Provision of multi-sectoral emergency assistance focusing on protection and food security response to the most vulnerable and exposed IDPs and returnees in Al Wazi'iyah district, Ta'izz governorate. As reported in the 2022 HRP, Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis for another year. The conflict keeps escalating and the economic and political crisis continues to worsen the living conditions of the population, especially Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), that are now approximately 4.3 million. According to the updated HNO analysis October 2022, 17 million people or over half of the population in Yemen, will likely experience high levels of Acute Food Insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above), moreover 53 percent of the analyzed population (31.9* million) will likely experience high acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3+). 

The proposed intervention aims to address the immediate needs of conflict-affected populations at risk of hunger and food insecurity. It focuses on the provision emergency food assistance with coordination with other partners as much as possible of providing multi-sectoral emergency responses, for the most vulnerable IDPs and host-communities HHs in Al Wazi’iyah district of Ta'izz governorate, which is scoring IPC 4, with significant service gaps identified in these locations with barely any partners intervening
	
During the inception phase i.e. 2-3 months, SI will seek approvals for the sub agreements and other permits from MOPIC to allow implementation of the activities. Once the permits are secured, SI will conduct market assessment and a Baseline study to help establish cash modality and benchmark for food security indicators whereas an endline survey to assess the relevance, effectiveness and impact of the interventions. Regular monitoring and reporting will be integral part while PDM after two to three weeks of each disbursement will also be conducted to know the utility of the cash and beneficiaries’ satisfaction level.

The total number of people targeted by this project is 4,760 (1095 men, 1333 women, 1190 boys, and 1142 girls), including 1,400 IDPs and 3,360 host communities and returnees. This represents 680 households in the targeted location.

The proposed project is in line with the proposed interventions of other humanitarian actors (IMC and Care – Health/Nutrition) in order to increase the impact of the action and allow for an integrated response (please refer to the "complementarity" section for more details).

In order to respond to these most urgent needs, SI will focus its intervention on 2 axes:
1/To improve food security and reducing negative coping strategies through the distribution of unconditional cash transfers (cash-for-food). 
2/ To deliver quality humanitarian assistance respecting the dignity of the affected populations through consultation with various beneficiary groups on the development of the project, full transparency towards the target population, promotion of the feedback and complaints mechanism and awareness raising on PSEA.
 
The project will therefore provide food security assistance to the most vulnerable IDPs and host-communities at the household and community levels, in order to restore access to essential food items, that has been lost or damaged due to protracted crises and thus reduce the risk and/or incidence of morbidity and mortality associated with outbreaks of disease, displacement and hazardous living conditions.