The Complex Humanitarian Emergency (CHE) reached its seventh year in 2022, causing massive, multiple and severe deprivations of rights manifested in poverty, hunger, violence, collapse of basic services, school absenteeism and dropout, poor health, preventable deaths and the largest and fastest forced migration ever to occur in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
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THE UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL of the COVID pandemic in March 2020 caused a more severe situation of overlapping emergencies that exacerbated pre-existing deprivations during the course of 2020 and the majority of 2021. The easing of mobility restrictions across the territory as coverage of the first dose of COVID vaccination increased, and the consequent resumption of activities amidst the ravages of the pandemic, had a slightly ameliorative effect on EHC impacts during the first quarter of 2022, but left a scale of deprivation greater than that observed prior to the pandemic.
The data in this new measure show that CHE remains far from evolving toward an early exit, which is occurring in a context that still shows no signs of change in the factors that gave rise to it and have sustained it over the past several years.
The report begins with a pandemic, economic and political context of the CHE, and reviews some relevant events on the humanitarian response and the recommendation efforts of international bodies to change the severe setbacks of the country, in terms of rule of law, democracy and justice. The second part addresses HumVenezuela’s evaluation model and methodology, to explain how the measurement results are organized, processed, analyzed and presented, as well as the description of the sources of information used, with links where these can be reviewed in greater detail.
In the third part, a special topic is developed, referring to the “triple nexus” approach, taking into consideration that it has been adopted by the United Nations agencies for the humanitarian response in the country, and that it represents a strategic change in the conception and planning of the response.
The fourth part presents the results of the measurement of the impacts of the CHE on living conditions, showing the main conditions of vulnerability affecting the population, as well as the impacts on food and nutrition, health, water and sanitation and basic education, identifying the affected population, people with humanitarian needs and those with more severe needs.
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Impacts of the Complex Humanitarian Emergency – March 2022
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For the preparation of this report, 6,459 household groups including 20,186 people were consulted in 145 municipalities in 18 states, in addition to 3,000 sources of secondary information. House surveyed between February and March 2022 were distributed as follows: 50.5% in popular neighborhoods or communities; 37% in urban developments or neighborhoods; 12% in the countryside or rural areas; 1.5% in indigenous settlements or communities.
All data in this report and on the HumVenezuela website are referential in nature and serve to help ensure that CHE responses maintain levels of coverage, scope, flexibility and effectiveness proportionate to the scale, severity and intensity of the humanitarian needs of the Venezuelan population, guaranteeing the inclusion of all affected populations in the response.
The sources of information corresponding to the data in this report can be found in tables by sector and state, available for download HERE
Find the full report HERE
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