ESPECRP Empower Yemeni Women Through Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods

ESPECRP Empower Yemeni Women Through Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods

June 8, 2023

Funded and supported by the World Bank's International Development Association and in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Emergency Social Protection Enhancement and COVID-19 Response Project (ESPECRP) is implemented across Yemen by the Social Fund for Development (SFD), the Public Works Project (PWP), and the Small and Micro Enterprise Promotion Service (SMEPS). 

The US$ 232.9 million ESPECRP is designed to support geo-focused interventions through a combination of emergency and development initiatives and target them to areas with high food insecurity and malnutrition—this is in line with the World Bank’s approach to improve food security resilience and sustainable livelihoods for Yemenis.

The ESPECRP ensures that gender-sensitive interventions are mainstreamed across all project components. It works to create opportunities for women's employment and participation in society, playing a key role in resistance and resilience to shocks, improving livelihoods, and mitigating social constraints. Theis serves to empower women's full productive potential and will help yield enomorous benifts to reduce gender gaps in eduction, empolyment and access to services.