Conducted by Abdullah Khaled, Mohammed Fuad, and Addulkareem Mahmood; PHC Program - Health Sector - Human Access for Development Partnership
1. Introduction & Background
Yemeni people are approaching the tenth year of conflict and the already fragile health system is still in need. Over 21.6 million people are in need. More than 20M people need health assistance, including 13M with acute needs (United Nations OCHA, HNO, Dec. 2022). Nowadays, Yemen is facing a dramatic deterioration in public health and increasing attacks of disease outbreaks such as measles. From 01 January to 31 August 2023, the Executive Unit for IDPs monitored 5,690 households (31,424 individuals) who were displaced from 20 different governorates and they were distributed among 10 governorates. Most of these households were displaced from Al Hodeidah governorate; about 44%, then Taiz; about 27% (Executive Unit for IDPs Camps Management, DTR, Aug. 2022). Fortunately, the peace in Yemen become closer than before, which may direct the humanitarian actors to augment the developmental approach in their interventions, strengthening people's resilience and leaving no one behind.
The purpose of this need assessment is to explore the situation of returnees, internal displaced persons (IDPs), and the host communities in 15 sub-districts of five highly affected districts; Al Wazi'yah, Mawza’ and Salah districts of Taiz governorate, and Marib City and Marib Wadi districts of Marib governorate (Table 1 in the PDF).