Strengthen the monitoring and documentation of Human rights violations in newly accessible and hard-to-reach areas of 14 governorates OHCHR proposes this 12-months project to monitor the violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws as well as the key protection issues, in line with the protection strategy objectives. Through this project, OHCHR field monitors will identify the victims of IHL/IHRL violations who are in need of assistance, inform the humanitarian organizations for appropriate response and advocate for the protection of civilians in Yemen. The monitoring component will be at the level of 14 governorates and will cover all districts of the targeted locations. The project will also assist the protection cluster in identifying and providing essential protection services through community based protection network (CBPN) centers.
This project aims at strengthening the monitoring and documentation of IHL/IHRL violations by deploying 14 additional field human rights monitors to 14 different governorates of Yemen in addition to one human rights officer in Sanaa. As leading human rights monitoring body of UN, OHCHR Yemen has been monitoring the violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws through its field presences by deploying13 field human rights monitors in 11 governorates. However, it has had difficulties and challenges in covering all 20 conflict-affected governorates due to its limited field presences. By increasing the presence of field monitors at governorate level, OHCHR expects that it will be able to increase human rights monitoring activities in newly-accessible and hard to reach areas in Yemen, which will eventually make a more positive impact in terms of protection of civilians in the country. Through strengthened monitoring, verification and documentation activities of OHCHR, more cases of IHL/IHRL violations will be monitored and documented, through which more victims/survivors will be identified and referred for further assistance and support. In addition, OHCHR in partnership with other humanitarian partners will contribute to building the capacity of community-based protection networks in three target governorates in human rights monitoring, which will eventually help humanitarian partners to respond to protection needs of IHL/IHRL victims more efficiently. 
Through this project, OHCHR also plans to conduct several awareness raising sessions on human rights at community level, covering protection risks including human rights violations and abuses, and presenting accessible services in the area. Following each training, some community members from target districts will be selected to become Community Protection Volunteers, who will be tasked with community level human rights and protection monitoring, conducting awareness raising and group information sessions and referring the cases of human rights violations for other services. The project will be implemented in partnership with Sam Organizations for Rights and Development, one of the national front-line partners which provides legal and psychosocial support for the victims of human rights violations targeting women, men, boys and girls, focusing on responding to concerns, threats and incidents identified. 
Strengthening the capacity of monitoring and documentation of IHL/IHRL violations is the most important component of this project, which involves hiring and deploying and additional number of human rights monitors to the field. This is why the staffing and personnel cost takes up more than 68% of the total project cost mainly because of the nature of the human rights monitoring work.