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Situation in Numbers

1,300,000 children in need of

humanitarian assistance

2,200,000 people in need

(OCHA January 2020)

921,471 internally displaced persons

(IDP) registered

562,097 children (61%) (CONASUR)

Highlights • Burkina Faso registered 36 security incidents in June, causing 29

civilian casualties, including three children. There is a decrease in security incidents, from an average of 49 in January 2020 to 29 in June 2020

• The number of internally displaced persons (IDP) reached 921,471 (CONASUR, 7 June 2020), out of which 61 percent were children. According to the same report, 22 per cent of the IDPs live in host families.

• On 9 March, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the country, reaching 967 cases by the end of June (Ministry of Health - MoH Sitrep #124).

• The school closure due to COVID-19 continues. Schools reopened

partially on 1st June to prepare children to take their final exams in July.

• The Minister of Women, National Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Action issued an alert on 6 June 2020 on the high risk of flooding during the rainy season from June to September 2020, based on meteorological estimates that expect higher rainfall for the 2020 season compared to the average rainfall between 1981–2010. In June, several towns were affected, particularly in the Centre-Nord and Sahel regions, which together account for over 80 percent of the country’s IDPs.

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Situation Report No. 5

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Funding Overview and Partnerships In line with the 2020 UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children appeal (HAC), the funding gap at the end of June 2020 was US$72.51 million (75 per cent). During the reporting period, UNICEF-Burkina Faso received US$1,961,881 from the government of Luxembourg, KS Relief and from the UK government (DFID). UNICEF Burkina Faso would like to recognize this generous contribution, as well as those of other key partners, contributing overall US$17.54 million in 20201 and US$6.6 million in 2019 to the HAC 20202. UNICEF also recognizes the flexible and unearmarked funding received in 2020 from the Global Humanitarian Thematic Fund3. Specific details on funding are reported in the chapter Summary analysis of programme response under each sector. The deteriorating security crisis, the reduction in humanitarian access, and the access due to recent floods, further increase the vulnerabilities of displaced populations and suggest a possible intensification of the humanitarian needs in the coming months. The reinforcement and scaling up of community interventions in other zones in the five emergency regions is essential.

Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs According to the Humanitarian Needs Overview 2020 (HNO), an estimated 948,000 people are in need of protection

and 2.2 million people are dependent on humanitarian assistance in Burkina Faso. The country is severely affected by

a humanitarian crisis due to insecurity. Attacks by non-state armed groups (NSAG) dramatically increased in 2019 and

maintained the same pace in the first months of 2020, with more civilians being targeted or threatened. Consequently,

new waves of displacements took place in several regions.

Figure 1: Security incidents situation January to June 2020

Source: UNICEF Security

Internally displaced persons

Registration of new IDPs is regularly conducted by the Conseil national de secours d’urgence et de réhabilitation

(CONASUR), the government institution in charge of data collection and humanitarian response. As of 7 June,

921,471 IDPs had been registered in the country (61 per cent children). Centre-Nord and Sahel remain the regions

hosting the highest percentage of displaced populations (42 and 33.6 per cent respectively). The Est region has

registered a major increase in the number of IDPs, from 18,329 in February 2020 to 65,348 in April 2020 (257 per

cent).

As of 26 June, 110 out of 1,269 health centres (8.7 per cent) in six emergency-affected regions were closed. An

estimated 1,5 million have no/or limited access to nutrition and health services. The Sahel region continues to register

the highest number of health centres closed, 62 out of 119 (46.6 per cent).

1 Japan, SIDA – Sweden, UNOCHA – CERF, British government – DFID, KS Relief, Luxembourg, , European Commission - ECHO 2 USAID -Food for Peace, Denmark, USA BPRM, UNOCHA - CERF, SIDA – Sweden, Austria, European Commission - ECHO, Japan 3 Several donors

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Figure 2: Evolution of IDPs from January 2019 to June 2020

Source: UNICEF – Conasur dataset

As of 10 March, 2,512 schools were closed due to insecurity depriving 349,909 children of their rights to education

and affecting 11,219 teachers and all the schools were closed on 16 March due to COVID-19.

On 9 March, the government of Burkina Faso declared the COVID-19 epidemic in a context of ongoing humanitarian

crisis with increasing population displacements due to insecurity. As of 30 June, the Ministry of Health (MoH)

confirmed 967 cases of COVID-19 (338 females et 629 males) and 53 deaths in 9 out of the 13 regions of the country,

including 2 out of the 5 regions affected by insecurity. Four regions4 out of the 9 affected by COVID-19 still have active

cases. The average age of confirmed cases is 43.3 years and 64,6 years for deaths.

Figure 3: Evolution of COVID-19 in Burkina Faso from 9 March to 30 June 2020

Source: Ministry of Health

On 13 May 2020, the government has put in place several measures to prevent the spreading of epidemics, such as

the shutdown of the country’s borders, the closure of schools and, the interdiction of all activities grouping more than

50 people. Notwithstanding the containment measures, humanitarian actors, including UNICEF, took immediate

action5 to mitigate the impact on the ongoing humanitarian response, to increase the coverage of services and to allow

the continuity of humanitarian interventions.

4 Boucle du Mouhoun, Centre, Sud-Ouest and Hauts-Bassins 5 Adaptation measures: reduction in the number of participants in training activities, provision of hand washing devices, support to case management actors, respect of physical distance, awareness-raising in small groups of less than 50 people, gloves and masks for staff, masks for children. Awareness activities also integrated essential information from community leaders and children to protect themselves from contamination.

