12 December 2023

Ethiopia Appeal

Humanitarian Action is at the core of UNICEF’s mandate to realize the rights of every child. This edition of  Humanitarian Action for Children  – UNICEF’s annual humanitarian fundraising appeal – describes the ongoing crises affecting children in Ethiopia; the strategies that we are using to respond to these situations; and the donor support that…, Appeal highlights, Children and women throughout Ethiopia remain at high risk for protection concerns and other harms stemming from armed conflict and violence, climate shocks and stressors, multiple disease outbreaks, new refugee influxes and large-scale population displacements. Twenty million people require humanitarian assistance, including 15.4 million children…, Key planned targets, Health icon 2.9 million children and women accessing primary health care Child protection icon 188,014 children/caregivers accessing community-based mental health and psychosocial support Wash icon 4.9 million people accessing a sufficient quantity and quality of water Social inclusion icon 265,000 households reached with UNICEF-funded…, Funding requirements for 2024, Country needs and strategy, Humanitarian needs Humanitarian needs, Armed conflict and intercommunal violence, climate hazards, disease outbreaks, acute food insecurity and high inflation are contributing to large-scale population displacements, and continue cause a complex and protracted humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. People's difficulties are compounded by humanitarian access constraints, the suspension of…, UNICEF's strategy UNICEF’s strategy, In 2024, UNICEF will continue its timely, principled, child-centred humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia on a ‘no-regrets’ basis. Multiple and integrated streams of work will be carried out in close partnership with the Government and with local and international humanitarian actors. The people who are hardest to reach, those who are in the most…, Programme targets, Find out more about UNICEF's work, December 2023, 2024 www.unicef.org/appeals/ethiopia HumanitarianAction for Children EthiopiaHIGHLIGHTS1 Children and women throughout Ethiopia remain at high risk for protection concerns and other harms stemming from armed conflict and violence, climate shocks and stressors, multiple disease outbreaks, new refugee influxes and large-scale population…