Yemen: Overseas Aid

(asked on 8th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department is continuing to take part in joint development programmes with Oxfam in Yemen.


Answered by
Desmond Swayne Portrait
Desmond Swayne
This question was answered on 15th July 2015

DFID is continuing to fund Oxfam, CARE and Save the Children through the “Yemen Humanitarian Resilience Programme”, and Save the Children through the “Improving Nutrition in Yemen Programme” with UNICEF. Through these programmes, DFID is providing food, safe water, emergency livelihoods support, shelter and protection services, and helping to treat and prevent severe acute malnutrition.

More detailed information about all DFID Yemen funded programmes can be found at: http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/countries/YE/.

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