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OXFAM YEMEN

Humanitarian Response Humanitarian Facts & Oxfam Response

Issue 45 19 July 2017 - Monthly

HUMANITARIAN LEAD: OXFAM GB

20.7 m in need of aid

15.7 m in need of WaSH 17.1 m Food insecure 2.9 m IDPs & returnees (Source: Clusters, OCHA April, 2017)

Women participating in the hygiene awareness sessions in Al-Shamayateen and Al-Ma’afer districts in Taiz governorate, June 2017.

Contact information of Oxfam humanitarian lead regarding this Situation Report: Country Director: Shane Stevenson

Deputy Country Director: Manzoor Ahmed

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Humanitarian update: 

Between 27 April and 18 July 2017, a total of 362,545 suspected cholera/AWD cases and 1817 associated deaths have been reported.



U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien described the cholera outbreak in Yemen as a “man-made catastrophe” caused by the warring sides in the country’s civil war and their 1 international backer during a UNSC briefing on 12 July.



Five hundred thousand cholera vaccines destined for Yemen were suspended and will not be delivered to the country according to a decision made by the Yemeni authorities in consultation with UN technical teams. They concluded that potential problems and 2 risks to distribute the vaccine in war-torn Yemen might outweigh its benefit.



The Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan, appealing for US$2.1 billion, is funded to only 3 42% (as of 19 July).

http://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/statement-andspeech/ERC_USG%20Stephen%20O%27Brien%20Statement%20on%20Yemen%20to%20SecCo%2012July2017%20%20FINAL.pdf 2 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/world/middleeast/world-health-organization-cholera-vaccine-yemen.html 3 https://fts.unocha.org/countries/248/summary/2017

Advocacy update: 

An Oxfam press release was issued on 30 June highlighting the deteriorating situation with regard to cholera, and raising alarm about a possible increase with the rainy season. It also announced the shipment of 39 tonnes of emergency aid to Yemen by Oxfam GB for the beginning of July. The press release has been published in English and Arabic, particularly on social media.



A post together with a video was uploaded on Oxfam's Facebook page, reporting on the aid shipment coming from Oxford. It has been picked up by local Yemeni media.



On 14 June, the advocacy team posted a Facebook live interview with Shane Stevenson, Country Director of Oxfam in Yemen and Jenny Lamb, Oxfam Water & Sanitation Engineering Advisor on Oxfam’s cholera response in Yemen.



Given that fact that international media is not allowed to enter Yemen, the advocacy team commissioned a production company to visit two hospitals and record video material and photos to support the cholera press release (to be published on 20 July).



The advocacy team is working on a brief policy brief on cholera and related issues of food insecurity to be published by the end of July.

Gender: Under the “Women’s Access to Justice” (WAJ) project, our partner, the Yemen Women Union (YWU) has provided legal assistance to 30 women in 4 districts in Hodeida governorate, and conducted training for 120 women in leadership skills and conflict management aiming to empower women to take their role in Yemen. In June, the YWU also conducted the last of a series of roundtables with key women leaders to discuss the main barriers stopping women from accessing their rights and justice system. The YWU headquarter organized a meeting with policy makers and legal stakeholders’ representatives of state institutions including courts as part of WAJ dialogue activities. This meeting comes within the framework of monitoring the implementation of the project and discussing the problems facing its implementation, which will contribute to facilitating women's access to justice. For the women resilience project in Hodeidah, YWU has filled in and registered 200 forms for beneficiaries who will receive Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCT) as emergency assistance, with the first instalment having been paid in June. For a separate intervention, YWU finalized the selection of 80 women for Conditional Cash Assistance (CCA). They will be trained in setting up small businesses with the first training starting in July. To advance female empowerment and increase capacities for female leadership positions in the society, the gender team in Amran has conducted training for 26 women in producing handicrafts in Khamir district in June.

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Field Program Activities

HAJJAH AND AL HUDAYDAH GOVERNOREATES BENEFICIARIES ASSISTED: 652,001 DISTRICTS: Al-Zuhrah, Al-Sukhnah, Hays, Al-Khokha (Al Hudaydah), Abs, Haradh, Hayran (Hajjah)

Food Security The team reached IDPs and members of the host community in 18 villages in Abs to collect secondary data and map the targeted villages. Project Support Committees are currently being formed and some have already drafted the first beneficiary list. In Abs district, the first instalment of UCT was distributed, serving 318 IDP households. The preparation has been done for the second payment which is scheduled in the last week of July. In Alkhoukha district, the Al-Mostaqbal Association – Oxfam’s implementing partner in Hodeida – completed one UCT payment in the first week of June, targeting 268 IDPs households (168 male and 100 female). Each household received 27,000 YER (108 USD) to cover 80 per cent of the monthly food basket.

