DEC members will deliver swift life-saving humanitarian assistance while aiming to build resilience in communities. 13 DEC members are responding to this disaster. Their current and planned interventions include:
Action Against Hunger will run finance mobile health clinics to support families with healthcare and nutritional support with a focus on screening pregnant and breastfeeding women and children for malnutrition and providing life-saving nutritional supplies.
Action Aid and local partners are providing emergency food and cash for drought affected and displaced households and support for families to cope through the coming Winter.
Age International will be focusing their work on supporting older people (above 60) with emergency food assistance.
British Red Cross is working with colleagues on the ground to provide thousands of people with emergency medical care, clean water and toilets.
CAFOD is providing female headed households and recently displaced families with emergency food and cash to support their basic needs.
CARE International is distributing cash to help families buy what they most need while also supporting the economy. CARE is providing healthcare and nutritional support, as well as work opportunities and livelihood recovery assistance to those most affected by the severe drought. They are distributing vital
items to support families during the Winter months. CARE is providing livelihoods support to small-scale farmers, including the provision of fertilizer, tools, seeds and training.
Christian Aid local partners will provide food packages to families, and provide pregnant women, new mothers and malnourished infants with additional nutritional support. Partners will also provide winterisation support like fuel, clothing and blankets to those without adequate shelter. This is alongside other needs such as water and sanitation, gender based violence protection and Covid awareness raising programmes.
Concern Worldwide is distributing chickens, food for the chickens and hencoop construction materials to help provide both food and income for families. Cash-for-work schemes are being used and other items are also being distributed, such as cooking utensils, solar lamps, laundry and hand soap, and blankets to families. International Rescue Committee is working in rural, and drought affected communities, and especially with those affected by malnutrition to provide emergency food and cash, health and nutritional support, clean water and shelter.
Islamic Relief is distributing food for families, with flour, rice, pulses, oil, salt and sugar, enough for a family for six to eight weeks. Non-food items are also being provided, such as female hygiene kits, buckets, blankets and winter clothes. Islamic Relief is also supporting health centres for displaced families providing medical support, including antenatal and postnatal care and life-saving nutritional advice.
Save the Children is providing emergency treatment for malnutrition, cash for families to buy food and other essentials, blankets, warm clothes and shoes for families facing the extreme winter and shelter materials, hygiene kits and kitchen supplies for families forced to leave their homes.
Tearfund is providing emergency food baskets, hygiene and winter survival kits. They are funding psycho-social support for those traumatised by conflict or fear. Training for new livelihood opportunities has begun for birth and life-saving skills as well as supporting water, hygiene and sanitation.
World Vision will be focusing its work on the most vulnerable; children under five, people with disabilities, children at risk, pregnant and breastfeeding women and internally displaced people, to provide food, cash, health and nutrition, protection, and water and sanitation.