Yemen Crisis Response Plan 2025

Year

CRP last updated: February 20 2025

$164,708,395

Funding required

19,500,000

People in need

2,000,000

People Targeted

Entities targeted

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IOM Vision

In 2025, IOM Yemen will continue its comprehensive response to the country's vast humanitarian and protection needs. This will involve providing lifesaving multisectoral humanitarian assistance and specialized protection support. In addition to frontline response activities, IOM will also aim to address underlying drivers of fragility and reduce reliance on humanitarian aid by improving access to durable solutions, strengthening communities' self-sufficiency and promoting local ownership of recovery efforts.

Despite the challenges, Yemeni women persistently collect water for their families, often walking long distances to reach water points. ©IOM Yemen, 2024 / Monica Chiriac

INFORM Risk	8, Very high
INFORM Severity	5, Very high
Human Development Index	186 of 193

In 2025, regional insecurity, escalating hostilities, economic strife and impacts of climate change threaten to further worsen the already dire humanitarian situation for internally displaced persons (IDPs), migrants and conflict-affected host community members. According to the 2025 Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview an estimated 19.5 million will need assistance-marking an increase from 2024 (18.2 million).

Among key challenges exacerbating needs in Yemen, growing insecurity has resulted in humanitarian organizations scaling back operations in areas controlled by the de-facto authorities (DFA), limiting activities to only those that are lifesaving and life-sustaining. These challenges are compounded by economic decline, with several financial institutions on the brink of collapse. The resulting liquidity crisis hinders the payment of public salaries and disrupts daily financial transactions, severely impacting the activities of response actors - notably local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Further, in 2024, torrential rains, flooding, and violent windstorms in Yemen underscored the devastating impact of climate change on already vulnerable communities. Yemen faces recurring disasters that destroy vital infrastructure, livelihoods, and belongings. These events leave many families destitute, stripping them of their ability to meet even their most basic needs. Such extreme weather events also exacerbate the risk of communicable disease outbreaks, particularly in the face of limited health services. The 2024 acute watery diarrhea and cholera outbreaks across the country highlighted the urgent need for additional support for under- resourced health facilities and for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) activities and infrastructure, especially in crowded displacement sites and along migrant routes. Among the most vulnerable, women and girls continue to be disproportionally impacted by lack of access to basic services, and are at heightened risk of gender-based violence.

Moreover, the Eastern Route between the Horn of Africa and Yemen remains a perilous journey, where migrants transit through Yemen in hopes of reaching neighboring Gulf countries. In 2024, the emergence of new migration routes, increased shipwrecks and migrants seeking assistance from IOM and partners continued to underline the harsh reality migrants face including severe violence, coercion, deliberate deprivation, abuse, stigmatization, and physical and sexual harassment. However, limited migrant response actors leaves many migrants without access to essential services. Upon arriving in Yemen, migrants face perilous onward journeys to Gulf countries in search of work. They often travel across conflict frontlines and face grave human rights violations such as detention in inhumane conditions, exploitation and forced transfers across lines of control.

DTM’s Flow Monitoring Registry (FMR) teams identified 60,897 migrants arriving in Yemen in 2024, marking a 60 per cent decrease compared to 2023 (97,210), primarily due to the military campaign against smuggling in Lahj, which stopped arrivals there since August 2023. Following the initiation of the military campaign, reports from community focal points indicated that migrant arrival points had shifted to Dhubab district in Ta’iz governorate. The operational environment in Ta’iz is difficult and IOM had to secure permits from local authorities to expand flow monitoring into the governorate. As of the end of September 2024, IOM gained access to the coast of Ta'iz in Dhubab allowing for an improved coverage of arrivals from Djibouti. Please note that this improved coverage will translate into an increased overall number of arrivals that is not necessarily representative of an increase in arrival numbers.

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IOM’s response in Yemen is coordinated within the national humanitarian programme cycle and the United Nations Yemen Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSCDF) 2022-2024 with UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as regional, national, and local partners. IOM co-leads the refugee and migrant multi-sector (RMMS) and rapid response mechanism (RRM) sectors. IOM also co-chairs the UN Network on Migration (UNNM), an essential coordination mechanism to share and analyze data, raise awareness, promote a collective response, and address the dire needs of migrants in Yemen. Further, as co-chair of UNSDCF Results Group 2, IOM supports collective efforts to strengthen national and local systems that support vulnerable and marginalized populations. IOM is also an active member of the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM); Shelter and Non-Food Items (S-NFI); Health; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); and Protection Clusters. IOM is also an active member of the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Child Protection Areas of Responsibility (AoRs) and the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and Community Engagement and Accountability to Affected Populations (CEAAP), and Durable Solutions working groups. As an active participant of the Task Force on Population Movement (TFPM), IOM produces population movement and needs assessments, which are the main source of information for emergency response preparedness and interventions in Yemen.

