Annual Country Report 2023: Yemen. Country Strategic Plan 2023-2025

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2023.

English

94 p.

ELR2285

While 2023 was the most peaceful year in Yemen since the conflict erupted, humanitarian needs remained widespread. WFP assisted 15.3 million girls and boys, women, and men across its activities in Yemen in 2023, making Yemen WFP’s second-largest operation worldwide. This represents 47 percent of the Yemeni population and includes 3.1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), and an estimated 2.3 million persons with disabilities. WFP provided general food assistance (GFA) with reduced rations to all 13 million people assisted, at a reduced frequency - giving already food insecure households less food, less frequently. WFP was also forced to significantly scale down its use of cash-based transfers (CBT) in 2023, reversing significant progress made in recent years. As funding dwindled, WFP was in October forced to also stop life-saving malnutrition treatment to more than 200,000 malnourished children - one-third of everyone targeted under the programme. As the 2023-2024 school year started, WFP was forced to reduce the scale of its school feeding programme, with 1.4 million schoolchildren no longer enjoying the nutritional and educational benefits of receiving meals at school.

Electronic ed.

ELR 2285

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