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Floods The Ministry of Women, National Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Action issued an alert on 6 June 2020 on the high risk of flooding during the rainy season from June to September 2020, based on meteorological estimates that expect higher rainfall for the 2020 season compared to the average rainfall between 1981–2010. In April 2020, the town of Koungoussi, Centre-Nord region, was affected by the consequences of heavy rains and strong winds. 5 people were injured, 72 shelters destroyed and 235 flooded, according to OCHA. In June, several other towns were affected, particularly in the Centre-Nord and Sahel regions, which together account for over 80 percent of the country’s 921,471 IDPs. OCHA estimates that 80,000 IDPs are residing in areas at risk of floods in these two regions. UNICEF and partners are finalizing the response plan for the Sahel region and provides technical support to the departmental emergency response and rehabilitation committees that have been activated across the country (Ministry of territorial administration and social cohesion, 30 June 2020). The meteorological department continues to issue alerts for torrential rains and violent winds the Centre-Nord, Est and Sahel regions. General constraints to the response

• Increasing insecurity, causing reduced access to affected populations, reduced access to services in affected

areas, increasing number of health centers closed or offering minimum services, numerous unsuccessful tenders

for wash infrastructures

• The delay in the implementation of activities due to the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak

• The adaptation of some of activities due to the COVID-19 and related unplanned costs

• Insufficient, short and geographically insufficient flexible funding that limits partners' response capacity (human

resources, logistics, contingency stock)

Summary Analysis of Programme Response

Nutrition

During the first half of 2020 the following main results were achieved:

• As of June 2020, 43,049 children aged 6 to 59 months suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) were

admitted into therapeutic feeding programmes, representing 29.2 per cent of the 2020 annual target (147,131), out

of which 25,554 children in the five regions6 in emergency. The total number of SAM children treated from these

regions is 25,554, representing 59.4 per cent of total SAM admissions. Performance rates remained in line with

SPHERE standards, with a recovery rate of 87.3 per cent, a defaulter rate of 10.5 per cent and a mortality rate of 2.2

per cent.

• UNICEF, in partnership with non-governmental organizations (NGO) Action contre la faim (ACF), Save the children

international (SCI) and Solidarité et Entraide Mutuelle au Sahel (SEMUS) reached 285,932 pregnant and lactating

mothers (51 per cent of the annual target) with infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling services,

organized in 20,829 mother-to-mother support groups. In June 2020, 1,541 new mother-to-mother support groups

were set up, including 8,031 new pregnant and lactating women.

• During the first semester 2020, 35,455 children from 6 to 23 months received micronutrient powders (MNP) in Est

and Centre Nord regions. Two new partnership agreements were signed with the NGOs HELP (Sahel region) and

IBFAN (Plateau Central region).

• To ensure the continuity of nutrition services in regions affected by insecurity where health facilities are closed,

UNICEF supported the MoH to develop a guideline on simplified approaches7 for prevention and treatment of acute

malnutrition. These approaches are implemented by the NGO Alima, in partnership with UNICEF, in the health

district of Barsalogho. Through this partnership, the 89 health workers and 190 community-based health workers

(CBHW) were trained in screening and treatment of acute malnutrition. They then trained 45,613 parents (37,363

mothers and 8,250 men) for mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) screening at household level. From May to

June 2020, parents screened 27,402 children 6 to 59 months, resulting in 25,863 children well nourished (MUAC

green color), 1,274 children with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and 265 with SAM admitted in the nutrition

program.

6 Boucle du Mouhoun, Centre Nord, Nord, Est and Sahel 7 Simplified approaches: Prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition using one admission criteria , the MUAC and one treatment product, ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF).

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Nutrition cluster

From January to June 2020, the nutrition cluster strengthened its coordination capacities by:

• Setting up three technical groups on the management of acute malnutrition, prevention of malnutrition and nutrition

surveillance, to join the existing strategic advisory group

• Establishing three regional sub-clusters in the Sahel, Centre-Nord and Est regions.

• Developing coordination tools such as a 5W matrix on operational presence, a web page for nutrition information

sharing, and a quarterly nutrition newsletter.

In June 2020, 22 NGOs, four UN institutions (WFP, FAO, WHO and UNICEF) and two observers (Hellen Keller

International and International Committee of the Red Cross) were registered in the nutrition cluster.

Figure 4: Operational presence of the nutrition cluster members

In March 2020, the nutrition cluster led an exercise aiming at prioritizing health districts to guide interventions taking in

consideration four main criteria: the rate of SAM, the number of IDPs, the food security situation and the number of

closed of health centres. The result shows that the 70 health districts of the country were divided into three groups:

high priority: 8, medium priority: 15 and normal priority:47.

Figure 5: Health district classification

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Given the persisting access challenges and the need to have a comprehensive nutrition response, the nutrition cluster

is working with the WASH, food security and health clusters to develop an integrated package for emergency

response.

The revision of the 2020 HNO/Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) was carried out, under OCHA coordination, in May

and June 2020 taking into account the context of COVID-19, the results of 2019 nutritional national survey and the

analysis of the harmonized framework of February 2020. The analysis led to an increase in the target expected in

2020 in emergency areas, from 79,490 to 85,178 SAM children.

COVID-19 Adaptation

The reporting period January to June was marked by the outbreak of COVID-19. The 1st case was registered on 9

March 2020 in Burkina Faso followed by quarantine of some cities and restriction of movements. COVID-19 caused a

delay in the implementation of some nutrition activities due to the need to integrate protection and preventive

measures. Scheduled trainings and supervision missions had to be put on hold. The challenge for the cluster was to

quickly define the minimum protective measures to guarantee the continuation of service delivery to vulnerable

populations. Three technical notes were developed by nutrition partners to ensure the continuity of nutrition

programmes in the context of COVID-19: management of wasting, promotion and support to IYCF and guidance on

nutrition of people affected by COVID-19.

Ongoing partnership agreements with NGOs and UNICEF were amended to include COVID-19 prevention measures8.

Specific Constraints

• The security context remained a big concern due to limited access to some areas and the closure of health centres

• The delays in the availability of data and its low level of completeness (including community data)

Lessons learned

The involvement of community actors including health workers in areas where health centres are closed is key to

ensure the continuity of nutrition services. The diversification of communication platforms and channels by using

technology and internet to organize meetings, such as the national nutrition consultation framework and the

preparatory meeting for the vitamin A supplementation days made it possible to continue implementing certain key

activities.

Funding

By the end of the first half of 2020, funding for the nutrition sector is still low. Various contributions have made it

possible to secure the Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) pipeline. The outbreak of the pandemic with corona

virus, required a reorientation of funds to ensure the continuity of nutrition services and to integrate the protection and

control measures of COVID 19. The upward revision of the number of malnourished children considering covid 19,

once again increases the need for funding for the remainder of the year. The funding gap remains at 49 per cent.

Health

The first half of 2020 was marked by an intensification of the humanitarian crisis affecting mainly the Sahel, Centre-

Nord and Est regions. Thanks to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) funding, the health districts of

Barsalogho (Centre-Nord region) and Djibo (Sahel region), with high number of closed or minimally functioning health

facilities, have strengthened their community-based interventions. Curative activities reached 17,321 children under

the age of 5, including 6,957 cases of malaria, 5,648 cases of diarrhea and 4,716 cases of pneumonia.

