Strengthening Protection and Resilience for Vulnerable Communities in Yemen


Protection issues are a driver and effect of deepening humanitarian needs in Yemen. This thematic contribution to the NRC Protection portfolio will boost NRC capacities to deliver protection services and legal assistance to vulnerable individuals, strengthen communities’ protective capacities, and to uphold protection coordination of the humanitarian system in Yemen. In doing so, SDC takes a principled stance to maintain operational space for protection activities in the whole of Yemen.

Pays/région Thème Période Budget
Yemen
Aide d'urgence et protection
Développement économique inclusif
Protection, accès & sécurité
Données et statistiques
15.07.2026 - 14.07.2029
CHF  2’040’000
Contexte Yemen remains one of the most complex and acute humanitarian crises in 2026: 22,3 million people require humanitarian assistance and protection. Protection risks – both structural and conflict-related – are one of the key drivers of humanitarian needs in Yemen, leading to displacement, food insecurity, economic vulnerability. At the same time, the system’s ability to respond is curtailed by funding cuts and severe operational constraints. With a fractured and increasingly restrictive humanitarian space, flexible, and well-established humanitarian actors are essential to ensure operational reach/services, visibility of the sector and application of agreed standards
Objectifs Conflict-affected and displaced people in Yemen live in a strengthened, protective environment, with equitable access to integrated protection and legal services that uphold their safety, dignity, and fundamental rights
Groupes cibles

Direct beneficiaries: conflict-affected individuals and communities, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), marginalized groups, host communities, children without birth registration, unaccompanied children.

Systems-level: Protection Cluster, Joint Humanitarian Partnership (JHP), Child Protection and Mine Action actors, Yemen Humanitarian Fund, UNHCR.

Effets à moyen terme
  • People experiencing protection violations and legal rights deprivations are protected from risks and access protection and legal services
  • Displacement-affected and marginalized communities demonstrate increased capacity to prevent, identify, and respond to protection risks and legal rights violations.
  • National and sub-national protection cluster coordination structures are strengthened, providing technical and quality support for the overall protection response in Yemen.
Résultats

Principaux résultats attendus:  

  • People receive individual protection assistance (IPA)
  • People receive capacity strengthening on community self-protection
  • Coordination mechanism receives additional capacity
  • Provision of legal assistance for Legal Identity
  • Provision of legal assistance for Housing, Land and Property (HLP)


Principaux résultats antérieurs:   N/A


Direction/office fédéral responsable DDC
Partenaire de projet Partenaire contractuel
ONG internationale ou étrangère
  • Norwegian Refugee Council


Coordination avec d'autres projets et acteurs

Protection Partners: Protection Cluster and AORs, DRC (protection monitoring), UNHCR 

Mine Action: Mine Action Area of Responsibility (AOR)/Working Group, Halo Trust, Humanity and Inclusion (HI)

Child Protection: UNICEF, CAAC Group of Friends (GoF)

Humanitarian System: JHP, YHF, OCHA

Budget Phase en cours Budget de la Suisse CHF    2’040’000 Budget suisse déjà attribué CHF    0 Projet total depuis la première phase Budget de la Suisse CHF   0 Budget y compris partenaires de projet CHF   2’040’000
Phases du projet Phase 1 15.07.2026 - 14.07.2029   (Phase en cours)