RNE Resilience Workshop, 8 -10 Feb, 2015 Egypt

1. Enhancing Rural Resilience in Yemen
(ERRY)
Funding from the European Union
FAO, WFP, UNDP and ILO
Presentation to FAO Resilience Workshop
10 February 2015
Sylvain Merlen
Head of Aden Sub-Office
UNDP Yemen

2. Questions
Suggestions
Discussion

3. Questions
Suggestions
Discussion

4. Enhancing Rural Resilience in Yemen
(ERRY)
Funding from the European Union
FAO, WFP, UNDP and ILO
Presentation to FAO Resilience Workshop
10 February 2015
Sylvain Merlen
Head of Aden Sub-Office
UNDP Yemen

5. Yemen : Opportunities
• Ongoing resilience-building activities/lessons learned
– Early Recovery and Livelihoods/Entrepreneurship (UNDP)
– Food Security (WFP) and Agricultural Livelihoods (FAO)
• Strong coordination forums (SLEG, ER, FSA, RG)
• Diagnosis tools available
– Comprehensive Conflicts Analysis
– Multi-dimensional Livelihoods Assessment, using SLF
– Comprehensive Food Security Surveys
• UNCT Resilience Strategy putting synergies first
rather than sector- and group-specific resilience

6. ERRY : Summary of key aspects
• Communities, empowerment until self-mobilization
• Geographical Synergies, select locations in 4
Governorates (out of 23) with set targeting criteria
• Policy Support Integrated to other outputs
• Government plans integrated in project (YEAP)
• Strong investment in employment creation
• Not Sector or Group specific but specifically seek to
include Vulnerable Groups in selection
• Empowerment (communities and vulnerable group)
as central part of resilience building

7. Yemen : Challenges for joint action
• Staff turnover matters from design to launch
• Agency own competing priority mandates
• Silos
• Scattered interventions, spread thin
• Political instability getting worse
• Never the right time
(optimally resilience takes time + good basis)

8. Safeguards built-in the project design
• Full documentation mitigates effect of staff turnover
• Different activities but Strong common framework
• Tight collaborative work between Agencies teams
• Enough time to discover/understand each other’s
comparative advantage and geographical focus
• Strong and innovative project governance (JPCT)
• Donor very engaged with feedback/guidance
• Work at local level (+CSOs, private sector, informal
power holders ) to mitigate effect of state crises
• Constant scanning of political environment and risks