Republic of Yemen

About UNDP

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About UNDP in Yemen

Our offices were established in both former the Republic of Yemen and the People´s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) in 1966 and 1967 respectively. The two offices were amalgamated upon the reunification of the two parts of Yemen on 22 May 1990. UNDP as an organization was able to help the Government of Yemen and its people, prior and after reunification, to address development needs. UNDP has notable and recognized contributions in many development sectors such as, agriculture, telecommunication, metrology, standardization and quality control, civil aviation, postal, water resources management, microfinance, information technology, statistical management, HIV/AIDS, local governance, and many others. This has also resulted in establishment of institutions such as Al-Koud Agriculture Research Center, Tihama Development Authority, Agriculture Research Center (Dhamar), Telecommunication Training Institute, Community-based Protected Areas, Micro Finance Institutes, etc.

Decision-Making

The UNDP Yemen Resident Representative is the highest level of authority and accountability of the UNDP in Yemen. S/he authorizes various levels of management, such as the Country Director and the Deputy Country Director. Click here to view the Country Office (CO) organogram.

Throughout the years, UNDP has built a strong partnership with the government of Yemen (GoY), represented by the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation. UNDP and GoY launched several developmental projects and programmes to address the challenges of the country and improve the working environment in Yemen. In addition, UNDP worked closely with several ministries, none-governmental organizations, and civil society organizations, under the leadership of the UNDP Resident Representative and the mentioned bodies. National ownership was always encouraged and maintained in all UNDP's programmes. In addition, UNDP and the UN system in Yemen have been an effective partner and player in the Friends of Yemen Group, established in January 2010 to help Yemen to address its developmental challenges as well as address donors' coordination and harmonization on the strategic level. It consists of G8 countries and 14 other key national partners, mainly from the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) and some Arab countries, as well as the main multilateral bodies of the UN, EU, Arab League, IMF and World Bank. Two working groups were established: one on economy and governance, and the other on Justice and rule of law; UNDP led the formulation of a position paper on Access to Justice in Yemen. On September 24th the Friends of Yemen (FoY) met again in New York. During the New York meeting, the Foreign Minister of Yemen mentioned that “the friends of Yemen devoted this year in “needs assessment " and took eight months in doing so, Yemen problems are acute and friends support is needed in implementation. He mentioned that they would start preparing for the CG with the help of WB, UNDP and other friends.”

Vision and Focus Areas

Our vision is to play a leading role in supporting Yemen's development priorities and to support Yemen's efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals through human and institutional capacity development. Our support is channelled towards promoting good governance, sustainable use of natural resources and a human rights based approach to development. In 2010, UNDP Yemen programmes and projects delivered US$ 16,530,000, which exceeded the 2010 planned target by US$ 2,904,000.

This is achieved through effective partnerships with all stakeholders, coordinated UN system support, enhanced knowledge sharing, staff empowerment and efficient UNDP service delivery.

Our substantive focus is on helping Yemen’s efforts to meet the challenges of:

Working in these practice areas UNDP Yemen supports Yemen's efforts to achieve the millennium Development Goals.

UNDP Yemen has clustered its interventions into three main areas with one being crosscutting: 1) Governance 2) Pro-poor Economic Growth and 3) Gender being the cross-cutting intervention. The UNDP Yemen Country Office structure has two programmatic teams, 1) the Pro-poor Economic Growth Team and 2) the Governance and Gender Team.

The structure is aligned with the Yemen United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2007-11 and enhances the identification and integration of synergies within and between each cluster. The Pro-poor Economic Growth Team includes the Country Office’s interventions in environment and crisis prevention and recovery as these are crucial factors for sustainable economic growth. In the Governance and Gender Team, gender is included with governance as many of our interventions will have a capacity and institution building focus, as well as governance linkages.

Governance & Gender
In the areas of governance and gender UNDP has achieved excellent results in the areas of electoral support, human rights, support to the justice system, decentralisation and HIV/AIDS. Programmes are currently under development to address gender issues and civil society in a more comprehensive manner. Click here for more information on UNDP Yemen Projects.

Pro-poor Economic Growth
UNDP’s work in the area of pro-poor economic growth spans across policy development on poverty reduction (macro-economic), data collection/statistics and community-based interventions, through environment and crisis prevention. Click here for more information on UNDP Yemen Projects.

In UNDP Yemen country office, the UNDP Resident Representative also serves as the Resident Coordinator of development activities for the United Nations system as a whole. Through such coordination, UNDP seeks to ensure the most effective use of UN and international aid resources.

Last Modified on 3/01/2012 03:59 am