Integrated Humanitarian Assistance to vulnerable conflict-affected and food insecure populations in Yemen Through this project, NRC will provide food assistance to food insecure households with children under five (severely or moderately malnourished)  and pregnant amp lactating women (PLW) registered in CMAM program, the food assistance activities will be implemented in two FSAC cluster priority districts, namely Al-Madaribah Wa Al Arah district in Lahj and As Salif  district in Al Hudiedah, In total 1,300 CMAM families (children or PLW) will receive conditional food voucher (E-voucher in Lahj and paper voucher in Al Hodeidah). Beneficiaries will  be required to participate in  nutrition and hygiene awareness sessions prior to the disbursement/loading of food voucher, the training will be done in collaboration with the WASH teams. Where appropriate, beneficiaries will be trained on vegetables gardening to enable them produce supplementary nutritious food for the family. While other actors provide treatment to malnourished children and women, NRC's proposed integrated programme will address the underlying causes of malnutrition concurrently and prevent relapses of malnourished children.
The WASH Component seeks to address public health conditions identified and reported by providing a complete package of water, sanitation and hygiene promotion to 1,500 displaced households in Lahj. These will include the families that will receive food support. The major focus of the intervention will be hygiene promotion and behavior change to improved the nutrition status. The WASH intervention will compliment the food security intervention in Lahj by targeting the same households that receive food support. This will maximize impact on beneficiaries. Hygiene promotion will focus mainly on dissemination of 5 key messages (hand washing at critical times, Use and storage of safe water, Food hygiene, Exclusive Infant breastfeeding in the first 6 months and appropriate disposal and management of waste). The water supply element of the intervention seeks to improve existing facilities to ensure that the target population has improved access to clean and safe water. This will complement prior water trucking interventions undertaken by NRC in the same locations. Assessments will be conducted to evaluate the possibility of improving on and supporting existing infrastructure in host communities to meet the needs of both the displaced people and their hosts. The project will also support the construction of 25 emergency latrines for IDPs in Lahj to improve sanitation as well as provide privacy and dignity to the affected families, with particular consideration for the needs of women and girls. Through this project, The proposed WASH activities have been agreed upon with the WASH cluster.
NRC will support 1000 vulnerable households in Amran governorate with appropriate shelter kits to see them through the winter months of November 2016 to March 2017. This will involve the provision of winterisation kits (NFI and Shelter) in Amran city, Raydah, and Huthi districts where substantial temperature variations are expected during the winter. The kits will be distributed to the most vulnerable, e.g. single and female headed households, families with young children and families with elderly or sick members. Assessments will be undertaken to establish the capacity of the local market to determine whether to apply cash / vouchers or in-kind distribution. Further, NRC will acquire and stockpile emergency shelter and NFI kits that can support 2,000 needy households. These stocks will be available for any rapid response in case of natural disasters e.g. floods, storms or hurricanes that may occur. Through this project, NRC will also contribute to the strengthening of local stakeholders' capacity for Shelter, NFI amp CCCM responses by making available NRC’s existing Warehouse / Storage facilities in Hajjah, for the stockpiling of emergency NFIs and Shelter kits. The Shelter Cluster has endorsed this activity.