IOM continues to maintain strong coordination and working relationships with local authorities, to support project implementation, enhance local ownership and potentially bridge to transition and early development.

Finally, Yemen was selected as one of 15 pilot countries pilot under the S.G. Action Agenda on Internal Displacement. Throughout 2025, IOM will continue to support efforts to identify durable solutions in close partnership with UN Agencies, the Resident Coordinator and local authorities. IOM will continue to coordinate as part of the Migrant Response Plan to support migrants who are transiting or stranded across the region.

IOM Yemen has invested in strengthening the capacity of its almost 700 national staff, to improve the quality and accountability of service delivery in sub-offices and operational field sites. IOM Yemen directly implements more than 90 per cent of its programming. This approach has allowed IOM staff to engage with communities and better understand their needs and priorities. As direct delivery of services has remained a priority for IOM management, the sub-offices have been empowered through additional programmatic staffing and remain decentralized to allow for nuanced decision-making. IOM’s operational capacity is bolstered by a strong field presence across the country – including over 40 international staff who bring a range of expertise to lead IOM’s multisectoral programming, including to promote gender balance among teams to support meaningful engagement with women and girls. IOM directly implements 90 per cent of its programming with a significant operational footprint across the country. This distinctive approach enables the Organization to identify communities that need support, respond to sudden changes in the operational context and monitor programming and adjust accordingly.This presence includes international officers overseeing support functions (security, finance, procurement and logistics, information management, engineering, human resources, monitoring and reporting), which help ensure strengthened programme accountability and monitoring, and minimize risks involving personnel, assets or financial transactions. IOM has also developed a Risk Management Framework and Mitigation Strategy and continues to implement comprehensive Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) eactivities across Yemen. 

Another priority for the mission is mainstreaming protection, ensuring Do No Harm and remaining conflict-sensitive in IOM, implementing partners’ and sector interventions. This approach aims at ensuring gender and diversity-sensitive programming and incorporating a robust understanding of vulnerability, promoting safety, dignity and meaningful access to services. To do so, emphasis is given to staff capacity-strengtheningto carry out activities considering key protection principles, applying a conflict-sensitive lens, review of project design by protection experts, tailored needs assessments and adaptation of programming to consider specific risks for vulnerable populations.

Operations are also supported by regional and global thematic experts from the IOM Headquarters in Geneva and Regional Offices for the Middle East and North Africa and for East and the Horn of Africa.

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Overall, IOM maintains working relationships with authorities, closely coordinating to ensure smooth programme implementation. IOM in Yemen supports capacity-strengthening to ensure local governmental actors are able to continue service delivery in the long term. Capacity-strengthening efforts span from technical capacity-strengthening of local line offices (such as on maintenance of water supply systems) to enhancing knowledge on areas including emergency preparedness and response and camp coordination and camp management and strategic planning, (notably focusing on durable solutions). A crucial part of the mission’s health programming includes supporting local health facilities to enhance access to quality services. In coordination with the Ministry of Public Health and Population (at the national and local levels), IOM provides essential medicines, supplies, equipment and training to health facilities and clinics, enhancing service provision and quality of care. To support local water and sanitation services, IOM in Yemen also works closely with local authorities via the provision of essential equipment and training. 

In 2025, IOM aims to maintain and build upon its engagement with the government, notably in the area of migration governance, emergency preparedness and durable solutions. The mission looks to support the development of a migration governance framework that will enhance the rights of populations on the move (notably migrants) and allow the benefits of migration to be harnessed. Further, in coordination with the authorities and other response actors in key locations, IOM intends to support identification of tailored programming to support durable solutions for IDPs in protracted displacement.

