UAE largest emergency aid donor to Yemen
The UAE has once again ranked as the largest donor of emergency
humanitarian assistance to Yemen in the world for 2018.
According to the Financial Tracking Service (FTS), a centralised
source of information on humanitarian funding flows, the UAE is also the
second-largest source supporting the 2018 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan,
YHRP, following the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The latest FTS figures show that since the beginning of 2018 and up
to 1st October 2018, the UAE has provided Dhs4.56 billion ($1.24 billion) in
aid to Yemen, including Dhs1.71 billion ($466.5 million) to the YHRP, and
Dhs815.8 million ($222.1 million) as direct humanitarian assistance.
The report covers humanitarian assistance to Yemen from the
beginning of 2018 to Aug.5, 2018. The UAE has provided aid to Yemen amounting
to Dhs3.75 billion ($1.02 billion), which includes Dhs1.71 billion ($466.5
million) in response to the YHRP, and Dhs730 million ($198.8 million) as direct
humanitarian assistance.
The UAE assistance to Yemen — from April 2015 to September 2018 —
has so far amounted to Dhs14.79 billion ($4.03 billion), covering various
sectors including humanitarian relief aid and reconstruction efforts across
several liberated Yemeni governorates.
