The UAE's assistance to Yemen from April 2015 to December 2018 was about 18.06 billion dirhams ($ 4.91 billion), benefiting more than 17 million Yemenis, including 11 million children and 3.2 million women.
The UAE's assistance to Yemen came as a result of the event and the magnitude of the challenge in restoring the normal life of all the Yemeni regions without exception, and contributed greatly to erase the effects of the systematic destruction inflicted by the Houthi militias.
Assistance included support for public programs, health, education, power generation and supply, transport and storage, budget and civil society support, judicial and legal development, social services, and emergency relief and food items.
The UAE ranked first as the world's largest direct emergency humanitarian donor to the Yemeni people in 2018, and ranked second after Saudi Arabia as the second largest donor of support for the UN humanitarian plan in Yemen for the same year.
In 2018, UAE assistance to Yemen amounted to AED 7.838 billion, of which AED 1.840 billion was allocated to support the UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen in 2018.
The Government of the United Arab Emirates has provided assistance to support the Yemeni public budget and pay salaries of government employees in order to ensure that all government agencies continue to provide services to a wide range of people, especially in the areas of health, education and security. .
The UAE provided commodity assistance worth AED 3.84 billion, maintaining the high level of food distribution to the Yemeni people, which reached more than 528 tons per day, as well as the distribution of various relief items from tents and blankets, especially in the areas of gathering the displaced population.
The UAE has allocated AED 1.72 billion to support the power generation and supply sector, charging operational costs for generating electricity, providing electricity supply services, rebuilding and maintaining power stations, and fueling power plants and generators to enable the production of energy for hospitals, schools and public buildings. Across Yemen.
The UAE has completed the construction and maintenance of 17 750 MW power plants. A AED 368 million power plant is being developed and implemented in Aden to meet the electricity shortage. AED 368 million has been allocated in Hadramout to support and rehabilitate stations At a cost of AED 294.4 million.
The UAE has allocated AED 845 million of its assistance to support the health sector and alleviate the shortage of health services, medicines and medical supplies. It has contributed to the rehabilitation and maintenance of 55 hospitals and health centers in a number of right-wing areas, 75 ambulances and campaigns to vaccinate 488,000 children Polio and measles.
Concerned about the future of Yemenis, the UAE provided generous assistance to the education sector amounting to about 153.9 million dirhams, through which it funded projects to build and rehabilitate 230 schools and provide 70 school transport buses.
Transport and storage amounted to AED 575 million, while AED 515 million was allocated to support social services. UAE assistance to Yemen contributed to the rehabilitation of basic infrastructure such as airports in Aden, Al Rayyan and Socotra, as well as sea ports in Aden, Mukalla and Socotra.
The UAE has implemented rehabilitation, maintenance and maintenance of 10 water plants and networks with 80 pumps, four sewage treatment plants, 250 wells and a dam for storing clean water, more than 500 police vehicles to support security institutions and rehabilitating 38 police stations.
UAE assistance has played an active role in the implementation and success of the United Nations relief efforts in Yemen. Most of the assistance was concentrated in the northern governorates of Sana'a, Taiz, Hodeidah and other northern areas, based on the plans and priorities of the United Nations organizations.
With the participation of Saudi Arabia, the UAE launched the Imadad Program to provide $ 500 million to fight hunger in Yemen and as additional support to help meet urgent humanitarian needs in the food and nutrition sectors.
The UAE has so far paid $ 50 million to Imdaad, a program of 10 to 12 million Yemenis, and to provide food supplies consisting of five basic commodities, most notably wheat, for a period of up to four months.
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia donated $ 70 million to support Yemeni teachers through UNICEF, and the UAE's $ 35 million contribution would pay 135,000 teachers for 10 months.
The United Arab Emirates, in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), contributed 18 million to 400,000 dirhams to the World Food Program (WFP) school feeding program. During the period from 20 June to 6 December 2018, Million dirhams.
