Etenia response: context and ECB coordination

1. Relief Action in Presented by Relief in Action Etenia response: context and ECB coordination

2. The region has now experienced 2 consecutive seasons of significantly below-average rainfall. • This has resulted in: • Failed crop production • Substantial livestock mortality • Record level food prices • Etenia among the hardest hit countries in the region DROUGHT

3. Etenia drought context Food security – October 2011 Stressed Crisis Emergency • 3.75 million people are food insecure. • 1.4 million pastoralists in the north are at Emergency levels, and an additional 2.35 million pastoralists and marginal agricultural farmers are in Crisis and Stressed phases. • Pastoralists are continuing to lose livestock, particularly the more vulnerable sheep and cattle. • Emergency levels of food insecurity are exhibited in extremely high levels of child malnutrition. Sekunu Bababa

4. outlook • Most pastoral areas are likely to remain in crisis from October through March 2012, in spite of normal rains, because livestock will require additional good seasons in succession to recover their productivities. • Harvests of short‐cycle crops will become available from November and household food supply should improve markedly for drought‐hit short rains‐dependent southeastern marginal agricultural farmers. • While improved household food stocks will likely fill the food gap, most farmers are likely to sell their food immediately after harvest to meet debts, leading to lowered purchasing capacity of the harvested output.

5. Drought and conflict conditions continued to push refugees into Etenia throughout September. ~600,000 refugees are now residing in the Bababa refugee camps. A multitude of actors are providing services in the five camps (food, health, WASH, education) Security conditions in Bababa camps are poor. 3 NGO staff have been kidnapped. NGO and UN staff movement is highly restricted, with slowdown in planned activities. Babada camps

6. Major response actors (beyond JE NGOs) Northeast, East • WFP • UNICEF • CRS • CESVI • Etenian Extension Service • Government of Etenia Relief Coordinating Office • Pastoral Protection Society Bababa • National Security Forces • UNHCR (WASH) • WFP (food) • LWF (camp managers) • CARE (shelter) • MSF (health) • IRC (protection) • OCCECO (child protection) • Government of Etenia Relief Coordinating Office

7. Major activities • Relief in Action • Northeast and East • Livelihoods, WASH, protection, nutrition • Bababa • WASH (infrastructure, hygiene ed, sanitation services), shelter • MNE • Northeast and East • WASH, food, livelihoods (livestock, ag) Equity Northeast WASH (incl. CFW), livelihoods (livestock, cash transfer) Bababa WASH (infrastructure, hygiene ed, sanitation services), SGBV

8. Equity-Etenia Meeting Needs in Etenia (MNE) Relief in Action Shared findings of needs assessments Geographical coordination during strategy development Interact in various cluster meetings to exchange progress reports Interact at ECB meetings Coordination activities of JE ECB agencies

9. The purpose of our evaluation is to understand how well Equity Etenia, MNE, and Relief in Action worked together in the drought response. We want to find out where we can improve in the future and what things we did well, so as to build on successes. Purpose statement (to be used with various stakeholders)

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