Background / Justification:
• Given the dire humanitarian situation & needs, our client supports a wide range of health & nutrition responses across Yemen. This ranges from preparedness & reporting to the immediate needs of responding to the risk of famine, disease epidemics / pandemics (ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, cholera, diphtheria & measles among other potential outbreaks), to preservation of the collapsing health system at all levels.
• According to most recent Yemen situation analysis report (June 2020), key child outcomes are a manifestation of Yemen’s weak health system. The national under 5 mortality rate has hovered around 55 per 1,000 children, although national under 5 mortality rate data are outdated. There have been sustained levels of chronic malnutrition in children under 5, hovering between 45 & 47 % since 2013. Acute malnutrition (wasting) levels in Yemen at any given time during the past 3 decades ranged between slightly above 10 % to slightly above 15 %. This is indicative of minimal changes in the acute malnutrition situation in the country between 1991 & 2019. However, more prominent declines have been observed in the severe acute malnutrition situation ranging from 3.6 % to 1.7 % between 1991 & 2019. The reduction of the severe acute malnutrition is attributed to the country wide scale up of the CMAM program