Mohammed Abdelhalim Al-Hamadi is one of the beneficiary students of the physically disabled center building project at Al-Dhabab road – Al-Mudhafar district of Taiz governorate. He describes the state of misery and sadness as he was deprived of education due to his condition and circumstances, because he is the son of a poor family unable to afford the cost of movement to Taiz governorate or the capital Sana›a to enroll in the disabled rehabilitation centers and consequently having the opportunity to become an active member of the society was almost none. AlHammadi adds that following the intervention by the PWP in building the disabled center his hope is revived and has achieved aspirations and the look of the society around him has changed from compassion to respect and praise.

Through its interventions in the vocational training and social affairs, the PWP targeted segments of the society complaining negligence, despite the fact that these interventions serve a large segment such as persons with special needs, rural women and productive families. Therefore PWP interventions were qualitative with concrete impacts among these segments enabling them to reintegrate into the society through establishment of rehabilitation centers for the disabled and other centers for training women in different governorates that played a pivotal role in the development of the productive training fields particularly among young women.
 The training is correlated to the needs of the market while the promotion of these skills has consequently led to raising the market skills that resulted in the creation of more job opportunities and generate more r income for women.

Furthermore, there are numerous indirect benefits  contributing to the creation of additional job opportunities for additional  male and female trainers as well as the number of the administrative staff.

Working women

The productive families center at Al-Kanawis district in Al-Hodeidah governorate is a story told by Zohoor Doblah who became one of the business ladies in the area being in the past  one of the daughters of a poor family.

Following the intervention of PWP by building the productive families center at Al-Kanawis she learned the craft of sewing and embroidery and after her graduation from the center she started her own project of sewing clothes for women in her area until she became famous with cliental, and got the assistance of one of her female relatives whom she trained at the center to meet the requirements of clients particularly at the seasons of feasts and weddings.

As narrated by Zohoor Doblah, her activity expanded to market her products in the nearby areas exploiting the weekly market days visited by nearby residents  to buy their needs. Thus Zohoor was successful in marketing larger quantities of children›s clothes for girls and embroidered cloth for women and thereby started managing a workshop with about thirteen (13) female workers.

Achievement

The total number of performed projects in the field of vocational training and social affairs for the period 2014-2016 is about 9 projects with a total cost of USD 2,375,788 with about 42,029 beneficiaries that provided 5,112 work/months as job opportunities to reach accumulative number of 97 subprojects at a total cost of USD 14,076,511 with 577,850 beneficiaries and provided 40,169 work/months as job opportunities.

Amran governorate witnessed a successful and pioneering experiment by the PWP that transformed hundreds of unemployed women to productive families with income generating projects that have had  positive impacts on improvement of livelihood for many families that were suffering poverty and unemployment.

Good fruit:

The productive families project in Amran city is a good fruit of PWP intervention in upgrading women›s qualification and a successful experiment achieving positive impact on many families as stated by Aman Allah Al-Dhabari  one of the graduates of the center in the field of sewing top-notch belts. Similarly there  are tens of women who became producers of income generation handicrafts that realized livelihood prosperity to their families.

This sector has proved extremely successful  in transforming livelihoods of important segments of the society who were complaining from marginalization and deprivation such as women and persons with special needs to be active and productive elements after being sufferers of poverty and need.
Through its interventions in the vocational training and social affairs, PWP was able to qualify workforce especially among women through giving them income generation skills and crafts.

The planning process to integrate gender issues and women in the interventions, development programs and projects requires understanding the different social roles, responsibilities and activities of women and men, as such differences result in different needs whether practical or strategic, where in the past attention was focused on the society without giving any consideration to this difference and as a result the role of women is mostly disregarded in the development process despite the fact that their participation is a principal pillar.

To strengthen that participation, attention must be given to the different roles of men and women and the different relations and interactions between those prevalent relations and roles. This grasp is the cause behind the strong attention to the gender which simply means realizing that in each environment the needs and roles of men and women are different.

