For Zara’a – a a 65-year-old single mother who is raising her six children alone – finding self-sufficiency and a route out of poverty seemed unlikely. Her life was like that of many rural Yemeni women, a country facing multiple environmental, financial, and social challenges that have been made worse by years of conflict.
To help combat this, UNDP's Emergency Crisis Response Programme – in partnership with the World Bank’s International Development Association – has been working with our local partner, the Small and Micro Enterprise Service, to keep businesses in the livestock sector going. Our efforts have dramatically changed Zara’a’s and others lives for the better.- Thanks to UNDPYemen