SMEPSer

2024

“Supporting Youth Employment Through Creative, Heritage and Culture” project in Yemen aims to help alleviating conflict effects on young people working in these creative sectors. With so many challenges due to ongoing conflict, a lack of support and training opportunities is observed leading to an increase of youth unemployment and unqualified institutions. At the same time, Yemen’s rich cultural heritage is being neglected, making efforts harder for those trying to preserve and promote it.

The project, funded by EU and implemented by SMEPS in partnership with UNESCO, mainly aims to support youth employment through supporting CSOs and young individuals working in creative industries of the heritage and culture sector through technical and financial support.  This will affect positively in strengthening CSOs' internal management capabilities resulting in integrating more youth working in the field and creating a better nurturing environment for them. Such a methodology will enable job creation, trainings, and networking opportunities for youth engaged in creative work leading to establishing their own project and generating sustainable income sources, especially for those living in urban areas, to improve their livelihood. 

Through promoting youth employment, specifically in the creative, heritage, and culture sectors, SMEPS drives transformative change in addressing the immediate and long-term challenges of unemployment. It also treats the gaps caused in the institutional setting due to such loss. It equally contributes to reviving Yemen’s cultural heritage and the recovery of its economy. 

• Targeted Governorates:

Aden, Hadramout, Taiz, and Socotra

• Sectors:

MSMEs, Private Sector, and CSOs.

• Planned Beneficiaries to Target: 

39 CSOs.

• Donor:

UNESCO.

• Project Value:

$ 121,994.99
 

(2022 - 2025)

The SFISH project aims to improve the productivity and resilience in Fish value chain with the goal of creating job opportunities, improving livelihoods and food security, and household nutrition. This will be done by providing direct technical and financial support to MSMEs, business cooperative associations and lead firms in critical fisheries sectors to sustain their impact in sustaining demand of products and services in the sector through technical support, institutional strengthening, risk management, financial & administrative support, business advisory & consultancy services, business continuity management & asset transfers. Provided support will help restore the ability of the target MSMEs, Business Associations and Lead Firms to increase productivity, production, generate income, and create jobs, while increasing the supply and access to basic food commodities in the targeted communities.

Targeted Governorates

• Al Mahra, Aden, Hadramaut and Taiz

Planned Beneficiaries to Target

•  Micro-producers                   4,680 (3,000 fishermen & 1,680 women)
• Supply Chain Enablers          920
• Fisheries Cooperatives         35
• Total                                         5,635

Project Value                                    $ 28,475,000

(2022 - 2024)

The project aims to serve as a scalable platform that offers a combination of complementary short-term and medium-term activities to strengthen food security in Yemen, as well as flexibility for adjustment to the evolving food security situation going forward. The project focuses on building the resilience of Yemeni households to food security crises and improving household food security and nutrition by increasing food availability, access and utilization in the project areas. The project components will be closely coordinated in the project areas to achieve the project outcomes. SMEPS will implement the related activities under increasing production and sale of nutritious products (livestock/dairy, horticulture, Farmer's organizations' groups, food processing, fisheries and Fisheries cooperatives) through an innovative, participatory and interactive learning approach. This will be achieved by building the capacity of project beneficiaries to adopt the most suitable practices and new technologies to their production systems. To ensure high technical performance, FAO will build the capacities of the selected field technical teams in the targeted Governorates.

Targeted Governorates

Taiz, Sana’a, Al-Hudaydah, Dhamar, Abyan, Lahj

Sectors

• Food Processing, Livestock, Agriculture, Fish

Planned Beneficiaries to Target

• Small Women Dairy Groups                    33  (5 members)
• Pioneer Women Dairy Groups               40 (10 members)
• Collecting Centers                                     7  (20 members)
• Seedling Centers                                       7  (20 members)
• Agro-Processing Women Groups          40 (15 members)
• Fisheries Cooperatives                            6 (50 fisher)
• Total                                                      133 (1,745 members)

Project Value                                    $ 512,645.03