Women often are prohibited from attending village meetings or if permitted, they have no right to talk and even when this prohibition is traditional rather than official this must be taken into consideration and what happens mostly is that women authorized to participate in such meetings are not representatives of all the local women and hence it is necessary to be aware of such facts. In each segment of a participant groups we need to think in the specific roles and needs of men and women.

It is important to encourage and increase women participation and the challenge here is how to attract women to participate in the issues of concern to them and seeking to solve those problems instead of inciting them. Again, and based on customs and traditions in each environment the methods of establishing communication and participation will be different as it is often necessary to deal first with men and then bring the women groups and discuss matters with them.

Finally, these considerations related to men and women and their roles and specific needs are also valid for application when dealing with the youth of each sex separately as for example there is a clear difference between the roles and needs of girls and those of the elder women.

Sanitation projects, as it is known, need great financial capabilities and resources, and as a result of the conditions in Yemen, the implementation of this type of project has stopped, and because these projects are related to the daily lives of people, the Public Works Project was keen through its meetings with international funders to provide support for these projects because of their role in improving the health and environmental situation of the population in Yemeni cities, especially in popular and poor neighborhoods, especially with the spread of infectious diseases and epidemics such as (cholera) , malaria, diets etc.), where such projects are a lifeline for many Yemenis in the targeted areas, especially in light of rapidly spreading epidemics that are contagious and life-threatening, as the project succeeded through sanitation projects, especially in densely populated areas of the poor, displaced people, and destitute and marginalized groups, in reducing these epidemics and diseases and creating a safe environmental and health situation after the implementation of sewage network projects.

Rescue for women and children

Women and children are the most benefited group from sanitation projects, because they are  the most affected by diseases and epidemics resulting from sewage waste in neighborhoods and streets, where injuries and deaths due to infectious diseases and epidemics such as (cholera, malaria, fevers) were recorded among women and children, and therefore one of the most important  results achieved for sanitation projects is to improve the level of public health and the environmental situation of society, especially for children, who were located around sewage swamps in the streets, and also improve the level of Sanitation services and thus significantly improve public health, reduce infectious diseases and reduce health care expenses.

Indicators

During the period January-December 2023, in the field of sanitation, 25 projects  were completed at a cost of $ 3.4 million, benefiting about 46,000 people, and 180 temporary job opportunities were created. Month-worker

Rehabilitation of the sewage network of Hodeidah city. A precious gift for women and children

Many families have been displaced from residential neighborhoods in the city of Hodeidah due to the overflow of streets (lanes) with sewage waste, and the resulting life-threatening diseases, but the cost of displacement is lower for most families than the expenses of hospitals and treatments, or paying the most expensive price of money, which is death.

Living with illness

Saadia Salem Saeed, a housewife, from the Corniche neighborhood, speaks, saying: Our life with sewage overflow is unbearable, diseases such as (malaria, diarrhea, fevers) have become inseparable from us, it was summer or winter, many of the deaths occurred among women, children and the elderly, as well as abortions for pregnant women, we were displaced to more than one place even outside the city of Hodeidah, but the difficult living conditions forced us to swallow the bitterness of returning and living with mosquitoes and epidemics, we sold everything We own it and we have no choice but to return to our home even if death awaits us, she adds, my children were crying from the intensity of the pain, their bodies were beeping until the child became skin and bone.

Precious gift

Repairing the sewage network, disappearing sewage, unpleasant odors and disease-carrying mosquitoes are the biggest service for women and children in Hodeidah city, says Saadia, who sees disease as the biggest enemy of man and life as the most precious thing.

The rehabilitation of the city's drainage network by the Public Works Project, the lifeline for the people of Hodeidah city from the diseases and epidemics that spread in the city due to the overflow of sewage waste in residential neighborhoods and public streets, as confirmed by the Local Corporation for Water and Sanitation in the city of Hodeidah.

She points out that the health and environmental situation in the city of Hodeidah after the rehabilitation of the sewage network has improved, the rates of infectious diseases have decreased, and residential neighborhoods have become safe for health and environment.

