Envelop 1: Emergency integrated assistance for vulnerable people affected by the crisis in Yemen Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East. With the Yemen conflict, the humanitarian situation across the country continues to deteriorate. Since March 2015, violence in Yemen has claimed thousands of lives and resulted in more than 17 million people – over 60% of the total population – requiring emergency food assistance. 
Following the calls and alerts raised by the international community and humanitarian actors to see new INGOs intervening in Yemen to support the emergency response, SI has decided to launch an exploratory mission in January 2017 followed by field assessments that have confirmed relevancy of SI intervention strategy and urgent needs for new partners’ presence. SI has been focusing its assessments in the South for now as the needs are still very wide, and the number and capacity of active partners is limited in comparison to the extensive gaps. Additionally, SI has been granted access in the South by Hadi government which allows to start implementing humanitarian aid delivery, however, SI is still waiting to be granted access to the North of Yemen to deploy its humanitarian intervention there as well. 

The analysis of primary and secondary data collected during SI field assessments, identified gaps in all sectors (Health, Nutrition, FSL, WASH, Shelter, Protection, Education). The results of SI assessments have highlighted the need for SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL to implement an emergency program in Lahj governorate to address the needs of vulnerable communities in the sectors of FSL, WASH (WASH in communities and WASH in health and nutrition) and Shelter. However in this project SI will only work in the sectors of FSL and WASH (WASH in communities). The needs covered under the cluster Shelter/CCCM/NFIs will be addressed through other fundings. The targeted area for SI for this YHPF funding will be the district of Al Qabbaytah (in Hadi controlled areas) to complement a short-time project funded by the Centre de Crise (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

The scope of the crisis in Yemen makes it difficult to ensure an adequate coverage of needs to large areas simultaneously. For this reason, SI intervention strategy aims at maximizing the impact of SI’s actions by implementing a multi-sector integrated response focused on one specific geographical area.
The proposed action is developed in order to address the urgent needs of the households affected by malnutrition, food insecurity and waterborne disease (AWD, cholera...) and will emphasize strong collaboration and coordination with Health and Nutrition actors to provide a full integrated package response. The following activities will be implemented:
- Distribution of cash vouchers
- Improvement of water and sanitation infrastructures at community and household level, in vulnerable communities 
- Training on operation and maintenance of the water infrastructures as well as IPC to the water management committees

On another hand, considering the high influx of newly arrived IDPs in the southern governorates of Taizz, Lahj and Abyan since December 2017, SI intends to extend its potential area of intervention to these 3 governorates. In these areas, SI scope of intervention would be limited to the rapid provision of WaSH emergency assistance to sudden shock. This shock could be either population displacements, cholera or acute watery diarrhea outbreak, natural disaster, etc. The activities implemented will be the following:
- Development of a WASH contingency stockpiling
- Development of a WaSH contingency capacity to respond to any significant emergency (cholera or AWD outbreak, significant new population displacement, etc.).