51,563 people benefited from educational talks on essential family practices and other emerging health topics and

9,751 pregnant women and newborns received home visits by CBHWs. These promotional activities were of

paramount importance in the current context of COVID as they helped raise awareness on the disease and the

various preventive measures.

In the areas with a high concentration of IDPs, the demand for health care services has increased rapidly since 2019.

To improve the offer of health care for displaced populations, UNICEF supported the strengthening of quality services,

8 COVID-19 preventive measures: hand washing with soap and water, disinfection of hands and MUAC tapes with water-alcohol solution. The

wearing of masks is mandatory for CBHWs during vitamin A supplementation days

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through the provision of four tents to increase the capacity of hospitals and health centres in Kaya (Centre-Nord

region), the distribution of 15,500 mosquito nets for the prevention of malaria and the distribution of 5,000 newborn

kits9 and 2017 emergency inter-agencies health kits (EIHK).

UNICEF contributed to strengthening emergency preparedness and response through its participation in coordination

mechanisms, particularly in the health cluster at national level and at decentralized level. UNICEF regularly

collaborates with the health authorities and WHO in the organization of decentralized coordination.

Immunization

• UNICEF piloted a new initiative to delegate vaccination tasks to CBHWs in the Sahel region. As a result, 690

trained CBHWs vaccinated 2,858 children aged 0 to 23 months against poliomyelitis and rotavirus diarrheal

diseases, and 6,107 children aged 9 to 59 months against measles. The delegation of oral vaccination tasks is an

example of innovations carried out in the Sahel region to strengthen the resilience of communities in areas with

difficult access where health facilities are closed. UNICEF considers this strategy very effective and will document it

to identify additional funding to support it, particularly in zones with reduced health care services and with the

resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and polio.

• According to the epidemiological bulletin week 27, 2,313 cases of measles were reported. The cohort of children

not vaccinated against measles moved to children over the age of 5, which requires an adaptation of the target of

vaccination campaigns to include children aged 5 to 14 years old. In addition to the piloting of delegation of

vaccination tasks in the Sahel region, UNICEF supported a campaign from 4 to 9 July to reconstitute vaccines of all

antigens, coupled with malnutrition screening using MUAC to the benefit of the displaced populations of Kongoussi

and Yalgo (Centre-Nord region). 2,017 children under the age of 5 were vaccinated against measles, including

1,100 zero doses10.

• In 2020, five cases of poliomyelitis (poliovirus derived) were reported in Centre-Sud, Centre, Centre-Nord and

Sahel regions. UNICEF supported response campaigns in the Centre-Sud region (one campaign with three rounds

in January, March and June) targeting 157,398 children. Additional campaigns supported by UNICEF are planned

for August and will target 2,000,000 children in seven regions and 36 health districts.

COVID-19 Adaptation

The outbreak of the epidemic in March 2020 required the adaptation of some strategies, particularly in the reduction of

the number of people participating in awareness sessions and the respect of barrier measures during the provision of

health services (wearing of masks, hand washing or disinfection with hydro-alcoholic gel, physical distancing, etc.).

The quarantine of towns having reported at least one COVID-19 case and the reorientation of priorities in the fight

against the pandemic slowed down the humanitarian activities and the polio response campaign. The lack of personal

protective equipment in most health facilities, coupled with the fear of health workers and users of being

contaminated, has led to a decrease in supply and demand of services at the health facility level.

Specific Constraints

The specific constraints included:

• Difficulties in distributing health supplies and other medico-technical equipment in areas with difficult access

• Low level of completeness of the data (including community data)

• Departure of health workers and of some CBHWs from insecure areas.

Good practices

• Community buy-in and engagement in community-based health activities. Communities were engaged in the

selection of the volunteers trained in the Barsalogho and Djibo health districts. In addition, they were instrumental

in the distribution of health supplies, especially in areas with severe access constraints. As an example, women got

involved in the transportations of some cartons of drugs in their wood-chariots, to facilitate the delivery in extremely

hard to reach communities

• COVID-19 sensitization has been incorporated by CBHWs during educational talks and home visits

9 Newborn kits are composed of a draw sheet and two sheets 10 Zero doses = children who should normally have been vaccinated with measles (at least the first dose) but who did not receive any during the

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Lessons Learned

• In the emergency context marked by reduced institutional health provision and access, community health remains

the only alternative to ensure continuity of care, hence the effort to strengthen community-based interventions in

emergencies

• Good supervision of CBHWs made it possible to carry out vaccination in remote villages with closed health facilities

• Effective and efficient response to emergency required new and innovative strategies. Administrative procedures,

logistics, data reporting and other aspects had to be contextualized to guarantee a rapid response.

Funding

As of end of June, the health sector had received less than 5 per cent funding against HAC and consequently,

UNICEF health emergency response is still weak, with low achievement in the expected results. In addition, COVID-

19 required the reorientation of part of the resources to contribute to the response. Hence UNICEF wishes to launch

an urgent plea for financing the HAC health sector.

WASH

In the first half of the year, UNICEF and partners

• reached 25 per cent of its annual water target, 6 per cent of its sanitation target and 40 per cent of its hygiene

target, including the distribution of kits

• contributed at 37 per cent in water, 44 per cent in sanitation and 51 per cent in hygiene promotion to WASH cluster

targets

• People living with disabilities have been prioritized during the distribution of hygiene kits11 and construction of

latrines.

UNICEF has also strengthened its intervention capacity by diversifying and operationalizing partners (10 international

NGOs and 4 national NGOs) in the five-priority region to bring the response closer to the beneficiaries.

As part of the implementation of the Summer plan12, UNICEF and its partners rehabilitated 45 boreholes equipped

with hands pumps and installed 13 water solar systems in the Sahel and Centre-Nord regions. The Summer plan was

designed to contain the effects of the climate change and to respond to WASH crisis, to aaccelerate the coverage and

continuity of services and to explore opportunities to increase long-term investments at the local level.

Furthermore, thanks to UNICEF advocacy as lead of the WASH technical and financial partners (PTF) in Burkina

Faso, funds were granted to the national water and sanitation office (ONEA) for the strengthening of urban water

networks in Kaya (Centre-Nord region), Djibo (Sahel region) and Ouahigouya (Nord region).

