Multi-sectoral Emergency Response to Conflict-Affected Communities in Eastern Zone of Tigray Region, Ethiopia ltpgtlt/pgtltpgtEthiopia has been continued in facing different humanitarian
challenges that majorly caused by conflict, drought and seasonal floods.  Ethiopia is the third largest refugee hosting country in Africa, home
to more than 930,000 refugees and asylum seekers—mainly from South Sudan,
Somalia, and Eritrea. The primary shocks that have led to protracted
displacement in Ethiopia are related to ethnic and/or territorial conflict and
drought. According to Ethiopia’s 2023 HRP, there were an estimated 4.6 million
IDPs in the country. Even though the 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP)
targets over 20 million people at a cost of $3.99 billion the current portion
reached very minimal.  lt/pgt

ltpgtAs known, conflict broke out between the Ethiopian
government and a regional defense force, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front
(TPLF) armed (November 2020). As a result, thousands killed and millions
internally displaced. After two years of conflict, a peace deal was signed in
November 2022 that created good platform for better humanitarian
access. In the Tigray region, responding to the emergency needs of
affected populations, mainly as a consequence of the two-year conflict in
northern Ethiopia, remains a priority. Recent site assessments and a village
assessment survey identified more than 1 million people displaced in 643 sites
across six zones (excluding 20 woredas/ districts hard to reach due to security
or environmental factors), and 1.26 million returning IDPs (internally
displaced persons) in 963 villages across five zones in the region (IOM site
assessment round 33, June 2023).lt/pgt

ltpgtAdigrat town is located in the Easter zone having more than
10 thousand IDPs among 647HH (3235 individuals) hosted in five collective
centers and they are in need of critical humanitarian assistance. Among these
IDPs’, currently about 460 HHs are settled in three schools that should be
urgently under need for teaching and learning resume. As the current quick need
verification need assessment revealed the three schools (Finotebirhane 2”,
Agazi 1” and Meda-Agame 1”) those hosting the IDPs still, learning school for
more than three thousand students.lt/pgt

ltpgtThe preliminary needs that are identified by partners on 3
August are shelter and non-food items (ESNFI), food, protection, as well as,
health and water, sanitation, and hygiene services (WASH). Indeed, there are
more than 5,157 students are out of school due to the schools occupied by the
IDPs’ in Adigrat town and scholastic materials, school feeding and maintenance
of rooms among priority needs as per ZOA/ASDEP quick assessment.lt/pgt

ltpgtThe proposed intervention will support the IDPs’
move/transfer from the school in Adigrat by assisting the IDPs who are
moved/transferred from the schools to alternate sites alternative shelter
options and resumption of activities in the school through basic repairs and
site decommissioning following IDPs departure from the collective sites. As
suggested for EHF 1st allocation and based on the priority needs identified by
ZOA, ASDEPO and other actors the action focuses on WASH, S/NFI, Education and
protection considering the CVA modality.lt/pgt





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