Improved health and environmental situation

Today, after the intervention of the public works project, citizens live a daily life away from diseases, epidemics and unpleasant odors, and streets, corridors and clean neighborhoods free of sewage waste, all of which results have been achieved in the field and their impact is felt by citizens daily after the intervention of the public works project in the implementation of sewage projects, and these projects also had a good impact on the hearts of citizens as they saved them from epidemics and infectious diseases and maintained the private and public health of society.

The people of Sheikh Othman and Al-Mualla in Aden live in a safe health situation

Many neighborhoods in the districts of Sheikh Othman and Al-Mualla in the city of Aden, their homes suffer from the deterioration of sewage networks that connect homes to the main network known among the people (back corridors), these corridors are overflowing with sewage coming out of homes and piled with garbage and waste in huge quantities, an environmental and health disaster that has disturbed the lives of hundreds of families as a result of diseases and epidemics that have killed society, women and children in the foreground.

Adeeb Mubarak Jaafar says: Families in Al-Mualla have become living in fear and daily anxiety, due to the departure of the sewage networks of the back corridors from service, the accumulation of garbage and the infectious diseases it causes, especially when they find that diseases are widespread and children are the most infected, and families' expenses on treatment are exhausting and at the expense of a living.

He explains: The people are unable to repair these networks or remove waste because it is a problem accumulated for years, and the local authority does not have the resources to do so, and for this when the field visit was carried out by the social researchers affiliated with the Public Works Project to listen to people and determine their needs from the projects, there was a societal and official consensus on the implementation of the project to rehabilitate the back corridor networks for sewage, because the situation has become unbearable and people did not believe that there is someone who will save them from this situation.   

Table (4) lists the completed projects in the sanitation sector during the period January-December 2023 cumulatively.

The Public Works Project works in the water sector according to the water is the basis of life strategy, because access to safe and safe water for domestic use is a priority for the vast majority of Yemenis, especially in remote and remote areas, which live daily suffering in order to obtain some liters of clean water for drinking only and not for domestic use in general, and even provide a small amount of clean water Children and women need to travel long distances under the heat of the sun in order to reach To the nearest source of water, the lack of sources of income, the scarcity of job opportunities and the living conditions of the majority of Yemeni families have made buying water from water tankers at high prices an alternative that many heads of households are unable to provide.

Providing a sustainable source of clean and safe water healthily, a positive impact achieved by the public works project through its interventions in the water sector, each water project implemented is appropriate to the nature and needs of the region, for example, rainwater harvesting tanks are established in remote rural areas that depend on rainwater, ghouls and ponds to provide their water needs, and tower reservoirs and water transmission and distribution networks are in areas where there are water wells, but the transmission and distribution network is dilapidated and there is no Tower tanks to which water is pumped and then distributed to homes and neighborhoods, and thus the public works project succeeded in achieving the highest levels of benefit for the implemented water projects, and alleviating the daily suffering and strenuous and exhausting effort that children and women were exerting daily, in bringing water to the home and at the expense of education.

Economic and social benefit

Providing water sources and easy access to clean drinking water is of great benefit to the beneficiary communities, and the main benefits achieved in this sector are:

• Reduce the effort and time to fetch water, especially for women and children, who are able to go to school and attend classes.
• Improving the level of public health, reducing infectious diseases, improving the environmental situation and public hygiene.
• Achieving significant economic benefits that have been felt by society through savings in the cost of purchasing water tankers, and less medical care.

The ease of fetching water has also resolved conflicts between community members.

Achievement

During the period January-December 2023, 13 projects were completed in the water sector at a total cost of $ 1 million, benefiting about 70,000 people, and 1,000 temporary jobs were created for a month-long worker.

Table ( 5) lists the completed projects in the water sector during the period January-December 2023 cumulatively.

Hamda Omran and Socotra residents get water in times of drought

The same suffering is shared by people in the Hamda-Raydah area in Amran Governorate, and Abtara we find in Socotra Governorate, the people there depend on water tankers, or animals, women and children to provide domestic water and water livestock, which are financially expensive and burdensome sources for women and children, which is a summary of the results of the two studies of field researchers affiliated with the Public Works Project to the two regions with the aim of determining the priority needs of the projects, so the rainwater harvesting tank project was the priority for the beneficiaries in Abtara in Socotra and Hamda Reda Imran.

