Yemen: Delivering COVID assets through the project’s chain
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Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project enumerators used personal protective equipment and practiced physical distancing to access data and assess household needs. (Photo Credit: SMEPS - Yemen/ SFD)
One of the key challenges of expanding coverage to new beneficiaries under the
World Bank’s Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project (YECRP) was accessing data to assess household needs. The project team did this by hiring consultants from the localities being surveyed in order to protect against spreading COVID-19 between different communities.
All of the enumerators used personal protective equipment (PPE) and practiced physical distancing. Their survey was used to raise awareness of COVID-19 among tens of thousands of people. The Social Fund for Development (SFD) hired health advisers and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) specialists to ensure that the enumerators and beneficiaries were protected. They develop