YEMEN: Monthly Humanitarian Update Southern Governorates (Aden, Abyan, Lahj, Hadramaut, Shabwah and Al Dhale’e) January 2015

Highlights

NRC implemented cash-for-work activities that benefited 845 workers in Khanfar, Abyan and provided livelihood grants to 700 individuals. NRC also provided training on emergency preparedness planning to 29 local administration officials and on tailoring to 16 beneficiaries in Khanfar.

DRC/CARE completed a pilot profiling of Syrian refugees in Taizz. 44 families were profiled, with 64 per cent having fled from Damascus City. Livelihoods, education and shelter were the primary needs of the Syrians in Taizz. The complete profiling will be concluded in March 2015. Source: OCHA The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Overview of Humanitarian Response

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Lahj

Action against Hunger (ACF): 7,107 people benefited from hygiene promotion sessions for communities and schools in the districts of Al Madaribah Wa Al Arah, Tur Al Bahah, in Lahj.

ACF distributed hygiene kits to 3,552 households; rehabilitated 10 wells for 4,280 beneficiaries and latrines in one health facility and four schools to benefit 6,948 people, including 2,148 children in Tur Al Bahah District, Lahj.

WHO maintained and rehabilitated all facilities in Tur Al Baha Hospital, Lahj.

Global Communities trained 26 health promoters in Dar Saad, Al Mandoura and Khormaksar districts in Aden and Tuban district in Lahj; and conducted hygiene awareness sessions for 1,000 households in Aden and Lahj.

Al Dhale’e

UNICEF is currently working to improve/protect 10 open wells in Al Dhale’e and about 30 per cent of the work has been done. When completed, the intervention will benefit 4,154 women, 4,909 men and 2,511 children.

With support of UNICEF, the General Authority for Rural Water Supply Projects in Al Dhale’e signed a contract to procure and install two vertical pumps in Al Husha and one submersible pump in Al Azareq District to benefit 7,200 people including 1,242 children.

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Abyan

19,605 people including 8,763 children benefited from the rehabilitation of water and sanitation facilities in four health facilities by UNICEF. Another 2,245 people (including 1,003 children) have benefited from improvement and protection of five open wells in Ahwar. Similar work will start in Al Mahfad District, Abyan.

CARE completed the rehabilitation of water supply systems in Al Turaya village, Khanfer District in Abyan for 300 beneficiaries; conducted hygiene awareness sessions in Khanfer and districts in Abyan, and Al Madaribah district in Lahj, benefitting 21,294 people; constructed four water points in Khanfer for 451 households (3,381 indi- viduals) and distributed water filters to 80 households in Khanfer.

In Lawder District, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) rehabilitated/protected 17 hand-dug wells that need- ed protection, rehabilitation and upgrading for 4,125 beneficiaries; trained water community management teams and educators (65 persons); they are also rehabilitating the water and sanitation network in one health clinic.

DRC distributed 375 replenishment kits and conducted hygiene promotion for 300 people in Khanfar.

In Khanfar District, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) rehabilitated and constructed the water network (7,700 beneficiaries); constructed latrines for 325 households; conducted training of 51 outreach workers on hygiene pro- motion; distributed 1,190 hygiene and dignity kits; and participated in a cleaning campaign for 700 households.

UNICEF in partnership of INTERSOS, undertook the following activities:

 Water Supply - rehabilitation of water supply scheme, including installation of pump room, construction of a pipeline of 1,900 meters in addition to construction of two water points holding 10,000 litres, a plastic tank at Al Khber School and Al Nashrah village. Before handing over the project, two water committees will be trained on operation and maintenance. The number of beneficiaries is 734 people.

 Sanitation - rehabilitation of latrines for two schools and one health clinic with 330 students benefiting from this intervention.

 Hygiene promotion – awareness campaign and distribution of non-food items for 1,520 people from six targeted villages in Al Khber, including 330 children.

Construction of distribution point at Al Nashara - Al-Khber village -Khanfer District- Abyan

Food Security and Agriculture

Aden

WFP continued its School Feeding Programme in Al Basateen, reaching 4,470 students.

Lahj

WFP distributed food to 17,975 individual refugees in Kharaz Refugee Camp, 4,226 individuals (new refugees) at the camp and 4,603 others at reception centers in Dhubab, Mayfa'a, and Ahwer. Food was also distributed to 1,992 newly arrived coastal refugees while the School Feeding activity in Kharaz reached 3,486 students. WFP also supported 169 children under 5 years and mothers through the Kharaz Health Centre.

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Save the Children reached 5,396 beneficiaries with food security and livelihood activities in Al Milah, Tuban, and Radfan. The programme covers economic access, asset recovery, community assets building and crisis response.

Global Communities conducted a workshop on Keyhole Gardens in Tuban for 30 beneficiaries, besides a veteri- nary practical training which targeted 10 beneficiaries from the district.

Abyan

WFP distributed food to 223,398 returnees in Al Koud, Shuqra, and Zinjibar.

CARE distributed cash-for-work vouchers to 322 beneficiaries in Zinjibar and 4,561 beneficiaries in Khanfar.

IOM provided animal feed support (dry fodder and feed concentrate) and trained 67 households in Sabbah and 95 households in Alwade’a on animal feeding.

NRC implemented cash-for-work activities that benefited 845 workers in Khanfar and provided livelihood grants to 700 individuals. NRC also provided training on emergency preparedness planning to 29 local administration offi- cials and on tailoring to 16 beneficiaries in Khanfar.

