Yemen: UNHCR Operational Update, 23 - 29 April 2021
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IDP Response
During the reporting period, UNHCR supported some 14,400 IDPs (2,250 families) in Sana’a governorate with core relief items and a range of protection services, including psychosocial support and legal counselling. In addition, some 4,500 IDPs (750 families) received core relief items in Taizz and Al-Hudaydah governorates. Families continue to flee ongoing hostilities in Marib, Taizz, Hudaydah, and Al-Dhale governorates, with at least 100 households (some 495 individuals) displaced during the period 18 – 24 April 2021. UNHCR continues to identify the most vulnerable displaced people impacted by conflict, persecution, natural disaster, and COVID-19 in Yemen, providing them with life-saving assistance and emergency protection services.
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New York, NY, April 21, 2021 Chairman Murphy, Ranking Member Young, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for convening us today and for prioritizing Yemen for this subcommittee s first hearing.
I represent the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a humanitarian organization with over 400 staff, mainly Yemenis, working across the country. Last year, the IRC provided health services for over 600,000 Yemenis and treated nearly 30,000 children under 5 for malnutrition - thanks in large part to generous US funding. We also provide education, clean water, emergency cash, and job training.
While the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is protracted, it is by no means static. The situation continues to unravel as Yemenis confront new shocks with fewer resources, less resilience.
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WFP Yemen Country Brief, January 2021
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66,000 mt of general food assistance
US$11.6 million cash-based transfers US$10.6 million commodity vouchers
US$519 million six-month net funding requirements (February – July 2021)
Operational Updates
Under the January cycle, WFP targeted 8.1 million people with general food assistance. Of these, 5.3 million people were targeted with in-kind food assistance, around 1.6 million people with food vouchers and over 1.1 million people with cash assistance.
In the southern areas, 4.25 million beneficiaries are to be biometrically registered. To date, over 1.6 million beneficiaries in Internationally Recognized Government of Yemen (IRG) areas have been biometrically registered. In areas under the Sana’a-based authorities, WFP launched in November 2020 the provision of general food assistance through cash transfers . As of 31 January, around 1,680 people are biometrically registered and activities are proceeding in three districts in S
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