Key Operating Modalities

Cross-cutting priorities

Localization

As an organization that implements more than 90 per cent of its programming, IOM staff engage closely with communities, partners, and local authorities during the planning, operations and review of activities. However, IOM seeks to build the capacities of local actors to strengthen the overall response capacity within Yemen. In efforts to support capacity strengthening and promote ownership in assistance delivered, IOM continues to identify strategic opportunities to engage with local government counterparts, authorities and organizations in programming. The mission’s Grants Compliance Unit, in coordination with programme teams, identifies areas of programming to collaborate with non-governmental organizations. To support these efforts, IOM launches a prequalification exercise on an annual basis to identify partners who are able to contribute to activities across multiple sectors. By working with local organizations, IOM leverages their local knowledge and expertise to strategically expand the scope and reach of its work.

Further, implementation is done in close coordination with authorities (such as the Executive Unit, local water and sanitation councils etc.) to promote knowledge transfer and sustainability. In addition to engagement with local partners and authorities, IOM utilizes a highly participatory, community-led approach wherein individuals the Organization seeks to assist are involved throughout the project lifecycle. IOM will continue to support the establishment and operation of community structures such as women’s committees, WASH committees and community committees that will play a major role in informing IOM programmes based on identified needs.

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Saving lives and protecting people on the move

$106,510,000

Funding required

1,950,000

People Targeted

Entities Targeted

Primary target groups

Internally displaced person

Local population / community

Refugee

International migrant

IOM will provide emergency services and protection assistance to target internally displaced, crisis-affected persons, migrants in vulnerable situations, at risk groups and host communities with the overall aim to meet basic needs and alleviate human suffering. In areas of ongoing insecurity, new displacements or acute, underserved needs, direct humanitarian assistance is often the only lifeline for survival. In these instances, IOM will provide multisectoral services through direct implementation and strategic project partners, balancing considerations around access, response capacities and needs. IOM will aim to target those most in need, including female-headed households, persons with disabilities, older people, people who have not yet received assistance, and households with other vulnerabilities. Strengthening preparedness efforts will also strengthen IOM’s capacity to immediately and continuously respond to emerging disasters.

With support from its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) as well as targeted sectoral needs assessments and a strong network of operational teams, IOM will ensure up to date and reliable information is available to inform provision of assistance. Data collected through DTM, information gathered on an ongoing basis through IOM’s network of community leaders and focal points, and regular coordination with authorities and other humanitarian actors helps to ensure that IOM implements an informed response that takes into consideration conflict sensitivity, minimizes negative impacts and maximizes positive impacts.

IOM will also support voluntary humanitarian return for stranded, vulnerable migrants to countries of origin, enabling migrants to return to their homes safely. Demand for voluntary humanitarian return services remains high while a constrained funding environment leads to many migrants being stranded for extended periods. In 2025, IOM estimates at least 6,600 stranded migrants will seek support to safely return home. These cases are particularly vulnerable to health issues and protection risks, including severe violence, coercion, deliberate deprivation, abuse, stigmatization, and physical and sexual harassment. IOM’s Migrant Response Points (MRPs) and roving mobile teams operate in key locations along migratory routes and are vital in providing essential information and support services, including direct assistance, accommodation, case management, and referrals, to vulnerable and stranded migrants.

Driving solutions to displacement

$54,714,500

Funding required

750,000

People Targeted

Entities Targeted

Primary target groups

Internally displaced person

Local population / community

Refugee

International migrant

IOM seeks to improve access to durable, life-sustaining assistance that addresses the drivers of conflict, reduces reliance on humanitarian aid and enhances self-sufficiency to transition from emergency to recovery conditions. In line with humanitarian-development-peace nexus approaches, and in conjunction with a frontline response, IOM supports the restoration of household and public infrastructure and services to enhance the capacities of individuals and communities to meet their own needs and promote local ownership of their communities’ recovery efforts.

IOM will also aim to strengthen community capacities to mitigate risks, prepare and rapidly respond to disasters that negatively impact the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable groups across Yemen while simultaneously looking at resilience-building and adaptation planning, placing heavy emphasis on the participation of local communities. In support of these efforts, IOM will also provide capacity-strengthening activities on early warning, anticipatory action, preparedness and response to local authorities to enhance their ability to take pre-emptive measures before and respond to climate-induced events.

IOM will continue to support progress towards durable solutions, benefiting both displaced populations and hosting communities in Yemen and will expand its activities to include agriculture training programming by providing participants with agricultural start-up kits, including essential tools, seeds, fertilizers, irrigation equipment, and other resources.

