Relief Assistance to Needy People Intensified: Disaster Risk Management Commission

Addis Ababa, April 27/2024 (ENA) The provision of emergency humanitarian assistance to the needy people in different parts of the country has continued in a strengthened manner, according to the Disaster Risk Management Commission (DRMC). 

In an exclusive interview with ENA, Commissioner Shiferaw Teklemariam said that the victims  are being provided with cash and non-cash items in response to man-made and natural calamities in different parts of the country. 

Humanitarian assistance has been distributed quarterly from January to March and assistance was provided to 6.6 million people, he revealed.

The effort to distribute humanitarian assistance to over 8 million citizens in this quarter (April to June) is well underway.

The assistance is jointly carried out by the government and partners, it was learned.

According to him, the total humanitarian support of this period  requires about 11 billion Birr, of which the government will cover 5.1 billion birr, and the remaining will be covered by donor organizations.  

The main focus of the government will be preventing disasters, the commissioner stated, adding that identification of vulnerabilities and profiles have been carried out in more than half the woredas in the country.