Benefit from the accumulated experience

In 2019,  YLDF began applying technology towards automating its projects in addition to its monitoring and evaluation systems. By designing the KUNTROL platform to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of program and resource management, and worked to digitize its main professional and functions processes, including, strategy management, program and project management, budgeting and procurement, resource allocation and capacity management, the system aims to provide key information analysis and preparation functions. Prepare reports (DASHBOARDS) that promote evidence-based programming in the organization.

The Foundation has continued to improve access to life-saving emergency food assistance to reduce extreme hunger among the most vulnerable families, their access to adequate food under the Food and Agricultural Security Cluster and Sphere International Standards, also strengthen the capacities of local partners and target communities of men and women in emergency preparedness and early response to humanitarian crises, and to inform the community of international humanitarian and legal principles as well as related standards, by providing food baskets that adhere to the minimum standards of the Food Security and Nutrition Program for severely food insecure families, newly displaced families and host families in high priority areas.

 

YLDF also continued to improve protection for adolescent girls and boys at risk of child marriage, school dropout and child labor, through knowledge, life skills, social and economic empowerment, access to response referral services, including health, education, legal aid, psychosocial support, social and economic initiatives, and livelihood initiatives.

 

The Foundation continued its activity in improving the participation of Yemeni women in peace processes, achieving effective participation of women in making a sustainable transformation during the conflict, strengthening the active roles of Yemeni members with in their civil society organizations in order to build gender-sensitive peace among Yemeni society, and building the capacities of local decision-makers and their awareness of the importance of responding to the peacebuilding agenda submitted by women.

 

 YLDF has enhanced employability skills to enhance the knowledge of high school students through lifelong learning opportunities and a variety of training experiences. It has also strengthened the Yemeni economy and enabled actors, especially youth, to recover more quickly and sustainably from the economic crisis in Yemen, and working on informal apprenticeships and granting young men and women professional competencies to start working in the private sector and to open their own projects.

 

The main measure of  YLDF's progress during 2019 by the increase in the number of beneficiaries and partnerships in  various governorates of the Republic of Yemen, as it was able to directly reach 44,279 beneficiaries and 12 local partners from non-governmental organizations.