Mikama - November 1, 2016

Dans Shangai Daily
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that it plans to reach 1 million people with food and cash assistance in southern Madagascar as the African island country goes through a third consecutive year of drought and ruined harvests. (..) The WFP requires 92 million U.S. dollars for this humanitarian response from now until March of next year, Haq said, adding that it currently faces a shortfall of 78.5 million dollars.
Source: XINHUA

Dans Time
The FAO said that of the 1.4 million people in southern Madagascar expected to be facing hunger through to 2017, 850,000 were in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
Ref: FAO report.

Dans Relief Web
The one year humanitarian response plan initiated in February 2016 was budgeted for a total amount of US$ 69.9 million, and has so far only been financed to the tune of 52%. Nonetheless, the impact of ongoing humanitarian response operations demonstrates positive and encouraging results. (..) The “Integrated Food Security Phase Classification” (IPC) assessment, conducted between September and October 2016 demonstrated that 845,000 persons are currently in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, among them 330,000 are in emergency phase (IPC phase 4) and 515,000 in crisis phase (IPC phase 3). (..) Humanitarian needs were reviewed in the light of the IPC results and are now estimated at a total amount of US$ 154.9 million. Only 26% of these needs are covered by the recently announced financial commitments and US$ 115.3 million still needs to be funded to cover food security and livelihood, water, hygiene and sanitation; education; nutrition; protection, and health sectors, as well as the coordination of the overall response.
Furthermore, an early recovery and resilience building plan is already available for the Grand Sud.
It covers a three year period for a total amount of US$ 189 million, addressing and focusing on the root causes of the problem in addition to its consequences.