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FUNDAMENTAL REASON
It should be recalled that after the conflict in the Tigray region, humanitarian partners developed an emergency response plan for three months, from November 2020 to January 2021. While developing the initial plan, the partners agreed to issue a second iteration of the plan in a month. period after the publication of the first. As such, this plan has now been updated to realign needs and requirements based on the reality on the ground in the Tigray region and the adjacent woredas in the Amhara and Afar regions.
The plan seeks to increase the readiness of the humanitarian community in Ethiopia to maintain relief assistance to already existing vulnerable people in Tigray, consider and promote protection, freedom of movement, ensure unhindered, safe and equitable access to property, services and protection. of the civilian population.
The plan also seeks to prepare the humanitarian community to respond to the protection and other needs of an additional caseload that is likely to be affected in the Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions by the crisis in the next two months (December 2020 to January 2021). The residual needs will be incorporated into the 2021 HRP.
Planning figures for response plan: Tigray is currently home to several categories of vulnerable groups. These include 855,000 people who are currently targeted by the HRP: 750,000 non-displaced persons, 100,000 internally displaced persons and 5,000 returned internally displaced persons. In addition, there were 96,000 Eritrean refugees registered in Tigray in October and more than 1 million PSNP beneficiaries in need of regular support. See Table 1 for a breakdown of these numbers by zone. PSNP customers who are supposed to receive transfers at this time are Permanent Direct Support (PDS) customers, of which the temporary need is expected to be 121,096 people. The current situation in Tigray Updated Humanitarian Response Plan for Northern Ethiopia December 2020 November 2020 to January 2021 Prepared by the Inter-Group Coordination Group (ICCG)
2.3 million Number of people targeted by this plan $ 116.5 million Estimated total funding needed to prepare and respond to humanitarian needs © UNICEF Ethiopia has already displaced people within the region and across regional borders towards Amhara (currently estimated at 34,000 by the Amhara regional government) and Afar (more than 25,000 reported internally displaced persons), while nearly 50,000 are displaced across international borders into Sudan. Furthermore, Ethiopia regularly receives a large number of cases of returnees from countries of transit and destination, particularly on the eastern migration route. In the last three months (September-November 2020), 2,065 Ethiopian migrants from Tigray have returned to Ethiopia. With current levels of return, more than 1,200 migrants could be expected to return in the next two months and risk being stranded in Addis Ababa and other points of entry (PoE). IOM expects that as deportations from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) resume, as expected in mid-December, the number of Ethiopian returnees from Tigray returning to Ethiopia will increase significantly, leaving thousands of returnees stranded and in need of assistance in different parts of the country Since 2017, more than 350,000 vulnerable Ethiopian migrants have been deported from KSA, 30 percent of them hailing from Tigray.
FEWS NET1 issued a Food Safety Alert detailing the likely food safety situation in Tigray.
According to the alert, some rural households in conflict-affected areas have abandoned or are unable to access their fields. Furthermore, given the official restrictions on movement, the fear of displacement due to the conflict and the reduction of intra and interregional trade flows, economic activity is generally reduced. Restricted movement is especially detrimental to deficit-producing poor households in the middle and upper areas that are heavily dependent on labor migration to surplus areas in the western lowlands. Income from labor migration was already negatively affected in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic control measures and related movement restrictions. In addition, sales of livestock, an important source of income among wealthy and middle class households throughout the Region, are constrained by the reduced functioning of the market. Since these revenues help support the local economy, generating demand for local agricultural labor, a reduction in livestock sales has knock-on effects for the poorest households. In general, poor households’ access to income has declined markedly. At the same time, extremely high food prices further limit access to food. Information from those who recently left the Tigray region suggests that the destruction of infrastructure, the closing of regional borders, and fuel shortages have resulted in limited food supplies in markets, putting significant upward pressure on the prices of food and non-food, which were already above average.
In addition, there are reports of people being displaced, both in Tigray and in areas of the Amhara and Afar regions. A multi-sectoral assessment in Afar, conducted from December 2-7, found the presence of IDPs from Tigray in the woredas visited. In addition, there were reports of people initially moving from Tigray to Afar, but reportedly returning to Tigray at the time of the assessment.
Based on the information available, an estimated number of people in need has been calculated. The impacts of the conflict on the food security situation have been analyzed by the Domestic Economy Approach and have taken into account the possible impacts of the loss of crops due to the conflict, an increase that has been observed in the prices of basic foods and restrictions that have been reported in the Employment situation. In addition, the Protection Cluster has estimated the impact of the conflict on protection needs, the Nutrition Cluster has estimated a possible increase in cases of malnutrition and the analysis has taken into account the unverified reports on displacement received so far. This leads to approximately 1.3 million people having additional humanitarian needs due to the conflict.
The total number of cases in need of assistance is 2.3 million people (including the HRP and the number of existing refugee cases) who will be the subject of this response preparedness plan from December 2020 to January 2021.
