- Mobilize a robust, integrated multi-sectoral (food, nutrition, health and WASH) response to El NiƱo-driven drought across affected areas, including where access is challenging or there is continued insecurity; protect agricultural livelihoods and support recovery at the earliest opportunity.
- Ensure humanitarian and protection needs arising from rapid-onset events are addressed in a timely, coordinated, and community-informed manner, including to: conflict incidents, new displacement, flooding, and other hazards.
- Provide continued humanitarian assistance, protection services and dignified living conditions for vulnerable groups still facing the impacts of earlier shocks (e.g. La-Nina drought, conflict, and displacement); promote sustainable recovery and durable solutions.
- Deliver scaled-up multi-sectoral response to worsening public health emergencies, reinforcing national response systems and ensuring access to clean water - reducing reliance on emergency measures - to reduce mortality and morbidity.
- Provide services and address protection risks faced by affected populations, including gender-based violence, child protection and mine action.
- Ensure countrywide humanitarian assistance is coordinated in an evidence-based and prioritized manner with adjustments made on the basis of regular situation and response monitoring; access challenges and the safety of humanitarian workers addressed in a principled manner.
Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan 2024 / Response Plan Overview