Interaction with Community of Fafan Zone - Somali Region, Ethiopia
KEY MESSAGE |
• Drought,
worsened by El Nino effects, is having a devastating impact in Fafan
Zone. Approximately 110,331 (out of
total 1,187,022) population are affected and facing water shortage.
• FIRST
priorities for humanitarian intervention to save lives and reduce morbidity
in Fafan Zone are urgently needed on: 1) WASH; 2) Food and Livelihoods; 3)
Health and Nutrition.
• Harshin,
Kabribayah, Awbare and Babile Woredas are most vulnerable and worst affected
by drought.
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SUMMARY
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· A
multi-sector rapid assessment team deployed to Awbare, Gursum, Babile,
Kabribayah, Harshin, and Jijiga Woredas on 29 December 2015 – 5 January 2016
to capture humanitarian situation, needs and priorities following the report
of the Regional Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureau for Somali Region
(RDPPB) on drought emergency in Fafan Zone.
· Drought
has severely impacted 110,331 population living in 58 communities / sub
kabeles across six woredas, particularly experiencing limited access
to water. Population is mostly relying on ponds and birka as water source for
household and livestock daily consumption.
· Crop
failure has led to situation of food security, as well as seed (for upcoming
plantation season) and feed (for livestock animal) security. Tuliguleed is identified with the biggest
food gap amongst other woredas. Some pastoralist community are transmigrating
to neighboring areas in search of water and pasture. Movement of people with
their livestock also causes more burden on women and children as they are
fetching and driving animals to pasture and water points.
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No disease outbreak is reported. However, diarrhea (to under-five
children), pneumonia, UTI, URTI are the top five diseases being reported. The
deterioriting food security situation has resulted in the widespread of
malnutrition to under-five children and adult (pregnant/lactating women)
across the woredas.
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The transmigration of some pastoralist
communities – in search of water and pasture -- has carried along students,
leaving the schools empty, which was then closed. 10 schools are closed down,
190 others are partially functioning. Approximately
1,479 students have dropped out from schools.
Around 10,158 students are
affected by the drought.
· FIRST priorities for urgent humanitarian intervention is to
save lives and reduce morbidity related to drought through humanitarian
program on :1) WASH; 2) Food and Livelihoods; 3) Health and Nutrition.
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Woreda
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Priorities
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Awbare
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Improve access to
food, water and pasture
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Babile
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Improve access to
water and pasture
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Goljano
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Impove access to
water
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Gursum
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Improve access to
food and pasture
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Harshin
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Impove access to food, water and pasture
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Jigjiga
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Improve access to water, food and pasture
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Kabribayah
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Improve access to water, pasture and emergency health and
nutrition supplies
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Tulliguled
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Improve access to
food and pasture; seed for next season is also a huge concern
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TO SAVE LIVES AND REDUCE
MORBIDITY
Priorities between Priorities
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
· Urgent
rehabilitation/maintenance of water sources and boreholes (Short
term)
· Urgent
provision of water treatment chemicals
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Extremely lifesaving emergency water
interventions (water trucking), as last resort
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Construction of more permanent water
sources than Birka and Ponds which are so temporary and unprotected and
rain-dependent (long term)
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Livelihoods and Food Security
· Emergency
animal feed, Relief food, emergency veterinary drugs and Rehabilitation of
the damaged Boreholes
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Health and Nutrition:
· Create accessible emergency response fund or to allocate
fund for preparedness activities.
· Prepare
emergency drugs and supplies enough for 1 months for each woreda.
· Provide
Diarrheal Disease Kits for Fafan zone woredas.
· Establish
at least in one inpatient facility/SC set up in each woreda in order to
provide care to patient with complicated severe acute malnutrition.
· Provide water purification/chemicals to woredas health
facilities timely.
· Provide
anti-malarial drugs and nutrition supplies for five districts (Except
Tuliguled and Jijiga)
· Provide emergency
drugs in all visited woredas
· Regular
nutrition supplies to be distributed
to woredas to sustain the nutrition service at facility level especially in
priority 1 woredas(7 districts in Fafan zone,
· Supplementary
feeding program for children is urgently required for Awbare District
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Deployment of Mobile Health and Nutrition
teams to Jijiga and Gursum woredas
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Urgent Initiation of EOS screening in All
Hotspot priority districts in the zone (Jijiga, Tulli, Gursum, Babili,
Harshen, Kebribeyah and Awbarre)
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SECONDARY priorities to protect and
restore livelihoods Priorities Between Priorities
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Livelihoods and Food Security
· Provide of
seeds and
farm, tools for the coming planting season and rehabilitation of ponds
· Provide commercial
and slaughter
destocking in the worst case scenario
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WASH
· Train WASH
committee
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Health and Nutrition
· Establish
and train emergency woreda rapid response teams
· Build capacity on
malaria, meningitis, AWD and measles outbreak control and severe acute
malnutrition.
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Education
• Introduce Networking Cards to help the transmigrating
students continue with their learning
• School Feeding Program. No dropout reported from
schools with feeding program.
• Community mobilization. Outreach to
families and students to return to school.
• Improve
access to food and water as the main drivers of students’ dropouts
• Supply of
educational in emergencies kits and teaching and learning materials including
school tents.
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