October 2023 – June 2026

The Food Security Response and Resilience Project (FSRRP) in Yemen is targeting the severe food insecurity in Yemen through enhancing productivity in dairy and sesame value chains with the objective of meeting households' and community’s food security needs. FSRRP – Yemen is also going to support MSMEs targeting micro-producers, SMEs and cooperatives to be more resilient communities to cope with the current food insecurity, health, nutrition and poverty.

More to the continuing food insecurity crisis in Yemen which has been exasperated by a protracted conflict that destroyed the economy. Yemenis are starving to death, with only 10% of its food produced locally and an economic collapse shrinking real GDP by 48.4% over the same period. This in turn created an enormous unemployment issue, with over 32% of the population unemployed by 2019 and as a consequence people were being driven into chronic or acute food safety deprivation.

The FSRRP project seeks to address the differential impact of the crisis on women and girls, as gender inequality plays a major role in food insecurity, undernutrition, and poverty. Public services shutting down and the currency devaluating, made every import expensive and caused an ever-greater scarcity of imported goods. In 2020, this situation was further compounded by the exhaustion of foreign aid resources which resulted in the increase of food prices and lack of access to basic necessities.

Women-headed households, already facing discrimination in the labor market, bear the brunt of these challenges. They spend a larger portion of their budgets on food due to unequal wages and limited job opportunities. The FSRRP project seeks to mitigate these issues by providing support to livestock, agriculture, and private sector components through livestock producers, sesame farmers, supply chains, and agricultural co-operatives & leading companies stabilizing the economy, and ensuring access to vital resources for vulnerable populations in Yemen.

Targeted Governorates:

Taiz, Al-Hudaydah, Dhamar, Abyan, Lahj, Al-Jawf, Hajjah, Shabwah, Al-Dhale.

Sectors:

Livestock, agriculture, and private sector.

Planned Beneficiaries to Target:

Livestock                                                                       11500

Agriculture                                                                    4000

Supply Chains                                                               200

agricultural co-operatives & leading companies    120

Project Value:                                17,751,832.15 $

Donor and parteners:

World Bank - Food and Agriculture Organiztion of the United Nation (FAO).