Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations visits cash-for-work activities and supports response effectiveness

The Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States, Mr. Murad Wahba, and the accompanying ‎delegation visited sites of two SFD operation projects targeting the displaced persons and ‎the unemployed in Sana'a City. The visting team was briefed on details of ‎both interventions and spoke with the beneficiaries about their situation, their ‎satisfaction with such cash-for-work based projects, their benefit from the ‎project and how project design suited female workers. ‎

The workers met the visitors and expressed their happiness to have been registered in the ‎projects labor force confirming their preference of the ‎cash-for-work approach in light of their humanitarian crisis and that the labor wages helped them respond to the ‎most important needs of their families, such as paying their housing rents, purchasing baby milk, basic food, medicines and meeting the basic ‎requirements for their children's education. Members of the delegation also heard from ‎the SFD officials about the measures the SFD has taken to enable women to work in ‎appropriate components.

‎Meantime, the SFD management held a meeting with Mr. Wahba and his team members and listened ‎to a presentation on the SFD's emergency activities and its varying and sustainable ‎outcomes that respond to the country's emergency building on the SFD's two-‎decade experience in working with the community and partners. The meeting discussed ‎aspects of cooperation and partnership between both institutions and means of enhancing ‎them in order to contribute to responding to the highest needs of vulnerable groups ‎affected by the conflict. The meeting confirmed on the need to exchange experiences and ‎to develop a joint policy paper with aim to enhance the effectiveness of the SFD emergency ‎response to the humanitarian crisis impact in Yemen.‎