15 billion and 14 million dollars collected by the United Nations in the name of Yemen within 5 years
English - Sunday 02 February 2020 الساعة 03:55 pm
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Over the past five years, the United Nations has raised $ 15 billion and $ 14 million in the name of the Yemenis, whom it describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to OCHA data it publishes on its tracking services website.
The United Nations mobilized donor funding in cash - countries, organizations and associations around the world - to finance its operations in Yemen, entering and outside its annual plan, the humanitarian response, during the period 2015-2019, to confront hunger and disease, with the prolonged war continuing.
Funding tracking data showed that the year 2018 was the most funded with $ 5 billion and $ 167 million, followed by the year 2019 with $ 3 billion and $ 916 million, and 2017 with $ two billion and $ 384 million, then in 2016 billion and $ 790 million, and in 2015 billion and $ 757 million.
According to the strategic goals of the United Nations' Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen, helping Yemenis overcome hunger, reduce outbreaks of infectious diseases, enhance the dignity of the displaced, psychological support, and preserve the capacity of state institutions, however, all of these goals were not achieved, but rather worsened, According to the reports of international organizations.
The poverty rate in Yemen increased to 79% of the population, compared to 49% in 2017, driven by the continuous collapse of public institutions and services, while cases of malnutrition grew from 14% in 2016 to 64% in 2018, according to an analysis of data from the nutrition group In Yemen.
During the past five years, a number of diseases, such as cholera, diphtheria, measles, dengue fever and scabies, have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, in light of the deteriorating health sector.
Organizations and agencies have also published reports of rampant corruption in international organizations operating in Yemen, within local organizations, which have generated widespread public discontent with the fate of the massive funds the world is providing to Yemen.
Donors provide their money to support humanitarian work in Yemen to the United Nations without allocation, and no accountability, and the United Nations allocates it and distributes it to its agencies and organizations operating in Yemen.
According to UN data, 267 organizations operate under the framework of activities and programs of the Humanitarian Response Plan in Yemen, including 10 UN agencies, 38 International NGOs (INGO), 206 National NGOs (NNGO) and 13 Yemeni government agencies.
Specialists in the work of organizations and humanitarian aid confirm that the funds of the international community, international organizations and donors to Yemen are only 40% or less.
They explained that "the United Nations deducts sums of money from the financing of the response plan, under several items totaling up to 60%, and another part that reaches 12% goes to national organizations and partners, in addition to the corruption that falls into the budgets of projects of local organizations.
Owners of "local" national NGOs profit from working in organizations by providing huge budgets for projects they implement, under life-saving assistance and strategic needs, and United Nations agencies and international NGOs deliberate these budgets.
One of the employees in one of the organizations included in the list of local partners of international organizations says that the organization he works with provides exaggerated budgets for the projects that it executes, in the employees salaries lists, rent the headquarters and branches of the organization, and transportation fees, in addition to the percentage allocated to them in each project And what is being implemented does not reach a quarter of the amount allocated to the project.