Facilitating pathways for regular migration

$3,483,895

Funding required

8,820

People Targeted

Entities Targeted

Primary target groups

International migrant

As Yemen remains a transit country where migrants face stigmatization, heightened protection risks and limited access to essential services, IOM will support principled migrant governance and access to safe and dignified services for vulnerable migrants in Yemen. In efforts to support enhanced migrant governance in line with the Global Compact for Migration, IOM will continue to support the UN Migration Network to support local actors in identifying migration-related priorities, capacity-strengthening needs and enhanced frameworks to ensure migrants rights are upheld. IOM will also continue to encourage the inclusion of migrants in policies and strategies to ensure their access to basic services (notably health), aiming to reduce stigmatization and discrimination.

Long term outcomes

Objective 1

Saving lives and protecting people on the move

$106,510,000

Funding required

Objective 2

Driving solutions to displacement

$54,714,500

Funding required

Objective 3

Facilitating pathways for regular migration

$3,483,895

Funding required

Percentage of funding required contributing to the long term outcomes expressed on IOM's Strategic Results Framework.

Protection-centered
Breakdown by objective

$475,000

Funding required

Related inter agency plans

H(N)RP MRP RMRP

To inform programming and ensure Do No Harm, and adhering to Centrality of Protection, IOM conducts ongoing protection analysis to ensure activities prevent, mitigate and respond to protection risks. The key needs of at-risk groups, including women, girls, persons with disabilities among others, are taken into account to tailor programming. IOM mainstreams protection principles across different programmatic interventions and staff conduct to ensure safety and dignity, avoid causing harm, and guarantee meaningful access to assistance for all persons in need, without discrimination. IOM will also ensure that GBV risk mitigation is integrated across all sectors in alignment with its Institutional Framework for Addressing GBV in Crises (GBViC). In consideration of IOM’s multisectoral response, assistance provided not only contributes to meeting basic needs but also improving the protection environment for target communities by improving living conditions, access to basic services, and provision of tailored assistance to groups in vulnerable situations.

In Yemen, IOM’s programming is designed considering that affected populations have the right to not only be informed but also participate in decisions that impact them, as outlined in IOM’s Accountability to Affected Populations Framework for Yemen. To do so, activities include diverse methods to incorporate the perspective of affected populations before, during and after interventions. In line with IOM’s institutional Accountability to Affected Populations Framework, IOM in Yemen strives to mainstream accountability to affected populations (AAP) in its programming by focusing on 1) people-centred design, 2) inclusive and meaningful participation, and 3) learning and adapting. In ensuring a people-centred design, IOM in Yemen conducts regular consultations with target communities to tailor assistance. Focus group discussions and surveys, among other tools, are utilized to gain the perspective of affected populations on proposed activities and guide how they may be adapted to best suit their needs. The mission also operates a robust community feedback mechanism to ensure members of target communities can raise concerns, feedback, suggestions, and questions. A dedicated Community Feedback Team ensures proper recording, follow up and a timely response ensuring to close the feedback loop.

IOM Yemen is committed to safeguard the people it serves from harm and a special attention is given to protection against sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA). The Mission has dedicated PSEA Focal Points that operationalize institutional PSEA commitments under the leadership of Chief of Mission. This includes regularly delivering PSEA training and refresher sessions for staff members and partners, informing the affected population on PSEA principles and complaint and feedback mechanisms (CFM), assessing SEA risk and integrating risk mitigation measures into programming and safely referring victims/survivors to specialized services. IOM’s PSEA efforts in Yemen are built to fully consider intersectionality, and tailored approaches are designed based on age, gender and disability following consultation with the people IOM serves.

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$475,000

Funding required

With the new water system in place, residents of Al Makha City can now enjoy access to safe drinking water. ©IOM Yemen, 2024 / Moayad Zaghdani.

