Addressing the essential Shelter/NFI, CCCM, and Protection needs of IDPs and Extremely Vulnerable Host Communities in Yemen in 2020 Through the proposal hereby presented, UNHCR as the lead agency for Protection, Shelter/NFI, and CCCM clusters, aims to support IDPs and extremely vulnerable host communities in the governorates of Hajjah, Al Hudaydah, Sana'a, Sa'ada, Taizz, Ibb, and Amran through complementary interventions among above-mentioned clusters as well as strengthening the linkages and facilitating the provision of services (like WASH, food, education, etc) at the site level.

The identification of the beneficiaries is based on needs assessments undertaken by UNHCR as of 8 December 2019.  UNHCR monitors the needs at the household level with the help of two key tools: The Initial Needs Assessment Tool (INAT) in the north and Protection Monitoring Tools (PMT) in the south. INAT and PMT produce primary data at the household level, and they are utilized regularly with the support of UNHCR’s partners and the protection monitoring teams in Hajjah, Al Hudaydah, Sana'a, Sa'ada, Taizz, Dhamar, Ibb, Al Dhale'e, Al Bayda, Amran, Amanat Al Asimah, and Al Jawf. 

According to the recent data collected as part of UNHCR’s Initial Needs Assessment in the North and Protection Monitoring in the South in early December 2019, as many as 134,216 families have been reported in need of NFI, 12,826 families in need of shelter, and 107,579 families in need of protection services in Hajjah, Al Hudaydah, Sana'a, Sa'ada, Taizz, Dhamar, Ibb, Al Dhale'e, Al Bayda, Amran, Amanat Al Asimah, and Al Jawf since January 2019. 

The identification of beneficiaries also follows the established vulnerability criteria of the Shelter/NFIs, CCCM, and Protection Clusters. 

For protection activities, UNHCR aims to support three IDP community centers providing essential protection services to over 18,119 individuals, including protection monitoring and assessments, multipurpose cash assistance, child protection, and gender-based violence response, referrals, and psychological support for adults and children. The community centers, located in Al Taiziya district in Taizz, Bani Hushaysh district in Sana’a, and Al Ganawis district in Al Hudaydah have been selected since they have a high volume of IDPs according to UNHCR assessment tools (INAT ampPMT).

For shelter/NFIs activities, UNHCR targets a total of 77,070 households of IDPs and host communities with shelter support, including 9,189 households with NFIs and 1,821 households with Emergency Shelters Kits in Al Hudaydah, Sana'a, Ibb, and Sa'adah governorates. The identification of target locations is based on UNHCR INAT amp PMT tools as well as feedback from UNHCR field teams and UNHCR’s partners' monitoring teams. 

For CCCM activities, UNHCR aims to continue its support to the CCCM efforts to provide first contact assistance in the field (specifically at the IDP site locations), including service mapping, referrals of cases in need of urgent assistance to the protection Cluster Community Centres and available service providers in the site areas as well as site maintenance and improvement. The CCCM activities will reach over 155,728 of IDPs and vulnerable host communities living in the sites in Hajjah and Amran. The identified locations for intervention is based on the CCCM Cluster's prioritized sites and UNHCR's access through its partners. 

The proposal is inserted as part of UNHCR's overall strategy for 2020 in terms of direct support to IDPs and host communities under its areas of responsibility (AOR). The targets mentioned above are limited to the HRP specific related activities and represent about 10% of the overall operations budget (and targets) for the overall intervention. It is important however to mention the key role of the HPF funds due to its nature and direct linkages with the HRP as an entry point to establish complementarities with other clusters for the IDPs response.

The proposal has also linkages and synergies with the 2 projects being implemented by UNHCR under the previous standard allocations.