SOUTH AFRICA PEOPLE IN NEED 14.3M PEOPLE TARGETED 2.5M Overview/Context Health The Republic of South Africa is experiencing one of the worst droughts ever recorded due to two consecutive below average rainfall seasons (since early 2015). The expected commercial maize crop for 2016 is 29.1 per cent less than the previous season’s (2015), which was also a drought year. Expected total maize imports for 2016/17 stand at 3.65 million tonnes. There is a growing water crisis, with an average dam level (as of 30 May) of approximately 54 per cent – 22 per cent less than the same time in 2015. • Analyse surveillance data, hospital admissions, drought-sensitive diseases and immediately to notify and investigate any suspected epidemic or disease outbreak; The number of people with inadequate or severely inadequate access to food stood at 14.5 million, and this includes 8 million people living in urban areas. Government has the capacity to assist those affected and a request for international support is not expected. WASH Key Humanitarian Needs • Raise awareness and educate public on the importance of hand hygiene; • Health promotion activities to protect own health and health of children under age 5. • Intensify water quality monitoring • Communicate the importance of implementing additional water treatment measures where necessary Nutrition • Intensify water quality monitoring Food • Establish new and expand coverage of CNDCs; • Communicate the importance of implementing additional water treatment measures where necessary • Ensure targeting of the most vulnerable households with food parcels; Medium-Term Needs • Expand the School Nutrition Programme to cover weekends and school holidays. • Refurbishment and replacement of all aged infrastructure and proper operations and maintenance of new infrastructure. Agriculture • Provide support livestock feeding; to emergency • Strengthen water infrastructure (Dam scoping and boreholes); • Establish Firebreaks; • Consider adaptable crops; • Strengthen veld availing grazing land 58 • Ensure primary healthcare in communities and availability of resources to deal with related cases; management, • Proactive planning summer season. for the next • Well-coordinated and integrated awareness creation campaigns and messages from government.