United Nations losses humanitarian aid donors' trust in Yemen
English - Saturday 22 June 2019 الساعة 08:19 pm
Aden – NewsYemen.net
Over the past four years, the United Nations has mobilized some $ 11 billion on behalf of hungers in Yemen, but Yemenis' discontent with the deductions and the lack of transparency in disbursing these funds, the UN trust was lost among international supporters of humanitarian action in Yemen.
The momentum of donor support for the year 2019 has been reduced to finance the requirements of the United Nations' humanitarian response plan for Yemen. The humanitarian response gap for the humanitarian response plan reached over $ 3.35 billion by mid-May.
According to OCHA data, the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan 2019 received only $ 840 million of the $ 2.6 billion pledged in February 2019, 32% of total pledges and 20% of funding requirements for the response plan Humanitarian aid of $ 4.2 billion.
While the food security and agriculture sector received only $ 456.7 million till May 14, 2019, representing 20.7% of the sector's funding requirements of $ 2.2 billion, with a funding gap of $ 1.75 billion.
The situation tends to be worse for the nutrition sector, funding is only $ 8.7 million, representing 2.7% of the sector's funding requirements of $ 320 million.
The funding level of the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan for 2018 was high. The requirements funding coverage in the humanitarian response plan was 86.9%, food security and agriculture 88.8% and the food sector 67.3% last year.
Last April, Yemeni citizens launched a campaign on social media under the Hashtag , #WhereistheMoney, calling on the United Nations and organizations working in Yemen, both foreign and local, to disclose donor funds to Yemen, how the funds have been spent over the last four years, at a time poverty, hunger, destitution and epidemics are increasing every day.
Organizations, agencies and the United Nations team working in Yemen are characterized by massive job inflation and overpriced wages, all of which employ thousands of French, Italian, American and other consultants and experts working in Yemen who are paid more than the needy Yemenis.
