HUMANITARIAN UPDATE

Issue 12 / 29 August to 27 October 2019

September was the deadliest HIGHLIGHTS month in 2019 for civilians September 2019 was one of the The Humanitarian Coordinator in September was the deadliest months in with Yemen, Ms. Lise Grande, called the deadliest month for civilians scores of civilians killed in attacks - attacks “deeply disturbing” particularly in Yemen with reports of 388 killed or injured as they occurred against the backdrop P 01 due to conflict across the country - of the UN General Assembly, “when equivalent to an average of 13 people world leaders were coming together to The humanitarian operation every day. On 23-24 September, 22 advance peace and security.” reached millions more than civilians were killed in two separate In September, in a briefing to the in 2018 air strikes. The first incident occurred Security Council, on the humanitarian on 23 September in Al Sawad, in P 02 situation in Yemen the Emergency Amran Governorate when strikes Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, The Yemen Humanitarian hit a mosque, killing seven civilians, stated that there is “a persistent Fund supports programmes including women and children from pattern of attacks in Yemen that kill at risk of shutting down the same family. The next day, 15 and injure civilians, or damage critical civilians were killed and 15 more were P 03 civilian infrastructure” and called for injured when airstrikes hit a house respect for international humanitarian Access restrictions prevent in the Al Fakhir area in Al Dhale’e law. In particular, he urged all parties humanitarians from Governorate. In the same period, air to the Yemen conflict to ensure respect reaching people in need strikes damaged a UN-supported for civilians and civilian infrastructure water system serving 12,000 people. P 04 and to take constant care to spare This was the fourth time the facility Fuel shortages impact the them throughout military operations. was hit since 2016. water and sanitation sector P 04 Civilian fatalities up while overall casualties decreased in third quarter Protection partners report that civilian countrywide, of whom 354 died. This casualty rates decreased in the third is a 20% reduction from the second quarter (Q3) of 2019. From 1 July quarter (Q2) of 2019, during which 2019 to 30 September 2019, there a peak of 1,011 civilian casualties were 806 civilian casualties reported were reported. Despite seeing an 2 overall reduction in civilian casualty rates, the responsible for 44% of civilian fatalities in Q3 number of fatalities increased for the second 2019. quarter running to the highest it has been this Incidents impacting on civilian houses year, up 17% from 303 fatalities during Q2 continue to impact on children and women. to 354 civilian fatalities in Q3. Al-Hudaydah Civilian houses remain the most heavily Governorate again saw the highest civilian impacted civilian structure in the country, casualty toll, 211 of 854, followed by Dhamar resulting not only in the direct displacement of Governorate where a mass-casualty incident households, but also heightening psychosocial accounted for 44 per cent of civilian casualties trauma and, due to the domestic nature of in Q3 of the year. the spaces being impacted, exacerbating the vulnerability of groups such as women and children. Three hundred twenty-seven incidents A large proportion of the civilian casualties directly impacted on civilian houses in 2019, in the quarter were driven by a mass-casualty representing 60% of the total incidents. Half incident on 1 September, when airstrikes of the child and women casualties so far in hit a prison in Dhamar, killing 156 people 2019 are a result of incidents that impacted on and injuring another 50. The incident was houses.

Number of incidents per hub and total civilian casualties per quarter

1,000 2,000

800 1,600

45 36 70 600 1,200 65 39 102 108 237 184 400 60 800

Number of incidents 70 51 56 Number of casualties 28

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200 215 400 257 35 42 294 266 243 325 331 96 139 0 34 39 25 84 88 0 1 201 2 201 201 201 1 2019 2 2019 2019

Aden Al Hudaydah Ibb Sa'ada Sana'a Number of civilian casualties Number of civilian fatalities End of Year report highlights achievements against the 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan Over the past year, the humanitarian operation people received nutrition support. As a result, in Yemen has undergone a step-change, the food and nutrition situation improved in becoming the largest operation worldwide. more than half of the 107 districts at-risk of The 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan end- famine, and as of October 2019, one-fifth are no year report indicated that despite increasingly longer at risk of famine and a higher percentage difficult conditions, 254 international and of ill and malnourished children are surviving national partners delivered food assistance, in Yemen than at any time since the conflict health care, nutrition support, protection, started. shelter, education, water and sanitation and livelihood support to millions of people in need. The largest cholera outbreak in modern history was contained with suspected cholera cases In the course of 2018, the number of people reducing from 1.5 million in 2017 to 311,000 provided with food and livelihood assistance before the end of 2018. Millions of people each month increased from 5.9 million to 7.5 received safe drinking water and sanitation million, a 27 per cent increase. Some 5.8 million support thanks to the considerable scale up of people received nutrition support - a 241 per WASH service provision and rapid response cent increase from 2017, when 1.7 million teams, with WASH cluster partners reaching an 3 estimated 11.5 million people, compared with The response to displacement improved with the 8.9 million in 2017, representing 29 per cent establishment of a Rapid Response Mechanism increase in people reached. (RRM) to assist people in the immediate aftermath of a crisis. The RRM was introduced The health cluster reached 12 million people in for newly displaced families in 2018 in response 2018, compared with 8.6 million people reached to an escalation of hostilities in Al Hudaydah. in 2017- an increase of 40 per cent. Following the launch of RRM, some 680,000 Although nearly 25 per cent of all students newly displaced people received emergency remained out of school, millions of children assistance within days, and sometimes within were able to learn because of the support hours of their displacement. Hundreds of provided by humanitarian partners. Overall humanitarian staff remained in Al Hudaydah Education Cluster partners delivered education despite conflict and bombardment, helping to services to 1.8 million students. keep the port open, and storing, loading and dispatching nearly half a million metric tons of wheat to districts across the country.