For the next second half of year given the funding received and the projects in progress, UNICEF and partners plan to

speed up the construction of water and sanitation facilities to ensure better coverage of the needs of the affected

populations and improve the indicators.

WASH cluster

In the first half of the year, WASH cluster members reached 22 per cent of the annual water target, 11 per cent of the

sanitation target and 37 per cent of the hygiene target, including the distribution of kits. The data include COVID-19

response and refer to the results of 31 organizations members of the cluster and not only to the organizations which

have projects registered in the HRP (20 organizations).

The second half of the year includes the implementation of several projects with funds acquired during the first months

of the year, the improvement of needs assessment thanks to a study by AKVO and REACH multi-sector needs

assessment (MSNA) survey, the acceleration of the response following the lifting of some COVID-19 restrictions, and

new partners joining the WASH Cluster (including development NGOs). In addition, the tendency observed in recent

months that the number of displaced is increasing at a much slower rate than before, will allow better predictability of

needs and better planning of response

11 WASH hygiene kit is composed of 1 plastic bucket (20L), 2 plastic jerrycans (20L), 7 bars of soap (400gr), 1 plastic kettle (2L), 2 plastic cups

(500mL) 12 UNICEF, in collaboration with WASH partners, has developed the plan for January to May. UNICEF met with the National office of water and sanitation (ONEA) for the improvement of water distribution in Kaya, capital city of Centre-Nord region, which is particularly affected by water cuts

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COVID-19 Adaptation

The reporting period was marked by the outbreak of COVID-19 required the adaptation. UNICEF and its partners have

adapted/ readjusted activities by implementing protection and social distancing measures and handwashing according

to WASH cluster guidelines mainly:

• Avoid or minimize gatherings of people

• Provide security measures

• Increase the installation of hand washing devices

• Limit the distributions (organized outdoors as soon as possible) to a maximum of 50 people, with respect for barrier measures.

• Holding virtual meetings

Specific constraints

The low progress rate is due to the following constraints :

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• Storage and transport capacity limited by lack of adequate infrastructure and services and lack of a shared

storage mechanism

• Deteriorating security environment restricting access to people in need resulting in numerous unsuccessful

tenders

• Lack of data on IDPs and host populations at sites/neighborhood levels to provide a good analysis of needs

and gaps

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Lessons learned and good practices

• As the operational capacity of partners is limited due to security challenges, the diversification of partners (national

and international) is an accelerator of a rapid response to WASH crisis.

• The involvement of the affected populations in the construction of the works through the recruitment of local

workforce enables a better appropriation and sustainability of infrastructure

Funding

UNICEF received 32 per cent of its planned budget during the first half of the year. Strong advocacy was conducted to

fill this gap in the second semester.

Education

According to the HNO 2020, close to 545,000 children are affected by internal displacements due to conflicts in

Burkina Faso. In addition, due to COVID-19 since March 2020, 5,130,730 children13 have been affected by school

closure, impacting their access to education. Displacement led to children dropping out of school, further challenged

by limited access to educational services in the sites/places of displacement. Due to the security crisis and

displacements, children missed more than one academic year of learning. Several schools have been damaged

during conflicts and 11 schools have been used as shelters by displaced families in February14, MENAPLN's technical

section in charge of the coordination of education in emergency (EiE) interventions.

UNICEF has been working with the government and humanitarian partners to provide quality education services for

internally displaced children. As of end of June, the following results were achieved:

• 17,027 children were supported in June via distance learning by radio out of an overall result of 120,707 children

(62,335 girls) between January and June 202015. All these children from pre-primary and primary schools benefited

from distance learning, rehabilitation of classrooms, construction of semi-permanent classrooms, temporary

learning spaces (TLS) and school kits16.

• 144 teachers (79 women) were trained to deliver basic psychosocial support to children in the Nord region.

Through these training activities, 9,864 school-aged crisis-affected children exposed to psychosocial distress have

been supported with guidance and counselling. During UNICEF’s field visits, the regional education department

confirmed that the teachers are engaging and motivating children through participatory teaching methods.

• 10,311 children (5,085 girls) received learning materials such as notebooks, pens, school bag,etc.

13 Results framework of the MENAPNL COVID-19 Response Plan https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sXBMSfb80tp2ipKw9Sf-60tC_49aJXGs/view?usp=sharing 14 REACH Situation overview Sahel Nord Centre-Nord March 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OGyU_ES4fQNoIlGFz0_Mu9HfRoGYV7tD/view 15 Education Cluster 5W : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1an_avuN5ofymlKq-0wi95d7FZzRwjRhJ/view?usp=sharing 16 A standard kit is composed of notebooks, pens, UNICEF school bag, pencil and slate. One kit supports 40 children.

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• As for children with special needs, particularly children living with disabilities, UNICEF targeted 1.8 per cent (6,299

children including 3,275 girls) of its overall educationtarget. Unfortunately, in the reporting of implementing actors,

no information was captured in this regard as the tools do not include a section dedicated to children living with

disabilities. Measures will be taken in the second half of the current year to capture this information.

• 2,040 adolescent girls (including 585 internally displaced girls) received menstrual hygiene management (MHM)

kits17

• 43,519 community members, including parent-teacher student associations, religious leaders and women’s groups,

benefitted from awareness-raising activities on the importance of quality, safe and inclusive pre-primary and

primary education for crisis-affected children in the affected zones. Emphasis was also placed on continuous

learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Education Cluster

Since the activation in December 2019, UNICEF has continued to coordinate the sectoral response jointly with the

MENAPNLN. The cluster includes 40 members, including UN institutions, national and international NGOs, donors

and technical departments of the ministry. The cluster has set up a coordination mechanism at national and

decentralised levels in the Centre-Nord, Sahel and Est regions. The cluster has also set up two working groups, one

on WASH in schools and one for needs assessments.

While efforts have already been done, there is a need to continue to strengthen the cluster coordination at regional

level by investing in human resources and information management systems. There is also a need to continue to

advocate with the government at the regional level to strengthen EiE preparedness, and to update the school

emergency preparedness and response plans at the start of the new school year to take into account the COVID-19

school health protocol.18

COVID-19 ADAPTATION

In June, the distance/home-based learning programme via radio was still UNICEF's main COVID 19 adaptation

implemented to guarantee the continuity of education. The conditions of face-to-face activities were readjusted and

include, among others, physical distance of one meter between participants in training sessions or awareness-raising

campaigns.

