The emergency response project kept the contracting segment from collapsing Implemented projects achieved public interest, serving the community and work... is the secret behind on-ground success. Efficiency and Integrity of the Public Works Project Management Unit
The contractor Abdul Hamid Jaber sees that: The project of emergency response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen , which is funded by the World Bank through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in partnership Public Works Project, has a significant positive impact on us as contractors, as it has maintained this segment from collapsing
Abdul-Hamid Jaber: The projects carried out achieved the public interest, which serves the community in general, as well as humanitarian work at the same time through the employment of unemployed and displaced people who did not find jobs to get bread.
The contractor appreciates the efficiency of the Public Works Project Management Unit and its keenness in the optimization of projects implemented, and the operation of labor, especially displaced and destitute ones.
2.Abdel-Hamid Jaber demonstrates the impact of the current crisis on him as a contractor through his reality
The contractor, Abdulhamid, described his condition as a failure to use his car to travel , people see him as a better situation than them so he has to financially comfort them What bothers me.
They are unaware that I started selling some of my personal belongings, some equipment and I offered my excavator for sale at a price of 70 thousand dollars in spite that I bought it with a cost of 120 thousand dollars.
The crisis has a negative impact on us as contractors more than others.
The emergency response project has a very positive impact on us as contractors as it kept this segment from collapse.
Employing Women
Even women were employed?
The contractor Abdul Hamid Jaber: The project of rainwater harvest tank , which was executed in Juhana-Sana'a, occupied around 20 persons only from displaced people , the problem we faced is that the IDPs haven't worked before andthey have the preference of aids and donations.
Jahana area - Sana'a governorate - where only 20 people were working in .
The new experience is women's work where three women were working per day in cooking , (they are from destitute families and displaced people near the project), and also when cleaning tank and watercourse, we have collected women from IDP and poor families near to the project to clean them. They were pleased and happy when they received their wages.
Thus achieving the public interest, which serves society in general, as well as humanitarian work at the same time to let the unemployed and displaced people who did not find jobs to work and provide themselves with bread.
Necessity
Concerning the importance of Emergency Response Project?
Abdul-Hamid Jaber sees that the benefit has been achieved for all, in terms of providing the community with service projects ,especially the displaced and those who are in need of these projects, in addition to creating jobs for young people, unemployed people and contractors, especially in such a crisis.
As we know we were in need for such projects ( before this crisis), and know the need for them is more significant especially within the current circumstances .
During the implementation of the rainwater harvesting tank in the town of Jahana Sana'a governorate - every day we receive the people of the neighboring villages, and we try to convince them that projects will target all regions without exception.
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Finally, I would like to thank the staff of Public Works Project Management Unit for their hard work to achieve the optimum utilization of the implemented projects , and following up the implementation of the project , and for their keenness in employing workers, especially the displaced and the unemployed.
I thank them for their good dealing with contractors transparently and for not aligning themselves with director of directorates or beneficiaries or contractors. This work indicates that they are impartial employers.
Women working in cleaning water harvesting tanks- Jahana, Sana'a governorate