Reporting period 16-31 December 2011
Highlights
• As UNICEF started to scale up its response to fight malnutrition in Yemen, a Partnership Cooperation Agreement with Relief International was signed to deliver an integrated nutrition, health and WASH package in two districts in Hajja governorate.
• Renewed outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea, with twelve deaths reported in Ibb in the last two months. AWD raged in southern governorates in 2011, but had shown signs of abating.
• 1,747 families in Haidan district of Sa’ada, have received water filters and hygiene kits. 208 families in Rahban, Sa’ada, have received 1000 litre water storage tanks.