Ethiopia

Situation Report
Emergency Response

RESPONSE BY CLUSTER

Despite the challenging security environment, the Government and partners continue to deliver assistance, albeit limited by access constraints.

EMERGENCY SHELTER & NON-FOOD ITEMS • The sub-national cluster coordination is activated, and the first meeting will be held on 26 January. • The Shelter response is gradually increasing with the improvement of the access situation. INGOs are assigned as focal points per zone to coordinate the response at the woreda level, which helps to avoid duplication and strengthen coordination. • BoLSA is tasked to do registration across the region. The registration in Mekele is expected to be completed today.

FOOD SECURITY • As of 25 January, JEOP/REST has served 121,496 beneficiaries in Mekele city and 2,000 beneficiaries in Kilte Awlaelo (Wukro town). • JEOP/REST visited Shire town and is now working with the local administration to begin food distributions in the coming week for up to 131,456 beneficiaries. JEOP/REST will be expanding into additional woredas in the coming week. • Since mid-January 2021, NDRMC has distributed 2,063 MT food to 137,533 beneficiaries who are living in Southern, South Eastern, Central, Eastern, North Western and Western woredas of the region. As of the 25th of January, the NDRMC has distributed a total 13,568MT food to about 900,000 people in various locations in Tigray region.

HEALTH • Three first-line responders - ICRC (in Mekelle), MSF-E (in South Tigray), MSF-H (in West Tigray) and WHO (in Mekelle) - amongst others are supporting trauma care and essential health services. • AAH has set-up an emergency response team and is planning to deploy two Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams (MHNT) in Saharti Samre and Tanqua Abergele woredas. • IMC has provided NFIs to 1,500 HHs in Setit Humera, Maykadra, Ketema Nigus/Tsegede and Adi Remit/Wolkayit, and is planning to deploy a MHNT. • WVI has purchased lifesaving emergency health supplies which are now ready for distribution to Alamata Hospital and nearby health centers. • CRS has prepositioned essential health kits (both medicine and equipment) in Mekele. • WHO is supporting the Tigray Regional Health Bureau to provide surveillance in the region and strengthen capacity for outbreak investigating and response. WHO supported the Tigray RHB to investigate a suspected cholera outbreak in Adwa. • Assessment of health facilities by WHO teams continues on the ground with the teams covering Adiabat, Adwa, Azumi and Shire this week.

NUTRITION • The Sub-national Nutrition Cluster has been activated in Mekelle and MANTF meetings take place on a weekly basis jointly with RHB in Mekelle. • Humanitarian Nutrition partners are mobilized, and interventions mapped (ENCU 4W), 26 staff required for the Nutrition emergency response already deployed in Tigray (out of the estimated 135 required). • Humanitarian nutrition partners have set-up their emergency teams and operations to deliver life-saving acute malnutrition treatment services notably through MHNT in about 20 of the most affected and accessible woredas in a phased approach . • UNICEF delivered the supplies and equipment to Tigray and bother areas of Afar and Amhara hosting IDPs for the treatment of SAM. • WFP has 943 MT of Specialized Nutritious Foods (SNFs) prepositioned in Mekelle that were meant for 2 months of targeted supplementary feeding program (for MAM treatment) that have been repurposed for immediate implementation of blanket supplementary feeding in about 15 accessible woredas in the coming weeks (3-month support in a phased approach). • WHO is dispatching SAM kits (for the management of SAM cases with medical complications at hospital level).

PROTECTION • UNHCR, the recipient of CERF funding on behalf of the protection cluster, is finalizing partnership agreements for the implementation of prioritized activities in Tigray, Amahara and Afar including protection monitoring, CP, GBV, support to persons with disabilities, elderly persons and MHPSS services. Activities are planned to start early February with partnership with NRC, IRC, CVT, EECMY, HIS. • Following the activation of the sub national protection cluster in Tigray, Sub-national CP/GBV AoRs have been re-activated in Amhara, Afar and Tigray and have started convening coordination meetings with partners to ensure effective and coordinated CP and GBV response. • Protection cluster/AoRs are engaged with IM actors (iMMAP, REACH and IOM/ DTM ) to scale up IM and analyses capacity and define key context-based and operational protection indicators to inform the sectoral and inter-sectoral protection analysis. • During the reporting period, the CP/GBV AoR partners (including UNICEF, NRC, IRC, UNFPA, BoWCY, and BoLSA) have reached total 2,136 women, girls, and boys with child protection case management (22) and psychosocial support (58) services, and with dignity kits (2,056) provided by UNICEF. • The 2,056 dignity kits have been distributed in Mekelle, Adi-Arkay and Zarima woredas, and in IDP sites in North Gondar, Central Gondar and West Gondar Zones, by UNICEF in collaboration with the Bureau of Women, Children and Youth (BoWCY) and the National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) • In Mekelle, referral linkage between One Stop Centre (where GBV survivors receive lifesaving medical treatment) and safe shelter have been re-established to ensure GBV survivors can access the safe shelter/rehabilitation shelter if they wish after receiving medical treatment. • UNFPA handed over dignity kits to Federal Ministy of Health to be delivered to women and girls in the Tigray region who are in much need of menstrual hygiene supplies. • GBV partners will provide dignity kits to affected women and girls, provide mental health and psycho-social support, conduct GBV awareness raising activities and update and map GBV services to (re)establish referral pathways.

WASH • Water trucking has started in Mekelle and its surroundings. • A 2 billion birr (approximately US$ 50,703) budget has been identified to rehabilitate damaged WASH facilities.

LOGISTICS • Movements of humanitarian cargo inside Tigray is improving substantially. • Last week, four of the submitted cargo requests have been cleared to be dispatched. These include 5MT of nutrition and health supplies to refugee camps in Mai-tsebri (Concern Worldwide), 37 MT of health, nutrition, WASH and protection items to Shire (UNICEF), 230 MT of food supplies to refugee camps in Mai-tsebri (WFP), and 35MT of mixed supplies and 11,000 liters of fuel to Mekelle (Logistics Cluster). • An additional convoy of food assistance managed by WFP has also reached Tigray with another round of food for 25,000 refugees located in the previously inaccessible Adi Harush and Mai Ayni camps.

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