance of a failed rainy season in Ethiopia¡¯s Somali region. Â鶹ÊÓƵ and its partners implemented three anticipatory actions, anticipatory cash, early warning information and rangeland enclosure and fodder production.
Learn how Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s R4 Rural Resilience Initiative helps farmers manage climate and disaster risks based on evidence gathered from five countries that implement an Integrated Climate Risk Management approach.
The evaluation covered the activities implemented by Â鶹ÊÓƵ under the interim CSP (ICSP) for Ethiopia from 2019 to June 2020 and under the CSP from 2020 to March 2024.
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 evaluation covers both the 2011 policy on disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) and the 2017 climate change policy, given their conceptual, programmatic and organizational links.
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.
In drought affected areas of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, 22 million people are acutely food insecure and 5.1 million children are acutely malnourished. In 2023, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is urgently calling for USD 2.4 billion to help avert a major humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa and support 8.8 million people affected by the drought with regular life-saving relief.
Ahead of the March-May 2021 rainy season, forecasts indicated below-average rainfall was highly likely in the Somali region in Somalia. Â鶹ÊÓƵ and its partners implemented two anticipatory actions, anticipatory cash and early warning information.
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.
