Contribution to WFP Yemen Interim Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022



Contract partner: WFP - World Food Programme Country: Jemen Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2022 End: 31.12.2023

Short Description:

Overall goal


Food insecure people affected by crises across Yemen, have access to lifesaving, safe and nutritious food all year (ICSP 2019 – 2022, Strategic Outcome 1).


Expected results


The Yemen CSP focuses on five inter-linked Strategic Outcomes (SO) that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 and 17:


• SO1 is related to emergency relief assistance

• SO2 is related to social protection, safety nets and livelihood support.

• SO3 is related to addressing chronic malnutrition and preventing stunting.

• SO4 is related to enhancing global partnerships.


Under SO1, WFP is providing life-saving food assistance to severely food insecure households through 3 modalities: cash transfers, food vouchers and in-kind food distributions.


Target group / Beneficiaries


For 2022, the total ICSP targets 16.2 million food insecure individuals. Under SO1, in 2022, 7 million beneficiaries are targeted with in-kind assistance, 2 million with cash assistance and 1.3 million with food vouchers.


The contribution from Austria will support up to 94,000 food insecure individuals with general food assistance for 1 month, whereas 49% will be female, and 51% male.


Activities


Funding from the Government of Austria will enable the delivery of critically needed food assistance to populations whose access to food has been further restricted by the crisis in Ukraine. The contribution will be used to implement WFP’s general food assistance programmes, by covering the cost of procurement of key food commodities which are part of the standard ration. New funding support is critically needed given the increase in WFP’s operating costs due to the Ukraine crisis, and the squeeze on available resources.

With this contribution, WFP will be able to provide food assistance by distributing In-kind rations to the most food insecure populations in the country. The contribution of Austria will allow to purchase a total of 1,004 MT of wheat flour from the Global Commodity Management Framework (GCMF). This flour will be part of the ration distributed to a total of 94,000 individuals in Yemen.


Context


Yemen is experiencing one of the world’s worst ever humanitarian crises: one which has brought unrelenting catastrophe into the lives of ordinary people, and which is now compounded by the knock-on effect of the Ukraine crisis. In early 2022, the situation has reached a critical point, with new analysis showing that acute food insecurity is spreading across the country at a rapid rate and reaching alarming levels. Increased conflict, economic volatility, high rates of displacement and severe underfunding of life-saving assistance programmes have exacerbated the crisis.

project number 2770-00/2022
source of funding AKF
sector Humanitäre Hilfe: Sofortmaßnahmen
tied
modality
marker Poverty: 1
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