📋 Tender Overview
More than 28 million people in Ethiopia are in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of internal conflict, displacement, and recurrent natural hazards, primarily drought. An estimated 5.7 million people are displaced internally as a result of conflict (main driver of displacement in the country) and drought. Additional 2 million people are IDP returnees. The country also hosts more about 1mio refugees from Somalia, South Sudan, Eritrea, and Sudan. The Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund is a pooled fund that aims at providing rapid and flexible humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable and underserved areas. Switzerland has been reconfirmed in 2023 member of the EHF Steering Committee.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Ethiopia
Humanitarian Assistance & DRR
Material relief assistance
Humanitarian efficiency
Protection, access & security
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2026
CHF 3’000’000
The project in brief
Background The intensification of shocks in the country such as conflicts, drought, and floods have caused a substantial increase in the number of people in need. The draft 2023 Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) reports 33,8M people in need throughout the country, 32% of the country’s population. Ethiopia is currently facing the worst drought in the last forty years, with five consecutive failed rainy seasons. Although pastoral communities are used to failed rainy seasons, the ongoing drought is unprecedented and causing large scale humanitarian needs. Violence has been one of the main drivers of humanitarian needs in Ethiopia in the past few years. In 2022 violence continued to affect multiple regions of the country.
Objectives Vulnerable people affected by crisis have access to needs based, targeted, timely and efficient life-saving assistance and protection.
Target groups In 2023, the prioritized humanitarian response is structured around three strategic objectives, aiming to address immediate lifesaving needs, provide safe and inclusive access to essential services, and contribute to support and build linkages towards recovery and resilience. A key component of the HRP also involves ensuring that gender, protection, accountability to affected people (AAP), and prevention from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) are well integrated across the different segments of the response plan. The 2023 HRP targets the most vulnerable people across the country, both displaced and non-displaced, including those who face serious protection concerns due to conflict and violence, and those who have critical needs caused by the extreme drought, which is affecting the lives of millions of Ethiopians. Particular attention will be given to building the capacity of local and national NGOs, and enabling their meaningful engagement in humanitarian response, in line with the ongoing operationalization of the HCT NNGO Engagement Strategy and building on efforts and achievements made in 2022.
Medium-term outcomes 1) Lives are saved and sustained. 2) Pr
