May 2013: Watch how Yemeni families are receiving treatment for their children's malnutrition.

SANA’A, Yemen, 21 May 2013 - Born just over a year apart, sisters Onood and Ohood Nassar Al Hajria may face very different futures. Ohood’s eyes shine and sparkle as she plays with her younger sibling. Slightly unsure, 3-year-old Onood looks up at her older sister for approval.

Introduction

This review is concerned with the financing arrangements for programmes that address acute malnutrition at scale through the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM). The CMAM approach is geared towards the early detection, treatment and counselling of moderately and severely acutely malnourished children, in the community, by community agents.

May 16, 2013 - 02:09 -

WAM SANA'A, May 16th, 2013 (WAM) -- The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation (KF) in Yemen has distributed 17,000 food parcels to poor Yemeni families in Sana'a.

The move is within the sixth stage of the Foundation's distribution of food assistance among the needy in implementation of the AED 500 million aid announced by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for Yemen.

10 million people in Yemen need food aid, of whom about 5 million face acute food shortages; 6 million people do not have access to health care; and 1 million children are facing malnutrition, with some 150,000 of them facing the risk of death due to acute malnutrition.

WFP continues its efforts to deliver food aid to five million people in a challenging operating environment. New funding will be needed by end-June to avoid supply problems.

The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.

Over 182,000 IDPs have returned so far, of which about 146,000 are in 11 districts of Abyan Governorate. About 322,444 IDPs continue to be displaced in the north (Sana’a included) and only 36,845 returnees to Sa’ada Governorate. Ethiopian migrants with the hope of crossing over to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continue to migrate into Yemen.

Posted by Nora Fyles, Yona Nestel and Koli Banik
A call to action to promote gender equality in education

7 May 2013: No country should be left behind in ensuring gender equality in education, reflect UNGEI’s Nora Fyles, Plan’s Yona Nestel and the Global Partnership for Education’s Koli Banik, following the recent global education summit.

HIGHLIGHTS

• The plight of migrants from the Horn of Africa has worsened, with 25,000 people stranded in Haradh.

• More than 200 schools have been rehabilitated by USAID and the Ministry of Education since 2011.

• Civil disobedience in Abyan has disrupted schooling with 12 schools reportedly attacked in March.

• Suspected cases of measles reported in Hajjah Governorate.

• 25,000 tons of food to be distributed to 900,000 people in Bani Mtar District of Sana'a Governorate.