Yemen Joint Response 2024-2026

The crisis in Yemen stands as one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises since the escalation of the conflict in 2015. In 2024, 18.2 million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance and protection services. Yemen continues to face a complex protection crisis driving humanitarian needs in the country

. The crisis, characterised by civilian casualties, protracted large-scale displacement, marginalisation, and discriminatory norms, continues to have a profound impact on people across the country, including contributing to negative coping mechanisms.

The Joint Response

The partners, united by the Dutch Relief Alliance, are responding through a multisectoral intervention that aims to provide multifaceted, life-saving humanitarian support to those in need, prioritising people in the most vulnerable positions. Simultaneously, it aims to facilitate early recovery and enhance the resilience of communities affected by the conflict in Yemen.

The Yemen Joint response is primarily focused on the governorates of Sa’ada, Hajjah, Marib, Taiz, Lahj, Aden, and Al Dhale’e. These areas represent the highest concentration of individuals in need of humanitarian assistance, where the most severe needs and gaps persist.

The response proposes an integrated Food Security and Livelihood (FSL), Health, Multi-Purpose Cash (MPC), Protection, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and protection mainstreaming programme.

The activities carried out under this Joint Response are the following:

• Food security and livelihood: contributing to food access, via conditional and unconditional cash transfers, financial grants and livelihood capacity bundling to establish small businesses, earn income and enhance resilience.

  

• Health: supporting the rehabilitation of selected health facilities, including primary health care consultations, mental and psychosocial support, medical response to gender-based violence (GBV), and reproductive health. Partners are also ready to respond to outbreak alerts.
  
• Multi-purpose cash assistance: distributing cash through the Group Cash Transfer approach allowing communities to identify initiatives for community and public asset rehabilitation or income-generating activities.
• Protection services: providing prevention and response to violence, housing, land and property rights, protection information management, monitoring and dissemination, capacity strengthening, advocacy, GBV prevention and response, and child protection.
• WASH: providing access to soap and hygiene kits, sufficient and safe water, clean sanitary facilities, functional drainage network and solid waste management network, as well as awareness-raising activities on hygiene.

The JR is planning to reach 412,684 people during this response.