WFP Ethiopia Country Brief, February 2021
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USD 1.05 m cash transferred made
USD 325 million (March - August 2021) net funding requirements
2.6 m people assisted
WFP assisted
2.6 million people, including drought and flood-affected people, internally displaced people (IDPs), refugees, and malnourished children and women in February.
In February, the Government requested WFP to mobilize food assistance to be distributed in Tigray as part as an emergency response and to augment secondary transport capacity for relief distributions.
Relief response
In Tigray, WFP started discussions with the Government’s National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC), the Food Cluster and the Interim Administration of Tigray Regional State to identify the districts where WFP could carry out relief food distributions.