Lamis Al-Iryani POLICY SEMINAR Impacts of Cash Transfers on Preventing Malnutrition in Yemen Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) SEP 5, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT

1. Social Fund for Development-Yemen
The nutrition sensitive cash transfers: Background and context
September 2019

2. Content
• Impact of conflict
• Introduction to SFD
• The nutrition sensitive cash transfers, background, design,
process and results
• Geographical coverage
• Short video – human story
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3. Impact of conflict
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Yemen, the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, and the largest Cholera crisis in
human history (UN)
• 24 millions out of 30 m Yemenis need assistance
• 18 m food insecure, 1.8 m children and 1.1 m mothers are acutely
malnourished.
• 4 m IDPS/returnees (10% of the population)
• 2 m children out of school
• 8 m lost jobs and livelihoods sources, the main causes of food insecurity
• Yemen social fabric has been affected and Yemen has just been named most
fragile nation in the Fund For Peace's 2019 Fragile States Index

4. Introduction to SFD
• Established in 1997 to contribute to poverty reduction and
reinforce Yemen social safety net
• The only national Social Protection& development player that
continued during the conflict (History of neutrality and impact)
• SFD’s approach to the ongoing crisis through supporting Yemenis to
meet their immediate needs as well as long-term development
• Offering multi-sectoral social protection-development response
through : (i) Social Safety Net interventions, Community and Local
Development and (ii)Small & Microenterprises Support

5. SFD response to the crisis
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• 200 K households have been supported
with average wage transfer of $500. These
employment built/rehabilitated wash
infrastructure, roads pavement,
agricultural terraces, home gardens ..
• 11,000 youths were provided employment
for up to 13 months with transfer amount
between $900-1200 per person to provide
social services in nutrition, education and
community mobilization,
• 88 K impoverished mothers received cash
transfer for nutrition, more info to follow

6. SFD response to the crisis
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• 20.9k farmers, fishers and micro businesses
supported with grants and technical knowledge.
17.5k are in agriculture
• Supporting resilience of 10 MFIs with a portfolio
of more than 85K active borrowers. SFD has
also provided recovery grants for about 4000
SMEs clients
• SFD has been the only actor empowering rural
communities to organize themselves to plan &
implement self-help initiatives. SFD has
supported the creation of 3000 effective
community based organization that has
implemented more than 10K community based

7. Nutrition cash transfer
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• Initiated in 2014 as a pilot to target 5,000
households in 3 districts in Al-Hodiedah
• Suspended in 2015 and resumed in 2016 by
World Bank supported project the ECRP
• Scaled up to 21 districts in 6 governorates
with high malnutrition prevalence, taking
into consideration regional balance: South
and North
• Transfer has been increased from 9000+ per
household quarterly in 2014 to monthly YR
10K in 2016 to YR 20K in 2017 to respond to
the depreciation of the YR and the increase
of food prices.

8. Components
• Monthly cash transfers for eligible
mothers for 12 months
conditional to attending health
education sessions
• Transportation & accommodation
fees and facilitating access to
treatment centers
• Health education including public
and house-to-house visits
• Training and employment
opportunities for young women
aged 18–35 years as community-
based health and nutrition
promoters
• Cost per beneficiary during the
lifetime of the intervention range
between $590 - $670

9. • Households registered
in the Social Welfare
Fund and displaced
families having
pregnant and/or
mothers with children
U5.
• Households having
malnourished children
and/or malnourished
mothers.
• Unemployed young
women (as health
promoters)
Beneficiaries & geographical coverage:

10. Welcome
Results as of June 2019
• 88,040 women received
cash support
• 115,530 children and
women received treatment
(69,035 children and
46,495women)
• 3,636 of community
educators enrolled in the
program
• 986,783 of work days
created

11. Future expansion 2019-2021
New wave of
intervention will
include 17 districts
in 10 governorates
with high
malnutrition
prevalence, taking
into consideration
regional balance:
South and North
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12. Nutrition cash transfers: Bajil district Al-
Hudaidah, March 2019 (video)
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-vz_pXK7S8zVubS6NGK24YY41nN-
XToj/view?usp=drivesdk