WASH Public Health Promotion (PHP): Follow up and technical support for the Bani Hassan water supply system (WSS): The WASH team continued the technical support for the Bani Hassan WSS through daily follow ups, and facilitated the project by addressing operational issues. Oxfam is providing diesel for the installed small pump to pump water from Al-Manjoorah tank to Al-Mehsam and nd Al-Okashyah. In addition, Oxfam provided the operational cost for the 2 month to cover the incentives of the operation’s team as per the singed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Cholera response: The team has conducted a number of activities to respond to the cholera outbreak, such as distributing jerry cans (2 jerry cans for each household) to 2114 IDP households in the Bani Hassan IDPs camp. The team, in coordination with the Cleaning Fund Office has conducted a solid waste management campaign for 10 days which started on 13 June in Abs, A beneficiary received 2 jerry cans in Bani Hassan IDP camp. Shafar, Alrabo, Bani Hassan and Der Alhisi. A total of 1045 sessions have been conducted by Oxfam community health volunteers (CHVs) in the target areas in Abs districts focusing on the relationship between hygiene behaviours and AWD/cholera cases. In addition they focused on the transmission, symptoms and prevention methods. 52,234 individuals (7462 households) have participated in these awareness sessions. The team conducted chlorination campaigns in which a total of 1187 trucks (equivalent to 7785 m3 of water) have been chlorinated.

Solid waste management campaign in Abs, Shafar, Alrabo, Bani Hassan and Der Alhisi

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AMRAN AND SA’ADA GOVERNORATES BENEFICIARIES ASSISTED: 130,799 DISTRICTS: Khamir, Houth, Al-Qaflah, Bani Suraim, Habourdolema (Amran), Al-Jawazat, Al-Sahn, Jumaidah, Al-Syanah (Sa’ada)

Food Security Unconditional Cash Transfer: The team conducted a verification exercise in preparation to start UCT activities which will be implemented in Khamer, Houth, Bany Soriem and AL-Qaflah distircts of Amran governorate. An estimated number of 12,600 conflict affected people will receive cash assistance which will enable them to meet their basic food needs.

WASH Public Health Promotion (PHP): Together with the General Authority of Rural Water and Sanitation Project (GARWSP), Oxfam is training 39 community mobilizers (CM) to raise awareness around cholera in 44 villages to supplement the chlorination campaign and raise awareness around hygiene issues. 52 CMs are conducting cholera awareness sessions in 5 districts where they Community Mobilizers receiving ORP materials. have visited 1693 households (2544 male, 1949 female, 819 boys and 828 girls) and informed people on symptoms of AWD/cholera, hand washing and boiling water. The PHP team has finished the distribution of hygiene kits for 1450 IDP households. 37 CMs from Oxfam, together with the Ministry of Health carried out 168 awareness-raising sessions on cholera prevention on a community level, targeting 1759 men, 871 women, 786 boys and 682 girls in Community Mobilizer participating in the awareness Khamer, Houth and Al-Qaflah districts. In addition, the CMs conducted visits session. to 380 households, informing people about cholera prevention measures and how to prepare and use oral rehydration solutions (ORS) (397 men, 527 women, 535 boys, 472 girls).

Public Health Engineering (PHE): IDPs in Al-Mekhdharah camp in Al-Qaflah district were denied access to water by the borehole’s owner. Through local advocacy around the initial agreement with all water resources owners that water must be free of charge, Oxfam staff resolved the local dispute. Oxfam provided 6 water supply schemes in 3 districts (Khamer, Houth and Al-Sawdah) with 10,400 litres of fuel for the pumps in order to ensure people have access to safe water aiming to reduce the risks of cholera. The team has completed all preparations to start water trucking during the first week of July to Al-Mefakhadh and AlMashhad camps in the district of Al-Qaflah, as well as to the new IDP camps in Houth district. A number of IDPs (57 households) had left the old camp to an open area due to community problems. Oxfam agreed with local authorities and OCHA to construct 18 emergency latrines and a water distribution point (a water tank on a tap stand). A memorandum of understanding has been signed with GARWSP to disinfect water storages and containers in 5 districts (Khamer, Houth, Bani Surraim, Al-Qaflah and Bani Habor Dholaimah) starting next week. Aquatabs are being purchased (33mg and 1.67 g) for household disinfection purposes.

