Yemen Joint Response 2024-2026 After eight years of conflict, Yemen is facing severe acute food insecurity, exacerbated by flaring fighting and economic collapse. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) partial analysis shows 3.2 million people in IPC Phase 3 or above between January and May 2023, a 23% reduction compared to the previous quarter. The situation is projected to worsen from June through December 2023, with the number of people in IPC Phase 3 or above expected to increase by 20%, bringing the total number facing severe acute food insecurity to 3.9 million in GoY-controlled areas, approximately 41% of the population. The main drivers of this deterioration include a projected 20% shortfall in humanitarian assistance, an anticipated increase in food and fuel prices, and a continuation of conflict in frontline districts. 

Most analyzed districts are in IPC Phase 3 and above, with 13 districts expected to shift from IPC Phase 3 to Phase 4 and 15 districts moving from IPC Phase 2 to Phase 3. Urgent action is needed to address food insecurity in a way that will enhance food security and resilience of affected population on the longer term. The current decrease of resources for humanitarian assistance is likely to stay and therefore a shift to recovery of livelihood and income of affected population is key.  

Cordaid and partners will work in Marib and Lahj governorates most in need and selected by the YJR as eligible areas. The governorates have a different profile. Marib is near the frontline and therefore the security situation is unstable with many IDPs and still ongoing displacement.  In Lahj the situation is more stable but there is a severe food insecurity and livelihood deterioration - Food and cash for assets  
- Vocational training  
- Provision of MHPSS – PFA, consultations, psycho tropic medication- through one centre and mobile clinics 
- Scale up of MHPSS web app (innovation 2023 providing it works)  
- Case management for protection cases including cash for protection for those in need  
- Strengthening community awareness and community-based systems for protection - Lahj and especially Marib, a governorate where regular fighting flares up, have many IDPs that are in specifically vulnerable situations as they lost their homes and livelihoods, and many are in debt, using a negative coping mechanisms like eating less, child labor and begging etc.  and/ or are dependent on humanitarian assistance that is generally decreasing in Yemen because of diminishing funding, Within the group of IDP some households are specifically vulnerable like female-headed households (Approximately 26 percent of displaced households are headed by women, UNFPA 2023), households with elderly that do not have support from family and household with a head of household with a disability or households with many children. To not create tensions also households in host communities will be considered based on a set of vulnerability criteria. 

- In both areas many people have mental and psychoid social problems due to the ongoing conflict and hardship they face. For women additional stress tied to their role and restricted movement and risk of GBV also play a role. People with MHPS problems will be reached by (health) centers providing services at location and for those that are unable to come to a mobile clinics will be managed in both areas , these will also provide awareness raising on MHPS problems and services to alleviate the stigma.