Yemen has been deeply impacted by , humanitarian actors across the globe unprecedented cuts to their funding and the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) is only 9 per cent funded as of 13 May.
These cuts have forced aid agencies to drastically reduce life-saving programming and without a major positive shift in these funding trends, humanitarian needs will worsen across many parts of the country, as millions of Yemenis lose the assistance, they need to stay alive.
Meanwhile, other drivers of humanitarian need show no signs of abating. The ongoing escalation in the Red Sea and strikes targeting areas controlled by the Houthi rebels are resulting in alarming and growing protection risks for the civilian population.
Economic deterioration, climate shocks and the impacts of more than a decade of conflict continue to push people’s resilience to the brink.
The HNRP addendum represents a collective effort by the humanitarian community to identify the most critical life-saving activities within the HNRP in an extremely challenging funding landscape.
Under this addendum, $1.42 billion is urgently required to sustain minimum humanitarian programming for 8.8 million people.
The addendum does not replace the HNRP, which remains valid. It was developed using a rigorous evidence-based approach, focused on districts with the most critical levels of humanitarian needs.
In tandem, the humanitarian community is continuing its efforts to ensure that the aid operation is as principled, effective and efficient as possible, while supporting the safety and security of humanitarian workers. This includes work to reduce operational costs, advance localization and adjust the humanitarian coordination architecture and footprint in-country.
The aim is for every possible dollar, rial and euro to go to supporting the most vulnerable people across Yemen, with Yemeni NGOs at the forefront of the response.
Consequences will be extremely dire if aid agencies in Yemen fail to deliver, with Yemen’s most vulnerable at the epicenter of rising suffering. Millions more people will be acutely hungry and lack access to clean water, education, protection and other essential services.
Mortality and morbidity are poised to surge as health facilities close and disease outbreaks multiply. Protection threats—including gender-based violence—are likely to surge as women and girls are forced to drop out of school, travel further for water and food, and lack access to dedicated services, including gender-based violence and reproductive health services. Displaced communities, the Muhamasheen and other vulnerable and marginalized groups will also be disproportionately impacted.
For more than a decade, donors have shown tremendous solidarity with the people of Yemen. These contributions have saved lives and reduced people’s suffering, helped to avert famine and provided protection for the most vulnerable people.
Continued support to the aid operation, including through predictable and flexible funding, is absolutely essential to avoid a sharp deterioration in the humanitarian situation at a time when needs are already exceedingly high.
Humanitarian needs will also continue to surge in the event of continued escalation and conflict.
Concerted and united efforts are urgently needed to reach a political solution and provide a pathway for peace.