Activity areas

Basic needs, including food and multi-purpose cash assistance Priority

$9,850,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans H(N)RP MRP

$9,850,000

Funding required

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H(N)RP MRP

IOM’s cash programming supports conflict-affected individuals to meet their essential needs through the provision of rapid cash-based interventions. Cash-based interventions are closely integrated into various areas of IOM programming, such as CCCM, S-NFI, WASH, and protection. In 2025, IOM will continue to distribute multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) utilizing a variety of delivery mechanisms across DFA and Internationally Recognized Government (IRG)-controlled areas of Yemen. This will include strengthening the nationwide cash-based response through its continued co-leadership of the Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) cluster (together with the United Nations Populations Fund) and the Cash Consortium of Yemen (CCY). IOM will also explore additional sources of referral pathways for MPCA, such as referrals from Protection, CCCM, Nutrition, and other actors.

Camp coordination and camp management

$7,200,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans H(N)RP

$7,200,000

Funding required

Related inter agency plans

H(N)RP

In line with a humanitarian-development peace nexus approach, IOM will support communities to recover from a state of crisis and transition towards resilience and community-led and owned solutions that meet immediate and long-term development needs. IOM will rehabilitate key public infrastructures, including schools and health facilities to increase access to basic services. Rehabilitation ranges from minor maintenance, such as establishing a prefab storage room for medications, solarization, and installation of a sewage system, to expanding the maternal ward, emergency department, and surgical unit in primary and secondary care facilities.

Furthermore, IOM will support conflict resolution mechanisms and other initiatives such as establishing and supporting water user groups to address conflicts over limited resources and promote social cohesion.

Community-based programming and a community-led approach will remain central to IOM’s interventions in 2025. IOM collects regular feedback on an ongoing basis through its widely promoted community feedback mechanisms, and regularly conducts focus group discussions with community members to identify pressing needs. IOM coordinates closely with local authorities to identify priority areas for interventions, such as coordinating with the Ministry of Education to select schools needing refurbishment or with Local Water and Sanitation Committees to prioritize water supply sites that need rehabilitation. Such engagement enables IOM to identify priority areas, maintain strong relationships with local actors, and maximize the sustainability of interventions.

Community stabilization and community-driven development

$18,080,632 Funding required

Related inter agency plans MRP

$18,080,632

Funding required

Related inter agency plans

MRP

Data for action, insight and foresight Priority

$6,889,500 Funding required

Related inter agency plans MRP

$6,889,500

Funding required

Related inter agency plans

MRP

In the context of Yemen, impartial and high-quality assessments, data collection and analysis are essential to inform assistance provision based on identified needs and vulnerabilities. IOM Yemen’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) will continue to provide critical, up-to-date information on movement trends and the needs of migrants and vulnerable and displaced populations, aiming to provide humanitarian and development actors as well as local authorities and research institutions actionable and reliable information on IDPs and returnees, including their numbers, locations, cause of displacement and priority needs. Among key activities to be implemented, IOM will continue Rapid Displacement Tracking, Area Assessment, Flow Monitoring and thematic household surveys to support an informed response.

IOM will continue working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under the Internal Development Solutions Fund (IDSF) to gather data on progress made towards durable solutions across target population groups and target governorates.

Health Priority

$50,865,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans H(N)RP MRP

$50,865,000

Funding required

Related inter agency plans

H(N)RP MRP

In line with UN frameworks and in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP), the Health Cluster and World Health Organization (WHO), IOM will continue to provide lifesaving primary and secondary preventative and curative health-care services to IDPs, migrants and host communities. In 2025, IOM will also focus on strengthening Yemen’s health system through rehabilitation and support to operations in health facilities severely impacted by the conflict to restore access to quality health services.

Support to health services will be implemented at static health facilities while mobile teams will reach hard to access areas. Among key areas of focus, IOM will provide essential operational support (supplies, equipment, incentives ) to supported health facilities; contribute to mass and routine vaccination campaigns, promote health seeking behavior and utilization of the essential health service through trained community health volunteers; contribute to disease surveillance, prevention and response and advocate for the inclusion of migrants in health strategies and policies.

Building on IOM’s involvement in the national response to the cholera outbreak that struck Yemen in late 2023, with a second wave in early 2024, IOM will continue contributing to the enhanced national capacity of disease preparedness and response to endemic diseases such as cholera, malaria and dengue fever. The approach will include working closely with WASH colleagues to enhance health and sanitation infrastructure, contributing to the Electronic Integrated Disease Early Warning System (eIDEWS) reporting and surveillance, case management, medical outreach and risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) along the migratory routes and hotspots, and advocacy on migrants' inclusion to the national disease preparedness and response plan.

