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REGIONAL PROFILE
The East Africa and Sudans region face a range of complex emergencies, including armed conflict, disease outbreaks, food insecurity, recurrent climatic shocks, and widespread displacement. In FY 2023, USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA) provided approximately $2.9 billion in emergency assistance to respond to crises in six countries across the region. With USAID/BHA support, humanitarian partners delivered critical food and nutrition assistance to populations affected by conflict and climatic events and expanded access to emergency health care, protection, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. USAID/BHA also provided nearly $151.8 million for standalone early recovery, risk reduction, and resilience (ER4) programming in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia that expanded the availability of safe and nutritious foods, improved emergency preparedness and response capacity, and strengthened the financial stability of marginalized households.
HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN FY 2023
More than 80 million people required humanitarian assistance across East Africa, South Sudan, and Sudan in 2023 due to armed conflict, climatic events, and population displacement, according to the UN. Notably, conflict in Sudan beginning in mid-April resulted in the internal displacement of 4.3 million people and nearly 820,000 asylum-seekers and refugees displaced to neighboring countries as of September. The impacts of the Sudan crisis, compounded by the effects of heavy flooding and growing insecurity, also challenged humanitarian operations and limited populations’ access to assistance. Relief actors anticipate that the spillover effects of mass displacement and climatic events, such as below-average rainy seasons across the Horn of Africa, will likely continue to exacerbate acute food insecurity and other humanitarian needs among affected populations in FY 2024.
USAID/BHA PRIORITIES
In FY 2024, USAID/BHA plans to help advance an integrated, strategic response to the high levels of humanitarian need throughout the East Africa and Sudans region by drawing on the diverse contributions of affected communities, donors, national and local governments, nongovernmental organizations, UN agencies, and other relief actors. As conflict and climatic shocks continue to affect countries across the region, USAID/BHA intends to maintain support for life-saving assistance responding to acute food, health, nutrition, protection, shelter, and WASH needs. USAID/BHA will also continue to advocate for local and national authorities to grant relief actors unhindered access to populations in need of assistance while strengthening systems to monitor and respond to access constraints. In support of local capacity-building and disaster preparedness efforts, USAID/BHA and its partners will continue to integrate ER4 activities into humanitarian programming to bolster livelihoods, strengthen longterm food security, and support the early recovery and resilience of affected communities. USAID/BHA will also continue to strengthen risk mitigation efforts to ensure aid reaches those most in need.
Source link : https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/humanitarian-snapshot-usaidbha-east-africa-and-sudans-fiscal-year-fy-2023
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Publish date : 2024-01-25 08:00:00
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