Int’l community should respond to Yemen needs plan for 2019: Official says

SANAA, Feb. 4 (YPA) – Undersecretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor for Development Sector Yahya Qarwash on Monday said that Yemen has developed the needs plan for 2019, and the international community and humanitarian organizations should respond to it.

“We can not accept any humanitarian response plan set up outside Yemen and does not meet the needs of 30 million Yemenis for food and medicine due to the aggression and unjust siege for the fourth year in a row,” Qarwash told Yemen Press Agency.

Qarwash noted that there are more than 54 international organizations and more than 80 local organizations and institutions working in the humanitarian field in Yemen, adding “unless they meet priority needs of Yemenis in 2019, according to the needs plan, we will consider them profit organizations.”

He revealed that the international organizations take up 60 per cent of the financing of any project in its official headquarters, and what is delivered from aid and humanitarian assistance to Yemeni citizens does not exceed 20 per cent of the cost of the project.

In this regard, Qarwash stressed that the funding of projects of international organizations in Yemen should be 50% from their countries of origin and 50% from OCHA, which gets donations from the Yemeni Humanitarian Fund.

He referred that 14 organizations are working in the field of protection and did not carry out their humanitarian activities as required, noting that most of their projects do not meet any protection for the reality of children and women and displaced people whose homes were destroyed.