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TAIZ GOVERNORATE BENEFICIARIES ASSISTED: 245,470 DISTRICTS: Modafar, Salah, Al-Qahirah, Al-Taizyah, Al-Hawaban, Maqbanah, Sharab, Al-Ma’afer and Al Shamayatayn

Food Security Unconditional Cash Transfer: The EFSVL team completed one round of UCT, providing 27,000 YER (108 USD) to 520 households (165 of which are female-headed households) in Al-Berain, Al-Nogaie, Al-Malekah and Gabble Zaied in ALMa`afer district.

WASH Cholera Response: Oxfam scaled up the cholera response through a partnership agreement with GARWSP and General GHO

Health Office ( ) with logistical and financial support to address the cholera outbreak. During the reporting period, a total of 1,094 water tanks were disinfected in the five districts (Sharab Alrona, Sharab Alsalam, Maqbana, Al-Taizyah, and Mawyah), benefitting 2,705 households (4,923 men, 4,734 women, 4,732 boys and 4,546 girls).

Public Health Engineering (PHE): Water Trucking: Oxfam provided clean potable water by water trucking to 119 water points in Al-Qahira, Al-Mudhafar, Salah and Al-Taizyah districts where a storage tank with the capacity of 3000 litres was installed at each water collection location. During the reporting period Oxfam delivered 357,000 litre of clean water to around 126,889 beneficiaries (32,991 men, 31,723 women, 31,710 boys, 30,466 girls) with an average of 3 litres of clean water per person per day. Furthermore, Oxfam installed 19 water tanks in the IDPs camps in Al-Shamayateen and Al-Ma'afer districts. With a total storage capacity of 19,000 litres which are filled up on a daily basis with chlorinated drinking water, the tanks serve 4,308 beneficiaries (1,120 male, 1,077 female, 1,077 boys, and 1,034 girls). Support to Local Water Supply and Sanitation Corporations (LWSC): The quotation waiver is signed with the LWSC to install the spare parts for 33 generators and to install 16 chlorine dozers for 16 wells of the LWSC as a part of the cholera response to disinfect the main water supply network of Taiz city. 3

Sanitation: 200 latrines were dislodged in IDPs camps in Al-Taizyah and Salh districts with a total of 314 m of liquid waste transported to the disposal sites. This benefited 4,200 beneficiaries in the targeted areas. Furthermore, 85 cleaning kits will be distributed next week in Al-Ma’afer and Al-Shamayateen districts.

Public Health Promotion (PHP): Hygiene promotion: 77 Oxfam community health volunteers (CHV’s) continued the awareness raising sessions in the targeted areas in Taiz city and outside of the city where they conducted a total of 374 sessions, benefiting a total of 5,274 individuals (1,370 men, 1,318 women, 1,317 boys and 1,266 girls). The sessions on cholera prevention addressed behavioral changes, hand washing practices, safe water storage, environmental hygiene, personal hygiene, and safe excreta disposal. In partnership with the “Generation without Qat” (GWQ), 35 CHVs were trained in Taiz city on cholera prevention and control (10 male, 25 female). Oxfam is planning to train another 150 CHVs in five districts (Sharab Alrona, Maqbana, Sharab Alsalam, Mawyah, and Al-Taizyah).

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ADEN & SOUTH GOVERNORATES BENEFICIARIES ASSISTED: 166,438 Oxfam Aden office is working in four southern governorates, Aden, Lahj, Al-Dhale'e and Abyan to provide water and sanitation support.

WASH Public Health Engineering (PHE): The team conducted field visits to Al-Ruaid and Al-Milah water system schemes (WSS), funded by the Global Affairs Canada Project (GAC) to make sure that there are no barriers in delivering water.

Public Health Promotion (PHP): The team conducted field visits to Diarrhoea Treatment Centres (DTCs) in Al-Mualla’a to follow up with and provide support.

Cholera response: The team has successfully completed the distribution of 40 latrine cleaning kits to the Al-Gamhoriah Hospital DTC and AlMualla’a DTC, as well as the rehabilitation of latrines in these two DTCs. In order to assure access to safe water, the team has provided and installed two water coolers and water filters in Al Gamhoriah Hospital. The team is finalising plans with the Radio Lana Station to re- broadcast radio spots on cholera response and health messages 6 times per day (i.e. 36 times per week for 8 weeks) in collaboration with Care International.

Figure 1: The team following up the installation and rehabilitation of the emergency latrines in Al Mualla'a DTCs.

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Human Recourses Update: National and international available vacancies: EFSVL TL Gender Advisor Programme Manager National available vacancies: PHP TL capacity builder (International) Gender Coordinator Senior Management Information System (MIS) Field Media assistant

Closing date 28 July Closing date 28 July Closing date 28 July

Shafer Aden Aden

Closing 18 july2017 Closing 18 july2017 Closing 18 July 2017

Sana’a Sana’a Sana’a Khamer

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