Emergency Assistance for Children and Families in Yemen - Save the Children Canada 2013

March 2013 - Yemen is experiencing a serious humanitarian crisis due to an ongoing drought conflict and severe food insecurity. As a result a third of the population needs umanitarian assistance thirteen million people do not have access to safe drinking water more than ten million people are food-insecure and more than 430 000 people are internally displaced. Children are particularly badly affected by the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and they suffer from high levels of disease and malnutrition. With Canada' support Save the Children Canada is addressing the basic needs of approximately 38 700 food insecure and conflict-affected people particularly women and children in Hodeida and Hajjah governorates. Project activities include: the installation or rehabilitation of water points and latrines; conducting hygiene promotion activities; the provision of cash transfers to vulnerable households to meet their basic needs; and cash grants to small farmers and skilled women to support the resumption of their livelihoods.

Expected outputs include: 200 latrines are established or rehabilitated in 30 communities; 15 community water sources located in schools health centres and other community centres are maintained and rehabilitated; 10 000 beneficiaries are reached with hygiene promotion messages; and 1 200 vulnerable families access cash transfers to meet their basic needs. The expected intermediate outcome is the reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.