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Building bridges: Mediation and dialogue bring communities together in Yemen

With a budget of $49.3 million, the project will run until February 2025 and is expected to benefit approximately 850,000 people – though infrastructure and local asset rehabilitation, community dispute resolution, and measures to enhance social cohesion.

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The Whole Village Benefits: Community Contracting in Yemen

In a bid to improve lives – and livelihoods – for the long term, UNDP’s ESPECRP, with national partner the Public Works Project (PWP), is applying community contracting mechanisms to construction projects, from water harvesting to agricultural land reclamation and road paving.

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June 2023 Fact Sheet - Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project (FSRRP)

UNDP’s component of FSRRP improves agricultural production infrastructure and builds climate resilience in partnership with the Social Fund for Development (SFD), and the Public Works Project (PWP).

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Knowledge exchange emphasizes civil society’s role in advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Yemen, Australia, and Indonesia

On 18 May 2023, experts with experience in Yemen, Australia, and Indonesia came together in a knowledge exchange to discuss the impacts of civil society on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda within each individual country context.

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Haifa’s Story: Leading Sustainable Rural Livelihoods for Women in Yemen

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EU reconfirms commitment to peace in Yemen by contributing to laying the foundation to the UN Peace Support Facility Phase II

Amman, Jordan: 24 August 2023 – The European Union (EU) has recently announced its support of EUR 3 million to Phase II of the UN Peace Support Facility (PSF) for Yemen – a jointly managed programme by OSESGY, UNRC, and UNDP

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Young Woman Creates Yemen’s First Autism-related Application

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United Nations completes removal of oil from decaying tanker in Red Sea

More than 1.1 million barrels of oil transferred to the replacement tanker over 18 days

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Cash-for-work: Simultaneously Rebuilding Yemen’s Livelihoods and Vital Infrastructure

In response to the urgent and growing crisis in Yemen, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Yemen, funded by the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA), is implementing a Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project (FSRRP).

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25 Countries Halved Multidimensional Poverty Within 15 Years, but 1.1 Billion Remain Poor

11 July 2023, New York City – The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) with estimates for 110 countries was released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford.

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Securing the Safer: A race against time for the people of Yemen and the Red Sea

An international operation to prevent a major oil spill in the Red Sea has reached a critical juncture. A support vessel has reached the FSO Safer and begun assessing conditions on board to prepare for the transfer of a million barrels of oil off the decaying ship.

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A Decade of Stagnation: New UNDP data shows gender biases remain entrenched

Lack of progress in the Gender Social Norms Index parallels human rights violations and is socially wasteful

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Fact Sheet
ESPECRP factsheet: Improving Food Security Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods for Yemenis

In partnership with UNDP Yemen, ESPECRP is implemented by the Social Fund for Development (SFD), the Public Works Project (PWP), and the Small
and Micro Enterprise Promotion Service (SMEPS).

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How Modern Irrigation Techniques are Transforming Yemen's Agriculture Sector

A look at the impact of the SIERY project on World Water Day

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Yemen’s Landmines: Involuntary Displacement and Untold Suffering

In 2022, UNDP’s national partner YEMAC cleared 81,000 explosive devices, including 9,054 anti-vehicle landmines, 861 anti-personnel landmines, and 3,149 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), clearing or reducing the potential risk of mines in around 6.5 million square meters of land

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Yemeni Women: Leading into the Future

By: Zena Ali Ahmad, UNDP Yemen Resident Representative

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Improving agricultural lands irrigation through the construction of floods spillways in Abs district, Hajjah. | Photo credit: UNDP Yemen 2022.
Fact Sheet
Combating food insecurity in Yemen: From individual needs to country-level resilience

A World Bank project aims to tackle the conflict-hit country´s most immediate challenge

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Strengthening Institutional and Economic Resilience in Yemen -Factsheet
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Strengthening Institutional and Economic Resilience in Yemen (SIERY) Factsheet: December 2022

The SIERY project supports the resilience of Yemen's local governance systems and helps enhance the recovery of conflict affected communities.

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UNDP Yemen Paving Death Road in Hajjah
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Paving ‘Death Road’ in Hajjah

The Al-Sirat Road paving project – funded and supported by the World Bank’s IDA in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and implemented by PWP – has alleviated community suffering in Bani-Shahr Sub-District, Koshar.

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Our objective

UNDP acknowledges the desire of Yemenis to live peaceful and dignified lives, not dependent upon foreign assistance. In addition to responding to the most urgent humanitarian needs, UNDP projects are designed to restore livelihoods, strengthen resilience to future challenges, and lay the foundation for long-term development while addressing gender gaps in a country that ranks 155 out of 156 countries in the 2021 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index.

Our impact

With a community-level focus and working with key implementing partners, UNDP in Yemen aims to restore livelihoods, promote social cohesion, and foster a secure environment to create resilience now and in 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 (d) empowering women, youth, and vulnerable groups.

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Young Woman Creates Yemen’s First Autism-related Application

Hamas Abouhatem, aged 27, being a woman in Yemen’s male-dominated tech field did not discourage her. Hamas’ compassion for other women and an understanding their struggles led her to thinking creatively to pioneer an innovative, digitalized approach to addressing autism in Yemen.

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2.6

million square meter

cleared mine-contaminated land

8,800

MSMEs (38% women-led)

have received assistance from UNDP (financial and non-financial)

156,000

people (50% are women)

provided with access to renewable energy

130,000

people (50% are women)

with improved access to sanitation and waste management services

22,000

households

with lactating and pregnant women and children under 5 yrs benefited from cash-for-nutrition

+14,600

people (45% are women)

with access basic health and education services

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