[{"bbox": [67, 99, 1158, 1021], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td>programme continuation.</td><td></td><td></td><td>conflict intensity areas; where necessary, use remote management.</td></tr><tr><td>External Environment</td><td>Limited capacity, legitimacy and functionality at central level.</td><td>High</td><td>Low</td><td>Continued coordination across all levels of government. Work more closely with the local authorities at the district and community levels.</td></tr><tr><td>External Environment</td><td>Economic and financial collapse.</td><td>High</td><td>Medium</td><td>Assess feasibility of using alternative financial providers such as micro-finance institutions, money changers/exchange offices.</td></tr><tr><td>External Environment</td><td>Operational Context: Stringent project clearance process and mobility approval by the authorities</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>Close coordination with national and local authorities, joint monitoring and supervisory visits.</td></tr><tr><td>Planning, Process & Systems</td><td>Participation by communities: - Access to and by communities - Availability of people to participate</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Use local partners; ensure that project's design considers cultural, availability and access issues when developing activities; undertake conflict, gender and do-no-harm assessments and analysis. Promote gender mainstreaming and the inclusion and participation of youth and other groups living in vulnerable situations throughout.</td></tr><tr><td>External Environment</td><td>Access to inputs / functioning markets</td><td>Medium</td><td>Low</td><td>Minimize misuse of inputs through value-chain development. Strengthen private sector capacity to produce inputs.</td></tr><tr><td>External Environment</td><td>Climate variability/extreme events</td><td>Medium</td><td>Medium</td><td>Mitigating measures could include the Strengthening Evidence-Based Decision Making in Yemen through Improved Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihoods Information and Analysis as a source of information for decision making.</td></tr><tr><td>Legal & Regulatory</td><td>Restriction of imports of equipment necessary for operations.</td><td>Low</td><td>Medium</td><td>Identify equipment that can be procured locally or with minimal potential disruption to supply chains.</td></tr><tr><td>People & Organisation</td><td>Covid-19 impacts on programme delivery.</td><td>Medium</td><td>Low</td><td>Contingency plans are in place for remote working and safe access to communities.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [79, 1047, 239, 1072], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Lessons Learnt:**"}, {"bbox": [79, 1073, 1147, 1180], "category": "Text", "text": "This action is based on lessons learnt during two phases of the Enhancing Rural Resilience in Yemen (ERRY) project. Internal and external review and evaluation, and Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM), identified the following lessons: **Short-term assistance modalities need to be combined with longer-term strategies.** Combining these efforts to restore and support resilient livelihoods is critical for peace, sustainable development, and food security."}, {"bbox": [79, 1190, 1147, 1272], "category": "Text", "text": "**Institutional support at community level** is a foundation for improvement and access to sustainable public services and livelihoods. This action will build synergies with EU funded SIERY programme, which targets district level governance interventions."}, {"bbox": [79, 1283, 1147, 1391], "category": "Text", "text": "Programme focus should not be exclusively on food security but also to **support self-sustainability of beneficiaries' livelihoods** who have already received food/cash assistance to meet food security needs. Improving access, storage, capacities and energy of marketplace helped develop synergies and complemented activities of participating UN organisations. This also allowed to tackle livelihoods and economy beyond community asset rehabilitation."}, {"bbox": [79, 1401, 1147, 1560], "category": "Text", "text": "Renewable energy **diversification** can promote environment protection and climate security through decentralised energy solution, green jobs and local economy as well as improving service delivery. Renewable energy has also demonstrated that it can create better linkages between humanitarian, development and peace interventions. Considering the dependency on oil derivative economy and the crisis that Yemen has gone through in the last six years, renewable energy through the green economy approach would support Yemenis to have alternatives to improve their lives and livelihoods."}, {"bbox": [79, 1572, 1147, 1654], "category": "Text", "text": "Experience from ERRY II identified benefits of greater engagement with a range of **Business Development Support services, including financial institutions** like banks, micro-finance institutions and foundations as well the private sector enterprises and their value chains. Strengthening value chains needs specific interventions to create structural"}, {"bbox": [1039, 1662, 1157, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 22"}]