Overview

• The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will resume food aid deliveries across Ethiopia in December, five months after halting the program due to a massive corruption scheme by local officials.
• The resumption comes after the implementation of new reforms to improve the registration of beneficiaries and the tracking of donated grain.
• The suspension of aid affected 20 million Ethiopians, with reports of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people starving to death in the Tigray region since the suspension.
• The new measures will be tested for one year and are expected to fundamentally shift Ethiopia’s food aid system.
• The World Food Program and the Catholic Relief Services humanitarian organization will take over handling of warehouses, commodities and distributions in programs and regions formerly handled by the Ethiopian government.