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UNDP Yemen 2022 Youth4Climate
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Yemeni Youth Help Prevent Climate Change for a Sustainable World

In a country where only 50 per cent of the health care system is fully functional, waste accumulation has led to diseases such as cholera, malaria, and dengue fever. This is particularly the case in poor neighborhoods that lack health facilities, basic services, and are vulnerable to these diseases due to lack of adequate nutrition.

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UNDP Yemen Aden Port Japan PR
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UNDP and Japan Sign Nearly US$3.6 Million Agreement to Help Improve Port of Aden Efficiency

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: 19 September 2022 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Japan signed nearly a US$3.6 million agreement for “The Project for the Improvement of the Port of Aden”. The funding will help with vital improvements of the Port of Aden.

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Multiple crises halt progress as 9 out of 10 countries fall backwards in human development, UNDP report warns

New York: The world is lurching from crisis to crisis, trapped in a cycle of firefighting and unable to tackle the roots of the troubles that confront us. Without a sharp change of course, we may be heading towards even more deprivations and injustices, warns the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

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UNDP Yemen Solar Support
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New Kuwait Partnership for Renewable Solar Energy

Aden, Yemen: 30 August 2022 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) welcomes our new Yemen-focused partnership with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. To kick off the partnership, the Kuwait Fund provided a generous US$ 2.5 million to a new UNDP project called Renewable Energy Improve Access to Health Services and Livelihood Opportunities (HEAL).

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UNDP Yemen Tuk Tuk
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Solar-Powered Tuk Tuks: Reviving Hope

Ali and Majed, Yemenis from the Seiyun district in the Hadramout Governorate, both embody this spirit. Given the key knowledge, basic tools, and required skills, they are now prepared to pave the way toward a bright and prosperous future.

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UNDP Yemen Vocational Training
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Vocational and Business Skills Training and Support Project - Fast Fact Sheet - ـJune 2022

With funding by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), the Vocational and Business Skills Training and Support Project targets young women and men to improve their livelihood and establish their own businesses while aiming to include 40% women. It provides participants with business and vocational skills training, in-kind grants, business promotion, and connection to local markets.

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UNDP Yemen Hodeidah Althawrah Hospital
Story
Yemen’s First Centre for Infectious Diseases Inaugurated in Hodeidah

The new centre has been equipped with modern medical oxygen systems as well as an air purification and decontamination system to reduce the transmission of infections. Expected to receive around 120 patients daily, it will provide emergency medical and pharmacy services, and it has its own mortuary.

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Exposure
Qat-to-Coffee for Climate Resilience and Human Security in Yemen

UNDP is implementing a Sida-funded pilot grant titled ‘Qat-to-Coffee for Climate Resilience and Human Security in Yemen’ that aims to promote sustainable coffee value chains as a high-value alternative crop to reduce groundwater exploitation, enhance livelihood opportunities, and empower women. The pilot is one of seven seed grants in six Arab States that were developed under the regional Sida-funded project ‘SDG-Climate Facility: Climate Action for Human Security’.

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UNDP Yemen Small Businesses
Impact Story
Sustainable Small Businesses in Yemen

In partnership with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Microfinance Client Compensation Project has supported five national microfinance institutions and provided over 5,800 small and micro enterprises with financial grants – stimulating job creation, reducing poverty, and improving community outcomes. UNDP proudly partners locally with the Yemen Microfinance Network (YMN) to implement the projects in 10 governorates.

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Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) 2022

The Arab Human Development Report 2022 focuses on theme of post-COVID recovery in the context of current development challenges. In particular, the AHDR assesses the state of human development across governance, society, and economy prior to COVID-19 and the impact of the pandemic. It provides concrete recommendations on how to guide a sustainable, green, equitable, and inclusive recovery.

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Press Release
Arab Human Development Report 2022: Expanding Opportunities for an Inclusive and Resilient Recovery in the Post-Covid Era

Post-Covid Recovery, an opportunity to boost development in the region. Responsive governance, more diversified economies, inclusive societies, and a green transformation critical to achieving sustainable, inclusive development and prevent future shocks and disasters

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World Oceans Day 2022
Blog
Yemen’s Sea Change through regeneration of the blue economy

The blue economy is very important for Yemen. The country has a shoreline that stretches about 2500 km (about 1550 miles) and serves as a means of livelihood for countless Yemenis plagued by relentless food insecurity.

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Call for Action
UN Plan for the FSO Safer Tanker Stop the Red Sea Catastrophe

Your contribution will bring us a step closer to preventing this disaster and send a message to governments and private companies that have not yet contributed to do their part. Act now before it is too late!

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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.

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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2021 - 2024 Country Strategy Note
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UNDP in Yemen and Coffee
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UNDP Yemen and Gender

 

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UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025
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