Ethiopia releases emergency plan for 2016 drought response

The government of Ethiopia has on Tuesday released a national Emergency Operational Plan for drought response in 2016.The plan lists out response plans per sector to be identified in the 2016 Humanitarian Requirements Document. The plan also identifies responsible bodies for response from government, UN and NGOs.

For the food sector for example, the document indicated that the government plans to import 627,639MT of relief food, WFP 23,980MT of food and JEOP 115,190MT of food to cover needs for 10.2 million people affected by drought.

The government calls for additional support to cover relief food needs until the end of the year.

In addition, the document lays out logistics plans to deliver the relief items to beneficiaries, and ways to address possible bottlenecks as well as a monitoring system.