Specific constraints

• Assessment of learning outcomes. There is no clear framework for this activity. The MENAPNL plans to put in

place remedial courses based on new EiE curricula, which include pre-tests and post-tests to measure the impact

of the courses and to show the success rate of children affected by emergencies

• The targets of HRP (500,000 children) and the HAC (349,974 children) remain poorly covered, with a gap of 70 per

cent for HRP and 65.4 per cent for HAC. The funding is of critical concern as both are severely under-funded, with

80 per cent and 95 per cent financial gaps respectively.

• UNICEF implementing partners are working under very difficult conditions. To reach the poorest and most vulnerable remote schools, they face security risks and show great perseverance in identifying opportunities for mitigating the risks and gain access.

• Given that the country has never faced such a large-scale pandemic, the MENAPLN had difficulty in implementing distance learning since March. To facilitate the preparation for the primary, post-primary and secondary exam sessions in July, some schools were allowed to operate from 1 June with 764,133 candidates in the whole country (out of which 11,019 are IDPs)19. The overall monitoring of this partial opening of the schools has enabled the

authorities to anticipate some needs for the next school year for all schools • Most schools have been damaged or don’t have enough infrastructures (classrooms and furniture) to host new

students, including internally displaced children. Regional education authorities received instructions from the

Minister of the MENAPLN in 2019 to ensure all these children are registered in schools in host communities.

• Delays in the delivery of supplies and to implement distance education programmes in contexts where access to beneficiaries remain difficult.

Good practices

• The use of community facilitators with a pedagogical profile in temporary/transitional learning prior to

integration/reintegration into formal schools

17 MHM kits content:. one pair of underwear, four reusable sanitary pads, three reusable sanitary pad holders, one plastic bag (to transport used sanitary pad), one bar of soap, one menstrual cycle calendar, the instructions of use, and a cloth bag to carry all the contents. 18 Key messages and actions COVID-19 : https://www.unicef.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/Key%20Messages%20and%20Actions%20for%20COVID-19%20Prevention%20and%20Control%20in%20Schools_March%202020.pdf 19 Memo rentrée scolaire 2020-2021 https://drive.google.com/file/d/12_0KR52Fqd-52rRgKpTkRtIGcUlHaNva/view?usp=sharing

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• Joint education and child protection activities implemented in child-friendly spaces have contributed to improving

children's emotional well-being. These were mainly competency-based learning as well as recreational and creative

activities.

• initiatives taken and reinforced for distance learning during the COVID-19 epidemic through internet and radio

programmes

• Joint elaboration of project proposals between humanitarian and development education actors facilitates collective

results and lays a solid foundation for the humanitarian-development nexus.

Lessons learned

• Engaging local educators in child-friendly spaces have been positive in the recovery and reintegration of displaced

children who have temporarily been unable to access schools due to lack of space

• The education sector requires appropriate and flexible strategies and adequate resources to slow down the

deterioration of the existing systems and to ensure that every child is in school and able to learn

• Developing and maintaining good relations with the MENAPLN will contribute to deploy and implement activities

quickly to meet immediate needs of the most vulnerable children in the crisis-affected regions

UNICEF, as cluster lead, has worked with the government to accelerate the implementation of educational continuity

despite the security and health challenges.

Funding To reach its annual target of 349,974 children, the Education section requested US$ 27,727,668 of which only USD$469,245 was available at the end of June, and US$1,050,117 carried over from 2019. The gap is 95 per cent. Strong advocacy was conducted to fill this gap in the second half of the year.

Child Protection

The strengthening of community-based child protection structures and social service workforce in delivering child

protection and social protection services are a key feature of the child protection humanitarian action

programmeUNICEF in partnership with the MFNSFHA, established 53 community child protection units in Sahel,

Centre Nord and Est regions and supported these structures through trainings to identify, monitor, report and respond

to cases of children with protection risks and vulnerabilities.

UNICEF is supporting the Minister of Women, National Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Action (MFHSFHA) in the

review of the administrative guidelines and regulations, and capacity building tools for the community-based child

protection structures (for humanitarian and development settings) from the national to the community levels. In

addition, UNICEF and its partner ECPAT20 are currently conducting a systematic programme review of the reach and

effectiveness of the community-based child protection structures in the five high impact regions. The results of this

exercise will be used by the MFHSFHA and relevant child protection partners to strengthen positive programme

outcomes for children.

From January to June, UNICEF and partners (ADCPDE, CNAEJTB, DRC, UNIJED, Croix Rouge Burkinabé, Ressources

Psychologiques, Terre des Hommes Lausanne, Terre des Hommes Italy, INTERSOS) achieved the following results:

• 167,592 children (85,757 girls) received mental health and psychosocial services (85 percent of the target), in

particular 92,069 children (47,512 girls) in the Centre Nord region, 51,048 children (25,926 girls) in the Sahel

region, 18,787 children (9,317 girls) in the Est region and 5,688 children (3,002 girls) in the Boucle du Mouhoun

region.

• 8,513 (4,169 girls) displaced children and children from host communities in Boucle du Mouhoun, Centre-Nord, Est

and Sahel regions received their birth registration certificate.

• 2,481 unaccompanied and separated children benefited from family tracing, reunification and reintegration services

(99.2 percent of the target), including community-based alternative care support. However, due to the COVID-19

quarantine measures, the processes of family tracing and reunification was interrupted. Only159 unaccompanied

and separated children (76 girls), mostly from the Centre-Nord region, were reunified with their biological families

• 1,973 children (1,007girls) living with disability received appropriate child protection services such as mental health

and psychosocial services, referral to other services, humanitarian cash transfer plus and non-food assistance.

• 12,687 girls and women received essential gender-based violence prevention, risk mitigation and response

services

20 ECPAT is global network of civil society organisations that works to end the sexual exploitation of children

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• To respond to the critical child protection needs for most vulnerable children and families, 12,210 children (6,412

girls) from 2,141 household (47 per cent of the target) received one shot humanitarian cash transfer plus. The

programme participants include street and working children, unaccompanied and separated children in alternative

care, children in vulnerable households and children living with disabilities.

