Yemen Reports
 | 2021: A Year in Review in YemenThe crisis in Yemen has inexorably deepened, with over 20.1 million people in immediate need of humanitarian assistance to survive. Over four million people, including two million children, continue to be internally displaced, with over 400,000 families migrating or seeking asylum to avoid living in extreme precarity. The socio-economic breakdown is further eroding the resilience of the population which has come to rely more and more on humanitarian relief. In this context, the limited progress of the peace process dampens hopes for a resolution to this decade long predicament. |
 | Search-Yemen Community Dialogue ApproachDeveloped by Search for Common Ground in Yemen in 2015, the Community Dialogue Approach (CDA) is a form of local-level mediation which places community members at the heart of dialogue to resolve local conflicts. By engaging local stakeholders directly, peacebuilding skills are rooted within local populations and genuine concerns are tangibly addressed. The CDA model seeks to build pockets of stability and resilience at the local level. With the national peace process in Yemen still ongoing, the CDA empowers communities to build peace from the ground up, in the midst of conflict. |
| Interventions Report (2018-2019)This report compiles the interventions conducted under a number of Search-Yemen projects implemented between 2018-2019. Through Search’s flagship Community Dialogue Approach, trained Insider Mediators worked collaboratively with community members to develop shared solutions and identify action plans to resolve the conflicts, noting local resources that could be leveraged and trusted community members who could facilitate the process. Each action plan is then approved by the Local Authorities. Community initiatives were implemented to resolve the priority conflicts, in turn supporting an integrating peacebuilding approaches into development and humanitarian initiatives. These peace interventions provide a vision for collaboration and sustainability in the community by addressing root causes of conflicts and transforming the way in which communities address conflicts in the future. |
| COVID-19 Snapshot – Yemen conflict – Working Together Against Corona – April 2021This snapshot report was prepared by the Search for Common Ground Yemen team and an independent consultant team in April 2021. It is the second Yemen snapshot report prepared as part of Search’s global Working Together Against Corona programme, funded by the European Union. The snapshot identifies key trends, compared across time since the first snapshot report, at the intersection of COVID-19, social cohesion, community trust, and inter-group conflict and presents practical recommendations to address these challenges. |
| Conflict Snapshot – Yemen – Working Together Against Corona – December 2020This snapshot report was prepared by an independent consultant and the Search for Common Ground Yemen team in December 2020 as part of Search’s global Working Together Against Corona programme, funded by the European Union. The snapshot identifies key trends in Yemen at the intersection of COVID-19, social cohesion, community trust, and inter-group conflict and presents practical recommendations to address these challenges. |
 | Annual Review – Yemen – March 20212020 marked an important milestone for Search-Yemen: 10 years of steady work. After five years of violent conflict and a protracted humanitarian crisis, Yemen was also hit with COVID-19 in 2020. Read our annual review of the year to hear more about the resolve, innovation, and resilience of our team and the programming that we delivered. |
| Program Overview – Yemen – December 2020Search for Common Ground has worked in Yemen for 10 years, achieving some powerful results along the way. As the protracted conflict in Yemen has continued, the humanitarian crisis across the country has remained the worst in the world, leaving 24 million people in need of humanitarian or protection assistance. Tens of thousands of people have been killed or injured since 2015, and an estimated 3.3 million remain displaced. Established in 2010, Search-Yemen is operated by a qualified team of Yemeni nationals who possess both expert knowledge and local contacts that enable high performance of programs. Search-Yemen has continued programming through the most recent conflict, and by the end of 2019, Search-Yemen interventions had reached 29 districts in seven Yemeni governorates, with networks and partnerships that span the country. |