Overview

Protracted armed conflict, widespread economic collapse, and overstretched national systems and services have left 20.7 million people, including 11.3 million children, in need of humanitarian assistance.1 UNICEF’s Executive Director activated the Corporate Emergency Procedure Level 3 Scale-Up Procedure for Yemen in July 2015 which remains in place today.

The evaluation of UNICEF’s Response in Yemen has both an accountability and learning purpose. It fulfils the requirement of the UNICEF Evaluation Policy (2018) whereby all L3 emergencies must be evaluated, and it is also expected to help the UNICEF Yemen Country Office, the MENA Regional Office, and various divisions in headquarters by generating learning to inform local strategies, programming and operations in Yemen and, where relevant, other emergency contexts through identified best practices and lessons learned.

The specific objectives are to provide a comprehensive assessment of UNICEF’s overall response in Yemen measured against its own mandate, corporate commitments, stated objectives and standard evaluation criteria; based on the collation and analysis of relevant data and information, make recommendations to improve the response in Yemen and similar responses elsewhere in the future.

The evaluation will focus on UNICEF programming in all governorates where UNICEF implements programmatic activities throughout Yemen. It is important to consider where UNICEF has not been able to programme, despite the existence of humanitarian needs, and why this was so. The evaluation will consider UNICEF’s response from 2019 to the present with a focus on the more recent years. Recommendations will be made based on an analysis of the future challenges likely faced by UNICEF and the wider humanitarian system in Yemen.

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