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.
Somalia¡¯s prolonged humanitarian crisis is marked by recurrent climate shocks like droughts and floods. Â鶹ÊÓƵ implements Integrated risk management tools like anticipatory action to mitigate the impact of these shocks.
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.
The subject of this evaluation is the collective preparedness and response of the IASC member agencies at the global, regional, and country level in meeting the humanitarian needs of people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ works with National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) to strengthen climate information services and early warning systems to deliver last-mile early warning messages and climate information to those most at risk from the impacts of climate change.
The terms of reference (TOR) aim to inform stakeholders about the evaluation, clarify expectations and requirements and guide the evaluation team in its work during the various phases of the evaluation.
The strategic evaluation of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s work on nutrition and addressing HIV and AIDS policies serves the dual purpose of accountability and learning, particularly the latter.
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.
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.
