Crisis Assessment Series YEMEN Photo credit: Dmitry Saparov/Thinkstock.com Context Y GFDRR’s role emen is the lowest-income country in G the MENA region. In June 2014, armed FDRR was requested to support the Social, Urban, Rural conflict between the government and and Resilience Global Practice (GSURR) in conducting the militias started to spread across much of Yemen Yemen DNA. and escalated in March 2015. It has caused major loss of life, internal displacement, and the Due to the ongoing conflict, the assessment was primarily destruction of infrastructure and service delivery remote-based, using an innovative mixture of satellite imagery across main sectors, further exacerbating a and social media analytics, supplemented by field reports and pre-existing humanitarian crisis. The Yemen local government data whenever possible. Market expertise Damage and Needs Assessment (DNA) was was solicited to utilize remote assessment techniques to conducted in partnership with the United perform the analysis under the guidance of GFDRR and the Nations, the European Union, and the Islamic World Bank sector teams. Damage information provided by Development Bank (IsDB), and the strong support partners, government ministries (e.g. Ministry of Education) and from the Ministry of Planning and International local agencies (e.g. the water local corporations and the Road Cooperation as the government of Yemen (GoY) Maintenance Fund) was also collected to triangulate the findings focal point. of the market vendor. Work for the first phase began in July 2015. The GFDRR supported the sector specialists from the six priority key objective of the first phase was to inform sectors with data analysis that helped them to quantify the Government of Yemen, the World Bank damages, analyze impact on service delivery, and provide sector Group (WBG), and its partners on the impacts recommendations. of the ongoing conflict in Yemen on critical infrastructure, physical assets, and service Damage costs are estimated delivery. The first phase of the Yemen DNA to range between focused on four cities: Sana’a, Aden, Taiz, and Zinjibar. For the four cities, the GoY identified US$4-5 six priority sectors: Education, energy, health, billion housing, transport, and water & sanitation. Published April 2016 Crisis Assessment Series YEMEN Key Results ➊ A preliminary report that identifies: (1) quantitative estimates of the physical damages to key public and private assets in the selected sectors including: health, education, energy, WASH, transport, and housing in the cities of: Sana’a, Aden, Taiz, and Zinjibar; (2) the impact of the crisis on associated service delivery; and (3) a preliminary analysis of stabilization Photo credit: Dana Smillie/World Bank interventions and their respective sequencing. Approximately 88% of the damage in the transport sector is due to damage done to the port in Aden and the airports in Aden and ➋ The work conducted in the Yemen DNA Sana’a. activity provided an internal watching brief for the GoY, UN, EU, IsDB, and the WBG leadership giving them a better TOTAL VALUE OF DAMAGES BY SECTOR FOR FOUR CITIES understanding of the ongoing conflict. (US$ M as of March 2015)* Sector LOW ESTIMATE HIGH ESTIMATE ➌ The work helped to forge partnership among WBG, UN, EU and IsDB that would prove Education 86 105 useful in supporting Yemen in post crisis Energy 125 153 recovery. Health 435 532 Housing 3,245 3,966 ➍ A GIS based data visualization and sharing Transport 88 108 platform was created to facilitate the sharing Water, sanitation and hygiene 79 97 of information. The platform allowed the team to convert the large sector data sets Total $4,058 $4,961 into easily understandable visuals over the base map of each city. The platform also * These are damage estimates of physical infrastructure using historical unit cost. Reconstruction needs would be higher due to inflation, security premium, allows the progressive update of the damage scarcity of material/labor, etc. information that will be effective in providing a time lapse understanding of the situation. ➎ The continued improvement and formalization of the remote assessment methodology developed by GFDRR resulted in GSURR taking the lead in the assessment, Housing is the most affected The energy sector in both with technical support provided by GFDRR. sector with total damages of Sana’a and Taiz has suffered US$3-4 over 60% billion. damage to their assets.