The Alliance Canada and their local partner are partnering on a food assistance project in two IDP camps in the Al Ma’afer District of Taiz Province, Yemen.
Yemen’s food insecurity is driven by collapsing purchasing power, high food and fuel prices, currency shortages, delayed salaries, trader exploitation, disrupted import supply chains, and deep cuts to humanitarian assistance. Years of conflict have left households dependent on markets they cannot afford and aid systems that are shrinking.
As a result, millions remain in Crisis or Emergency food insecurity, while families increasingly exhaust income on food and rely on harmful coping strategies. In Taiz, these pressures are especially severe. Al Ma’afer district is projected to be in IPC Phase 4 and hosts thousands of displaced families with few livelihood options. In Al-Monij and Al-Naqee’ camps, households depend on irregular wage labour, begging, or agriculture, yet none can meet more than half their food needs independently. High market prices, checkpoints, lack of assistance, cooking fuel shortages, and unsafe water/firewood collection deepen hunger, health risks, and protection concerns.
Based on lessons learned in the previous project (#3240), approximately 20% of targeted households in this response will be from host communities, those which are also deemed highly vulnerable. The project will provide four in-kind transfers of food baskets to households including: 50 kg of whole wheat flour, 25 kg of white wheat flour, 14.4 kg of canned beans, 8 L of cooking oil, 2.5 kg of sugar, and 1 kg of salt. Also based on lessons learned, the project will provide each IDP household with a locally manufactured fuel-efficient solar powered cooking stove.
The project aims to reach 5,891 individuals in 771 households.