Dalia Elsabbagh, IFPRI Egypt After four years of continuous collaboration between IFPRI and different institutions in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and Yemen, the final workshop series was held during the months of December 2020 and January 2021 to demonstrate the final product “Online AIDA”. “We are very proud to show the product of this collaboration, which […]
NEW PUBLICATION: Impact of COVID-19 on the Yemeni economy
By Dalia Elsabbagh, Sikandra Kurdi, and Manfred Wiebelt
There has been an unprecedented decline in the flow of remittances to Yemen – a vital source of money for millions – as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) multiplier model of Yemen’s economy was used to estimate the impact of lower remittances on economic sectors and employment, food systems, and household incomes. Some of the key findings from this modeling exercise are: [...]
Working Amid War: Assessing Cash Transfers For Nutrition In Yemen
How do you carry out research in the middle of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world: the civil war in Yemen? This episode features IFPRI Research Fellow Sikandra Kurdi who, in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, tells the story of how Yemen’s Social Fund for Development and IFPRI partnered on the evaluation of a project that […]
NEW PUBLICATION: Nutritional training in a humanitarian context: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial
By Sikandra Kurdi , Jose Luis Figueroa, and Hosam Ibrahim
Behavioral change communication interventions have been shown to be effective at improving infant and young child nutrition knowledge and practices. However, evidence in humanitarian response contexts is scarce. Using data on secondary outcomes of breastfeeding, water treatment, and knowledge from a cluster randomized control trial of the Yemen Cash for Nutrition program's impact on child nutritional status, this paper shows [...]
Challenges of Food Security shortages, Spread of diseases and Corona epidemics in Yemen
Dr. Abdul Wahed Othman Mukred - Head of Food Security Technical Secretariat, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Sana'a, Yemen
Yemen suffers from the worst humanitarian crisis in the world since the conflict began in March 2015. The number of people in need of food reached about 24.3 million people, equivalent to more than 80% of the total population. Projections indicate that about 20.1 million people need interventions during the period June-December 2020 while about 10 million individuals suffer from acute food insecurity [...]
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