Programme
Emergency prepardness and response
UNICEF works to ensure that every child can live safely and recover from natural disasters or man-made crises.
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Challenges
Drought
El Niño phenomenon – exacerbating chronic drought in the south
Cyclones
Cyclones Enawo, Ava, Dumazil and Eliakim – affecting the East Coast
Epidemics
Polio, plague
UNICEF programme
Goal
Disaster Risk Reduction Intervention is strengthened and reflected in all programmes, decentralized contingency planning is improved, and emergency responses are implemented in accordance with UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action.
Key humanitarian results 2017
Drought
- 62,000 children supported through catch-up classes
- 56,700 households reached through cash transfers
- 130,000 children under 5 treated for main childhood diseases
- 340,000 people benefitted from water trucking
- 47 boreholes constructed; 275 boreholes and 6 water supply systems rehabilitated
- Contributed to construction/ rehabilitation of Sampona and Ampotaka pipeline (target: 100,000 people)
- 15,821 children treated for severe acute malnutrition and 100,000 tested every month
- Innovation in nutrition response: screening with MUAC tapes for assessment of malnutrition in children by mothers
Cyclone Enawo
- 344,000 people provided with safe water
- 10,930 households received cash transfers
- Restoration of health services (23 temporary health centres, 3 mobile clinics)
- 54,000 children resumed classes (temporary learning structures, school-in-a-box etc.)
Plague outbreak
- 2,000,000 children resumed their studies after training of 15,000 teachers and provision of 11,000 thermometers
- 11 treatment centres provided with comprehensive isolation and hygiene equipment
- 300 hygienists mobilized, trained and monitored
- 174,000 posters produced
- Free hotline set up (received 40,000 calls)
- Revision of the burial protocol to prevent further transmission