Yemen donated $362,000 to United Nations organizations in 2021
English - Tuesday 14 December 2021 الساعة 03:02 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Yemen provided $362,000 to support the 2021 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan, which is led by the United Nations, the first time that Yemen has donated to support the annual humanitarian response plan since its launch in 2015.
According to the data of the financial tracking services of the "OCHA" website for humanitarian plans in Yemen, the World Health Organization, which received the donation from Yemen, allocated funding to other organizations.
Since the United Nations adopted the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan in 2015, the funds allocated to support Yemenis to face the economic and social repercussions of the war have been spent, without interference and oversight from the Yemeni government.
Experts and humanitarian workers emphasized that the funding of the international community, international organizations and donors for the Yemen Response Plan only reaches 40% or less, most of which do not benefit the needy.
The total funding for the humanitarian response plans for Yemen adopted by the United Nations, from 2015 until the end of October 2021, from all donors, amounted to more than 14 billion dollars, according to OCHA data.
United Nations data indicate that the largest international organization receiving donations to Yemen is the World Food Program, with a 55.7% share, about $7 billion since 2015, of which $4 billion went as operational expenses, according to data from the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation.
UNICEF comes in second place with a share of 8.5%, then the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with 4.7%, and the International Organization for Migration with 1%.
Reports of organizations and testimonies of workers in the humanitarian relief sectors confirm that relief funds have become one of the most important financial resources for the Houthi militia, which it has turned into a war effort.
The legitimate government is in talks with the United Nations to persuade it to transfer humanitarian aid funds through the Central Bank of Aden, but the organizations refused under the pretext of concerns about accountability and the possibility of further politicization of the economy.
The study, "Limited Funding for the Humanitarian Response in Yemen and Its Repercussions on the Economic Situation," said that the United Nations' focus on relief, without moving to development aspects, reduced the importance and value of response plans in terms of economic and development.
The study, issued by the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, and funded by UNICEF, indicated that the amounts that were squandered in relief, if directed to the development aspects as a tool that contributes to finding sustainable solutions and treatments for the humanitarian and development aspects.
The study said that ignoring programs related to creating job opportunities and supporting livelihood projects for the affected population, substituting food baskets and wheat bags with productive capital means, and substituting gallons of water by digging water wells for both drinking and agriculture, lost the effectiveness of donors' donations to Yemen.
