Nearly 1.2 million people in Burundi are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity between June and September 2024 (harvest season), including 122,000 people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and one million people in Crisis (IPC Phase 3). The situation is slightly improved from the current period (April – May 2024), as a result of positive agricultural performance and the increase in food stocks at the household level.

The people facing high levels of acute food insecurity are mainly rural households that are highly dependent on markets and who derive their income from rare and low-paying opportunities such as agricultural labour, families affected by climatic hazards (floods, attacks parasitic, etc.) and the families of returnees who have not yet restarted their means of subsistence because of their low purchasing power.

• Provide emergency assistance people in IPC Phase 3 or above to reduce food deficits and save lives and livelihoods.
• Ensure care for vulnerable populations in urban and peri-urban areas affected by flooding/rising lake waters.
• Ensure that the emergency response to people in crisis covers agricultural inputs to restart the agricultural production of 2024C and 2025A, and encourage the implementation of resilience support initiatives.
• Continue emergency interventions (resource mobilization and responses) started since the declaration of the emergency launched in April 2024 by the government following the effects of the El Nino phenomenon. 
• Organize site protection and alert activities in areas under threat of flooding and landslides by cleaning watercourses, protecting banks, installing dikes, watershed protection, etc. and through the organization of work at high labour intensity (HIMO).
• Implement strategies to guarantee market supply in the current context of fuel shortage.