Republic of Yemen

UNDP Practice Area: Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Project Title: Emeregency Assistance project for livelihoods restoration of Abyan IDPs

Project number: 00063213

Duration: December 2011 - December 2012

Budget: USD 467,804

Funding Gap: USD 267,000

Source of funding: UNDP

Project Status: Ongoing

Implementation Modality: NEX

Partners: : Small and Micro Enterprise Promotion Service (SMEPS) and IDPs Executive Unit

Responsible Programme Officer(s):Aleen Hamza

About the Project:
UNDP has partnered with SMEPS to undertake an emergency livelihoods support project to decrease the vulnerability of the displaced population. This project focuses on allowing wage-earners within the vulnerable families' access to skill rehabilitation and vocational training opportunities, improve their access to employment and capacity for self-employment, and helping improve income resilience as a result of direct in-kind support as well as linkages with host community and society.
The project intends to directly target 500 families, with a spillover effect to target all vulnerable families residing within schools. The project expects to encourage the relocation of targeted families out of schools and public premises, as well as significantly improve social cohesion between IDPs and host communities.

Objectives:
The objective of the Emergency Assistance project for livelihoods restoration of Abyan IDPs is to support the most vulnerable IDP families through the provision of an emergency livelihood opportunities scheme that focuses skill rehabilitation and promoting self-reliance. This project is devised specifically in response to emerging needs which surfaced as a result of the protection clusters' assessment, towards decreasing the vulnerability and dependence of IDP families on humanitarian assistance, encourage repatriation particularly for families residing within schools, and address social tensions resulting from prolonged displacement of the IDP families, particularly the most vulnerable

Strategy:
The project will be Nationally Executed through partnership with Small and Micro Enterprises Promotion Services SMEPS which will carry out the implementation plan via project lines

• Undertake skill training and rehabilitation for targeted IDPs through vocational training.
• Access to sustainable livelihoods, either employed or self employed.
• Improve cohesion between displaced population and host communities.