Child Protection Area or Responsibility (CP AoR)

In a bid to enhance the overall child protection coordination and response, and ensuring that efforts to protect children

are well coordinated to achieve maximum quality and impact, UNICEF, in collaboration with the MFNSFHA,

established three additional child protection area of responsibility regional level coordination structures in the Sahel,

Centre-Nord and Est regions.

The CP AoR counts 20 members, including UN institutions, national and international NGOs and technical

departments of the MFHSFHA.

The CP AoR provided psychosocial support to 187,870 children. This response represents around 70 per cent of the

initial target. 33 per cent of children in need are in the five targeted regions.

Specific constraints

• Funding gap. There is a gap in financial resources to cover the growing protection needs of children and their

families affected by armed conflict, with only 20 per cent HAC requirements mobilized as of June 2020

• Inaccessibility and working conditions. There are growing concerns by child protection partners and other relief

actors for the shrinking of humanitarian space to deliver services to remote communities, where demand for child

protection services is greater. UNICEF is seeking innovative and prudent ways to work with communities through

community-based child protection structures and national organizations.

• Insufficient technical capacities to support case management system, including standards setting. In this context, a

significant number of child protection partners have insufficient data collection and analysis capacity, including case

planning. MFNSFHA, with support from UNICEF, is standardizing the national child protection case management

data collection and reporting tools, including the training child protection actors that work in both humanitarian and

development settings.

Lessons learned

The case management process requires significant investments in terms of trainings of social workers and other

users in the targeted regions.

Funding UNICEF secured US$1,679,388 by June 2020 and US$1,094,666 were carried over from 2019. Fundraising for child protection is a priority for UNICEF.

Communications for Development (C4D), Community Engagement & Accountability

During the first semester 2020, UNICEF-led emergency outreach interventions delivered lifesaving health, WASH,

nutrition, education and child protection messages, information on the humanitarian assistance and fostered the

participation of affected community to the humanitarian response.

In the Centre-Nord region, the hotspot of the humanitarian crisis, results included:

• 175 radio programmes, including jingles, radio games and theatres, interactive airtimes produced and broadcasted

1,500 times through 10 radio stations, reaching over 950,000 people, including 3,500 living with disabilities. Radio

programmes messages included key lifesaving information on humanitarian assistance and the role that affected

population can play in humanitarian response

• 55 community dialogues on humanitarian assistance, the role of affected communities, and social cohesion and

peace in 40 villages which engaged over 1,829 community leaders (494 traditional chiefs, 576 religious, and 759

from women and youth association).

achieving the following:

• Adolescents and young people from affected communities decided to collaborate with school teachers,

associations of parents and mother educators, as well as village development council members, to facilitate the

recruitment and back to school of internal displaced children

• Commitment of 335 village leaders (100 traditional, 150 religious and 85 administrative leaders) to promote peace

and social cohesion in their community with the aim to facilitate the integration of IDPs

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• Decision by community leaders to facilitate the access by IPDs to WASH services, including access to water points,

toilets in households and public places, hygiene and management of menstrual hygiene.

In addition, UNICEF-led radio programmes strongly supported the reopening of schools in a context of COVID 19

outbreak and promoted the new calendar until the end the school year, as well as the registration of IDPs and

entitlements of affected people.

Following the five cases of poliomyelitis (poliovirus derived) reported in Centre-Sud, Centre, Centre-Nord and Sahel

regions. UNICEF led the communication for social and behavior change component during the three rounds of polio

vaccination campaigns in Ouagaye and Bittou health districts, Centre-Est region. This included the training on polio

and interpersonal communication of 566 community social mobilizers, 46 health agents, and 50 journalists and media

workers who conducted door-to-door visits, educational talks and radio programmes.

COVID-19 adaptation

UNICEF continued to play a significant role in the coordination and implementation of the Risk Communication and

Community Engagement (RCCE) interventions by supporting the establishment and co-chairing of the coordination

group, the training and development of the national RCCE plan.In collaboration with implementing partners, UNICEF-

led RCCE interventions have directly reached over 890,000 people through interpersonal communication while mass

media interventions, including radio, TV programmes and jingles, have reached 7,5 million people with messages on

the prevention against COVID-19.

Key constraints

Main constraints and challenges in the implementation of communication, community engagement and accountability

interventions included:

• The growing security threats and attacks, which have a negative impact and create delays in the implementation of

community-based activities in high threat security areas

• The COVID-19 outbreak, with its restrictive measures and prevention barriers

• The insufficient financial resources allocated to behavior and social change and accountability interventions. C4D

has not received any funding from donors against the HAC. The activities carried out were funded by regular

internal resources of UNICEF, as well as other non-HAC funds

• The beginning of rainy season, with heavy rains and strong winds, prevents the access to some areas and villages.

Lessons learned

• Community leaders and representatives are key partners in humanitarian response. The engagement and

participation of affected people through their leaders and members has helped to identify bottlenecks in the

assistance, the changing needs of affected populations as well as the actions to build long-term resilience

• The strengthening of partnership between the implementing partner ACD, the regional directorates and other

humanitarian organizations, has created a synergy that facilitated the implementation of interventions and

addressed the needs.

• Flexibility to contingency situation, especially COVID-19as UNICEF and its partners have successful integrated

COVID-19 response in the social and behaviour change component of the humanitarian response.

Opportunities

The activation and the meetings of the interagency community engagement and accountability to affected populations (CEAAP) working group. UNICEF will extend CEAAP coordination mechanism and interventions in the humanitarian response in the Sahel region and will support community engagement and mobilisation for future immunization campaigns against polio in 11 regions across the country.

Funding

C4D received US$62,000 (against 1,8 million required). Regular resources remained the main source of funding for

C4D, community engagement and accountability interventions.

Rapid response

UNICEF supports rapid response interventions in Burkina Faso, particularly through the distribution of kits of non-food

items (NFI)21/hygienic items and dignity items.

21 Mosquito nets, soap, water buckets, tarpaulins, kitchen items, blankets, plastic mats, solar lamps, kettles, slips and traditional fabric

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As of the end of June 2020, UNICEF had supported the rapid response through the provision of 850 kits to ACF, the

leader of the Rapid Response Mechanism22 (RRM) consortium and 300 kits to ACTED, reaching 9,999 people. The

RRM actors distributed the kits to 514 families (5,825 people) in Natiaboani (Est region, 4 February 2020); Fada (Est

region, 27 March 2020), and Koungoussi (Centre-Nord region, 16 to 26 March 2020). ACTED distributed the kits to

300 families (4,174 people) in Ouahigouya, Nord region.

