Auke Lootsma : Billions unchanged from hunger in Yemen
English - Monday 14 February 2022 الساعة 08:30 am
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
Khaleda Bouzar, Assistant Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), said the latest UNDP report “Assessing the Impact of War in Yemen: Pathways to Recovery” confirms that if the war continues in Yemen until 2030, the impact on people’s lives will be more catastrophic and recovery more costly. .
“The economic benefits of peace are enormous,” she added, but peace alone is not enough, and it must be accompanied by a comprehensive, people-centred approach to recovery that spans the human development spectrum and also ensures national ownership and leadership of the Yemeni people and the commitment of the international community.
Khaleda Bouzar’s remarks came during a hypothetical discussion organized by the United States Institute of Peace, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program, to examine its latest report entitled Assessing the Impact of the War in Yemen: Pathways to Recovery.
The report predicts that deaths from indirect causes - such as lack of access to food, water, sanitation, health care and other basic services - amounted to 60 percent of annual deaths in Yemen in 2021, and this percentage will rise to 75 percent by 2030.
Khaleda Bouzar, who is also Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, said that a child under the age of five died every nine minutes last year, and that this rate will rise to every five minutes, with additional impacts on gross domestic product, poverty and malnutrition in the future.
Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program in Yemen, Auke Lootsma ,emphasized that despite the fact that billions of dollars have been spent on food aid to the country, it has not been able to make an impact on the food security situation in the past five years.
