Al Hawta District, Lahj Governorate: In response to community needs, the rehabilitation of the maternity and childhood healthcare and storage facility began in October 2018 and was recently completed.
Today the United Nations Development Programme provided our national partner, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC), with 20 Hilux armored vehicles to support their daily demining efforts in the ports of Hodeidah, Ras al-Isa and Salif
After more than three years of war, in December 2018, the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary
General for Yemen convened discussions between conflict parties in Sweden.
Our results: 2018
Since 2015, armed conflict has fueled a crisis of unprecedented magnitude in what was already the poorest country in the Arab region. With over 80 per cent of the population in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, the Yemeni crisis is the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster. UNDP assists vulnerable Yemenis to meet their most urgent needs, while also helping to restore livelihoods, strengthen resilience to future challenges, and prepare for long-term development. Engaging local capacities, systems and institutions, UNDP is assisting Yemen in building back better.
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How we work
UNDP Yemen’s programmes and projects are implemented directly and indirectly through our strong local implementing partners including, but not limited to: (a) community organizations; (b) public services and institutions; (c) the private sector; and, (d) civil society organizations. Aided by UNDP Yemen’s neutrality, a critical component of our mandate is to help build local partner capacity to continue to deliver critical social safety net projects, livelihoods support and delivery of life-saving key basic services both during and after the crisis.
What we do
With a focus at the community-level, and working with key implementing partners, UNDP in Yemen aims to restore livelihoods – as well as social cohesion and security – to create the necessary conditions for resilience and a post-conflict Yemen. Our current priorities are: (a) supporting a peaceful solution and transition; (b) economic recovery and livelihood; (c) restoring key basic services; and, (e) empowering vulnerable groups.
Peace Support Facility
Guided by the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, the United Nations Mission to support the Hodeida agreement (UNMHA) and the Resident Coordinator’s Office, UNDP will implement projects designed to provide visible results in areas critical to the advancement of the overall peace agenda. The proposed mechanism to fund the projects is the Peace Support Facility (PSF).
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About Yemen
30 million
Estimated population
47.8%
Population in multidimensional poverty (Human Development Report 2018)
USD $1,239
Gross National Income per capita (2011 Purchasing Power Parity)
0.452
Human Development Index