UNICEF has also established a partnership with CONASUR for the distribution of 500 kits in the Sahel region, 2,000

tarpaulins to the IDPs victims of floods in the Centre-Nord region, and the provision of 50 tablets to strengthen the

capacities of CONASUR for the registration of IDPs.

UNICEF, the Burkinabe Red Cross and ORANGE money developed a partnership to provide $182 (in three tranches)

unconditional cash to 4,000 displaced families in Koungoussi and Bourzanga in the Centre-Nord region.

UNICEF has provided continued technical support to the rapid response, including missions to the field, during

distributions. Technical recommendations have been shared and discussed with partners.

In addition to kits, UNICEF also procured 24 square meters tents and additional mosquito nets to those in the kits.

Four tents have been sent to the General Hospital in Kaya and three tents to the health department of the Est region

to increase their bed-capacity.

Key constraints

• The results obtained in the first semester of 2020 are below expectations. One financial support was not granted

and UNICEF could not purchase the expected kits

• Lack of access for UNICEF staff in the distribution sites in the Est region prevented the supervision of 2

distributions in the Est region, while COVID-19 restrictions prevented the supervision of the distribution in

Koungoussi and Ouahigouya

• Contingency plans for floods and other natural disasters are not available in the country

• Data on people affected by floods is not collected systematically, making it very difficult for the humanitarian

community to put in place adequate preparedness and response

• Registration of IDPs is carried out by CONASUR with support from some institutions, but the collection is not

immediate after a displacement. In addition, delays are often registered before NGOs can complete the

vulnerability targeting. Also, data on the vulnerable host communities is not collected, complicating the coverage of

the most vulnerable households in host communities by humanitarian actors, with the risk of creating tensions

between the host communities and the IDPs

• The rapid response working group to be put in place at the national level under the Inter Cluster Coordination

Group as well as at the decentralized level, is not yet in place, and the RRM coverage is still limited

Opportunities

• The availability of internal resources as well as of flexible funding, particularly the Thematic Funds and the Swedish

funds against HAC, allowed UNICEF to tailor the response to the needs, therefore, to increase rapidity and

effectiveness. The funding is also instrumental to guarantee the procurement of essential household items when

the expected funding was not received

• The opening and staffing of the two UNICEF field offices in Kaya and Fada, in addition to the existing one in Dori,

as well as the setting up of storage capacity in Kaya and Dori, allowed UNICEF to better analyze the context,

efficiently coordinate the sectoral response, better monitor the response, and bring the services closer to the

vulnerable children

• The setting up and running of regular internal humanitarian coordination mechanisms within UNICEF allowed staff

to improve context analysis, the prioritization of activities and the improvement of synergies between programmes

• Standby agreements are planned to be signed with partners who have the capacity to provide cash services and

assure NFI/hygiene/dignity kits distribution in the regions of Sahel, Nord, Centre-Nord, Est, Boucle de Mouhoun

• Resource mobilization efforts have been intensified to bridge the funding gap in provision of critical rapid response

services for vulnerable displaced and host families.

22 The Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) consortium is led by Action Contre la Faim (ACF) and includes Danish Refugee Council (DRC),

Solidarité Internationale (SI) and Humanité et Incusion (HI). Each organization is in charge of the implementation of RRM activities in a specific region.

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Media and external communication

The media and external communication team reached out to media to raise awareness of the humanitarian situation

and response. The team responded to special requests from international media, including a feature report of the

German TV ZDF. The thematic of gender in conflict was reported in Devex with the interview of a UNICEF specialist

and the continuity of humanitarian delivery was reported on social media Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Analysis

During the past semester, the Country Office improved its narrative about children of Burkina Faso and succeeded to

position key messages in the global and national media. As many as 40 coverages on UNICEF response to the

humanitarian crisis, including interviews of the Representative and/or staff of the UNICEF team, were published and

broadcasted. These efforts were backed by an increase in the production of multimedia content with more than 10

new videos reflecting children’s stories in the midst of the humanitarian crisis. The communication team expanded its

activities on social media reaching more than 1,5 million people (Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Medium) to

support the advocacy and raise awareness on the most vulnerable.

Constraints

The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down the interest of media on children issues and prevented international journalists

to travel to Burkina Faso and report on the situation.

Lessons learned

Develop solid partnerships with videographers and photographers to react quickly when audiovisual content is

requested urgently.

Good practices

Continue the regular coordination with zone offices to collect content and information.

Humanitarian Leadership, Coordination, and Strategy In 2020, UNICEF Burkina Faso aims at addressing the most urgent needs of 1.5 million people, including 690,000

vulnerable children, affected by humanitarian crisis in the five most affected regions by scaling up its response to

emergencies while strengthening social cohesion and resilience as a mid-term strategy. The bottom line is to ensure

continuity and high coverage of services to children and families in crisis-affected regions, in accordance with HAC

and Core Commitments for Children (CCC) procedures and standards. In other words, UNICEF humanitarian action is

now guided by guided by 3 principles:

• Continuity of services in the context of COVID-19 and beyond (as part of Stay and deliver).

• Acceleration of service coverage according to HAC / HRP/CCCs and our regular work plans within the

framework of the Nexus-Humanitarian-Development-Peace / Sustaining Peace Agenda.

• Staff Safety/security/wellbeing in the high-risk zones. UNICEF is putting in place measures for the approval of

travel plans to ultimately ensure the safety of UNICEF staff on field missions in high-risk zones.

UNICEF supports community-based interventions in areas where the government suspended basic social services or

where insecurity severely restricted access to the most vulnerable populations. This action is seen as an opportunity

to strengthen the involvement of communities and local authorities in co-creating solutions to issues affecting children

and families, and to showcase the development-humanitarian-peace nexus. For example, UNICEF Burkina Faso has

established and operationalized a cash transfer task force to strengthen the coordination and integration between

emergency and development programmes. As a result, more than 11,000 households will receive financial assistance

to alleviate their suffering and to help them become more resilient in the fast-changing contexts before the end of

December 2020.

With the drastic increase in the number of IDPs, UNICEF increased its presence by setting up field offices in Dori

(Sahel region) and Kaya (Centre-Nord region), and since mid-February, in Fada N’Gourma (Est region). UNICEF is

the lead institution for the WASH, nutrition, education clusters and child protection area of responsibility (CPAoR).

