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Adapting a Resilience Improvement Programme in Conflict: Experiences from Yemen
When fighting broke out in Yemen’s Dhamar and Sana’a governorates in March 2015, Save the Children quickly had to transform the objectives of their resilience-building programme to meet urgent humanitarian needs through an emergency food-assistance progra
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E-vouchers in Yemen: Field experiences and lessons learned
This presentation covers Yemen’s experience in transitioning from paper vouchers to electronic vouchers in the initial e-voucher pilot programme. The aim of the programme was to improve food security and resilience in 150 communities across Sana’a and Dha
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Yemen: Education Cluster Strategy 2016-2017
The conflict in Yemen has taken a severe toll on civilians. The escalation of the conflict beginning in March 2015 has “severely exacerbated Yemen’s pre-existing humanitarian crisis” and resulted in a drastic change of the education situation in the count
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Vulnerability And Needs Assessments for Lahj and Taiz, Nov-Dec 2016
This vulnerability and needs assessment was carried out in Lahj and Taiz Governorates in South Yemen during November-December 2016. The overall objective was to assess the vulnerability and needs of the populations in Lahj and Taiz Governorates to determi
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Futures on the Line: Yemen's children missing an education
The humanitarian situation in Yemen has deteriorated month on month since the current armed conflict escalated in March 2015. Today 21.2 million people (or 82% of the population) are in need of humanitarian assistance, including nearly 10 million children
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Struggling to Survive: Stories from Yemen's collapsing health system
Every ten minutes, one Yemeni child dies from preventable causes like diarrhea, malnutrition, and respiratory tract infection. Yemen's children are at the heart of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Ten million children are in urgent need of assistan
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Child Protection in Emergencies Facts and Figures
Compiled by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), this report presents facts and figures on child protection in emergencies. Data was collected for the 42 countries that have a Humanitarian Coordinator or that were on the Inter-Agency's Standing Comm
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Global Report on Internal Displacement 2016
The heightened focus on the hundreds of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants who have put their lives at risk to reach Europe has also awakened attention to the phenomenon of displacement. The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) a
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Yemen's Children Suffering in Silence
As a direct result of the ongoing and often brutal armed conflict during the past year, children’s lives in Yemen have been torn apart. Girls and boys are now facing daily challenges to both survive the conflict and access enough food, safe drinking wa
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Forgotten Crisis, Forgotten Children: Millions of Yemen's Children Going Hungry
As the conflict in Yemen enters its ninth month, the situation for children and their families becomes more and more desperate with each passing day. Over 1.3 million children under the age of five are suffering from acute malnutrition, and with the food
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Education Under Fire: How Conflict in the Middle East is Depriving Children of Their Schooling
Produced and published by UNICEF, this publication investigates how conflict in the Middle East is depriving children of their schooling. As conflict continues and spreads, schools – and the children and teachers that use them – are finding themselves in
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Digital Payments: Save time, save costs, save lives
This article reviews how mobile technologies can assist humanitarian organizations in overcoming an array of logistical challenges, to make crisis relief possible for children and families in vulnerable situations. In Yemen, Save the Children partnered wi