EMERGENCY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
PLEDGING CONFERENCE
One Africa - One Voice Against Hunger
FUNDING GAP ANALYSIS AND
PRIORITY AREAS
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OVERALL SITUATION
Driven by a combination of factors:
• Severe drought
• Resultant crop failure
• Rising food prices occasioned by supply side
deficit
• In Somalia 450,000 are in famine situation in
two regions of South.
• Conflict in Somalia which results in fragile
security situation.
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HORN OF AFRICA CRISIS
In Dark Red are those
areas where famine
has been declared in
Somalia.
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• 12.4 million
people in
need of
humanitarian
Assistance
• 3.4million
inside in
Somalia are
acute need
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OVERALL HUMANITARIAN REQUIREMENTS
US$2.481 BILLION
Unmet Needs,
1.05bn
43%
Committed,
1.4bn
57%
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FUNDING SUMMARY
Country
Djibouti
Refugees
Ethiopia
Refugees
Kenya
Refugees
Somalia
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Population in
Need of HA
Required
Funding
(US$’000)
Funding To
date
(US$’000)
Percentage
165,027
33,000
17,700
53%
4,800,000
398,000
153,000
39%
233,437
246,000
96,500
39%
741,000
477,300
64%
1,600,000
602,000
57%
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18,427
3,700,000
525,674
3,700,000
PRIORITY AREAS
The African Union has prioritized the following five
sectors:
• Food
• Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
• Nutrition and Health
• Shelter and Non-food-items (NFIs)
• Agriculture and livelihood (medium and long term
recovery)
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FOOD SECTOR
• 12.4million in need of food
assistance
Total Requirement US$1,2billion
Unmet,
338m
Funded
todate,
862m
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NUTRITION AND HEALTH SECTOR
• Funding for Severely Acute Malnutrition
(SAM) treatment is only at 50%.
• Child malnutrition rates have tripled the
emergency threshold of 15%.
• Diseases are on the increase; Cholera
outbreak is reported in Mogadishu
• Crude Mortality Rate as high as 13/10,000 per
day
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NUTRITION AND HEALTH SECTOR
Total Requirement-319 Million
Unmet, 166m
Funding todate, 253m
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WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE SECTOR (WASH)
•50% of
communities
can no longer
access clean
water.
Total requirementUS$135.87million
to-date,
58.51m
Unmet,
77.36m
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SHELTER AND NON-FOOD ITEMS SECTOR (NFIs )
• Most essential
requirements
for NFIs are in
Somalia
Total Requirement-52.4million
Funding
to-date,
17.84m
Unmet,
33.6m
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AGRICULTURE AND LIVELIHOODS SECTOR
(Medium and Long Term Recovery)
• Agriculture core survival strategy in the Horn
(Primary source of food & income).
• Strategies that focus on saving lives and
livelihoods, through building longer-term
resilience.
• Recovery programmes that include: Increasing
access to water resources (rehabilitation and
construction of water points), support small scale
producers and livestock herders, support asset
building including income generating activities.
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AGRICULTURE AND LIVELIHOODS (medium
and long term recovery)
• Strengthening food security information
system through effective Early Warning
System.
• Establishment of The African Risk Capacity
Pool (ARC) to support institution building &
raise funds to mitigate against risk.
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Total Requirement269.3million
Funding
To-date,
36.4m
Unmet,
200.8m
PLANTING SEASON
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MODALITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION
• Prioritization criteria will be based on:
– Magnitude of funding gap, by sector and country,
as indicated by OCHA’s objective analysis of needs
and shortfalls: 40%
– Potential for immediate impact on saving lives, the
primary objective of the resource mobilization
exercise: 40%
– Potential for contribution to early recovery and
long-term solutions to hunger and food insecurity
in the region: 20%
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MODALITIES Cont…
• Cash contributions will made
through the AU Account
• All funds received and
disbursed will be recorded in
the OCHA Tracking System
• In-kind food donations may
be matched through WFP
Twinning system: (In-kind
donations will be matched
with cash from other donors
to meet corresponding cost,
eg: logistics)
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COORDINATION
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CONCLUSION
• We are here to pledge
money, which we
intend for immediate
life saving needs.
• Drought is not new to
Africa, but famine
and
hunger
are
unacceptable.
• We must ensure that
this is the very last
time that we have
such a crisis on our
continent.
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THANK YOU
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