Paper short abstract:

The low-income -Yemen faces an unprecedented risk with the rise of COVID-19: due to the collapse of the country's health system, millions of lives in danger, especially children. Improving the social protection and social welfare policies is in the core of the responses to the COVID-19 crisis.

Paper long abstract:

In this paper, we focus on supporting the currently affected country's social protection system by delivering humanitarian welfare aid policies. As the country's social protection system is non-functional as a result the political crisis since 2015, there are some key social protection and social welfare funds, the acting social protection Yemeni institutions including (the Social Fund for Development and Social Welfare Fund) having direct linkage with international organizations to deliver comprehensive assistance to Yemeni vulnerabilities.The International organizations seeking to implement effective nationwide shock-responsive and intervention policies to mitigate the Covid-19's socio-economic consequences impacting millions of Yemeni households and extremely leading them to suffer food insecurity, health and nutrition inadequacy, income shortage due to restrictions, etc.

Covid-19 pushes millions of lives into severe poverty and there should be serious support to establish effective social protection interventions including social safety nets and unconditional emergency cash transfer.The Sustainable Development Goals of which 70 percent of the fund goes to rural areas and as achieving the 2030 Agenda requires greater focus on rural development where if implemented in Yemeni rural areas will contribute richly to social and economic recovery and health and education evolution.This research paper describes the practical coordination between the most influencing local and international organizations working in the humanitarian setting to deliver accountable social protection and welfare services to millions of vulnerable households and suggests future plans to empower vulnerable Yemeni population to take part in economic and agriculture activities shifting them from being humanitarian assistance recipients into independent service givers.