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Ethiopia: Adapting operations during COVID-19 to meet humanitarian needs

Facts and figures: January to June 2020

The ICRC has been present in Ethiopia since the beginning of the 1977 Ethio-Somalia armed conflict. Our current major activities in Ethiopia address the humanitarian needs of people affected by conflict and other situations of violence.

We work closely with the Ethiopian Red Cross Society to restore family links among separated people. We visit places of detention to ensure that the treatment meted out to the detainees is humanitarian in nature. We also help people with physical disabilities get access to quality and sustainable physical rehabilitation services.

We also help promote the knowledge of international humanitarian law among members of the defence and police forces as well as higher learning institutions, legal professionals and policymakers.

Since March 2020, the ICRC delegation in Ethiopia has rapidly adapted to the evolving reality of the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country and is stepping up its response to the pandemic integrating COVID-19 as an important new parameter in its operations.

Highlights of our work in Ethiopia from January to June 2020

 

More than 17,180 detainees were visited in different places of detention

                                                

 

 

 Provided 48,155 free phone calls to refugees and returnees

 

 

Provided basic medical supplies and emergency kits to 6 primary health care units and 5 hospitals

 

 

Together with the ERCS, supplied infection prevention and control materials to 17 COVID-19 treatment centres

   

 

Distributed farming seeds to 74,300 people affected by ethnic violence

 

 

 

Provided livestock vaccination to more than 450,000 domestic animals belonging to 196,800 semi-pastoralists

 

 

 

Constructed underground water storage benefiting 4,500 people

 

 

Enabled 2,918 people living with disabilities to access physical rehabilitation services

 

For a detailed report of our work in Ethiopia from January to June 2020, please read the complete report.

 

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