Provision of Protection Services for IDPs and Host Communities including GBV cases/survivors  in Ahwar and khanfer districts of Abyan governorate In view of the YHF's 2022 3rd Reserve Allocation  priorities and in coordination with protection cluster (main cluster, GBV,), YWU is intending to implement a project targeting 8435 vulnerable people from IDPs, and the host community in Ahwer and Khanfer districts of Abyan governorate .The project will target 8435  from the most vulnerable persons with specific protection needs, such as women and girls at risk, persons with serious medical conditions/chronic illnesses, older persons, persons with disabilities ,GBV case/survivors (20%) ,and marginalized communities .

YWU has a current protection intervention in Abyan in which women safe space has been established in Zangibar district to provide protection services including protection cash assistance, psychological and legal services ,training and livelihood intervention and case management for women and girls  including GBV cases/survivors  .Most of women especially who are in Ahwar district find difficulties to approach YWU's safe space who are in Zangibar district ,because of the far distance between them ,as the distance between Zangibar and Ahwer is 168 K .Moreover,Most of IDPs live in Khanfer district in which most women are suffering  from poor living condition that prevent them to cover the cost of transportation to approach the protection services provided in YWU's safe space. Therefore,YWU will seek to provide protection services for the women in these targeted district though Mobile teams. 2 mobile team will be established ,one per target district. Each team will consist of 3 persons ,one legal specialist ,one psychological specialist and one social worker  .The mobile team will provide the protection services for the cases reported by CBPNs and referred by YWU's safe space .The mobile team will visit the reported and referred cases  in their location  and provide them with case management by social worker to identify their needs ,than the social worker will refer  the cases who need legal support to the legal specialist and the cases who need psychological support to the psychological specialist .Moreover ,the mobile teams will conduct awareness sessions for the community on  International Humanitarian Law and protection issues and they will also identify the cases who need protection services during conducting the awareness sessions .  The planned protection services  provided by the mobile team  will include the following components (i) case management including identification of the needs ,referral to YWU's mobile team specialists or referral to other services providers in case the needs aren't available within YWU's serveries   (ii) Legal assistance including individual and group counseling, legal awareness sessions, and mediation (iii) Psychosocial support including individual and group counseling, and psycho-social awareness.

Moreover, women and children are among the most vulnerable groups in the context of conflict and displacement as UNFPA warned that more than 3 million Yemeni women and girls were at risk of violence, findings of UNHCR protection monitoring, 16% of assessed women are heading households. In the absence of male breadwinners, and lack of adequate empowerment and support, women and girls may be forced to resort to harmful coping mechanisms such as early marriages. As a result of this protection dire necessity situation, YWU aims through this project to deliver other protection assistance to vulnerable, conflict-affected and displaced individuals including (iv) Protection cash Assistance to be delivered to vulnerable IDPs and host communities who have been already assessed by the monitors and met the vulnerability criteria for the protection cash assistance  (v) Empowering vulnerable women including of GBV cases /survivors .

YWU will ensure  its accountability to Persons of Concern including Complaints and Feedback Mechanisms and Communication with Communities .