Situation Overview:
According to recent international reports, 21.6 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian aid, including 11 million children. Of these, 17 million people cannot afford sufficient food to meet their daily needs2, and 4.5 million people are internally displaced. The ongoing conflict has resulted in 8 million Yemenis losing their livelihoods or living in communities with minimal to no basic services.
According to recent international reports, 21.6 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian aid, including 11 million children. Of these, 17 million people cannot afford sufficient food to meet their daily needs2, and 4.5 million people are internally displaced. The ongoing conflict has resulted in 8 million Yemenis losing their livelihoods or living in communities with minimal to no basic services.
Yemen remains highly reliant on food imports to satisfy domestic demand. Price volatility has rendered more Yemenis vulnerable to food and livelihood insecurity, with the majority of households now in a critical food security situation. Price hikes and currency deterioration, coupled with vanishing livelihoods, are pushing more people towards food insecurity. Additionally, the country is witnessing a drastic decline in the economy, especially in the agricultural and fishery sectors.
Program Scope and Strategy:
- Identifying threats and vulnerabilities for targeted communities, stir up advocacy efforts to extend needed protection.
- Support participatory engagement with affected communities
- Target the most vulnerable and food-insecure groups
- Provide equitable access to all affected communities
- Protect conflict-affected communities and facilitate humanitarian access to food and livelihood assistance
- Helping groups to become more resilient and decrease relying on humanitarian food assistance through encouraging youth-empowering and local production methods.
- Create capacity-building programs and post-distribution monitoring mechanism in order to increase community-level performance and accountability.
- Our Food and agriculture programs embraces environmental awareness by incorporating climate change, natural resource management, and conservation principles into projects that improve global food security.
- The program increases communities' knowledge of sound agricultural methods suitable to the regional landscape, cultural needs, and environment concerns.
- The program empowers farmers how to diversify viable crops, make the best use of the local growing seasons, and preserve local natural resources. The program objectives is to create communities that can produce nutritious food for themselves in a sustainable manner
YFCA is an active member of the Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) within the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) therefore, the projects implemented are aligned with the clusters’ recommendations and standards.
