Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project (WB-P176129)

Countries
  • Yemen
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
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Bank Risk Rating
A
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Voting Date
Apr 27, 2021
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
United Nations Development Programme
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Sectors
  • Education and Health
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Investment Type(s)
Grant
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 100.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 127.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Jul 13, 2021

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Project Description
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According to bank documents, the project objective is to improve availability and access to food and nutritious diets, both in the short and medium term, for targeted households in the Project Area, and to enhance Yemen’s capacity to respond to food insecurity.

The project has four components:

  1. Component 1: Improving household incomes through CFW for agricultural production infrastructure (US$20.0 million, including US$5.0 million from GAFSP and US$15.0 million from IDA). UNDP will implement this component through the Social Fund for Development (SFD) and the Public Works Project (PWP).

  2. Component 2: Increasing production and sale of nutritious crop, livestock and fish products (US$33.0 million, including US$10.0 million from GAFSP and US$23.0 million from IDA). This Component will be implemented by FAO. The Component would allocate resources to provide key support for smallholder farmers and producers to invest in productive assets and help improve their capacity to better commercialize their products and enter new markets.
    1. Sub-component 2.1: Restoring climate-smart agricultural production (US$15.0 million, including US$ 5.0 million from GAFSP and US$10.0 million from IDA). The Input Package for agricultural producers will promote climate-smart agricultural production focusing on smallholder’s re-engagement in horticulture, crop and livestock farming, bee-keeping and fish production.
    2. Sub-component 2.2: Promoting value addition and sale of nutritious food products (US$20.0 million, including US$5.0 million from GAFSP and US$15.0 million from IDA). The second package of
      interventions (Value Addition Package) will provide in-kind grants to support enterprising producers, processors and traders to scale up, add value to their products, improve product quality and aggregation, consolidate production, and access local and regional markets with their products.

  3. Component 3: Improving the nutritional status of vulnerable rural households (US$49.3 million, all IDA).

    1. Sub-component 3.1: Promoting kitchen gardens and backyard production for improved diets (US$10.0 million, all IDA). 
    2. Sub-component 3.2: Promoting women’s rural entrepreneurship for improved nutrition and food security (US$14.3 million, all IDA).
    3. Sub-component 3.3: Providing nutrition assistance to treat and prevent malnutrition (US$25.0 million, all IDA) for pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWG) and children under 5 years old. 

  4. Component 4: Capacity building for food security management (US$6.0 million, all IDA). FAO will lead implementation of this component in cooperation with other partner organizations.

  5. Component 5: Project Management and Knowledge Management (US$16.7 million, including US$3.2 million from GAFSP and US$13.5 million from IDA). This component would cover the costs
    associated with project management for all three Implementing Agencies (FAO, UNDP and WFP), recognizing the particularly challenging operating conditions in Yemen.
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World Bank:
Sandra Broka
Senior Agriculture Economist

Borrower:
United Nations Development Programme
Auke Lootsma
Resident Representative UNDP Yemen
Auke.lootsma@undp.org

World Food Programme
Laurent Bukera
Representative and Country Director, WFP Yemen
laurent.bukera@wfp.org

Food and Agriculture Organization
Hussein Gadain
FAO Representative in Yemen
Hussein.Gadain@fao.org

Implementing Agencies
World Food Programme
Laurent Bukera
Representative and Country Director, WFP Yemen
laurent.bukera@wfp.org

Food and Agriculture Organization
Hussein Gadain
FAO Representative in Yemen
Hussein.Gadain@fao.org

United Nations Development Programme
Auke Lootsma
Resident Representative UNDP Yemen
Auke.lootsma@undp.org 

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ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF THE WORLD BANK

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