The El Niño global climatic event has had a devastating impact on millions of people across the globe in 2015 and 2016. East Africa,Southern Africa, Central America, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands, continue to be at risk of extreme weather events, including below-normal rains and flooding. The humanitarian fallout in includes increased food insecurity due to low crop yields and rising prices; higher malnutrition rates; devastated livelihoods; increased susceptibility to illnesses, and forced displacement.
The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has been one of the quickest and largest supporters of early humanitarian action in response to the El Niño phenomenon.
Since mid-2015, the Fund has provided almost $95 million for life-saving activities in response to drought, floods, food insecurity and other disasters that can be linked to El Niño in Angola ($5 million), El Salvador ($3 million), Eritrea ($2.5 million), Ethiopia ($25.5 million), Guatemala ($4.8 million), Haiti ($3 million), Honduras ($2.2 million), Malawi ($9.9 million), Somalia ($15.9 million), Zimbabwe ($8.1 million), Mozambique ($4.7 million), Lesotho ($5 million), Swaziland ($3.3 million), and Djibouti ($2 million)