No information available.
Capacities
No information available.
Response to date
Dignity kits to are being distributed, combined psychosocial support sessions, awareness sessions on hygiene and reproductive health during displacement, women rights, GBV and available reproductive health services.68
Priority is on supporting the existing MRM and expanding it to newly affected areas, gender-based violence, monitoring and responding to grave child rights violations.
Gaps
No information available.
Overview/Issue
Children have been facing significant psychological stress inflicted by prolonged violence, instability, displacement and the aerial bombings. The mental health and well-being of children is at risk due to the extreme violence to which they are being exposed.
Number of children affected
An Abyan Governorate rapid assessment triggered a 96.88% ‘yes response’ to the question ‘is there a serious problem in your community because some people - including children- feel very upset, sad, worried, scared or angry?’69 There no age-disaggregation in this question.
An ADRA and NRC assessment for Sada’a and Amran found that 96% of the participants confirmed that families and children in the community are facing protection and psychological problems due to the conflict and airstrikes.70
21% of respondents of a rapid assessment carried in Sadah Governorate, report serious problems because of sadness, anger, anxiety feeling, also affecting children.71
An assessment in Amran Governorate showed that the respondents, including children and care takers, highlighted that feeling unsafe and fear are the main risks that children are facing and speaking about. Caregivers spoke about the unstable psychological status of children, due to, among other, the repeated sound of explosions. 82% of the respondents had noticed a change in children’s behavior since the beginning of the conflict and indicated concern that wellbeing of children may get worse as the conflict continues. Changes in children that have been noticed: more violent and hostile behavior, physical symptoms such as difficulties to sleep and prevent involuntary urination, loss of focus.72
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