Priority 2: Provision of sustainable shelter solutions for persons affected by protracted crises and returnees

Objectives

In line with priority 2 of 2022 SA1 objectives and cluster objectives, this project intends to address the acute needs of the most vulnerable IDPs amp persons affected by protracted crises and returnees, giving a special focus on minority groups, people with disabilities, female-headed households, vulnerable children, disaster victims, GBV survivors, elderlies amp people with special needs amp, etc at Almtoon district – Aljawf Gov., Almodhafar District – Taiz Gov. amp Marib district- Marib Gov. YFCA in minor partnership with NDEO (Nabd Development and Evaluation Orgnization, an active, committed and capable local NGO at Almotoon district) is planning to target 3,682 individual IDP amp returnees of the most vulnerable affected individuals (721 men,752 women, 1082 boys, 1127 girls) through the provision of houses rehabilitation at Almtoon amp Almodhafar districts and provision of transitional shelter, shelter maintenanceamp upgrade specifically at Marib district. The provided assistance along with the targeted locations was identified considering the acute needs of the most vulnerable population to improve their access to adequate, sustainable shelter solutions resulting in enhancing their physical living space, thus improving habitability, safety, health, dignity, privacy, protection from adverse climate and protection risks, cultural suitability, availability of services, access to livelihoods, and relative tenure security. Through this project, returnees' inclusion will be promoted which will effectively encourage other IDPs to return besides assisting returnees to settle in their homes by providing the necessary shelter assistance amp enriching their skills with their direct engagement of them in the project implementation. YFCA intervention for each district will be as follows: - 180 Transitional shelters will be provided to the IDPs with prolonged displacement situations in Marib district. - 200 IDP houses to be provided with shelter maintenance amp upgrade in Marib district. - 50 returnees' houses will be rehabilitated in Almtoon district- Aljawf Gov. - 96 returnees' houses will be rehabilitated in Almodhafar district- Taiz Gov. - The livelihood component will be integrated closely within the provided interventions where BNFs will be trained amp supported with the necessary technical amp financial support. YFCA will be following the shelter cluster selection amp vulnerability criteria along with the implementation Guidelines, ensuring that age, gender, and diversity approach is used to establish the needs. The targeted districts are located within Marib, Taiz/Aden amp Sa’ada Hubs where YFCA has its main sub-offices, a well-trained team on shelter amp protection who strictly adhere to all necessary shelter amp protection requirements of the beneficiaries to carry out the main implementation task with backstopping support from the main office in Sana’a benefiting from its robust coordination with the Executive Units for Marib ampTaiz Gov and SCMCHA for Aljawf Gov. as well as the coordination with Shelter, Protection amp WASH clusters, RRM, IOM, and active partners in the targeted locations has already been done to support and facilitate the planned interventions and to avoid any duplication with other partners. YFCA is fully experienced with the local contexts and planned interventions where YFCA was the first NGO to provide sustainable interventions to Marib community specifically the shelter maintenance amp upgrade amp the transitional shelter.