$ 2 billion in funding requirements for the United Nations humanitarian plan for Yemen for 2020
English - Saturday 14 March 2020 الساعة 04:18 pm
Aden, Newsyemen, private:
The United Nations' Global General Funding for Humanitarian Affairs expected Yemen's needs at $ 3.2 billion in 2020, a short $ 1 billion less than the amount the United Nations requested to fund its plan for Yemen last year at $ 4.2 billion.
The United Nations said that it intends to work during the year 2020, with the same humanitarian response plan for the past year 2019, to maintain programs that helped prevent starvation, defeat cholera, and save millions of lives.
A donors' conference for the Yemen humanitarian response to 2020 is scheduled for April 2 in Riyadh, marking a change from previous annual pledge conferences since 2017 organized in Geneva.
Over the past five years, the United Nations has raised $ 15 billion and $ 14 million in the name of the Yemenis, whom it describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the OCHA data it publishes on its tracking services website.
Despite the funds mobilized by the United Nations to tackle poverty, hunger and disease in Yemen, poverty rates have risen to 79% of the population, while cases of malnutrition have grown from 14% in 2016 to 64% in 2018, according to an analysis of data from the Nutrition Group in Yemen.
During the past five years, a number of diseases, such as cholera, diphtheria, measles, dengue and scabies, have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, in light of the deterioration of the health sector.
Organizations and agencies have also published reports of rampant corruption in international organizations operating in Yemen, within local organizations, which have generated widespread public discontent with the fate of the massive funds the world is providing to Yemen.
According to UN data, 267 organizations operate under the framework of activities and programs of the Humanitarian Response Plan in Yemen, including 10 UN agencies, 38 International NGOs (INGO), 206 National NGOs (NNGO) and 13 Yemeni government agencies.
