Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen 2014 (word)

All other:

Activity	Locations	Indicator	Target
Emergency animal treatment and vaccinations including restocking.	Abyan, Saada and Hajjah	# of animals vaccinated	600,000 animals vaccinated
Emergency response to plant disease and pests.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz.	# oftons of bio pesticides distributed

Strategic objective 2: Assist and and protect people affected by crisis, including refugess and migrants as well as returning yemenis

Cluster objective 2A:

Increase food security for at-risk groups by maintaining and diversifying agricultural livelihood systems, strategies and assets and developing income generating activities.

Outcome-level indicators and targets

Indicator	Target
% of targeted households which have a food secure household Food Consumption Score % of targeted households with Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) of at least 6.	60% 60%

Top-priority activities:

Activity	Locations	Indicator	Target
Provision of equitable production and livelihoods specific and seasonally appropriate inputs to fishery, pastoral, agro-pastoral and agriculture food insecure households. Including the development of alternative livelihoods or income generating activities (bee keeping, small animals/poultry, vegetables, etc) and livestock restocking.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz.	# of households receiving production and livelihoods specific and seasonally appropriate inputs to fishery, pastoral, agro-pastoral and agriculture.	70,000 households
Provision of seasonal safety net and livelihood support through conditional food and cash/voucher transfers.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Saada, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz	# of people receiving safety net and livelihood support assistance.	500,000 safety net 500,000 livelihoods 400,000 Cash for Work

All other:

Activity	Locations	Indicator	Target
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification and baseline assessments including seed security and crop	Country wide	# of assessments conducted with food security disaggregated data.	1 IPC 5 assessments
Training to support livelihood diversification strategies.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Saada, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz	# of people provided with a durable solution training	Included in Objective 3

Strategic objective 3: Strengthen the capacity of national actors to plan for and respond to humanitarian emergencies

Cluster objective 3A:

Development of skills and tools to contribute to the development of the capacity of the food security stakeholders and to ensure increased preparedness, harmonized implementation, effective coordination, and improved information sharing.

Outcome-level indicators and targets

Indicator	Target
% of people receiving capacity building interventions	20,000

Top-priority activities:

Activities	Locations	Indicator	Target
Comprehensive food security assessments and analysis.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz.	# of comprehensive national food security assessments conducted with disaggregated data	1
Effective coordination to strengthen understanding of Food Security Cluster partners (including national, regional and local government authorities) in risk identification, preparedness, response and monitoring.	Sana’a, Aden, Sa’ada and Hajjah	# of cluster structures #of partners attending cluster meeting	1 national 2 sub-national 60% of registered partner agencies
Provide technical and other relevant training to beneficiaries to increase farming and fishing practices/ knowledge and alternative livelihood skills training.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz	% of assessed national actors receiving food security capacity-building interventions.	20,000

Strategic objective 3: With development partners, as well as the government of Yemen, address the underlying causes of vulnerability to reduce the need for continued humanitarian assistance and increase resilience

Country / Cluster objective 4A:

With development partners, as well as the Government of Yemen, address the underlying causes of vulnerability to reduce the need for continued humanitarian assistance and increase resilience.

Outcome-level indicators and targets

Indicator	Target
No specific indicator here

Top-priority activities:

Activities	Locations	Indicator	Target
Raise awareness on the implementation of food security policies, planning and analysis.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz	# of people trained specifically on food security policy and analysis.	200 trained
Promote and facilitate inter-departmental and inter-sector analysis and planning.	Sana’a, Aden and Hajjah	# of inter-sector meetings held with government and implementing partners.	4 per planning region

Strategic objective 5: Ensure meaningful participation and equitable access to services, resources, and protection measures for women, girls, boys, and men

Cluster objective 5A:

Ensure that food security and agricultural information is collected and disaggregated way by sex, age and appropriate beneficiary category.

Outcome-level indicators and targets

Indicator	Target
All assessments have female assessors and participation by women and girls from the affected populations.	90 % of assessments

Top-priority activities:

Activities	Locations	Indicator	Target
Disaster-affected people are consulted and / or actively participate in regular meetings on how to organize and implement the response.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz.	# of disaster-affected groups consulted during planning phases of response with the participation of men and women	At least one per planning region
Agencies have investigated and, as appropriate, acted upon feedback received about the assistance provided.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz.	# of implementing partners with appropriate complaints mechanism established.
Food Security and Agriculture assessments designed and implemented with appropriate disaggregation of data.	Abyan, Aden, Al Bayda, Al Dhale'e, Al Hudaydah, Al Maharah, Al Mahwit, Amran, Dhamar, Hadramaut, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahj, Marib, Raymah, Sana'a, Amanat Al Asimah (Sana’a City), Shabwah, and Taizz.	Number of assessments with sex and age disaggregation	90% of all assessments

Obj. Act	Top priority	Target Population	Total Cost ($)	Priority Cost ($)
Life-saving
1.1	Unconditional food assistance	3,000,000	94,000,000	77,000,000
1.2	Emergency livelihood support	420,000	12,000,000	9.800,000
Livelihoods
2.1	Livelihood support	490,000	35,000,000	28,700,000
2.2	Safety net and conditional food assistance	1,400,000	73,500,000	60,300,000
Capacity building
3.1	Assessments		500,000	500,000
3.2	Coordination		500,000	500,000
3.3	Training	20,000	4,000,000	3,200 ,000
Institutional support for food security resilience
4.1	Food security policies, planning and analysis.		0
4.2	Inter-departmental and inter-sector analysis and planning		0
Equitable access
5.1	Consultation with and participation of the affected populations throughout the programme cycle		0
5.2	Ensure disaggregation of data to improve response analysis and targeting		0
Total Cost		5,330,000	219,500,000	180,000,000

