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.
This research programme explores the investments being made to make social protection a viable vehicle for disaster response in three countries that face regular large-scale climate shocks, and aims to identify the value derived, and the benefits and challenges arising.
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 was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next country strategic plan (CSP) for Kenya
This decentralized evaluation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) joint programme of Social Protection 2020-2022 commissioned by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Kenya Country Office, on behalf of Joint Programme Participating UN agencies-Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Children¡¯s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), International Labour Organization (ILP) and in collaboration with UN Resident Coordinator Office (UN RCO), including the UN SDG Partnership Platform.
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.
An entire generation of school-aged children and youth risk facing the ripple effects of the COVID crisis over their entire lifetime. Family income losses in combination with lack of access to education and health, and increased food insecurity have contributed to the rise in the number of school- aged children and youth facing acute hardship.
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.
Over 15 million people are now acutely food insecure across the Horn of Africa because of drought, up from 12-13 million at the beginning of the year. Should the ongoing rains fail and increased relief assistance not take place, this number of acutely food insecure could rise to 20 million people by the end of the year.
This report outlines Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response to support the increased humanitarian needs across this region.
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.
