The overall operating environment in northern Ethiopia remains constrained, mainly by the lack of essential services and functioning markets, as well as the inability to bring in sufficient supplies, fuel, and cash to Tigray, limited access to people in hard-to-reach areas, and limited presence of partners on the ground in some areas. The current response is not yet meeting the increasing needs of most vulnerable people as the resources available are not matching the requirements. Despite the challenge however, humanitarian partners continue to deliver assistance, while mobilizing additional resources. 

Food partners in Tigray assisted more than 340,000 people with 5,303 MT of food during the reporting week. Some partners have reprogrammed their initially planned cash assistance to in-kind food distribution as new supplies are being brought into Tigray. Accordingly, around 3,900 people in Samre and Abergele were supported with around 35 MT of food items during the same period. Cumulatively between early April and 8 June, more than 20,000 MT of food have been distributed to more than 1.2 million people in the region.

In Amhara, under the current round of food assistance, more than 300 people were assisted with 6 MT of food in Bahir Dar in West Gojam Zone and 184 people were assisted with 3 MT of food in Lay and Tach Gaint woredas in South Gondar Zone during the reporting week. Overall, more than 10 million people were reached with food assistance as of 13 June. Similarly, in Afar, nearly 1 million people were assisted with more than 15,500 MT of food at full ration under the current food distribution as of 13 June.

Education partners are also assisting more children with education support, despite limitations. In Tigray, more than 30,000 children continued to be supported with access to formal and non-formal learning during the reporting week in Adigrat, Shire, Mai Tsebri, Axum and Mekelle (Sebacare 4) IDP camps. In Amhara, more thana 30,000 children continued to receive school feeding service across 52 schools in Sahila, Sekota, Zequala woredas and Sekota Town. Separately, more than 31,000 pre-primary and primary school children in 32 schools in Sekota Town and in Sekota and Gaz Gibla woredas continued to receive school feeding service/ supplementary feeding. In Afar, the construction of temporary learning spaces in Agatina and Galimeda IDP sites have been completed during the reporting week and will benefit more than a thousand children.

Shelter and non-food item support for IDPs and returnees continued in Tigray where more than 160,000 IDPs received support since the beginning of the year. More than 2,800 IDPs and returnees in South Wello and North Shewa zones in Amhara and and 1,600 displaced households in Kilbati Resu/Zone 2 in Afar were assisted with shelter and food items during the reporting week.

In Amhara, regional authorities and partners have registered some 560 households in preparation for relocation to newly constructed shelters at Jarra IDP site. To date, and since mid March, more than 28,700 IDPs relocated to Jarra IDP site.