The UAE's assistance to Yemen from April 2015 to December 2018 was about 18.06 billion dirhams (US $ 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 systematic destruction inflicted by the Houthi militias.
Assistance included support to public programs, health, education, power generation and supply, transportation and storage, budget support and civil society / judicial and legal development /, social services, and relief and food items in emergency situations.
The United Arab Emirates ranked first as the world's largest direct donor of emergency humanitarian aid to the right-wing population in 2018, and ranked second after Saudi Arabia as the second largest donor to support the UN humanitarian plan in Yemen for the same year.
In 2018, UAE assistance to Yemen amounted to about 7,838 billion dirhams ($ 2.13 billion), of which 1,840 billion dirhams ($ 500 million) were allocated to support the United Nations Humanitarian Response Plan in Yemen for 2018.
The budget of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been allocated to support the Yemeni public budget and to pay the salaries of government employees, in order to continue to provide all government agencies For services that concern a broad segment of the population, especially in the areas of health, education and security.
Food and relief. The UAE provided commodity assistance worth 3.84 billion dirhams (US $ 1.05 billion), maintaining the high level of food distribution to Yemeni people, which reached more than 528 tons per day, as well as the distribution of various relief items from tents And special blankets in areas where the displaced population is concentrated.
The UAE has allocated 1.72 billion dirhams (467.9 million US dollars) to support the power generation and supply sector, which has borne the operational costs of generating electricity, providing electricity supply services, rebuilding and maintaining power stations, and providing fuel for power plants and generators In order to be able to produce the necessary energy to operate hospitals, schools and public buildings throughout Yemen.
The UAE has completed construction and maintenance of 17 750 MW power plants. A power plant with a cost of AED 368 million (US $ 100 million) is being developed and implemented in Aden to meet the power deficit. AED 368 million (US $ 1 million) in Hadramout province to support and rehabilitate power plants at a cost of 294.4 million dirhams (80 million US dollars).
The UAE has allocated 845 million dirhams ($ 230 million) in aid to support the health sector and alleviate the shortage of health services, medicines and medical supplies, contributing to the rehabilitation and maintenance of 55 hospitals and health centers in a number of right-wing areas, , And campaigns to vaccinate 488,000 children against polio and measles.
Education For the sake of the future of the children of Yemen, the UAE provided generous assistance to the education sector amounting to 153.9 million dirhams (41.9 million US dollars), through which it funded projects to build and rehabilitate 230 schools and provide 70 school buses.
Transport and storage amounted to AED 575 million (US $ 156.5 million), while AED 515 million ($ 140.5 million) was allocated to support social services.
Rehabilitation of infrastructure. "The UAE's assistance to Yemen has contributed to the rehabilitation of basic infrastructure such as the 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, 4 sewage treatment plants, 250 wells and dams for storing clean water, more than 500 police vehicles to support security institutions and rehabilitating 38 police stations.
Financing of the UN plans // The UAE has played an active role in the implementation and success of the United Nations efforts and relief plans in Yemen. Most of the assistance concentrated in the northern governorates of Sana'a, Taiz, Hodeidah and other northern areas has been based on the plans and priorities of the UN organizations.
With the participation of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates launched the IMDAD program to provide US $ 500 million to combat hunger in Yemen and as additional support to help meet immediate humanitarian needs in the food and nutrition sectors, with an emphasis on addressing acute malnutrition among children under age And pregnant and lactating women, through the United Nations and international, regional and local organizations.
The UAE has so far paid US $ 50 million to Imdaad, a program of 10 to 12 million Yemenis, and provides 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 have donated US $ 70 million to support Yemeni teachers through UNICEF. The US $ 35 million share will help pay 135,000 teachers for 10 months.
The United Arab Emirates, in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has contributed 18 million to 400,000 dirhams (US $ 5 million) to the World Food Program (WFP) school feeding program "Food for Thought" in Yemen.
Al-Hodeidah said that the value of UAE aid to the province of Hodeidah during the period from 20 June to 6 December 2018 amounted to about 1 billion and 183 million dirhams (321.5 million US dollars).
The province of Hodeidah ranked second in the list of Yemeni provinces that received most of the UAE support for the United Nations humanitarian response plan in Yemen for 2018, which amounted to 43.2 million US dollars.
The UAE succeeded in delivering more than 110,000 food rations to 55 districts in Hodeidah governorate benefiting more than 770,000 people. It also contributed to water supply through the construction of 23 water plants in Hodeidah as well as water reservoirs.
The UAE has built a series of bakeries, where the first four bakeries were opened in Al-Khokha Directorate in Hodeidah Governorate to provide free bread to the residents of the area.
The UAE has established mobile clinics in a number of areas to provide treatment and health care in a range of specialties including respiratory diseases, hypertension, acute malnutrition, dengue fever and the care of pregnant women.
The UAE rehabilitated fishing ports in order to restore normal life in the liberated areas and the first port of Al-Khokha Directorate was opened.
In preparation for the academic year, the UAE supported 14 schools on the west coast where they were provided with educational materials and solar panels.