As part of the national Minimum Service Package (MSP), screening and treatment of acute malnutrition based on the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) approach and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) massaging are embedded into primary health care (PHC) support under the technical guidance of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). In close coordination with the Nutrition, Health and WASH as well as Cash Clusters, IOM health, WASH and cash teams will disseminate IYCF messages during household visits, medical consultations, and health information sessions.

Mental health and psychosocial support

$3,871,263 Funding required

Related inter agency plans MRP

$3,871,263

Funding required

Related inter agency plans

MRP

IOM’s mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services will aim to ensure crisis-affected populations have access to timely and adequate services, ultimately supporting improved mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of IDPs, migrants and host community members. In 2025, IOM will provide multilayered MHPSS in line with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) guidance on MHPSS in emergency settings. Based on IOM Manual on Community-based MHPSS in Emergencies and Displacement, the Organization’s MHPSS activities will focus on community-based, individual and group MHPSS activities including counselling, socio-relational activities and psychoeducation sessions; capacity-strengthening for front line workers and community members on basic psychosocial skills including psychological first aid (PFA), supporting safe and private MHPSS spaces and improving referral pathways for MHPSS services.

Furthermore, MHPSS will be integrated into livelihood, social cohesion, and community stabilization efforts related to peace and recovery through organizing conflict resolution workshops, and psychoeducation campaigns, establishing support groups, and hosting community engagement activities aiming to promote social cohesion and community stabilization.

Protection Priority

$7,995,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans MRP

$7,995,000

Funding required

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MRP

The deteriorating conditions for vulnerable populations in Yemen heighten potential reliance on negative coping mechanisms, which exacerbates protection risks for IDPs, migrants and conflict-affected host community members. IOM’s protection response will aim to enhance the protection environment, strengthen protection capacity, reduce protection risks and advocate for inclusive and accessible protection services.

In 2025, IOM will continue to provide specialized protection assistance including case management/crisis counselling and information services. The team will enhance evidence-based protection advocacy towards key stakeholders including national authorities bilaterally and multilaterally through coordination mechanisms. The team will contribute to strengthening protection capacities among service providers, community members and duty bearers through dialogues, training and workshops. The target populations will be actively involved throughout the programme cycle with continued cooperation with members of community-based protection networks (CBPN) and joint awareness raising sessions with community members.

Thematically, the team will focus on counter-trafficking activities, recognizing heightened risks for crisis-affected populations and international migrants resulting from the crisis context and the deteriorating socioeconomic situation in the country, which renders individuals vulnerable to different forms of exploitation.

Shelter and settlements

$13,530,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans H(N)RP MRP

$13,530,000

Funding required

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H(N)RP MRP

With the overall objective of providing safe, dignified and sustainable living conditions in IDP settlements, host communities and locations of return, IOM will implement a first line, multisectoral response incorporating the CCCM, SNFI and HLP units, while simultaneously supporting more long-term shelter solutions for target households. In 2025, IOM will preposition and distribute critical relief items, emergency shelter kits and family tents following the onset of emergencies; support households displaced for more than six months with transitional shelter or shelter repair or upgrade; conduct small-medium scale housing rehabilitation and support rental subsidies.

IOM will prioritize cash-based modalities where possible to increase the sense of ownership of the targeted population, allowing a tailored and flexible response depending on the needs and empowering local communities and markets.

Support services for response actors

$1,752,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans MRP

$1,752,000

Funding required

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MRP

In line with the S.G. Action Agenda on Internal Displacement, a series of structural reforms are required in the 15 pilot countries. IOM will work closely with partners to support durable solutions planning and initiatives.

In 2025, IOM will build upon efforts undertaken in 2024. Most prominently, this will include working closely with partners to support the production of area-based solutions strategies, and further supporting data collection to inform durable solutions programming. IOM will continue to contribute and coordinate with partners of the Regional Migrant Response Plan, looking to enhance support services for transiting and stranded migrants in the region.

Disaster risk management

$5,000,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans H(N)RP

$5,000,000

Funding required

Related inter agency plans

H(N)RP

Under Objective 1, IOM will support the authorities and civil society organizations (CSOs) in strengthening their capacities for disaster preparedness and response through collaboration on contingency planning for disasters with key stakeholders such as national and local authorities, civil society, and community leaders; conducting targeted training sessions for local stakeholders to enhance skills and knowledge in preparedness activities, ensuring a more effective, coordinated response; working with key actors to include displacement-affected populations in emergency preparedness planning; continuation of the development of evacuation plans and implementation of simulation exercises in the most disaster-prone communities.

