Yemeni aid reveals hidden war alliances between international organizations in Yemen
English - Wednesday 03 March 2021 الساعة 05:35 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Local and international organizations operating in Yemen are preparing to present budget designs for relief and humanitarian intervention projects in Yemen for the year 2021, with items burdened with costs and fake lists, and the sharing of donor donations with the poor and needy who have been transformed by war as a means of wealth.
Donor donations to Yemen amounted to one billion and 700 million dollars of the total required amount of 3 billion and 850 million dollars, which confirms the dissatisfaction of donor countries in donating to a relief operation suffering from corruption and transferring aid.
International organizations operating in Yemen, the United Nations and its agencies have shown their keenness to reject the inclusion of the Houthi militia in the lists of terrorism, and have escalated their warnings and statements of famine and humanitarian disasters, in order to ensure the continuation of receiving donations in the name of the hungry in Yemen, and deducting percentages under multiple items.
Since 2015, fundraising in the name of Yemen has become an annual season for the United Nations, but according to media and human rights reports, most of this money does not reach the needy.
Economists assert that implementing and managing humanitarian relief programs through international agencies and organizations - without national institutions - requires high administrative costs, sometimes reaching 30% of the volume of aid.
They indicated that reducing administrative costs remains a central and strategic issue in humanitarian work, stressing the need to find alternative national options that are less expensive, more beneficial and more sustainable.
Workers in local organizations confirm that the owners of these organizations profit from them widely, by providing huge budgets for the projects they implement, and they receive funds for these projects, and implement only a few of them.
Most of the budget for these projects is designed in the employees' salary lists, the rent of the headquarters and branches of the organization, and transportation fees, in addition to the percentage allocated to them in each project.
Reports indicate that organizations working in the humanitarian sector in Yemen are carrying out their work without monitoring their management or financial spending by the government, and this results in financial violations against the needy.
It was noticed that the managers and owners of organizations turned into wealthy people, and this was reflected in the change in the conditions of the owners of local organizations, in buying villas and the investments they open, after they lived in apartments for rent before the war and lived in poor economic conditions.
According to United Nations data, the amount of $ 1.7 billion for the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan 2021 is less than the donations in 2020 and $ 1 billion less than what was pledged at the conference held in 2019.
The Houthi militia, which considers donor donations an essential resource to fund its war effort, has recently stepped up its efforts to complete control of charities and local humanitarian organizations operating in their areas of control.
The sources confirm that the Houthi militia’s plan aims to acquire charitable societies and local humanitarian organizations by transferring their ownership directly to them, confiscating their properties and assets, changing their names and departments, or appointing supervisors with effective tasks therein.
The protracted conflict in Yemen has impoverished large sectors of the population, and greatly deepened poverty.At the same time, some individuals, groups and organizations have benefited from the growing war economy, and others have exploited the war to enrich themselves, resulting in growing inequality.
