Overview
More than 23 million people in Ethiopia are estimated in need of humanitarian assistance due to internal conflict, displacement, recurrent natural hazards, and the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19. Nearly 4.23 million people are living in displacement across Ethiopia as at September 2021. Ethiopia hosts more than 817,000 refugees from South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan. Most of them have been living in camp settings in Gambella, Somali, Benishangul-Gumuz, Afar, and Tigray regions. 1.5 million IDP returnees face heightened needs -- they often lack legal documentation and therefore have limited ability to move and access services such as shelter, education, health, and humanitarian assistance.?
Recurrent natural hazards, primarily drought and flooding, result in humanitarian needs. Several consecutive years of drought in southern and southeastern Ethiopia have led to worsening food security and disrupted the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmers and herders. In northern Ethiopia, ongoing conflict has resulted in the displacement of more than 2.1 million people and high levels of humanitarian need. Between May and June 2021, 5.5 million people (61% of the population analysed) in Tigray and neighbouring regions of Afar and Amhara were facing Crisis or higher (IPC Phase 3 or above) levels of food insecurity, including 350,000 people in Tigray in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). Food insecurity in Tigray is expected to worsen at least through September, with 74% of the analysed population projected in Crisis or higher levels, including 401,000 projected in Catastrophe.?
INFORM measures Ethiopia's risk of humanitarian crisis and disaster as high at 6.8/10. The lack of coping capacity stands at 6.8/10 and vulnerability at 6.4/10. ?
Latest Developments
About 37,000 people in Konso zone (Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ region) were displaced following intercommunal clashes between late March and early April. Displaced people are staying with the host community or in existing IDP sites. Their needs include shelter, NFIs, WASH, and health services. Humanitarian access is restricted because of insecurity. ?
Key Figures
INFORM Global Crisis Severity Index
Crisis Severity: 4.7
Impact: 4.7
Humanitarian Conditions: 5
Complexity: 4.2
Access Constraints: 5
Information courtesy of ACAPS. https://www.acaps.org/
16 Common Operating Datasets or CCCM-tagged datsets are on the Humanitarian Data Exchange:
- Ethiopia Displacement Data - Village Assessment [IOM DTM] - International Organization for Migration - 2021-12-01
- Ethiopia Displacement -IDPs - Site Assessment [IOM DTM] - International Organization for Migration (IOM) - 2021-12-01
- GRID3 Ethiopia Settlement Extents, Version 01.01 - Center for International Earth Science Information Network; Novel-T - 2021-12-20
- Ethiopia - Subnational Administrative Boundaries - CSA (Central Statistics Agency) + Regional Bureau of Finance and Economic Development (BoFED) - 2020-10-13
- Ethiopia Displacement Data - Geodeo and West-Guji - RRA [IOM DTM] - International Organization for Migration (IOM) - 2019-08-11
