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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called for funding of $ 116.5 million on Thursday to help 2.3 million vulnerable Ethiopians.
In a statement Thursday, UNICEF said it needs $ 116.5 million to meet the needs of 2.3 million people between December 2020 and January 2021 living in the Tigray regional state in northern Ethiopia and localities. adjacent in the neighboring regional states of Amhara and Afar.
UNICEF had already developed an emergency response plan for three months, from November 2020 to January 2021.
The plan was updated on Thursday to readjust to the needs and requirements of vulnerable people living in Ethiopia’s three regional states.
“The plan seeks to increase the willingness of the humanitarian community in Ethiopia to sustain relief assistance to already existing vulnerable people in Tigray,” the UNICEF statement said.
“The plan also seeks to prepare the humanitarian community to respond to the protection and other needs of an additional caseload that will likely be affected in the Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions by the crisis in December 2020 and January 2021.” adds the statement. said.
Tigray alone is currently home to several categories of vulnerable groups, including 750,000 non-displaced persons, 100,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 96,000 Eritrean refugees.
UNICEF’s humanitarian response plan also targets 34,000 internally displaced persons living in the regional state of Amhara, as well as more than 25,000 internally displaced persons living in the regional state of Afar.
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