Venezuela, IMPACT/REACH: Regional Information Management Support to the humanitarian response in Venezuela and to the Venezuelan crisis response within Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

As of 2022, the humanitarian situation in Venezuela remains protracted, characterized by a deep sociopolitical crisis, chronic inflation, limited provision and availability of basic services. As a consequent, there are 7.7 million Venezuelans in the country in need of humanitarian assistance according to the Humanitarian Response Plans for Venezuela 2020 - 2023. In parallel, humanitarian actors in the country continue to face multiple challenges, including the politicization of humanitarian aid, administrative and bureaucratic impediments, the lack of access to official and realiable data on needs, among others. Although the Humanitarian Response Plans for Venezuela have been published, data from the Humanitarian Needs Overview remains unpublished, highlighting the limited access to official data.

Consequently, as of November 2022, there are 7.1 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the world, from which 5.9 million are in Latin America and the Caribbean. Colombia remains the main hosting country of Venezuelans migrants, with 2.4 million while also facing resurgent violence, internal displacement, and 7.7 million of Colombian people in need, according to their Humanitarian Needs Overview 2022. Similarly, Peru is the second hosting country with 1.4 million Venezuelan, followed by Ecuador with 502’000. The strict measures imposed by goverments of Ecuador and Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic itself, severely impacted the economies, with refugees and migrants particularly affected. 

Total direct beneficiaries: 35 humanitarian actors (including UN agencies, International and national NGOs, civil society actors, local authorities and other stakeholders). 

Total indirect beneficiaries: Approximately 300 actors involved more widely within the humanitarian responses of the countries of intervention (including UN agencies, International and national NGOs, civil society actors, local authorities and other stakeholders).

Outcome 1: Humanitarian actors are provided with regular, robust and high-quality information products on the current humanitarian needs and humanitarian situation in Venezuela and of Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees and host communities in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Outcome 2: Joint coordination of assessments and information management activities in the humanitarian responses in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru is improved, in order to harmonise and reduce duplication of efforts among humanitarian actors conducting similar assessment activities.

Risultati principali attesi:  

Under Outcome 1:

• 36 humanitarian situation monitoring information products in Venezuela
• 6 market situation reports of price monitoring and market functionality findings in Venezuela.
• Bi-Annual Area-Based assessments situation overviews of key urban areas affected by displacement in Colombia.
• 6 Joint Market Monitoring Initiative situation overviews of key findings, including thematic mapping and visualization of findings in Colombia.
• 6 Joint Market Monitoring Initiative situation overviews of price monitoring and market functionality findings in Ecuador.
• 6 Joint Market Monitoring Initiative situation overviews of price monitoring and market functionality findings in Peru.

Under Outcome 2:

• 6 Joint regional migration monitoring information products
• 2 secondment of staff to OCHA and UNICEF-led clusters in Venezuela

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

• Over 160 information products (datasets, maps, factsheets and reports) jointly developed and disseminated by 90 humanitarian actors in Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil.
• IMPACT’s Humanitarian Situation Monitoring assessment was used by OCHA and clusters for the Humanitarian Response Plan for Venezuela 2022-2023.
• Data and key findings from IMPACT assessments directly used and/or quoted in the Regionald Refugee and Migrant Response Plan for Colombia and Brazil, the Humanitarian Needs Overview and Humanitarian Response Planning.