“Identify priorities for directing the grants in Yemen in light of the current circumstances."

Scandinavian Yemeni Friendship Association, SY-FA, has organized a workshop on prioritizing guiding grants in Yemen under the current circumstances, under the auspices of the Ministry of planning and international cooperation, in the presence of a large number of development partners and international and civil society organizations, academics and activists, businessmen, and journalists. The workshop reviewed the current situation in Yemen and its repercussions on civilians, and reviews some of the interventions adopted by some organizations actors so far and benefit from those experiences, and discussed ways to reduce current and future consequences and intervention priorities in the current period and ways to activate their sustainability and maximizing impact.

Undersecretary of the Ministry of planning and international cooperation, Omar Abdel Aziz Abdel Ghani, stressed on the need to stop the blockade and external aggression and internal strife, where humanitarian tragedy arrived in our country is pretty difficult to control in the coming days. Today's humanitarian conditions is very complex, and we work to deliver food, medicine and fuel to all cities and provinces of Yemen, Stressing that the Ministry was working to coordinate resources and development needs through the development of principles and general directions for the management of the development strategy and to seek funding from various domestic and foreign sources to contribute actively in raising economic growth and balanced living. Mr. Abdel Ghani Expressed his pleasure with the success of the workshop organized and lunched in this difficult time and this shows that Friendship Association has ambitious and enthusiastic members to motivate everyone to work hard in the current stage.

For his part, Mr. Hashim Nedhal, Secretary General of Scandinavian Yemeni Friendship Association has provided background on the association indicating that it is a non-profit, independent, non-party Government that enhances frameworks of understanding and communication between peoples of Scandinavia and Yemen in the cultural, social and humanitarian means to promote cooperation between Yemeni and Scandinavian societies. He explained that the Assembly aims to develop and consolidate relations of friendship and good understanding between people of Yemen and people of Scandinavia and the European Union system, as well as cooperation in humanitarian fields and support in cases of epidemiology and humanitarian catastrophes, and to contribute to the development and consolidation of ties of joint cooperation in all fields, social, cultural, scientific and educational. Mr. Nedhal pointed that Yemenis live disaster and human tragedy caused by the embargo and daily raids and armed fighting, hundreds of thousands were displaced as a result of the destruction of their homes and the lack of basic life requirements of water, food, medicines and oil derivatives, and spread of epidemics in several provinces, the class declaration of a group of Yemeni cities as disaster areas.

The workshop then reviewed each of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs, care international, World Federation of societies of international and civil society organizations "Nations" and "our farm" Yemen, interventions carried out during the current period and the difficulties encountered in their implementation, then began the Panel discussion where participants divided into discussion groups to find solutions to the difficulties which organizations face in implementing charitable projects and prioritize possible interventions in key relief hubs and identify the most important recommendations to be applied, and then each group discuss results , And the Association of friendship through facilitators and the formulation of recommendations by the workshop and then honored participants letterheads.

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