Red Cross and Red Crescent Organizations make severe winter emergency appeal.
The Appeal seeks a total of 655,512 Swiss francs to enable the IFRC to support the Mongolian Red Cross Society to deliver assistance and support to more than 11 thousand people.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Organizations make another Mongolia severe winter emergency appeal. The Appeal seeks a total of 655,512 Swiss francs to enable the IFRC to support the Mongolian Red Cross Society (MRCS) to deliver assistance and support to more than 11 thousand people for 10 months, with a focus on detailed assessments, immediate household needs, heath, livelihoods, community preparedness and disaster risk reduction. The severe winter locally knows as Dzud has now been affecting some 157,000 people across 17 out of 21 provinces in Mongolia. Continuous snowfall throughout January and expected snowfall in February and March will exacerbate the adverse situation in which thousands of migrating herders can find themselves in weeks to come. A drought during the summer of 2016 has depleted herders’ reserves of hay and fodder in the eastern and northern parts of Mongolia putting at risk millions of livestock which are the only source of food, transport and income for almost half of the Mongolian population. As of 18 January, NEMA has reported already 25,831 livestock loss. Multipurpose unconditional cash grants to support life-saving basic needs, emergency agricultural inputs and first aid kits have been identified as priority needs by the Mongolia National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other humanitarian actors.
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