Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan 2024 / Response Plan Overview

Crisis context and impact

Ethiopia continues to face a major humanitarian crisis caused by climate shocks, disease outbreaks, conflict and insecurity, aggravated by economic and financial challenges. 2024 is an exceptional year in terms of compounded negative humanitarian conditions. To address these needs the 2024 Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) requires US$ 3,237 billion to target over 15 million people, including 4 million inter-nally displaced people (IDPs).

The interventions outlined in this response plan will reduce morbidity, mortality, and suffering, through addressing the most acute humanitarian needs caused by multiple and compounding shocks, identified in the 2024 Ethiopia Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO). The HRP will provide protection and safe access to critical, integrated, and inclusive services to enable the most vulnerable people to meet their basic needs.

Compounded humanitarian shocks come in a moment when many areas of the country still not have fully recovered from the humanitarian shocks of last few years including the drought in the lowlands and the conflict in the north. While addressing acute humanitarian needs and providing lifesaving activities, the humanitarian community acknowledges that reducing humanitarian needs and vulnerabilities involves complementary actions by the government and development partners that aim at preventing or minimizing the risks of crises and shocks, developing community and institutional capacities to mitigate or cope with the impact of shocks and engaging in concerted action to support early recovery and transitions out of humanitarian needs.

This response plan will strengthen linkages with development actors, by working together to support vulnerable people in recovery from crises and natural hazards, through targeted programming which rebuilds coping capacities and livelihoods.

Accumulating Shocks and the need for recovery Droughts and floods in Ethiopia have been increasing in duration and frequency over the past several years due to notable accelerated changes in the regional climate. This has amplified the humanitarian impacts for communities and weakened their resilience to future shocks. The impacts of the protracted drought, caused by five failed rainy seasons that ended in 2023, continue to be felt in many areas, including across the south of the country, in Oromia, Somali, South Ethiopia, and South West Ethiopia regions. The recovery from the last drought is expected to take multiple years, and in absence of strong recovery interventions in drought affected areas, these will be more vulnerable to shocks with large numbers of people remaining in protracted need of humanitarian assistance.

The lack of recovery and long-term durable solutions for IDPs main shocks that has resulted in substantial number of protracted IDPs demonstrates that displacement is not only a humanitarian concern, but also a peace and development challenge. Considering that conflict is a main driver of displacement, peace-building initiatives are crucial both to prevent future displacement and to restore peace and enable returns. Development action is also essential to reduce vulnerabilities and enable improved conditions for returns through systems strengthening, as well as to prevent future displacement by sustainably building the resilience of communities, infrastructure and social services to recurring climatic shocks.

Strategic Objectives

SO1:

Reduce morbidity, mortality, and suffering due to multiple shocks for 12.3 million of the most vulnerable people by the end of 2024.

Financial requirements: US$ 2.16 Billion

SO2:

Provide protection and safe access to critical, integrated, and inclusive basic services to enable 8.3 million most vulnerable people to meet their basic needs by the end of 2024.

Financial requirements: US$ 702 Million

SO3:

Support 6.2million vulnerable people to start recovering from crisis and natural hazards, through targeted programming to support rebuilding coping capacities and livelihoods and strengthen linkages with development actors by the end of 2024.

Financial requirements: US$ 374 Million

Number of People Targeted and Financial Requirements

Number of People Targeted

Financial Requirements

Historical trend table

Historical trend table