Water is available all year round

Providing domestic water through water tankers under difficult living conditions is an option that most Yemeni families cannot afford.
Another alternative is for women and children to take on the task of bringing water every day to the house, even if it is exhausting and at the expense of education and other interests.

The intervention of the public works project in the two areas through the implementation of two rainwater harvesting tanks that alleviated the suffering of the people,
As the beneficiaries confirm, as water became available, especially in times of drought, and children were able to go to school, as well as the level of personal hygiene improved, and the number of livestock increased in the two areas.

Women and children in Hotat Lahj and Sukhna in Hodeidah are safe from water pollution diseases

The suffering of families in .... Belhaj and the villages (Al-Masbar, Al-Marada, Al-Maqseen) in Al-Sukhna district in Hodeidah is not the lack of a water source, but on the contrary, water wells are available, but the transmission and distribution networks and tanks are dilapidated or non-existent, and this deprived hundreds of families of access to water despite its availability.

Problem solved

Dozens of women and children in these two areas go daily with their animals to bring water to the house, they are the ones who are responsible for this task, the majority of families live below the poverty line and are unable to afford the expenses of buying water, although government water wells are available, but the dilapidated transmission and distribution networks, as well as the lack of a reservoir that receives water from wells and distributes it to the beneficiary areas are the cause of the suffering of the population, and the implementation of a tower tank project with a water transmission and distribution network It will eliminate the suffering of the population and improve their standard of living, and they will receive safe and safe water for domestic use.

The Public Works Project, as usual, is keen to touch the pain and suffering of people and how it can contribute to alleviating them, so the priority of providing water was at the forefront of the need for families in the areas of ...., Balhaj and Al-Masbar in Hodeidah, in the same suffering.

Zaher Masoud Saad, one of the beneficiaries of the Al-Masbar water project in Al-Sukhna district in Hodeidah Governorate, says that women and children from the morning walked daily as an average of 35 minutes to the nearest water well, and for a limited time, but when a crisis occurs in diesel, the water is cut off for days, and our suffering is severe and our lives are difficult, even livestock are affected.

Masoud adds: "Today, after the implementation of the reservoir project and the distribution line, water has reached many homes, people's standard of living has improved, personal hygiene, diseases that were due to water pollution have disappeared, and there are water distribution points close to everyone.

Disappearance of diseases

Nabil Salah Suleiman, a beneficiary of the water network project, agrees .... Balhaj with what Zaher Masoud put forward from Hodeidah, and confirms that the level of public health in the region has improved a lot compared to the past, and that women have turned to work in sewing, embroidery and other handicrafts, and children have attended their classes.

Paving and paving projects implemented by the Public Works Project have overlapping benefits economically, environmentally, economically and even healthily, paving rural roads, especially in remote areas, contributed to the transport and marketing of agricultural products, and improving the health situation through the contribution of paved roads in helping patients and critical cases such as childbirth, and economically by reducing the cost of transporting the prices of food and basic commodities.

Urban roads

As for paving projects for neighborhoods and urban streets, they have achieved great environmental and health benefits by eliminating sewage waste that turns neighborhoods into an environment for the transfer of infectious diseases between the population, and paving these areas improved the level of public health and mobility of people, especially women and children, and at the same time providing an attractive environment for living and a better standard of living free of infectious diseases and epidemics, and the rehabilitation of rainwater drainage channels and torrential streams, protecting urban cities and citizens' homes from drowning and floods, especially In light of climate changes.

Supporting farmers

Paving rural roads has contributed to improving the standard of living of farmers and their families, as a result of their ability to market their products easily and easily to district centers and cities, and at the same time provide agricultural products to citizens at reasonable prices, Due to the low cost of transportation and the increased supply of agricultural products.