Under Objective 2, IOM aims to reduce displacement risks and improve community adaptation to the effects of climate change through implementation of community-based adaptation and resilience activities, including nature-based solutions and early warning systems. IOM will also enhance climate-resilient infrastructure through the construction and reinforcement of key infrastructure systems, such as flood and drainage systems, and resilient public buildings.

Water, sanitation and hygiene Priority

$23,200,000 Funding required

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$23,200,000

Funding required

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H(N)RP MRP

IOM’s WASH programme in Yemen will prioritize immediate, scalable, and sustainable interventions aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality rates and providing equal and sustained access to safe and appropriate water, sanitation, and hygiene services in displaced, host, and migrant communities. IOM will also aim to improve community resilience and adaptation, as well as mitigation and response to disasters through sustainable water infrastructure.
In 2025, IOM will deliver life-saving WASH support including the provision of emergency water supply, hygiene items, rapid rehabilitation of water supply systems and sanitation infrastructure and solid waste management. As part of efforts to prevent spread of WASH-related diseases, hygiene promotion teams and community hygiene promoters will carry regular and emergency awareness activities.

IOM will continue to take a multisectoral approach in responding to disease outbreaks, as it has throughout the cholera outbreak in 2023 and 2024, with WASH and health teams in particular coordinating closely to maximize the effectiveness of IOM’s response. Further, in efforts to support long-term access to water supply, IOM will support enhanced water resource management through improving ground water level monitoring, capacity strengthening of local communities and water and sanitation actors. IOM will also promote climate change adaptation technologies such as water harvesting, renewable energy, desalination plants and rehabilitation of public infrastructure such as rainwater runoff systems and retention walks, with special emphasis on methods to reuse water for agricultural purposes at the community level.

Movement assistance

$14,000,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans H(N)RP MRP RMRP

$14,000,000

Funding required

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H(N)RP MRP RMRP

In 2025, IOM will assist migrants with their safe, voluntary and dignified return from Yemen to their countries of origin through IOM’s voluntary humanitarian return (VHR) programme. Priority will be given to the most vulnerable, such as unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), women, older people, migrants with medical needs, person with disabilities, and persons who have been subjected to grave human rights violations.

IOM will continue to provide safe, dignified and voluntary humanitarian return assistance – including pre-departure assistance, medical pre-embarkation checks and protection screening, especially for persons at risk of trafficking. IOM also provides referrals to specialized protection and medical services, including for migrants who require further medical support from secondary and/or tertiary care facilities, case management, counselling to support informed decision-making and pre departure briefings, provision of operational or medical escorts if required for travel and post arrival assistance.

Peacebuilding, violence and conflict reduction

$2,000,000 Funding required

Related inter agency plans H(N)RP

$2,000,000

Funding required

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H(N)RP

IOM focuses on the empowerment of women and youth as being pivotal in strengthening governance, peace, and security in conflict-affected areas. By promoting inclusive governance and providing targeted support to these groups, programming not only enhances individual capacities but also contributes to peacebuilding and the broader goals of sustainable development and stability.

Within its programming, IOM will continue to promote the inclusion of women in governance structure enabling them to participate more fully in public life and access essential services. To do so, IOM will support dedicated women’s committees who contribute to community mobilization, needs assessment and identification of tailored activities to meet their specific needs. Further, IOM will continue to promote the participation of women in other community-led structures (such as WASH committees, community hygiene promoters, community health volunteers, community-based protection networks etc.). Advocacy campaigns and awareness-raising activities will be implemented that challenge cultural norms that traditionally marginalize women, promoting gender equality and supporting women's leadership in peacebuilding. For youth, IOM will provide opportunities for education and vocational trainings (in areas such as agriculture), sports and other activities that will equip them with the skills needed to contribute to their communities' development and peace efforts.

The empowerment of women and youth in camp settings has had a ripple effect on the broader community. As these groups take on more prominent roles in governance and peacebuilding, they serve as role models and inspire others to become actively involved in their communities. This has created a positive cycle of empowerment and participation, strengthening the overall resilience and capacity of conflict-affected communities to respond to and recover from crises.

Operational presence in