Cluster response achievements (Jan - Dec 2018)

FOOD SECURITY NUTRITION HEALTH AND AGRICULTURE

27% increase in people reached 255% 40% 7.5M people reached on increase in people reached increase in people reached average with food and 6.03M People Reached 12M People Reached livelihood assistance

WATER, HYGIENE SHELTER, NON-FOOD ITEMS PROTECTION AND SANITATION (NFI), CAMP COORDINATION AND CAMP MANAGEMENT

% % % increase29 in people reached 109increase in people reached increase56 in people reached 11.5M People Reached 4.8M People Reached 1.4M People Reached

EMERGENCY EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION RAPID RESPONSE MECHANISM COMMUNITY REHABILITATION

M newly0.68 displaced people % received emergency % increase80 in people reached increase14 in people reached assistance within days 1.8M People Reached for the first time through 0.33M People Reached RRM support

CHOLERA

% decrease79 in suspected cholera cases

The Yemen Humanitarian Fund provides stopgap funding to programmes at risk of shutting down At the beginning of September, the 3rd Reserve • non-food items for vulnerable households Allocation of the Yemen Humanitarian Fund • services for victims of gender-based in 2019 was launched to provide short-term violence “lifeline” funding for critical humanitarian projects at risk of shutting down in the last two • funding for the annual Multi-Cluster quarters of the year. The four programmatic Location Assessment, upon which the priorities of the response included: annual Humanitarian Needs Overview and Humanitarian Response Plan are based. • emergency and life-sustaining health services, including reproductive health A total of US$16.2 million was allocated to 5 services projects targeting 1.1 million people in need in 15 governorates across four clusters. Yemen Humanitarian Third Reserve Allocation 2019 Dashboard YHF Fund

The 3rd Reserve Allocation of the Yemen Humanitarian Fund in 2019 ALLOCATION BY PARTNER TYPE was launched on 8 September to provide short-term “lifeline” funding for critical humanitarian projects that will be forced to close in the S 16.2M 4 5 coming weeks due to lack of funding. For this Reserve Allocation, allocated partners projects four programmatic responses were considered: a) emergency and life-sustaining health services, including reproductive health services; UN 12 100 b) NFI kits for vulnerable households; c) services for the victims of gender-based violence; and funding for the annual Multi-Cluster Location Assessment, upon which the annual Humanitarian Needs Overview and Humanitarian Response Plan are based. A total of FUNDING AND BENEFICIARIES BY CLUSTER US$16.2 million was allocated to 5 projects targeting 1.1 million funding beneficiaries people in need in 15 Governorates across four Clusters. Health $10.1M 1M TOP 10 DONORS IN 2019 (as of 22 September 2019) Shelter/NFIs $3M S 129.2M S 129.1M paid 84K S M pledged contributed 0.07 $2.1M Coordination total paid pledged 261*

Germany 39M 39M 0M $1M Protection 28.8K UK 38.9M 38.9M 0 *humanitarian organizations Netherlands 10M 10M 0 BENEFICIARIES GENDER AND AGE Sweden 8.1M 8.1M 0 BY GENDER AND AGE MARKER Ireland 5.7M 5.7M 0 Men Women Belgium 5.7M 5.7M 0 497.4K 349.2K Denmark 5.3M 5.3M 0

Canada 5.3M 5.3M 0 1.1M 5 projects Norway 3.7M 3.7M 0 beneficiaries Switzerland 3.5M 3.5M 0 Likely to contribute to gender equality, Others* 4.0M 3.97M 66.8K Boys Girls including across age groups

*Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Jersey, Korea, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Philippines, Spain, and Ukraine. 154.2K 119.5K

EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

90K 29K 34K will receive Non-Food items* victims of gender-based violence people will benefit 4 will receive protection services from life-saving surgeries *The NFI kit includes blankets, mattresses, kitchen set, Fundingwater buckets, and solar lamp, Beneficiaries and sleeping mats by Governorateat 14 safe spaces

FUNDING AND BENEFICIARIES BY GOVERNORATE

# of beneficiaries funding (in thousands) (in US$ million)

Am. Al Asimah Am. Al Asimah 17 Sa'ada Hadramaut Sa'ada Hadramaut Al Jawf 2 Al Jawf Amran Al Maharah Al Maharah 7 Amran 02 Hajjah 2 Hajjah 02 02 Marib Marib Al Mahwit Al Mahwit 02 7 Sana'a 0 Sana'a Shabwah Shabwah Raymah Dhamar Raymah 02 7 Dhamar 00 Al Bayda Al Hudaydah Al Bayda Al Hudaydah 109 Abyan 0 1 Abyan 11 Taizz Taizz 2 Ibb 02 Ibb Lahj Aden Al Dhale'e 2 Lahj Aden 1 0 0 Al Dhale'e

The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. HumanitariansCreation date: 22 September 2019 Sources: UNOCHA HFU. For more information: are @YHF_Yemen unable unocha.org/yemen/about-yhf to [email protected] reach www.reliefweb.int millions of people who need help to survive The operating environment in Yemen is one delays by the authorities in approving projects, of the most non-permissive in the world. In imposition of additional documentation addition to conflict and insecurity, interference requirements and payments of additional in humanitarian operations and restrictions taxes. Humanitarians report that at least 5.1 on movement are the main obstacles to project million people in need live in 75 hard-to-reach implementation. Restrictions include: lengthy districts.

Widespread fuel shortages continue Following the arrival of eight fuel ships at the Response Teams (RRTs), thus creating concern Hudaydah port, fuel stations reopened and over the spread of cholera. queues started to subside in Sana’a. However, the situation has not yet stabilized and remains fragile, particularly in northern governorates. In , water systems are now The WASH Cluster in Yemen reported that functioning; however, the Ibb Local Water and thousands of people are still suffering from Sanitation Corporation (LWSC) exhausted its weeks of fuel shortages, particularly IDPs contingency stocks of fuel leaving it vulnerable who rely on regular water trucking, as well to future short-term shocks. In Hudaydah as people living in remote communities who Governorate, the situation in general improved need to travel long distances to reach markets and returned to normal in the main cities; or distribution points for food and other however, in the rural areas pumping hours assistance. Fuel shortages have resulted in the are still reduced and movement of trucks is reduction of some services such as water not back to normal. In Amran and Sana’a, IDP camps relying on water trucking are still trucking and the deployment of WASH Rapid impacted by the reduced water provisions. 5 Additional partners were mobilized to step reached out to humanitarian organizations to in and fill the gaps. In , seek fuel support. there was a slight improvement with more fuel available and movements of trucks resuming. In Shafar and Abs, however, there are still large In terms of access to healthcare, some mobile queues in front of fuel stations that operate for clinics were suspended, and fuel shortages only few hours. In Taiz, quantities of diesel for may hamper patients’ ability to travel to pumping water from wells are expected to run health facilities to seek treatment. Around out in a matter of days. In addition, the WASH 180 hospitals (73 per cent of the total number cluster is following up with UNICEF to get of functional hospitals across the country) WFP support on accelerating the delivery of rely on generators to operate life-saving diesel allocated for the months of September equipment such as incubators, monitors, and October. In Al Mukhalla, the situation oxygen concentrators and operation theaters. continues to deteriorate. The capacity for Fuel shortages could hamper the continuity of the LWSC to pump water in Shabwah and medical care and the provision of 3.6 million has decreased. The government medical consultations. water pumping station works for 6 hours a day only in Shabwah Governorate, causing a water shortage resulting in almost 475,000 inhabitants being affected. The directors of the LWSC in Shabwah and Hadhramaut governorates have YHRP Funding update

As of 27 October, the 2019 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan is approximately 70 per cent funded. Top donors include the United States of America, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Funding status of the 2019 YHRP (as of 27 October 2019)

FDIG STATS

97 19 bn 292 bn 127 bn FUNE EUIEENTS FUNE STI NEEE

TO DOOS Funded For further information, please contact: USA 20.5% Sebastien Trives 194.2M Head of Office, UN-OCHA UK Yemen 380M KSA 11.6% Tel: +967 712 222 800 764.7M E-mail: [email protected] UAE USA Federica UAE 11.3% D’Andreagiovanni Head of Communication, UN-OCHA Yemen 707.7M UK 10.8% Tel: +962 79 687 6082 KSA E-mail: [email protected] OCHA information products are available at: www.unocha.org/yemen www.unocha.org www.reliefweb.Int