During the period January-December 2023, 60 projects in the paving and improvement sector were completed at a cost of $ 9.1 million, benefiting about 121,000 people, and providing 100,000 temporary jobs for a month-long worker.

Table ( 3) lists the projects completed in the paving and improvement sector during the period January-December 2023 cumulatively.

"Saving lives from the danger of death and protecting the city from floods"

Rain falls on a city every year, the people of Sira remember the disaster caused by the floods almost three years before the destruction of homes and the loss of dozens of lives, Salem Muhammad Muthanna describes saying: Most of the neighborhoods of the city of Aden have turned into a lake, the rains fall heavily that we have never seen before, torrents flowing from the heights and mountains, the green and dry cliff everything in front of them, houses destroyed, children, women and the elderly were swept away by the floods, cars parked in neighborhoods and streets, Aden turned to a pile of waste, the reason is the lack of channels to drain torrential water.

Today, the situation has become safe and people are not worried about the rains, and the words are up to Salem, who adds, the implementation of flood water drainage channels in Sira, as well as liquid ones by the public works project, removed a lot of danger, addressed the problem and provided protection for citizens and the city in general.

Protecting Saada City from the Danger of Floods

The liquid of the dirt city of Saada has become a threat to the lives of the people in the neighborhoods located on both sides of the liquid, because the torrential rains have become up to the ground floors due to climate changes, and the liquid stream has turned into a mouth for sewage waste and a place for waste and waste, and this resulted from a life-threatening environmental situation and an environment for infectious diseases and epidemics.

Houses have become threatened, torrential rains are no longer the same as before, infectious diseases and epidemics such as fevers, diarrhea and others threaten the lives of children, women and the elderly, according to Abdullah bin Salah, who added: "The houses adjacent to the liquid and the shops of the neighboring market have connected sewage "pipes" to the liquid, and it has also become a place for throwing waste.

Protection for the city

The project of paving and rehabilitation of the liquid of the city of Saada by the Public Works Project, as the beneficiaries confirm that it will protect the city from the danger of floods, and also will eliminate epidemics and diseases resulting from sewage waste, in addition to a road for cars around the city and this will address the crisis of congestion and traffic congestion.

Reducing the negative effects of climate change on Yemeni farmers, helping them adapt and live under these variables, and at the same time improving food security levels and access to food by increasing agricultural and livestock production, and increasing the area of cultivated land, as a strategy that the Public Works Project is working to achieve through projects implemented in the agricultural sector, which corresponds to the current conditions and the severity of the need for Yemeni farmers to provide food for their families and protect their lands from erosion due to floodwater.

Climate change kills agriculture in Yemen

The decline in the food security index for Yemenis is the most prominent challenge, which has become a factor of concern locally and among international donors, as a result of the negative effects of climate change that killed the agricultural sector in Yemen, as a result of drought and fluctuating rainfall in the off-seasons of agriculture, not to mention the floods and torrents that washed away the green, the abs and the agricultural land with its crops and livestock with homes, not to mention the international fluctuations in the field of food and urban operations to export some products such as grains and other food commodities and what is produced. This is due to the rise in food prices to levels that the Yemeni citizen is unable to deal with, offset by the very bad economic and living conditions that Yemen is experiencing, according to the description of the United Nations.

Producing food locally, increasing the area of agricultural land, and exploiting all available and possible opportunities in Yemen with the aim of raising the productivity of various types of agricultural and animal crops, is a goal of the Public Works Project through its interventions in the agriculture and irrigation sector, recognizing by the Project Management Unit the importance of agriculture in enhancing food security for the community, and improving the standard of living of farmers and their families .

The implemented agricultural projects and their positive effects environmentally and economically experienced by farmers in their daily lives by increasing irrigated agricultural areas, increasing agricultural and livestock production, and protecting agricultural lands from torrential dredging and desertification, where the public works project, funded by the World Bank and in partnership with the United Nations Development Program in the agriculture and irrigation sector by implementing projects with rapid environmental and economic feasibility, which contribute to mitigating the negative impact of climate change on farmers, through the implementation of rainwater harvesting tanks, irrigation channels, and agricultural land protection projects that contributed to improving the level of food security for farmers and their families, and provided a sustainable source of income for them.

