After four years of feeling heartbroken for stopping #farming because of #Yemen conflict, Naif’s hope is restored and comes back to growing his crops.
The 24-month Emergency Crisis Response Project (ECRP) aims to mitigate the impact of the current crisis on local households and communities and assist their recovery from the bottom-up using local systems, capacities and institutions to progressively resume and scale-up service delivery.
United Nations Development Programme in Yemen launched the “Restore the disrupted livelihoods of crisis-affected populations” component within the framework of the Yemen Stabilization Programme.
UNDP has actively supported HMA (Humanitarian Mine Action) nationwide in Yemen since the late 1990s working with the national implementers. The aim of UNDP’s intervention has remained constant to reduce or eliminate the impact EO (Explosive Ordnance) has on the civilian population, infrastructure and economy.
Summary of the first year of Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project. Figures and achievements.
Immediate focus on strengthening resilience and stabilization while international community considers long-term support.
Four years of no electricity supplies has turned people’s life in Yemen upside down ...
Our Results - 2016
Since March 2015, Yemen has experienced intensive conflict in most of the governorates. The escalation is a follow up to the crisis that started in September 2014 when a large part of the territory, including Sana’a, the capital city, were taken over by militia. In July 2015, Yemen was declared an L3 emergency as the conflict resulted in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
How we work
We conduct our initiatives directly and indirectly through implementing parteners which community organizations, public services and institutions, private sector, civil society organizations. Building our partners ability to deliver basic services will be a critical part of UNDP activities in Yemen.
What We Do
UNDP in Yemen aims to restore livelihoods, social cohesion and security, reflecting a minimum of conditions necessary for resilience while focusing on the community level.
In this regard, our priorities for Yemen are: Supporting a Peaceful Solution; Economic Recovery; Restoring Basic Services; Preparing the Ground; and Empowerment of vulnerable groups:
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About Yemen
26,800,000
Population
0.20
Poverty rate
2,300
GNI per capita (2011)
0.482
Human Dev. Index