Madagascar: Humanitarian Snapshot (as of 19 January 2018)

Plague Cases (2014 - 2018)

FUNDING (as of Dec 2017)

Madagascar is prone to natural disasters. Four main hazards affect the country almost every year: cyclone, floods, drought—which always deteriorates into food insecurity—and epidemics, mainly plague.

A recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis found that the food security situation remains very fragile—810,000 people would be in IPC Phases 3 and 4 between November 2017 and March 2018. In addition, SMART surveys indicated some pockets of malnutrition which reached the emergency thresholds.

2014-2015(Aug - Apr)

2015-2016(Aug - Apr)

2016-2017(Aug - Apr)

2017-2018(Aug - Jan)

395 296 325

2,603

$135.8mReceived

$103.8mDrought

$18.7mCyclones and floods

$13.3mPlagues

Cyclones and Floods 2018 (projection figures)

People expected to be affected in 20181,424,000People expected tobe displaced in 2018750,000

Funding gap$ 25.1m

Total expectedrequirements$30m

FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION

810k people at risk of food insecurity

The Tropical Cyclone Ava struck early in January 2018 before the country had recovered from the devastation caused by Cyclone Enawo in early 2017, when 434,000 people were affected. Even if the capacity of the emergency stocks reduced four times during the past 10 years, the immediate needs could be covered for the 161,000 people affected by Ava, of which nearly 15,000 are still displaced. However, humanitarian actors will not have capacity to immediately respond to a future cyclone, unless these emergency stocks are replenished quickly. The current cyclone season from November to April is likely to be very active, with three or four cyclones expected to hit directly the country, of which at least one will be very strong.

CYCLONES

15k displaced people(as of 17 January 2018)

The ongoing plague season is very active. It started earlier than usual, in August 2017, and became a pneumonic plague in urban areas—in the past it was usually a bubonic plague in rural areas. At least 225 people have died to date (compared to an average of 50 deaths in the past seasons) and 2,603 cases have been reported. On 25 November 2017, the Ministry of Health of Madagascar officially announced the containment of the urban pneumonic plague outbreak, after three months of an acute epidemic phase, although more cases of bubonic and sporadic pneumonic plague are expected to be reported until April 2018. WHO has requested an additional US$4 million to sustain response operations over the next three months. Plague outbreaks are endemic in Madagascar.

PNEUMONIC PLAGUE

Communes withmalnutriton pockets

Proxy-SAM >=2%or proxy-GAM>=17%

11%< Proxy-GAM <16%

Food insecurityphase by district

Emergency

Crisis

Tsihombe

Ambovombe

Amboasary

Taolagnaro

Ampanihy

Betioky

Beloha

Bekily

Moderate impact of windModerate impact of windand floods

Severe impact of floods

Tropical Cyclone Avaaffected districts

EmergencyCrisis

Food insecurity phaseby district

Plague affected districts

SOFIA

MENABE

MELAKY

BOENY

ANOSY

SAVA

ATSIMO ANDREFANA

DIANA

BETSIBOKA

IHOROMBE

ANDROY

ATSINANANA

BONGOLAVAANALAMANGA

ITASY

HAUTE MATSIATRA

VAKINANKARATRA

AMORON’I MANIA

ANALANJIROFO

ALAOTRAMANGORO

VATOVAVY

ATSIMO ATSINANANA

911v01VAThe boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United NationsCreation date: 19 January 2018 Map No: Sources: BNGRC, Humanitarian partnerrs, Ministry of Health, WHO, OCHA, IPC, IPM, UNICEF Nutrition bulletin Dec18

161k affected people by thetropical cyclone Ava in Jan 2018

2,603 cases (August 2017 to January 2018)

225 deaths (August 2017 to January 2018)