Social Protection and Safety Nets in Yemen
Social Protection and Safety Nets in Yemen
The Cairo Regional Bureau of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex are conducting a scoping study of social protection programmes in the Middle East and North Africa region. This scoping exercise is expected to contribute to the development of WFP’s regional social protection strategy. This report on Yemen is one in a series of in-depth country case studies generated for this project. This review provides an overview of social protection policies and safety nets programmes that aim to address poverty, vulnerability and hunger in Yemen, through both government ministries or agencies and non-government organisations. The objectives of this scoping study are to describe and analyse: social protection (particularly safety nets) in Yemen from the perspective of food security and livelihoods and nutrition outcomes; social protection in Yemen for refugees, displaced people, as well as host communities; informal safety nets and their importance in combating hunger and food insecurity in Yemen.