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UNICEF CONTINUES TO RESPOND TO THE URGENT NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN
HUMANITARIAN ACTION UPDATE - 24 June 2008
• Drought affects 4.6 million people including 75,000 children with severe acute malnutrition.
• Scaled-up response to the severe situation of malnutrition and urgent mitigation and preparedness measures are urgently required.
• UNICEF requires US $ 49.6 million for immediate humanitarian response and mitigation interventions.
UNICEF'S FUNDING GAP IS AT ALMOST US$ 54 MILLION. FUNDING IS URGENTLY REQUIRED TO CONTINUE THE SCALE-UP OF LIFE-SAVING INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN DROUGHT-AFFECTED PARTS OF DJIBOUTI, KENYA, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA AND SOMALIA
DONOR UPDATE - 11 May 2006
• More than 8,780,000 people - including 4,455,000 children - are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance
• Failure of crops and loss of livestock have increased morbidity and mortality, including malnutrition, in children
• In all five countries, UNICEF is providing cluster coordination leadership in nutrition and water and sanitation, whilst contributing significantly to WHO-led coordination in health, and supporting education and child protection
DROUGHT AFFECTED PARTS OF ETHIOPIA, KENYA AND SONALIA
DONOR UPDATE – 27 January 2006
• In Ethiopia more than 1.75 million people are affected by the drought; in Kenya 4.5 million people are affected by the shortage of water; and around 2 million vulnerable Somali children and women face serious food shortages.
• UNICEF recently launched it’s Humanitarian Action Report 2006 in which the total funding requirements for emergency interventions in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia amount to USD 69,266,330.
• Due to the rapidly deteriorating situation, UNICEF urgently requires USD 14,631,409 (out of the total USD 69,266,330 requested for 2006) to carry out life-saving programmes for drought-affected children and women over the next three months. These will include therapeutic and supplementary feeding programmes, measles and vitamin A campaigns, water and sanitation programmes, child protection, and education.
CURRENT CLIMATE OF INSTABILITY THREATENS THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
DONOR UPDATES - 20 December 2005
• Current climate of instability threatens the rights of children and adolescents.
• UNICEF urgently requires US$ 1.5 million for therapeutic food and US$ 9 million to respond to a measles epidemic.
• Vital Water and Sanitation programmes seriously under-funded. UNICEF needs US$ 4 million to respond to the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Somali Region.
NEEDS TO FIGHT ETHIOPIA'S LOOMING MALARIA EPIDEMIC
DONOR UPDATES - September 2005
Over 6 million people - mostly children - at risk of looming malaria epidemic
• While polio is continuing to spread, a UNICEF-supported nationwide vaccination campaign planned for October and November is badly under-funded
• Emergency health and nutrition intervention are funded for 41%. Vital water and sanitation programmes only received 20% of their funding.
• UNICEF urgently needs US $21.9 million to fight Ethiopia’s looming malaria epidemic, fund a nationwide polio immunization drive and reach 963,855 people in critical need of water.
NEEDS IN EMERGENCY HEALTH AND NUTRITION PROGRAMME; WATER AND SANITATION INTERVENTIONS
DONOR UPDATES - July 2005
UNICEF Urgent needs US $ 42 million to:
• Quadruple the number of therapeutic feeding centres in Ethiopia
• Step up life-saving vitamin A. de-worming, measles and nutrition interventions for 6.8 million children
• Extend emergency water and sanitation interventions to 1.2 million people
NEEDS OF SEVERELY MALNOURISHED CHILDREN
DONOR UPDATES – 6 May 2005
Currently 136,000 children in the most vulnerable areas are severely malnourished.
In the update of the Joint Humanitarian Appeal of 4th May 2005, UNICEF requires a total of US$ 54.6 million of which US$ 13 million is needed within the next 60 days to:
• Scale up therapeutic feeding programmes to save the lives of 80,000 to 170,000 severely malnourished children
• Provide supplementary feeding for 360,000 moderately malnourished children together with WFP
• Provide non-food items such as blankets, plastic sheeting, water purification materials for 105,000 people affected by flooding in Somali region
• Provide funding for key child survival interventions such as water and sanitation, malaria control, drugs and equipment to reduce the threat of common diseases such as acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea, measles and meningitis immunization.
NEEDS IN NUTRITION. HEALTH AND WATER
DONOR UPDATES – 13 April 2005
• The nutritional situation is rapidly deteriorating in several districts of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNPR), Somali and eastern Oromiya and Tigray regions
• The “Measles plus” Vaccination campaigns urgently requires US$ 400,000
• Two cases of Wild Polio confirmed after four years; the National Immunization Days are now targeting 14.7 million children, additional funding is critically needed
• Contributions against the UNICEF request for Health, Water and Nutrition in the Humanitarian Appeal 2005 remain very low at 24.8 %, hampering the necessary humanitarian response
NEEDS IN EDUCATION, GENDER AND CHILD PROTECTION, HIV-AIDS AWARNESS, NUTRITION AND MALARIA
DONOR UPDATES - 1 June 2004
• Funding continues to lag behind for Education, Gender & Child Protection and HIV-AIDS Awareness emergency programmes
• The nutrition situation remains extremely fragile in parts of SNNP, Oromia and Amhara regions, where critical spots continue to emerge
• A malaria crisis is expected to peak in September-December, which will be exacerbated by internal displacement in Oromia, Amhara, SNNP and Tigray regions
NEEDS IN NUTRITION AND WATER SUPPLY
DONOR UPDATES - 5 December 2003
• A large malaria epidemic has affected 4 main regions including areas usually not affected by the disease.
• Somali Region on alert on estimated 1.1 million people in need of food aid and 500,00 in need of emergency water supply.
URGENT NEEDS IN CHILD PROTECTION, EDUCATION AND WATER SUPPLY
DONOR UPDATES - 30 July 2003
• An estimated 60,000 children under 5 years are affected by severe acute malnutrition
• Recent assessments put 4.2 million people in critical need of water - a sharp 55% increment from previous estimates of 2.7 million
• A deep crisis in Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region
URGENT NEEDS IN HEALTH, NUTRITION, EDUCATION AND CHILD PROTECTION
DONOR UPDATES - 16 May 2003
• Over 100,000 displaced due to recent flooding in the Somali region
• Additional rehabilitation centres needed as number of children requiring therapeutic feeding increase
• The emergency measles /vitamin A campaign targeting 7.2 million children under 15 years needs further support
INCREASED MALNUTRITION, ACUTE LACK OF WATER AND DETERIORIATING HEALTH CONDITIONS NEED IMMEDIATE ACTION
DONOR UPDATES - 14 March 2003
• 11.3 million drought-affected people requiring emergency humanitarian assistance
• 2.7 million people in critical need of emergency water supply
• 16.2 million children to be immediately targeted for measles/vitamin A campaign
• School drop-out rate has increased and exposure to possible exploitation is growing
URGENT FUNDS NEEDED FOR HEALTH/NUTRITION AND WATER/SANITATION
DONOR UPDATES - 27 January 2003
• 14.3 million people requiring humanitarian assistance
• Eight of the eleven regions affected by the drought
• US$ 23.5 million needed for 2003