Achievements

During the period January-December 2023, 56 projects were completed in the agriculture and irrigation sector at a cost of $ 4.9 million, benefiting about 81,000 farmers, and 113 temporary jobs were created for a month-worker.

Table ( 2) lists the completed projects in the agriculture and irrigation sector during the period January-December 2023 - cumulatively.

Many remote areas suffer unavailability of health centers to provide primary health services such as injury bandaging, immunization and preliminary emergency cases as obtaining these services requires good effort and money particularly when travel is required from the countryside to centers, factor that  encouraged PWP to contribute in the alleviation of the suffering of the population residing in remote and distant areas by construction of health units or centers providing basic health services which were dreams before in the minds of many poor families preferring to stay with pain and patience of injuries as suffering for them is lesser than travel to town treatment centers.

Through its implemented projects in the health sector, PWP was able to create health services absent before and contribute to the expansion of primary health care services through improvement of health facilities infrastructure in the poor and disadvantageous areas.
The easy access of primary health services saved the poor as they were obliged to walking long distances to reach towns for medication and treatment and to pay for travel expenses and bear travel hardships that is now overcome by the presence of  health centers providing medical services in the remote and distant areas, to support the poor rural areas and the health care programs to disadvantageous groups and accordingly contributing to the improvement of their health situations and decrease the mortality rates among mothers and children by improvement of health facilities infrastructure represented in health centers and units.

Support‭:‬

The vision of the PWP in the health sector is represented in supporting efforts exerted by the Ministry of Public Health & Population to increase the coverage of basic health services and also coordinate with the Ministry of Public Health & Population in the provision of staff as well as the operation and maintenance of these facilities while the contribution of PWP is limited to building health centers and units as alternative to the present unsuitable facilities and renovation and expansion of the existing ones.  Results of the social impact study revealed improvement of the health situation indicators through improvement of preventive services of children immunization against the six childhood diseases as well as improvement of women›s immunization against tetanus disease and immunization against epidemic fever disease.
These indicators led to the improvement of the health situation of poor communities in the long run and  improve life expectancy at delivery and therefore contribute to the improvement of the health human development indicator.

Achievement‭:‬‭ ‬

The total completed projects in the health sector during the years 2014 – 2016 amounted to 21 projects at a total cost of USD 3,225,179 of with approximately 124,660 beneficiaries providing about 4829 work/months as job opportunities to accumulatively reach 397 projects in a total cost of USD 38,270,709 for the interest of 2,042,367 beneficiaries and provided about 69,868 work/months as job opportunities.

Difficulty facing the poor:

Reaching the nearest health unit or hospital mostly represents a difficulty for many of the rural and remote areas populations of Yemen who seek to obtain treatment even primary health services related to injury bandaging and periodical immunizations for children.
Most remote areas and distant population settlements lack health centers and units, thus provision of primary health care necessitates huge financial burden  particularly when need arises to go to town, bigger financial losses are afflicted represented in the cost of health service. These sufferings are common feature of  majority of the remote Yemeni areas residents.

Money and effort to obtain primary health care service such as injury bandaging make many households bear the burden of pain instead of bearing  financial cost they can›t afford particularly with the increased poverty rate among rural population, while emergency morbid cases are neglected such as accidents and delivery due to need for travelling  long distances extending to tens of kilometers and rough roads.

This sufferance and deprivation and health services lack created a situation of dissatisfaction among residents who live as they say in the 21st millennium while couldn’t obtain primary emergency services and therefore the PWP intervention in the health sector has a good impact on the poor and the limited income individuals in the target areas where PWP could contribute to the improvement of the health conditions of people through the existence of health clinics and centers near to population settlements with nominal charges  in addition to the services provided by these facilities and the other accompanying facilities such as pharmacies supplying medicines.
Fuad Sulaiman describes the situation and suffering of residents in Shaoub area in Al-Maqatera district of Lahj governorate before the rehabilitation and renovation of Shaoub health center as difficult for those who bear the bitterness of pain and tiredness of travel to the governorate center.  But now the situation is different where residents don’t have to travel  the governorate center and save money and effort as well as quick treatment of cases and the big benefit is for children and women without delivery risk. The center also became near to all areas and treatment became easy and many outbreak diseases are now eradicated.

