Amount of decision: 2,530,000 euro
Decision reference number: ECHO/YEM/BUD/2004/01000
Explanatory Memorandum
1 - Rationale, needs and target population:
1.1. - Rationale:
Yemen is one of the poorest countries
in the world; it's still slowly recovering from the war which opposed the
North and the South of the country until 1994. Contrary to other countries
which suffered trough a war, Yemen never received massive assistance from
the international community, which helps to explain why, even after the
conflict's end, the country has difficulties to right itself. The population