Ethiopia continues to face consequences of climate-induced shocks and inter communal conflict and violence that were compounded in 2020 by the negative consequences of desert locust infestation and the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently a deteriorating food security situation (compromised access to markets, high food prices), a weaken access to health and nutrition services w ere some of the factors that led to a deteriorating Nutrition situation. End of 2020 has seen an increasing number of conflicts taking place in several parts of the country severely affecting the population of Konzo zone and adjacent woredas in SNNPR , in Metekel Zone in BGR and in Tigray leading to a very acute crisis and access constraints are still hindering humanitarian actors to support the affected population . It is expected that in 2021 the ENCU/Nutrition Cluster partners will continue to have to deliver a large scale emergency nutrition response . As per the 2021 HNO/HRP it is estimated that over 7.1million children under the age of five years, pregnant women and lactating mothers will be in need of treatment for acute malnutrition. The Nutrition response will aim at reaching 503,799 children affected by severe acute malnutrition (SAM) to be admitted for treatment across the country . In addition, more than 1.0 million children aged 6-59 months affected by moderate acute malnutrition
(MAM) will benefit from targeted supplementary feeding program and 600,000 malnourished
Pregnant and lactating women will also receive support in priority woredas.
Ethiopia is a country where the Cluster approach is fully activated; the Nutrition Cluster is embedded in the NDRMC ENCU, a member of the OCHA-led Inter-Cluster Coordination Group that informs the Ethiopian Humanitarian Country Team (EHCT) for decision making and provision of the humanitarian assistance in support of the Government of Ethiopia.
Toward ensuring a well-run Nutrition Cluster and effective emergency nutrition response, there is a need for coordination capacity and Information Management capacity, and this is as such a formal accountability of UNICEF as the Cluster Lead Agency for Nutrition and forms a part of the agency's work.
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