UNICEF is also strengthening the coordination and information management capacities of the clusters though the

recruitment of dedicated specialists at national and subnational levels.

Updated information on the clusters main activities can be found online:

Education cluster https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/burkina-faso/education

Health cluster https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/burkina-faso/health

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Nutrition cluster https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/fr/operations/burkina-faso/nutrition

WASH cluster https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/fr/operations/burkina-faso/water-sanitation-hygiene

CPAoR https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/burkina-faso/protection-de-lenfant

COVID-19 adaptation

Following the COVID-19 outbreak in Burkina Faso, an inter-ministerial national coordinating committee (NCC) was set

up under the lead of the MoH for the planning, coordination, implementation and monitoring of COVID-19

preparedness and response. The NCC includes all the financial and technical partners. For cohesion purpose and

rational use of available technical resources, the members of the health cluster are also members of this coordination

mechanism.

UNICEF participates in four commissions established by the government to design, implement, monitor and

coordinate the response to COVID-19:

• Coordination commission, where UNICEF plays a key role in the design of government response to COVID-19

• Case management commission, which holds daily meetings to assess the situation of new cases, and challenges

related to tests and treatments of those who are already infected

• Logistics commission, where UNICEF is providing support for the procurement of oxygen concentrators, protection

masks, gloves of protection (covering 10 per cent of the national needs), resuscitation devices, and hand sanitizer

(gel)

• Risk communication and community engagement commission, where UNICEF is the co-lead with the MoH, to

develop key messages to raise public awareness on the prevention of COVID-19. UNICEF also publishes press

releases about the epidemic in Burkina Faso.

CLUSTER COVID–19 useful links

Education https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tg4I3VCoAeBVJw5myyv400NDB4k_gTtW?usp=sharing

Nutrition https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zyVA-Me0A8umE7MdcAxw9k2cVX5P3Ory?usp=sharing

WASH https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g063M4QgnsvivzdWOJVD9m4kKVC79-YH?usp=sharing

CPAoR https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nV3yl4Gsj-LxpQpfW_J9JHLZ6hrBF8y3

Next SitRep: 31 July 2020

UNICEF Burkina Faso Humanitarian Action for Children Appeal https://www.unicef.org/appeals/files/2020-HAC-

Burkina-Faso.pdf

UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children Appeal http://www..org/appeals/index.html

UNICEF Burkina Faso Facebook and Twitter

Who to contact for

further

information?

Sandra Lattouf

Representative

UNICEF Burkina Faso

Tel: +226.25 491 101

Email: slattouf@unicef.org

James Mugaju

Deputy Representative

UNICEF Burkina Faso

Tel: +226.25 491 105

Email: jmugaju@unicef.org

Hadrien Bonnaud

Chief of Communications

UNICEF Burkina Faso

Tel: +226.66 93 31 32

Email: hbonnaud@unicef.org

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Annex A

Summary of Programme Results

Cluster/Sector Response UNICEF and IPs

Sector 2020

target

Total

results

Change

since last

report

▲▼

2020

target

Total

results

Change

since last

report

▲▼

Nutrition

# children under the age of 5 with SAM

admitted into therapeutic feeding

programmes

147,131 43,049 ▲10,520 147,131 43,049 ▲10,520

# caregivers of children reached with

infant and young child feeding counselling 560,950 285,932 ▲8,031 560,950 285,932 ▲8,031

Health

# children aged 6 to 59 months vaccinated

against measles 270,000

8,124 ▲2,017

# children and women received primary

health care in UNICEF-supported facilities 375,000

24,982 ▲8,442

# people received long-lasting insecticide-

treated nets 135, 665

15,500 ▲6,500

WASH

# people accessed sufficient quantity of

safe water for drinking, cooking and

personal hygiene

985,000 213,352 ▲27,794 310,000 78,766 ▲6,500

# people accessed appropriate sanitation

facilities 690,000 75,152* ▲9,689 525,000 33,285 ▲5,282

# people reached with handwashing

behaviour change programmes 1,050,000 392,932* ▲131,952 500,000 201,765 ▲64,452

Child Protection

# children accessed mental health and

psychosocial support 268,000 187,870 ▲34,901 197,304 167,592 ▲33,806

# children and women accessed gender-

based violence risk mitigation, prevention

or response interventions

27,300 18,067 ▲6,748 20,000 17,534 ▲6,569

# unaccompanied and separated children

accessing family-based care or

appropriate alternative services

4,000 2,494 = 2,500 2,481 =

# children separated from armed groups

including other at-risk girls and boys

accessing reintegration support

250 6 =

# of children from vulnerable households

affected by the crisis who have access to

cash transfer for child protection

25,000 11,763 ▲2 928

Education

# children accessed formal or non-formal

education 500,000 152,392 ▲33,709 349,974 120,707 ▲17,027

# children aged 3 to 17 years affected by

crises receiving mental health and

psychosocial support through

strengthened capacities of teachers to

provide supportive care environments at

school

544,273 9,929 - 500,000 9,864 -

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# girls and boys aged 3-17 years affected

by crisis receiving learning materials 520,000 31,802 - 349,974 10,311 -

Rapid response

# displaced persons, including the ones

living with disabilities, provided with

essential household items

70,000 9,999 ▲7,717

Communication for development

# people in host communities reached

with key life-saving / behaviour change

messages on essential family practices

150,000 405,000 ▲155,000

* Including retroactive reporting of some WASH cluster members regarding the results obtained in previous months Annex B

Funding Status**

Sector Requirements

Funds available Funding gap

Received

Current Year Carry-Over $ %

Nutrition 17,315,100 8,108,069 835,497 8,371,534 48%

Health 10,281,116 159,858 227,921 9,893,337 96%

WASH 25,263,857 4,806,459 3,402,948 17,054,450 68%

Child Protection 11,228,787 1,679,388 1,094,666 8,454,733 75%

Education 27,727,668 469,245 1,050,117 26,208,306 95%

Rapid response management and

implementation

3,050,000 2,258,751 0 791,249 26%

Communication for development 1,800,000 62,885 0 1,737,115 97%

Total 96,666,528 17,544,655 6,611,149 72,510,724 75%

** As defined in Humanitarian Actions for Children (HAC) Appeal 2020 for a period of 12 months (January-December 2020)