Improving access to lifesaving services for high-risk populations in in Ibb, Al Hudeaydah, Sa’ada and Aden in Yemen. This is a one-year intervention designed to protect and improve access to essential services for highly vulnerable, conflict-affected populations in Yemen. The action has been developed in line with the First Allocation Strategy 2018, the Protection Strategy and the revised Humanitarian Protection Strategy 2018. 

The target beneficiaries for this project include most vulnerable and at risk children (girls and boys), women and men affected by the conflict in Ibb, Al Hudaydah, Sa’ada and Aden. Specifically, these will include girls and boys affected by grave child rights violations especially children injured due to landmines, airstrikes, shelling, children recruited by armed forces and groups and children affected by sexual violence perpetrated by armed forces and groups unaccompanied and separated children cases of gender-based violence affecting girls and women cases of sexual violence affecting boys and men other most vulnerable and at risk persons with specific needs, and children and adults without travel/identification documents. 

Activities making up the intervention are mainly mainly first-line response protection interventions prioritized by the Protection Cluster. The first line protection interventions include rapid protection assessment for identification of People with Special Needs (PWSN ) service mapping and community-level protection risks protection cash assistance, especially victim assistance Case Management for PWSN - civil documentation case management -  tracing amp reunification alternative care for unaccompanied displaced children and case management - multi-sectoral Gender-Based Violence response services. 

Under second line activities we shall support establishment and operationalisation of community based protection networks (CBPNs).

Save the Children has grounded expertise and experience in implementing protection projects of this nature. Since the 60’s to date, Save the Children has been implementing integrated protection interventions targeting vulnerable and risk individuals and populations with elements such protection assessments to understand protection needs and develop effective prevention and response interventions, case management services designed to respond to and prevent protection risks/concerns including separation of children from parents/primary caregivers and ensuring appropriate alternative care while tracing and reunification efforts continue, protection assistance to support extremely vulnerable individuals to meet their basic essential needs and access basic services, providing community-based psychosocial support interventions for children and their communities, and building and strengthening capacities at community level to improve their resilience and participation in their own protection. Over the time, Save the Children has built human resources capacity, tools, systems and expertise in protection programming in Yemen and has access to backstopping support from technical experts at Regional and Global levels.

The conflict-affected target population totals at 28,467 people, the majority children (both boys and girls) but also including adults. The targeted districts are Al Mashannah in Ibb, Ad Durayhimi and Bayt Al Faqiah in Al Hodeida, Majz and As Safra in Sa’ada and Sheiks Othman in Aden.