Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project

The objective of the Food Security Response and Resilience Project for Yemen is to improve the availability of and access to food and nutritious diets, both in the short and medium term, for targeted households in the Project Area, and to enhance Yemen's capacity to respond to food insecurity. The project has five components. (1) Improving household incomes through Cash-for-Work (CFW) for agricultural production infrastructure and building climate resilience component. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will implement this component through the Social Fund for Development (SFD) and the Public Works Project (PWP). The SFD will take the lead in implementing the CFW program, which will provide employment opportunities directly to beneficiary laborers from the communities in the project area. The PWP will implement small-scale infrastructure-related works through selected locally sourced contractors which are also expected to create employment opportunities for the communities. (2) Increasing production and sale of nutritious crop, livestock and fish products component. This component will be implemented by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The component will support smallholder farmers and producers to invest in productive assets and help improve their capacity to better commercialize their products and enter new markets. (3) Improving the nutritional status of vulnerable rural households components aims at improving the nutritional security of very vulnerable and moderately vulnerable. (4) Capacity building for food security management and climate resilience component includes a set of activities that are expected to significantly strengthen the capacity of both the private (households) and public sectors for food security crisis planning and response. (5) Project management and knowledge management component will cover the costs associated with project management for all three implementing agencies (FAO, UNDP and WFP),...