Emergency Sexual and Reproductive Health services for internally displaced persons in East Hararghe and East Wollega zones of Oromia Region and Faffan zone of Somali Region In Ethiopia climate change and conflict are the main hazard profiles affecting millions of people in the country. The previously drought affected people are not yet fully recovered from the effect of the drought. They are still in need of humanitarian assistance. Moreover, the ethnic-based conflict in the different parts of the country displaced millions of people who are critically in need of humanitarian assistance. Based on the 2019 Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan, 8.86 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance of which 8.3 million people are targeted for emergency food and non-food assistance. The Government of Ethiopia and the humanitarian community present the 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), which seeks US$1.314 billion to reach 8.3 million people with emergency food and non-food assistance. In the HRP plan for 2019, 4.8 million people are targeted for health and 0.74 million for protection with a budget requirement of $ 143 million and $13.4 million respectively. Clusters have identified priority districts for humanitarian program interventions in 2019. The average priority for the whole cluster have been taken and hot spot districts are identified as priority 1, 2 and 3. Hence, the total number of hot spot priority districts, as per the 2019 classification, are 467, of these 253 districts as classified as hot spot priority one districts, 151 as priority two and the remaining 63 as priority three. Compared to the 2018 hot spot classification, the number of priority one districts in 2019 increased by 37 districts.

According to IOM Round 15 Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) report that was conducted from January -February 2019 indicated a total of 2,227,109 IDPs in 1,197 sites. Conflict was reported as the primary driver of displacement (1,663,396 IDPs), followed by displacement due to climate induced factors (508,723 IDPs). The majority of the IDPs (1,166,878 are found in Somali Region and 859,290 in Oromia region)

In humanitarian situations particularly in internally displaced persons women and girls mostly lacks availability of  sexual and reproductive health services and related life-threatening complications of pregnancy and childbirth attributable to malnutrition that must be addressed. In this project, UNFPA is planning to provide sexual and reproductive health and clinical management of rape survivor’s services for conflict induced IDPs in selected 8 woredas in East Hararghe and East Wollega zones of Oromia region and Faffan zone of Somali region. UNFPA is a pipe line manager of emergency RH kits for the emergency response, there might be a possibility of using the emergency RH kits to the health cluster prioritized other zones and districts besides to the selected districts based on the emerging needs and situations.  From the total requested budget, more than $ 100,000 will be used for the 184,176 IDPs response hosted in Babile and Tulu Guled districts for emergency RH kits procurement and capacity development trainings. 
Project Goal: To contribute to the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in selected IDP sites and IDPs surrounding host communities
Project Objective: To enhance availability of lifesaving reproductive health, maternal health and sexual violence services for IDPs and affected host communities.