Situation
The unprecedented El Niño-induced drought has resulted in a number of impacts, including water scarcity for human and livestock consumption, crop failure, water-borne disease outbreaks, animal disease outbreaks and malnutrition. The current number of affected people is expected to increase due to related factors such as increasing food prices (which have doubled), reduction in income from agricultural activities and loss of productive assets.
Key Humanitarian Needs
• Expansion of life-saving humanitarian intervention in some districts and cash top-ups of social protection schemes to the most vulnerable.
• Provision of sanitation facilities as well as commodities and education for household water treatment & water conservation.
•Prevention and management of (severe) acute malnutrition.