Worrying Food Security Situation in Oromiya Region
OCHA, Ethiopia - July 31, 2007
In West Hararghe zone, reports from WFP field monitoring visits indicate a deteriorating food security situation in Kuni, Habru, Guba koricha and Doba woredas. Enhanced Outreach Strategy (EOS) screening results also point to increased levels of acute malnutrition in Doba, Gub Koricha and Habro woredas. The Regional Food Security and Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureau transferred targeted supplementary food to help address the malnutrition cases. In the other woredas, the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) Contingency Fund has been tasked to address relief food requirements. There are concerns, however, that the contingency fund allowance is insufficient to cover the current need and more critically, has not, with the exception of Habro, been received by the affected woredas. In response, Oromiya Region has requested the FDPPA to include an additional case load in the current relief operation ...