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ACAPS OVERVIEW

Overview

A complex emergency has persisted in DRC for more than 20 years. Population displacement is frequent and repeated, and mostly driven by armed clashes and intercommunal violence between foreign, self-defence, and other armed groups. More than five million people are internally displaced. The situation in the eastern provinces remains particularly volatile: humanitarian needs are high, as displaced and local populations are faced with violence, food insecurity, floods, disease outbreaks, and the secondary effects of COVID-19 restrictions. Over 998,000 refugees from DRC live in African host countries as at 31 October. DRC hosted about 515,000 refugees (mainly from Rwanda, Central African Republic, Congo, and Angola) as at 30 September.??Since mid-December 2020, 92,000 refugees fleeing violence related to the 27 December elections in CAR have arrived in Bas-Uele, Nord-Ubangi, and Sud-Ubangi provinces. Most of the arrivals are located in villages close to the river border, where access is a challenge and where host communities were already struggling to meet their own needs. ?

Over 7,900 protection incidents were reported across DRC in 2020, a 21% increase from 2019 attributable to the deteriorating security situation in conflict-affected areas. 93% of recorded violations occurred in Nord-Kivu, Ituri, and Sud-Kivu. Reported extrajudicial killings by armed groups increased dramatically, from 1,029 in 2019 to 2,487 in 2020. ?

The food crisis in DRC is likely to worsen in the months to come. From January–June 2022, 25.9 million people are estimated in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or above, with 5.4 million people estimated in Emergency (IPC Phase 4). 19.6 million people were projected to need food assistance for the January–June 2021 period. This deterioration is explained by poor harvests, displacement caused by waves of violence, and crops’ diseases.? 

Latest Developments

16/05/2022: More than 50 people were killed in Djugu territory (Ituri) in two separate attacks in an artisanal in gold mine in Blankete village and in Loda IDP camp, both attributed to CODECO over 8-9 May. More than 791,000 IDPs are reported in Djugu territory and their most urgent needs include food, protection, shelter, and WASH.?

11/05/2022: Around 7,500 people were displaced in Bushushu village, Kalehe territory (South Kivu) following heavy rains on 27 April and overflow of the Cishova River. Landslide resulted in the deaths of at least four people and several others injured. At least 400 houses were damaged by flooding and more than 200 others completely destroyed. Public buildings such as schools were also destroyed. Displaced people, most of whom have lost all their belongings, are staying with host families in unaffected areas of the Nyamukubi sub-village (Kalehe territory). Some families host up to three households, which puts more pressure on their limited resources. The loss of 82% of crops due to flooding has made access to food particularly difficult, and disruption of pipes deprived a large part of the population of access to drinking water. No assistance had been received by the IDPs as at 2 May. Most urgent needs include food, NFIs, shelter, WASH and education.?

Key Figures

Total population
102,743,000
People affected
25,500,000
People displaced
10,098,000
People in Need
16,000,000
Key figures are for the entire response and are not CCCM-specific.

INFORM Global Crisis Severity Index

Crisis Severity: 4.5

Impact: 4.7

Humanitarian Conditions: 4.5

Complexity: 4.4

Access Constraints: 4

The above scale is from 0 (Very low) to 5 (Very high)
Information courtesy of ACAPS. https://www.acaps.org/
Documents
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NOTE DE PLAIDOYER POUR LE RESPECT INTEGRAL DU CARACTERE CIVIL ET HUMANITAIRE DES SITES/CENTRES COLLECTIFS ABRITANT DES PERSONNES DEPLACEESEN RDC 22 Feb 2022
Formation pour la confiance (answers to the pending questions) Webinar: CCCM Tuesdays 09/06/20 17 Jun 2020
CCCM webinar FICR - Leçons tirées dans la réponse au virus Ebola dans l'est du Congo 17 Jun 2020
Resources
Title Type Theme Attachment
Fire prevention in IDP sites - IEC material Template In-camp
Fire prevention in IDP sites - IEC material Template In-camp
From HumanitarianResponse.info
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West and Central Africa: Regional Funding Status as of 23 May 2022 [… 23 May 2022
Directives opérationnelles des interventions de nutrition pendant l… 23 May 2022
SITREP_MVE_N028 23 May 2022
Flash Update #4: Situation humanitaire dans le Territoire de Rutshuru 22 May 2022
RD Congo - Note d’information #2 -… 22 May 2022
From ReliefWeb.org
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UNHCR DR Congo Factsheet - January-March 2022 23 May 2022
Democratic Republic of the Congo UNHCR Operational Update, April 2022 23 May 2022
DR Congo: West and Central Africa: 2022 Regional Funding Status (as of 23 May 2022) 23 May 2022
DR Congo: Democratic Republic of Congo:… 23 May 2022
DR Congo: Le PAM en RDC 23 May 2022
HDX datasets

30 Common Operating Datasets or CCCM-tagged datsets are on the Humanitarian Data Exchange:

Congo