Resettlement Framework Yemen Emergency Human Capital Project (P176570) (English)

The World Bank is financing the YEHCP to provide essential health, nutrition, water and sanitation services to the population of Yemen, with a rationale of added value by having the ability to deliver a continuum of response mechanisms along the humanitarian-development nexus and ensuring the Bank’s effective collaboration with partners to mobilize a successful and technically sound crisis respons [...] The Resettlement Framework was prepared to meet the requirements of the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) in general and the requirements of ESS5 in particular. [...] The subcomponent will help monitor the quality of water and sanitation services through rehabilitation of public laboratories for water and wastewater quality testing and enhancing and strengthening the operational capacities of the WSLCs and their branches, AUs, branches of NWSA and GARWSP in the target areas in the delivery of safe water and sanitation services (e.g., installing small decentrali [...] This subcomponent aims to respond to COVID-19 Pandemic and the impact of flash floods at decentralized level and will be implemented by UNOPS in partnership with the autonomous national and local institutions (UWS-PMU, PWP), respective WSLCs and their branches, AUs and branches of NWSA and GARWSP to improve their readiness and capacities to respond to COVID-19’s possible impact and other infectiou [...] The World Bank will closely coordinate with UNOPS for the implementation and overall oversight of the of site-specific environmental and social risk management instruments, e.g., ESMPs and RAPs to ensure that their scope and quality are satisfactory to the Bank.