Desk review yemen

Affected Children

Access to services and goods⁴⁵

The targeting of civilian infrastructure, such as hospitals, schools, power stations and water installations, which are indispensable for the lives and livelihoods of the population, are impacting the population. People across the country are struggling to access food, medicine and fuel (only 20% of needed is available). Drastically reduced imports have limited the availability of these commodities, and the lack of fuel - coupled with ongoing fighting and insecurity - is preventing available supplies from being distributed to the people who need them most. Basic services are collapsing all over the country.

Nationwide, millions of people no longer have access to clean water, proper sanitation or basic healthcare. Outbreaks of deadly communicable diseases – including dengue and malaria – have already been reported. Supplies for acute trauma care are running dangerously low, and medicines for chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer and hypertension have already run out. Additional supplies of medicines and food as well as fuel to generate electricity, pump water, operate hospital generators and mill food grains, are urgently needed.

Children’s access is impacted by women’s ability reach services. Before the conflict, constraints were imposed by social norms on women’s mobility in rural areas. In rural Yemen, women‘s mobility is mostly restricted to areas they can reach walking. Transport costs are significantly higher for women because they need special seating conditions or they have to travel with a male family member.⁴⁶ Since the intensification of the conflict, most men have lost their jobs, many are dead, gone away, or imprisoned, leaving women to take on more responsibilities. Women cannot move because of the huge increase in transportation cost, fivefold for buses and tenfold for taxis. Shared transportation is the only other way to move around, but women do not have access to this.⁴⁷