WFP Yemen Country Brief, January 2021
Format
66,000 mt of general food assistance
US$11.6 million cash-based transfers US$10.6 million commodity vouchers
US$519 million six-month net funding requirements (February – July 2021)
Operational Updates
Under the January cycle, WFP targeted 8.1 million people with general food assistance. Of these, 5.3 million people were targeted with in-kind food assistance, around 1.6 million people with food vouchers and over 1.1 million people with cash assistance.
In the southern areas, 4.25 million beneficiaries are to be biometrically registered. To date, over 1.6 million beneficiaries in Internationally Recognized Government of Yemen (IRG) areas have been biometrically registered. In areas under the Sana’a-based authorities, WFP launched in November 2020 the provision of general food assistance through cash transfers . As of 31 January, around 1,680 people are biometrically registered and activities are proceeding in three districts in Sana’a city, with the aim to reach 150,000 people within the first phase.