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UNFPAResponse inYemen  

United Nations Population Fund

UNFPA mobile team in operation in Ibb©UNFPA YEMEN

Yemen remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Some 22.2million people - 75 per cent of the population - are in need ofhumanitarian assistance. 17.8 million people are food insecure and8.4 million people do not know how they will obtain their next meal.Conflict, protracted displacement, disease and deprivation continueto inflict suffering upon the country’s population. Disruption tocommercial imports, inflation, lack of salary payments to civilservants and rising prices of basic commodities are furtherexacerbating people’s vulnerability. Ongoing conflict in Al Hudaydah Governorate has displaced over70,000 households since June 2018, with nearly 98 per cent of them receiving assistance including hygiene kits, transit kits and foodrations. The rapid response mechanism is being led by UNFPA. The number of suspected cholera cases is reported to have increasedin Yemen during August, suggesting that the country might face apossible third wave of the epidemic with rains increasing the risk. Since April 2017, more than 1.1 million suspected cholera cases and2,310 associated deaths have been reported in Yemen.  Between January and August 2018, UNFPA reached more than400,000 women and girls with reproductive health and protectionservices . UNFPA is working to expand its coverage and size ofoperation in Yemen.  This includes expansion in the coverage ofemergency obstetric care services in health facilities, with 40operating theaters and 100 infant incubators being procured amongother equipment to support emergency obstetric care across thecountry. In addition  some 200,000 dignity are being procured to bedistributed as part of the rapid response mechanism to the crisis in AlHudadayh.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTHFAST FACTS

22.2MIn need of some

form of assistance

11.3MIn acute need

16.4MLack access to basic

health services

12.9MIn need of protection

3.0MInternally displaced

and returnees

3.25MWomen of reproductive

age (15-49 yrs)

1.1MPregnant women

malnourished

48%Women and girls

illiterate

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UNFPA RESPONSE IN AL HUDAYDAH UNFPA provides assistance at the first line of response through Humanitarian Service Points andtransit centres by way of dignity kits and through a range of reproductive health and protectionservices. Services and supplies provided at humanitarian hubs in Al Hudaydah,  Aden, Ibb andSana'a are detalied below:

AL HUDAYDAH HUB

ADEN HUB

IBB HUB

15,620 dignity kits provided to displaced persons intransit centers and humanitarian service points as part ofthe Rapid Response Mechanism.

UNFPA-supported teams of social workers at protectiondesks provided support and referral to 315 women andgirls. Protection desks are located in HumanitarianService Points where dignity kits are distributed.

Eighteen health facilities supported by UNFPA to provideemergency obstetric and neonatal care. This includes7 hospitals providing C-sections.

More than 1,172 women and girls receivedcomprehensive multi-sectoral protection service

Some 1,280 people reached with communityawareness sessions on different forms of violence

Men-to-men networks across four districts formed inraising awareness on GBV issues and for referral ofGBV cases to relevant services.

Toll free hotline services continues to provideimmediate counselling for GBV survivors.

428 dignity kits distributed as part of the RapidResponse for those displaced from Al Hudaydah.

25 health facilities supported to provide emergencyobstetric and neonatal care, including 6 hospitalsproviding C-sections.

3,459 displaced women and girls receivedreproductive health services.

More than 1716 women and girls receivedcomprehensive multi-sectoral protection services inAugust.

100 health facilities supported to provide emergencyobstetric and neonatal care, including 14 hospitals toprovide c-sections.

More than 1,324 women and girls receivedcomprehensive multi-sectoral protection services inAugust.

11,472 dignity kits distributed to displaced householdsin Amanat Al Asimah.

18 health facilities supported in Sana’a hub to provideemergency obstetric and neonatal care, including 4hospitals to provide C-sections.

More than 2,500 women and girls receivedcomprehensive multi-sectoral protection services.

SANA'A HUB

Samah at her temporary shelter in Aden. ©UNFPA YEMEN

Samah, a 17 year old girl from Hudaydah, was six monthspregnant when her house was bombed. She and her husbandhad to run immediately to safer ground.   “We ran with only the clothes we were wearing, there was notime to event collect my Abaya,” Samah recalls. We travelled fortwo days to arrive here in Aden. It was the most exhausting twodays of my life. I didn’t only have to worry about my family, butthe baby I  was carrying inside, says Samah. Due to the exhaustion from the journey Samah developedcomplications.  When Samah arrived in Aden, she was received at ahumanitarian service point, provided  with a rapid response kitand immediately sent to Al-Sha’ab Hospital in Aden.  “If I did notmanage to reach a hospital, I don’t think me or my baby wouldhave survived. Thanks to God we are both safe and healthy,” tellSamah.  UNFPA is  supported by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United ArabEmirates, State of Kuwait, European Union, Japan and theYemen Humanitarian Pooled Fund for its response to theemergency in Al Hudaydah. 

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No. of women & girls reached with protection services

Dignity kits distributed

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HIGHLIGHTS OF OVERALL RESPONSE - AUG. 2018

2018 HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANFUNDING STATUS

IN THE NEWS

$44.5 M

REQUIRED

$24M

FUNDED

20.5M

FUNDING

GAP 2018 Donors (alphabetical order): Canada, European Union Friends ofUNFPA, Kuwait, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, OCHA (Saudi Arabia & UnitedArab Emirates), Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom, YemenHumanitarian Pooled Fund

KEY CHALLENGES

Lack of humanitarian access to conflict-affected areas. 

Damaged or non-operating healthstructures. Two thirds of the facilitiesdo not provide any healthcare services.

Lack of national resources for theprovision of basic social services.  

Lack of health workers in severelyconflict-affected areas.

Difficulties in obtaining life-savingmedical supplies into Yemen due to airand sea blockades.

Increasing difficulties for implementingpartners to obtain clearances tooperate in some conflict-affectedareas. 

Item 1 49%

Item 2 51%

53% Funded

No. of people reached withreproductive healthservices

175,664

150,000

90,000

No. of people reached withReproductive health kits

Number of safe spacessupported

4

*Cumulative totals from January to August 2018

No. of people reachedthrough mobile clinics

31,555

Individuals reached withFamily Planning services

59,527

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No. of health facilitiessupported with emergencyobstetric care

158

237,306

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