The coastal community of Ahwar has long supported themselves through fishing. ADRA supported by USAID, provided fishermen with boats and nets to ensure a more sustainable livelihood. Households were combined into small cooperatives of four households and each household received a boat and three sizes of nets. One benefi- ciary said of the materials he received “I never dreamt that I would be able to own a boat like this. This boat will allow us to go to the best areas for fishing.” The community in Ahwar will now have access to the surrounding fish- eries and a sustainable livelihood.

Caption. ADRA Aden:

Health

WHO supported Abyan Deaf and Dumb Rehabilitation Charity Association to perform medical audiometry examination for 19 deaf children in a private medical Centre in Aden.

WHO distributed essential Drugs to the NGO Basmat Taffel-Al-Wahda hospital for children from poor families in Aden; supplied one basic unit of essential drugs for Field Medical Foundation; distributed 10 cartons of sup- plementary foods to the Nutrition Center in Al-Wahda Hospital; distributed essential drugs to Al Dhale’e Charity Association to support the field clinic; and distributed essential drugs, two basic unit kits and one dressing kit to Rusud District Hospital in Abyan. These supplies were for the month of January. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) provided health ser- vices in four districts of Abyan including , Lawder, Al Wade’a and Khanfir; and essential drugs to Bir Ahmed health centre in Al Buriqa District of Aden. Total beneficiaries of the project are 148,090. During the month, in the four districts of Abyan, total outpatient consultations were 8,584 IRC staff provides consultation during mobile team while 426 children were immunized. In addition to the services provided by visits mobile health team, all facilities were provided with essential drugs. In Photo credit: IRC Aden

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Nutrition

Lahj

Integrated nutrition and health services for children under-5 and Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) at 10 Out- Patient Therapeutic programme (OTP) sites (seven mobile and three fixed facilities) directly run by Action Against Hunger (ACF) in Tur Al Baha district and 7 mobile clinics covering 11 locations in Al Qabbaiytah district are ongoing. A total of 22 mobile OTP/clinic sites are providing the above mentioned services to children under-5 and PLW. 4,125 under-5 children were screened for acute malnutrition (GAM rate: 13.3%; SAM rate: 2.01%).

Abyan

ACF assessed the capacity of six targeted health facilities to ade- quately implement integrated Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and related activities. Data analysis is underway.

With ACF support, three trainings have been conducted by Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) targeting 20 health workers, 20 community At the end of training, each community health volunteer received a kit containing relevant tools to prevent, detect, health volunteers and 20 midwives from Khanfar and Zinjibar. and refer acutely malnourished cases at community level Photo credit: IRC Aden

Protection

2,244 vulnerable cases monitored through DRC local partners. 517 individuals enabled to access food, non-food items (NFIs), Shelter, WASH, livelihoods, health and legal assistance and services in Abyan including 50 vulnera- ble women assisted through the protection fund. 7,993 individuals were reached via DRC awareness, dialogue and sensitization activities. 107 vulnerable women and GBV survivors were also trained and their cases managed by DRC.

INTERSOS conducted an assessment on human rights, focus group discussions, mapping of available services, needs assessment, participatory assessments, IDP profiling, capacity building for key protection national authori- ties on reporting, monitoring and addressing needs in Zinjibar and Khanfar Districts.

Education

UNICEF rehabilitated 13 conflict-affected schools in Al Dhale’e and 10 in Shabwah; trained 1,200 teachers in Al Dhale’e; and rehabilitated Al-Shrouq school as well as Al Memdarah health facilities in Aden.

Multi-Sector: Migrants

An estimated 6,000 migrants arrived in January 2015 from the Horn of Africa, (mostly through the Gulf of Aden) compared to 800 in January 2014. In total, 91,592 migrants arrived in 2014 - an increase of more than 26,000 peo- ple compared to 65,319 in 2013.

No incidents of death or drowning at sea were recorded in January 2015. From January to December 2014, some 246 people drowned, died or got lost in 11 separate incidents at sea when their overcrowded and unseaworthy smuggling boats capsized.

DRC/CARE completed a pilot profiling of Syrian refugees in Taizz. 44 families were profiled, with 64 per cent having fled Damascus City. Livelihoods, education and shelter were the primary needs of the Syrians in Taizz. The complete profiling will be concluded in March 2015.

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Coordination: Activities, challenges and solutions

On 7 January, the INGO Forum met to discuss the INGOs membership in the AHCT for the year 2015. There was a voting process amongst the INGOs and the results are to be announced by the first week of February. In addition, the Forum also discussed the co-facilitation roles that the INGOs are undertaking with the clusters in the South. In September 2013, the INGO Forum established the selection and terms of the co-facilitation and nominated the in- terested agencies to OCHA. This process will take place again this year. The final names of agencies and persons undertaking the co-facilitation role will be provided to OCHA at the start of February.

A total of 231 families, or 1,570 people (708 Male – 862 Female) who were displaced by conflict two years ago from Asfal Talb village in Yafa'a District (Lahj Governorate) to Aden, Lahj and Abyan Governorates are in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the Government Executive Unit for IDPs. Previous attempts to assist these families had not been successful because most of them did not attend the distributions of assistance. The majority of the families have been living in Aden and Lahj. The conflict in Asfal Talb village occurred between 2013 and 2014 and is still ongoing. OCHA, in cooperation with the Protection/Shelter Cluster, will meet with the Executive Unit to discuss this case and attendant issues.

On 19 January, the Humanitarian Coordinator met with UN Heads of Agencies to discuss the latest developments in the South and humanitarian challenges, gaps and plans for 2015.

In Aden Governorate, civil disobedience is taking place every Monday, which has led to schools being closed on that day, and replacing it with Saturdays. UNICEF advocated with the Ministry of Education (Education Office in Aden) and with Al Hirak leaders to have schools re-open on Mondays. In their discussions, it was made clear that any civil disobedience should not affected schools and hospitals.

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