Better service:

The traditional method in patient treatment in most remote and distant areas was prevalent and those who treat are individuals who acquired that experience through practice and rooms devoted for treatment were located in houses and shops assuming the role of hospitals and health centers.

Salmeen Al-Kaladi of Qishn area in Al-Mahra governorate describes the health center in the area as deteriorated and liable to falling with its narrow size and limited medical services restricted in the best conditions to preliminary first aid before the intervention of PWP by the rehabilitation and renovation of Qishn area health center.
Salmeen states that the matter changed following the rehabilitation and expansion of the area health center by PWP and the situation is now better and the level of health services provided is good particularly for emergency cases which were

The restoration and rehabilitation of hundreds of schools in various Yemeni governorates creates an encouraging educational environment and the continuation of the educational process. PWP’s PMU is well-aware that children males and females have the right to education regardless of the circumstances and has made it an objective that children will continue to go schools regardless. Indicators confirm that the rehabilitation of schools has had a positive impact on education in Yemen, where drop out rates have continued to decrease as dozens of more schools have been rehabilitated and restored bringing back closed and out of service school which are closest to population groups to life. The number of regular students attending regular classes, especially female students, have doubled. in addition, schools have become safer after the restoration of the roofs ending fears that they may collapse over the heads of students.

Most schools in Yemen are out of service and have become a discouraging factor or students to stay out of schools. Some have even become dangerous grounds threatening the lives of students and constant fears that the roofs may collapse over their heads. Most of the schools had been turned into shelter to house IDP’s, and some havebecome run down due to neglect and lack of maintenance. Therefore, the restoration and rehabilitation of these schools by PWP has breathed new life to these shcools and revived hope for thousands of students to cross into the future.

Progress

Interventions by PWP in the education sector are currently limited to the rehabilitation and restoration of existing schools. This intervention has provided a stimulating and encouraging learning environment for both males and females students alike. It has led to increased school enrolment rates compared to the situation before the interventions.
During the period January-December 2023, 430 schools were rehabilitated at a cost of $ 4.7 million, benefiting about 122,000 students. These projects created 555,000 Man/month temporary work opportunities.

Table (1) shows indicators for completed projects in the education sector for the period from January-December 2023- cumulatively.

Hundreds of schools return to service after years of stalled

"Yarmouk and Al-Khansaa schools in Saada Governorate, return in a new look as a stimulating and supportive educational edifice for the educational process This is evident through the density of students and their regularity in the classrooms, and this positive impact of the restoration process of schools is clearly visible in Al-Shawkani School in Marib Governorate, where the school was previously shown before intervening in a deplorable state, the school building suggests to those who see it by saying "there was a school" Today the situation after restoration says, "This is a school".

The situation is better in Al-Thawra School for Girls, and Waddah Al-Yemen School in the city of Jaar in Abyan Governorate, the school has become an encouraging environment for students and taking into account the conditions of the girl, and happiness is visible on the students through the sounds that sound like bees.

By the End of December2021: Planting 400,000 trees

Environmental impact of implemented projects by Public Works , especially afforestation adopted by the Project Management Unit as an essential part of the tenders conditions within the announced projects, and even field follow-up since the start of the implementation of the project until its completion.

Since launching the emergency response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and by the end of December 2021 400 thousand trees are planted.

The initiative is the first of its kind, and it was agreed with the World Bank that the Public Works Project will contribute positively to the project in alleviating the problem of desertification in Yemen, which is the embodiment of the objectives of the project aimed at raising and improving the level of the society economically and environmentally. Thus the project is going to be the pioneer project in the afforestation program In general, the trees that are most suitable for the local environment are selected, and special specifications are identified in the project documents