Three billion and 337$ million has been paid by donors to the United Nations in support of Yemen since early 2019
English - Saturday 02 November 2019 الساعة 03:21 pm
Aden – NewsYemen.net
Donor funding for the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen 2019, delivered to the United Nations, stood at $ 3,337 million as of the end of last October, of which $ 2.937 billion is in the response plan and $ 400 million is outside the plan, according to OCHA data.
According to data from the Yemen Humanitarian Plan 2019, the Fund's Tracking Services website reported that funding within the response plan accounted for 70% of the total UN-approved rapid response plan for Yemen in 2019, at $ 4.2 billion.
Funding for the UN Humanitarian Plan in Yemen this year came from 40 countries and 41 other donors, including international and Arab organizations and associations.
The amount of funding within the UN Humanitarian Plan in Yemen is the largest UN funding this year compared to previous years.
The United States topped the list of donors for the UN Humanitarian Plan for Yemen in 2019 with 26%, followed by Saudi Arabia with 24%, and the UAE with 13% of total funding.
While the funding provided by donors to Yemen outside the framework of the United Nations and its humanitarian plan 2019, about one billion and 800 million, was in the form of oil grants from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, amounted to about $ 400 million, until the end of last September.
The UAE Red Crescent, the King Salman Relief Center and the Kuwait Red Crescent Society have also implemented projects in the humanitarian sectors in Yemen - health, education, water, nutrition, shelter and protection - worth more than $ 500 million over the past nine months.
According to World Bank data, Yemen has allocated more than $ 400 million this year, including for disbursement of social welfare fund beneficiaries and IDA funding for the Emergency Urban Services Project in the sectors of water and sanitation, electricity, health and roads.
