1. BACKGROUND:

1.1. HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT

Between 2021 and 2022, humanitarian operations in Yemen experienced a substantial percentage of fundingdrop. As stated in the 2023 HRP report, while the 2022 HRP was one of the best funded globally, the 55%coverageimpacted the delivery of humanitarian assistance and caused a decrease in the emergency food assistancerationsize. Nevertheless, humanitarian partners reached 10.5 million people in need per month and achievedkeysuccesses in food security, malnutrition, and disease (cholera) outbreak response. Please click the following linkformore information: Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan 2023 According to the 2023 HRP report, the total number of people in need in 2023 has decreased from23.4 milliontoaprojection of 21.6 million comparing by the last year. The change is due largely to technical changes in cluster-level needs assessments, revised food security projections released in late 2022, as well as limited andfragileimprovements in levels of needs. At the same time, the cost of response to those needs, due to both changesininterventions, as well as the increased cost of many existent interventions, has mitigated the limited savings that might otherwise have accompanied the slight decrease in the figure of people in need.