The YHF aims to:

• Support life-saving and life-sustaining activities while filling critical funding gaps.
• Promote needs-based assistance in accordance with humanitarian principles.
• Strengthen coordination and leadership through the HC and by leveraging the cluster system.
• Improve relevance and coherence of humanitarian response by funding HRP priorities.
• Improve Humanitarian Access: maintaining and expanding humanitarian access by funding critical interventions in hard-to-reach and front-lines areas by partnering with NGOs.
• Enhance complementarity with other funding streams and the Central Emergency Respond Fund (CERF)
• Allocate Pilot Anticipatory Action (AA) plan for foods in two predicted governorates based on consultations with the clusters, collaboration with OCHA headquarters and the Centre for data analytics and available information and lessons learned on the seasonal floods in Yemen.

Risultati principali attesi:  

In line with the YHRP objectives, the YHF will prioritise area-based aproaches, integrated multicluster response, and intervention in hard-to-reach areas to ensure that the most critical needs are met. In 2023, the YHF will focus on the following two strategic priorities:

(i) Responding to the most critical acute needs as identified in the YHRP and

(ii) Enabling life-saving interventions in hard-to-reach areas.

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

In 2022, 25 donors contributed a total of USD 101 million to the YHF, making it the fourth largest country-based pooled fund (CBPF) in the world.

In 2022, The YHF allocated USD 77.5 million (including USD 36.6 million from the reserve) to 105 projects with 54 partners in 138 districts of Yemen across all sectors of need through one standard and three reserve allocations. 43% of the funds went directly to national implementing organizations, an increase of more than 21% compared to the previous year.

Over 4.99 million people (cumulatively) were supported through humanitarian assistance funded by the YHF in 2022.