Emergency Life Saving Assistance to Conflict Affected population in Yemen This project proposes to use market and cash based methodologies to deliver WASH, Shelter and Food Security assistance to the most vulnerable IDP and IDP hosting families. A total of 15,960 men, women, girls and boys in Taiz, Hajjah and Amran Governorates will, as far as possible, be supported with an integrated package of assistance consisting of shelter, WASH and food security interventions. This will be aimed at maximizing impact in the improvement of the beneficiaries living conditions. 

Beneficiary selection will prioritize those hosting the most vulnerable IDPs (ex: female and child headed households) supported with strong baseline analysis to determine location-specific protection and gender concerns as well as the potential impact rental prices, social relations, fraud and diversion potential.

The shelter component will provide support to 880 families (6,160 individuals) with NFIs and access to housing through support provided to landlords who in turn will provide stables leasing contracts to vulnerable IDP families for a period of 12-24 months. This will include a strong follow up component. Age, gender and diversity lens will be conducted to ensure dignity and safe access and provide for conflict mitigation should issues arise.

2200 most vulnerable IDP families will be supported through water trucking/cash vouchers to access water and appropriate hygiene kits. Community volunteers will be trained in hygiene promotion to deliver hygiene sessions to the beneficiaries. In order to phase out our existing support to water trucking, 4 water supply networks will be constructed/rehabilitated to ensure sustained water availability, once water trucking is stopped. 

650 households (4550 individuals) will be supported with cash grants to enable them access food. These will include families that are also given shelter and WASH assistance. Beneficiaries will be selected through the shelter and water interventions and comprise of families not covered under the already existing food security programming NRC has in the areas.  The project will pilot a market-based methodology for shelter solutions in an urban setting, by directly financing landlords to improve the space made available to displaced families in exchange for longer term and secure access for IDP families. The learning will be shared with the shelter cluster with possibility of scaling up and leveraging the learning to other programming

NRC's new protection in field operations toolkit will be piloted in Yemen mid-2016, facilitating capacity building for staff and partners and ensure strengthened protection mainstreaming throughout the project, with an emphasis on vulnerability analysis training for staff and partners on the prevention of sexual abuse and exploitation and child safeguarding protection of data and information and mapping of access to services and integration of referral mechanisms. 

Additionally, NRC has agreed with partners to establish a learning platform to enhance collaboration among NGOs piloting market-based interventions and protection mainstreaming across multiple sectors. NRC, Oxfam, ACF and NFDHR will sign an MoU, committing collaboration on program design, complementary of intervention and locations, inclusion of indicators and commitment to cross-fertilization of information, ideas and learning. The learning will be shared via relevant clusters. The collaboration will also facilitate in real-time capacity-building as each member of the platform will provide training and technical support. 

NRC will enhance protection mainstreaming and outcomes via cash-based interventions through training and piloting of NRC’s new global protection toolkit. The learning from this toolkit roll out as well as through the common learning platform established with other NGOs will strengthen the common analysis and identification / analysis of and advocacy on protection risks, particularly for IDPs.