Obj. Act	All other activities	Target Population		Total Cost ($)
1.3	Emergency animal vaccination	600,000 (animals)		1,200,000
1.4	Emergency plant disease outbreak control	# tons of pesticide		2,600,000
2.3	Baseline assessments and IPC analysis			400,000
Total Cost				4,200,000

	Tier of activities	Total Cost ($)	Percentage of requirement
	Top priority activities	180,000,000	80%
	Other top priority activities	39,500,000	18%
	All other activities	4,200,000	2%
Total Cluster Requirements		223,700,000

NUTRITION

	Lead agency: United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Contact information: Anteneh Gebremichael [e-mail]
	PEOPLE IN NEED 1.8 million Children under five, pregnant and lactating Women		PEOPLE TARGETED 0.9 million Children under five, pregnant and lactating Women		REQUIREMENTS (US$) 94.9 million
	# OF PARTNERS 28

Prioritization and Targeting

A comprehensive analysis of recent nutrition survey findings across Yemen shows an estimated 1,060,000 girls and boys from 6-59 months are acutely malnourished. About 280,000 are severely acutely malnourished. These children are at higher risk of death compared to healthy children. If left untreated, acute malnutrition can have debilitating consequences such as impairing physical growth and cognitive development.

In addition to child undernutrition, maternal malnutrition is a major problem in Yemen. An estimated 760,000 pregnant and lactating women continue to suffer from undernutrition.

In most parts of the country, acute malnutrition among children under the age of five is at a critical ⁴ and serious emergency level. However, the severity of acute malnutrition varies across governorates, with a higher proportion of children aged 6-59 months suffering in governorates in the north and south-west coastal areas than in the rest of the country. A total of 107 districts in Al Hudaydah, Hajjah, Raymah, Lahj, Al Jawf, Taizz, Abyan, Aden and Sa’ada Governorates have critical emergency levels of child acute malnutrition while forty-six districts in Al Dhale’e, Amran, some parts of Lahj and Al Mahwit Governorates are categorized as being in a serious nutritional emergency situation. Acutely malnourished children in critical and serious category regions represent about 70%of the total caseload of the country. It was also observed that densely populated districts in urban areas such as Sana’a and Al Mukalla have a very high case load of acutely malnourished children although the malnutrition levels of those Governorates are neither critical nor serious.

The nutrition cluster will target districts in the critical and serious categories as well as districts which have a very high case load categorized as poor (with higher than the average caseload per district in critical areas). In 2014, nutrition cluster partners aim to cover roughly 70% of the population in need with life-saving therapeutic nutrition interventions and about 30% with supplementary nutrition interventions. Selection of individual beneficiaries will be based on objective criteria, which involve anthropometric measurement of girls, boys and women. In addition, vulnerable children aged 6-59 months as well as pregnant and lactating women in high priority districts are targeted for preventive interventions. Partners’ implementation capacity was taken into consideration while setting targets for life-saving and preventive interventions.

Assessment and Coordination

Current targeting and response priorities are based on analysis of the most recent information on malnutrition and other determinant factors. Due to a rapidly changing situation, assessments are essential to re-assess the nutrition situation and to inform programme decision-making in order to address acute and chronic malnutrition in Yemen.  Assessments provide updated information on the level of malnutrition, the estimated caseload of malnourished vulnerable groups, and on underlying factors associated with malnutrition. In addition, the severity of malnutrition as well as associated recent mortality and morbidity, may be determined by means of assessments. Information generated by assessments serves as baseline data for monitoring and evaluation of direct nutrition and nutrition sensitive interventions and helps formulate recommendations for relevant response mechanisms.

Nutrition surveys using SMART (Standardized Monitoring of Relief and Transition) methodology will be carried out to keep information on the malnutrition levels and associated factors up to date. It is anticipated that at least 50% of governorates will have up to date acute malnutrition and related data for the last 12 months. The cluster will ensure that assessments are carried out through active participation of partners, involving female assessors and men and women from affected population groups. Linkage with nutrition surveillance and food security information systems will be established. The nutrition cluster assessment technical working group (ATWG) will undertake joint analysis of assessment findings and make recommendations for response.

How the response plan will contribute to strategic objectives

In line with the first strategic objective, the nutrition cluster response consists of life-saving therapeutic nutrition interventions preventing excess mortality among girls and boys under five and pregnant and lactating mothers suffering from acute malnutrition. This will be achieved through increasing coverage for the most vulnerable through in-patient and out-patient therapeutic and supplementary feeding programmes and through deployment of mobile teams.

The third strategic objective will be pursued through capacity-building components of nutrition cluster projects, focusing mainly on enhancing response capacity of government staff, local NGOs, civil society and community-based organizations as well as community volunteers. The capacity-building activities target four strategic, programmatic, service delivery and community level response. All capacity-building activities will have a gender component to ensure that partner organizations have an understanding of gender issues and concerns in nutrition and are able to deliver nutrition services in a gender sensitive manner.

The third and fifth cluster objectives are very much linked to strategic objective four which is aimed at establishing linkages with development partners to address the underlying causes of vulnerability and thereby reduce the need for continued humanitarian assistance and increase resilience.

While all cluster objectives ensure equitable access to nutrition services, resources, and protection measures for women, girls, boys and men, the fourth cluster objective in particular focuses on continuous monitoring of the nutrition situation and response in such a way that gender and equity aspects are taken into consideration, thus contributing towards strategic objective 5.