In January and April 2018, EECR Cluster partners released
At the end of March 2015 the escalation of the underlying conflict in Yemen has significantly eroded the recovery gains made since 2012, pushing the already fragile country into an acute humanitarian crisis of unprecedented scale. According to the Humanitarian Needs Overview 2016, humanitarian partners now estimate that 18.7 million people require some kind of humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs or protect their fundamental rights.
The crisis has exacerbated an already difficult complex situation. The 2015 Human Development Report (HDR) 2015 ranks Yemen 160th among 188 countries and territories; which is a setback from the 154th rank in 2014. An average of 40 per cent of the population are multi-dimensionally poor, with around 19.4 percent being severely poor. The World Bank estimates that the poverty level has doubled nationally from an average of 34.1 to 62 per cent. Poverty was already on an increasing trend between 2005 and 2014, but sharply deteriorated in 2015. In 2015, the economy of Yemen contracted by about 28 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The decline of the hydrocarbon industry contributed further to the deterioration of the economic environment in Yemen. The latest decision by the Government to move the Yemeni Central Bank from Sana’a to Aden brings the economy at the forefront of the conflict and will further deteriorate the financial situation, particularly in Houthi and GPC-controlled parts of Yemen. The economic war of attrition risks to cause the complete collapse of basic service delivery and push the country to the brink of a famine. A case in point is the health sector. According to WHO, only 37% of hospitals remain fully functional. Institutional capacities built up over decades are eroded on daily basis making recovery and eventual reconstruction more difficult.
The escalation of the conflict, is seemingly affecting progresses made in the past two decades in terms of human development. The Preliminary Damages and Needs Assessment estimates the cost of the conflict at a (partial) total of USD19 B (USD7 B in damages and USD12 B in losses). Most of poverty alleviation projects programs associated with Social Welfare Funds (SWF), Social Fund for Development (SFD), its Labor-Intensive Work Program (LIWP)/Cash for Work (CFW) program and the Public Works Program (PWP) were suspended due to the conflict. The suspension of these programs due to lack of funding resulting from the conflict left millions of people without social protection and threw million others benefiting from associated employment and income generation schemes without income. The DNA also reports that 40 per cent of full time and 38 per cent of part time employees were laid off from manufacturing establishments. The effects of the conflict have been catastrophic to the private sector. The UNDP Business Survey Report estimates that over a quarter of all firms suspended their operations, including 35 per cent of the service sector, 29 per cent the industrial enterprises and 20 per cent of trading companies. This swelled further the already critical unemployment rate in the country. Combined with effects of conflicts in sectors (social, agriculture, fishery and livestock, trade and industry, banking system, etc.) worsened the humanitarian crisis.
Objectives of the EECR Cluster
An ER cluster has been activated in 2012. It has been recently re-named 'Emergency Employment and Community Rehabilitation (EECR) and aims at strengthening the resilience of affected families and communities through the provision of emergency and alternative income opportunities, protection and restoration of livelihoods and support to the rebuilding of communities and paving the way for longer term stabilization, peacebuilding and development. The cluster also supports the preservation and revitalization of services and institutions critical to the humanitarian action.
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Early Recovery programming (Livelihood, capacity building, governance, basic infrastructure repairs and rehabilitation)
Displacement and Durable Solutions
People Centered Humanitarian Action
Early Recovery in the "New Way of Working"
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Task Force on Population Movement - Jan 2017
Conflict Scan Yemen promoting Socail Cohesion and Conflict Transformation through Insider Mediators
Market Assessment: Dairy Sector in Taizz Governorate - Women Economic Empowerment Programmes
Damage Assessment of Western Socotra Island, Socotra Governorate, Yemen
Damage Assessment of Sana'a city
Multi/cluster-sector Initial & Rapid Assessment (MIRA) Community Level Assessment
Multi/cluster-sector Initial & Rapid Assessment (MIRA) Community Level Assessment (Word)
Rapid Business Survey: Impact of the Yemen Crisis on Private Sector Activity
Rapid Business Survey - Impacts of the Yemen Crisis on Private Sector Activity
Humanitarian Dashboard (January - December 2016)
Organizations 3W Operational Presence (as of 31 December 2016)
Yemen Resilience Monitor - Community coping with conflict : Social cohésion - May 2016
Yemen Resilience Monitor - Community coping with conflict : Governance - April 2016
Yemen Resilience Monitor - Community coping with conflict : Livelihood - March 2016
Periodic Monitoring Report Jan - Mars 2016
YEMEN-3W Operational Presence_Early Recovery_March 2014
Task Force on Population Movement - Nov 2016
Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview 2014
OCHA Yemen Humanitarian Bulletin final - 8 March 2012
UNDP and the Operational Satellite Application Programme (UNOSAT) signed a Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) to strengthen their collaboration to make geospatial technology accessible for emergency and crisis response, early warning and preparedness, risk assessments and recovery planning at country and regional level, including in support of the work of the Global Early Recovery Cluster.
UNOSAT Rapid Mapping is activated include floods, earthquakes, storms, landslides, volcanoes, oil spills, chemical waste, refugee and Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camp mapping, conflict damage assessment and situation analysis. Output products including maps, GIS-ready data (for example flood extents, damage assessments), statistics and reports support clusters or UNDP to become more effective in all phases of the crisis cycle. read more
Available maps and analysis:
Cluster Coordinator (UNDP)
E-Mail : stean.tshiband@undp.org),
Interim Cluster Co-Coordinator (Save The Children)
E-Mail : Mohammed.Alshamaa@savethechildren.org,
Gender Advisor (UNDP)
E-Mail : erin.macdonald@undp.org,
Information Management Officer (UNDP)
E-Mail : Ghssan.alsanabani@undp.org,
NNGO focal point (SAM Organization)
E-Mail : Laila.Lutf@yahoo.com,
Subnational Cluster Lead: Save the Children (TBC)
Cluster Focal Point (UNDP)
E-Mail : Ghssan.alsanabani@undp.org,
Lead (Save the Children)
E-Mail : Mariam.Aldogani@savethechildren.org,
Information Management Officer (UNDP)
E-Mail : Ghssan.alsanabani@undp.org,
Lead (UNDP)
E-Mail : sylvain.merlen@undp.org,
Co-Lead (SMEPS)
E-Mail : alowaini2000@hotmail.com,
Information Management Officer
E-Mail : sabreen.masood@undp.org,