Our Programs
Youth Development
Youth represent the most important wealth of the society's wealth. They are in the widest social strata. Young people are the most dynamic, energetic and capable of bringing change in different walks of life to better shape the future. Young people look forward to a busy and fruitful life and to a society that embraces all its groups and feels its value. Attention to the youth category is a concern for overall development in general and for self-development in particular and for the advancement of the individual and society.
Health and Nutrition
provide live-saving integrated health services to those in need and to contribute in the sustainability of the provision of the project services after project end through strengthening the capacities of health care workers in the health facilities and re-build the trust between health service providers and beneficiaries. In all implemented health services projects, we ensured to mainstream protection and gender issues, principles and standards to both host communities and IDPs in affected areas.
Water and Environmental Sanitation
IYCY developed an agency-specific plan (the “Water and Development Plan”) in conjunction with the whole-of-government Global Water Strategy. It provides a framework for IYCY’s contribution to the Yemen. government’s shared vision for a water-secure Yemen, and links directly to the following strategic objectives in the Global Water Strategy
Agriculture and Food Security
Nearly 22 million people across the Yemen will go to bed hungry tonight, most of them smallholder farmers who depend on agriculture to make a living and feed their families. Despite an explosion in the growth of urban slums over the last decade, nearly 75 percent of poor people in developing countries live in rural areas. That’s why growth in the agriculture sector has been found, on average, to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors.
Protection, Gender and Education
Yemeni society is a conservative society where it continues to hamper women's access to resources, including access to decision-making positions through many obstacles, and gender-based violence issues remain marginal and dominated by a culture of silence
Environment, Energy and Climate Change
Yemen is suffering from the earth resource degradation at about 12.5% of the total area amounts to about 45.5 million hectares. The desertification threatens about 97% of the land and eliminates arable lands at about 3-5% per annum, furthermore. Rather, the forests deteriorate and shrink at a rate of 1% per annum due to drought, agricultural activities, excessive pasture and logging.
Creative environment
The International Youth Council provides opportunities, services, support, and capacity building for young people in various fields.
Education Program
The conflict in Yemen has taken a severe toll on civilians.The escalation of the conflict beginning in March 2015 has “severely exacerbated Yemen’s pre-existing humanitarian crisis” and resulted in a drastic change of the education situation in the country
Early Recovery Programme
An estimated 8 million Yemenis have lost their livelihoods or are living in communities with minimal to no basic services. Communities require support to promote resilience, including clearance of landmines and other explosives in up to 15 governorates.
Medical Camp IYC-Y
International Youth Council - Yemen doubled efforts to provide immediate solutions to the health crisis in Tiaz city.
Shelter and NFI
Based on contextual analysis IYCY will define appropriate strategies and activities to address identified needs. This analysis will consider all relevant contextual factors such as scale, climate, culture, available materials and skills, logistics, funding, legislation and policies.
SOQYA ALYEMEN PROJECT
Provide Water to vulnerable households and internal displaced people ( IDPs).
Taiz Integrated Emergency Program
Provide essential NFIs and emergency shelter kits (ES) to IDPs and other conflict-affected households.
Distribution of Food Baskets and Food Voucher.
In 2015 IYCY served more than 5,550 HHs (38,850 individuals ) of IDPs and host communities in the hard to reach areas in Salh, At Ta'iziyah, Jabal Habashy, Al Mudhaffar, Shara'b Ar Rawnah, Maqbanah, and Al-qahera'a districts in Taizz governorate with Food baskets distribution and food voucher.
IYCY Food Security , Livelihoods and Agriculture Activities
In 2017, IYCY implemented integrated project of food security and Nutrition in Aljarrahi, Hays and Al-Tohaita districts in Al Hudaydah Governorate. The project contributes with life-saving assistant targeted the most vulnerable effected people in the affected districts of Taizz governorates. The project reached more than 758 HHs (5,306 individuals ) of most vulnerable internal displaced people and host communities focusing on the mothers, new-borns and children of host communities and IDPs in Al Hudaydah governorate.
First Phase (September 2015)
In September 2015, International Youth Council - Yemen and its partners targeted over 3,000 IDPs and vulnerable households with food baskets in areas of Salh, At Ta'iziyah, Jabal Habashy, Al Mudhaffar, Shara'b Ar Rawnah and Maqbanah districts.
Second Phase (October, 2015)
During October, 2015 IYCY provided food lifesaving services to most vulnerable families and IDPs reaching 595 IDPs and 405 host families in Taiz city Bab mousa, Al-Ojainat, Al-Jahmalaih, Al-thabab, Al-mousala, and the IDPs of Al mokhah in Albarh.
Third Phase (November, 2015)
As the conflict ongoing in November, 2015. IYCY continued to provide humanitarian assistance to displaced households and most vulnerable families needs food security assistance to the conflicted affected areas in Al-bariaha, Al-ramadah, Al-qalah, Al-marowr, Al-marowr, 26 street, and Albarh.
Fourth Phase (December, 2015)
The total beneficiaries of IYCY food security program in December, 2015 is 1000 households of 630 IDPs and 370 vulnerable host communities in Bab mousa, Al-Ojainat, Al-Jahmalaih, and Beerbasha in Tiaz City.
Water Distribution relief project
The international Youth Council - Yemen and its partners did relief more than 118,340 beneficiaries in 10 areas in district of Shoab in Sana'a during 4 months . The Total of beneficiaries reached 34655 Thousands most of them from The marginal people whom living in the labor City.
Provision Of Health Services
International Youth Council – Yemen (IYCY) is continuing its heath package interventions to alleviate potential consequences of the ongoing conflict, under Health Cluster leading and with supporting by Mari Stops International Yemen