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Emergency Life - Saving Food Assistance

Emergency Life - Saving Food Assistance

Implement its work from 2017 to 2020, which provides for alleviating food insecurity and increasing livelihood opportunities by enhancing food security and contribute to rural poverty reduction and the development of the ability of the most vulnerable to manage and respond to risks and the protection of the rights of the most vulnerable in all situations, including conflict situations. Malnutrition has become a contemporary issue because of the humanitarian situation, and to respond to this humanitarian situation in Yemen, which is the worst in the world, YLDF designed emergency food security assistance project to improve access to emergency food assistance and to improve access to food for most host or displaced families and to adequate food under the food and agricultural security cluster and Sphere standards and to increase the capacities of local partners  and target communities of men and women to prepare in advance for emergencies and early response to humanitarian crises, and informing the target community with international and legal humanitarian principles as well as relevant standards.

During interventions, the project formed community-based food distribution management committees to improve participation and ensure accountability to affected populations. Community committees participated with the registration team to verify the selection of the most affected families in all the most vulnerable social communities. The selection process complied with the criteria for the selection of vulnerable persons in accordance with the Emergency life -saving Food Assistance, which distributed equally to the most vulnerable families, and post-distribution reports are issued as a feedback mechanism tool within the project life-cycle, this tool provided a wide range of information such as targeting, recording and information on the use of transfer voucher configurations and the team's presence at distribution points, as well as an assessment of beneficiaries' satisfaction with the registration, distribution and foodstuffs received.

The Foundation implemented the Emergency Assistance Program for Food Security, in partnership with Strong Community Organizations and OCHA funding and lasted for 8 months. In its first phase in 2017 to improve access to emergency food assistance during the conflict in the affected Hamadan Directorate of Sana 'a and its delivery to the most vulnerable groups men, women, & girls, during which 8,625 emergency food baskets were distributed to save lives for 1626 families (22,648 men, women, girls & children).

The second phase of distribution was carried out from January 2018 to February 2019 in partnership with a strong community's organization in Dhuran Anse and Mount East cities in Dhamar governorate. Food baskets were distributed in four phases to 4,495 families, 36,206 beneficiaries in host communities (6,281 men, 6,914 women, 11,784 children, 11,227 girls).

YLDF implemented the third phase in partnership with OCHA - MONDO - DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE from January 2019 - September 2019, in two directorates in Sana 'a. Beneficiaries formed directly: 1760 vulnerable families, 2312 families, 16,156 individuals.

YLDF implemented the fourth phase  in partnership with Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH) and NUFFIC during the period December 2019-December 2020 at the Capital Sana'a Secretariat to contribute to the response to the worsening effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable families. (1036 men - 1239 women) (998 boys - 1066 girls), distributing hygiene items against COVID-19 to 975 families, and 5 health care centers also benefited from the program.