1. YEMEN NUTRITION CLUSTER 2015 GNC meeting, 13 th Oct 2015 Nairobi - Kenya

2. 2 Emergency Nutrition Response in Yemen 13 th – 15 th October, 2015 Nairobi, Kenya MAP

3. Country Context 3 Pre-crisis (Nutrition Indicators)Current Situation GAM 18 % ( Hodeida)GAM 31% 160,000 SAM537,000 SAM 690,000 MAM1.3 M /MAM 780,000 GAM PLW 830,592 GAM PLW 10.2 Million who require urgent food and livelihoods assistance. 12.9 million who require urgent food and livelihoods assistance. 13.4 million people had no access to safe drinking water 20 Million no access to safe water

4. Nutrition sector Coordination Structure- In Yemen National cluster (UNICEF & MOPH) Hodaida (UNICEF and GHO) Aden (UNICEF and GHO) Taiz (UNICEF and GHO) Amran (UNICEF and GHO) Saada (UNICEF and GHO) AWG SWG

5. NCC Training 20135 PEOPLE IN NEED 2.6 Million Children Under five and Pregnant and Lactating women PEOPLE TARGETED 1.6 Children Under five and Pregnant and Lactating women REQUIRMENTS (US$) 96 Million USD NUMBER OF PARTNERS 35

6. Nutrition SRP 2015 Objectives  Cluster objective 1: Improve equitable access to quality lifesaving services for acute malnourished girls and boys under five and Pregnant and Lactating women (PLW) (PLW).  Cluster objective 2 : improve institutional capacity of MOPHP, and non- governmental organizations to ensure effective, efficient and coherent, decentralized nutrition response  Cluster Objective 3: Prevent under nutrition among girls and boys under five and pregnant and lactating women in priority governorates.  Cluster objective 4: To ensure a predictable, coherent, timely and effective nutrition response through establishing and maintaining partnership among nutrition actors in the country and timely flow of updated nutrition information  Cluster objective 5: Contribute to building of resilience and reduction of vulnerability to malnutrition by establishing linkage with integrated multi- sectorial programs that address underlying causes

7. Strategic Nutrition Priorities CMAM scale up (70% geographic coverage ) Maintain intact and healthy supply pipeline Scale up preventative ( BSFP, Micronutrient ). SMART surveys Effective cluster coordination IYCF

8. Coordination Priorities-2015 Strenthene the coordinations at the subnational level /dedicated team Program quality Decentralization Capacity development of the partners ( especially NGOs) Monitoring /review /accountability

9. Continue…. Better surveillance system. Take MAM programme to scale Social mobilization including mass media campaign for promotion of breast feeding Update the response strategy More integration with health cluster

10. Gaps in resources mobilisation Funding US$12.3 million are urgently required to undertake the most critical activities from September to December 2015. HR –Third party monitoring to enhance monitoring –Dedicated sub cluster coordinators at zonal levels –Invest in local NGOs

11. Gaps in Resource Mobilization Supplies for the rest of 2015 ; 11 Item description Unit Ea/Set/Lt Quantity Unit Cost (USD) Total Supply Cost (USD) Therapeutic spread, sachet 92g/CAR-150 CAR-150 79,000 54.00 4,266,000.00 Amoxici.pdr/oral sus 125mg/5ml/BOT-100ml BOT-100ml 212,000 0.47 99,640.00 Mebendazole 100mg chewable tabs/PAC-100PAC-100 3,300 1.29 4,257.00 Zinc 20mg tablets/PAC-50PAC-50 7,500 1.59 11,925.00 Fe (as fum) +folic 60+0.4mg tab/PAC-1000PAC-1000 12,000 7.01 84,120.00 Portable baby/chd/adt L-H mea.syst/SET-2SET-2 500 298.17 149,085.00 Subtotal-1- 4,615,027.00 Freight and in country transport Lumpsum 1,153,756.75 Subtotal-2- 1,153,756.75 Total 5,768,783.75

12. Sector/Cluster SRP Achievement in terms of targets 12

13. Challenges in achieving strategic priorities –Limited NGO capacity and in-country presence, especially of international NGOs. –Government staff turnover and its implication on the collapse of the health system –The collapse of the banking system in some governorates in the South –Constant changes to the operational environment and increased operational costs (e.g. due to insecurity, reduced INGOs presence, having to use mobile modalities and increased fuel costs) –Inadequate field monitoring due to insecurity. –Insufficient timeliness and completeness of routine reporting. –Ongoing displacement and population movements. –Predictability of the funding / donors conditions. 13