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2023 Evaluation Excellence Award Winner for Gender-Responsive Evaluations

Yemen: Rebuilding livelihoods and capacities of conflict-affected small-scale fisheries households in Aden and Hadhramout - Final Evaluation

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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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Rescuing the Henna Sector in Hadramout

The local authorities in the Ghail Bawazir district in Hadhramaut governorate, and its executive offices, have played an instrumental role in rescuing the henna sector – one of the district’s most famous legacies.

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Yemeni Women: Leading into the Future

By: Zena Ali Ahmad, UNDP Yemen Resident Representative

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Press Release
UNDP and UNEP Partner to Enhance Development and Environment Efforts in Yemen

UNEP and UNDP join efforts to improve environment and climate policy and programmatic support

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Event
UNDP-4YFN Women Innovators Programme in the Arab States: Call for Applications 2023

The Women Innovators Programme (WIP) is a partnership between (UNDP) in the Arab States and Four Years From Now (4YFN), the start-up platform of the global mobile operators’ association, GSMA. WIP is a mentorship programme for women-led, digital, social impact-oriented start-ups in the Arab States.

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Press Release
United Nations Takes Major Step Forward to Prevent Catastrophic Oil Spill in Red Sea as UN Development Programme (UNDP) Signs Agreement to Purchase Oil Tanker

The purchase of the vessel is a critical development in operation to remove more than one million barrels of oil from decaying supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast. Funding still urgently needed to complete safe removal of oil.

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Impact Story
The Power of the Sun: Fueling Water Wells in Tarim

In much of rural Yemen, people rely upon independent community water projects to supply the water they so desperately need. Extracted deep from within wells, the water has been traditionally pumped by public electricity grids or diesel generators.

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A Holistic Approach to Addressing Water Resources Challenges in Yemen
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Strategic Framework: A Holistic Approach to Addressing Water Resources Challenges in Yemen

UNDP worked closely with the Ministry of Water and Environment and the National Water Resource Authority – as well as the authorities in the north and south – to develop a holistic water strategy.

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Press Release
Steering Committee Meeting of the European Union and Swedish Co-funded Programme Supporting Resilient Livelihoods, Food Security, Climate Adaptation in Yemen

First Aden-Based Steering Committee Meeting of the European Union and Swedish Co-funded Programme Supporting Resilient Livelihoods, Food Security, Climate Adaptation in Yemen – Joint Programme

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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
Fact Sheet
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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Publication
Water-related Conflict Assessment Report

This analysis report is a part of the Resilience Programme in the Irrigation and Agricultural Sector project, which is funded by the German Development Bank (KfW) and implemented in Yemen by FAO and UNDP.

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UNDP Yemen Iman in COP27
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Yemeni Climate Heroine, Iman Hadi, goes to COP 27

UNDP’s gender-sensitive business model allowed for removing the social, economic, and cultural obstacles that prevent women from participating in climate change adaptation measures.

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UNDP Yemen ESPECRP From Farm to Factory
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From Farm to Factory: Investing in Yemen’s Food Value Chains for Sustainable Food Security

In rural communities, Yemeni women play a pivotal role in maintaining food security to help prevent hunger and malnutrition. Women build food resilience through their land management and by learning how best to use fertilisers and pesticides to tend their crops – all helping to ensure their families and communities have enough food to eat. Communities also rely on women to tend livestock and to produce meat, milk, ghee, eggs, and honey – contributing to reduced poverty and creating job opportunities.

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UNDp Yemen Asrar widow story
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Small Machines, Big Ambitions

Living far away from Yemen’s big cities and towns, Fatima and Asrar serve as role models for other women. They have proven that – despite economic and social challenges – Yemeni women have great potential to start, grow, and operate small businesses that serve their communities. The noise from their machines and the smell of heat on the fabric marked great new beginnings.

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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 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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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
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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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World Oceans Day 2022
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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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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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Celebrating International Days
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UNDP in Yemen and Coffee
UNDP Yemen Projects and Initiatives
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UNDP Yemen and Gender

 

UNDP Gender Seal
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UNDP Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025
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