Key findings regarding women’s sexual exploitation abuse across the conflict Tigray from IRC’s more comprehensive gender analysis report.

Ethiopia features on the Watchlist for the third year in a row but rises into the top five for the first time due to escalating conflict. At the same time, climate change, desert locusts and the COVID-19 pandemic all further deepen the challenges facing the country in 2021, and drive up the number of people in need to the second highest in the world.

This is a condensed version of an independent review of IRC activities in Afghanistan, Somalia, and northwest Syria, submitted to the IRC by consultant Jason Phillips in June 2021.