Integrated Emergency Agriculture, Livestock health, Food Security, WASH, Nutrition, Health and Protection Response to Drought Affected IDPs and Host communities in Kumbi woreda of East Hararghe Zone Oromia Region - Envelop 2 2022 HNO indicates, more than 20 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in 2022, nearly 3/4 of them are women and children. Conflict in the northern, violence in many other parts, and natural hazards such as the worst droughts in recent decades, frequent floods, and landslides are the main drivers of the needs. High level of displacement, damage to infrastructure and basic services have exposed population to major protection risks. Death of millions of livestock due to drought has further deteriorated livelihoods. Limited food availability leading to increased migration, as desperate people are migrating in search of water, pasture, and assistance. People on the move have additional barriers to accessing healthcare and at risk to ill health. The impact of the drought has already been devastating on the lives and livelihoods of close to 17 million pastoralists and agro-pastoralists who currently require multi-sector lifesaving assistance.
According to OCHA situation report, October 7, 2022, drought-affected Regions comprise 3/4 of the total land area of Ethiopia, Somali, Oromia, and Afar Regions among most severely impacted. One of every three migrants along the eastern route are from drought-affected regions, and one of every three returning migrants are going back to the drought-affected Regions. In East Hararge zone alone, more than 29,000 people were displaced mainly from the four most drought-impacted woredas of Chinaksen, Mayyu, Midega and Kumbi and more than 228,457 livestock have been affected and more than 73,820 livestock died over the past six months alone. 
East Hararghe zone is recurrently affected by drought with major impacts on food security and livelihood, water for human and livestock and pasture. According to East Harerghe zonal DRM assessment report, June 2022, Belg crop has totally failed and the current kiremt season is also by far below average leaving little or no moisture for crop growth. As a result of the extended drought, several thousand livestock have died from Chinakson, Midhaga, Mayuu and kumbi woredas.
CAID in partnership with CIFA and FIDO proposed an integrated Emergency Agriculture, livestock Food, WASH, Health, Nutrition, and protection response to drought affected IDPs and host communities in Kumbi. The project intended to meet the immediate needs of 81,349 drought affected people. 81,349 total beneficiary (28,339 IDP and 53,010 host community) (18,294 Men, 26,454 women, 15,286 boys, 21,315 girls and 6,775 people with disability). CAID will be responsible to oversee the overall project activity implementation, monitoring and reporting. On top, CAID will directly implement food through cash-based intervention, and fully responsible for safeguarding, accountability activities. CIFA will implement agriculture, livestock and WASH activities and FIDO will implement Health and nutrition activities. AAP, Gender and protection will be crosscutting across all sectors. In general, CAID, CIFA and FIDO staff in East Harerghe will monitor the day-to-day implementation of project in line with the agreed work plan. Zone and woreda government line offices will actively engage at all stages of project implementation, signing of project agreement, undertaking the implementation of the proposed activities, monitoring and evaluation whereby relevant costs will be incurred by the project.