All of the Answers to Your Burning Questions Yemen Donor Group 1 All of the Answers to Your Burning Questions

Are these the most important questions? These are interesting questions that merit brainstorming for solutions

How to increase multi-year funding Donors have constraints that are not easily solved and rely on partners to present creative solutions We need to improve the situation that leads to malnutrition, not only focus on treatment: the government already has a multi-sectoral plan which should be compared to what the clusters are planning Yemen is working on a multi sectoral action plan with experts in multiple sectors which should cost around 1.2 billion for 3 years. Hoping to sit with clusters to see what clusters are planning compared to what the government is planning Key to include other donors—not only humanitarians—in the discussion, with the next step of identifying the right donors

How to make a more predictable payment structure There needs to be more funding going towards supporting government infrastructure and salaries—however donors are restricted from supporting in this way Other solutions: supporting training, incentives In Somalia, donors fund NGOs and then NGOs fund MoH staff—however MoH Yemen argues this is not sustainable There was a standing discussion regarding a pooled bank for salaries of health workers and donors would contribute and there was a concept note but then it disappeared

How to advocate for increased access More coordination—dialogue and engagement--with every government level This was the most difficult question to discuss since humanitarian partners are implementing at full capacity and facing multiple administrative and bureaucratic challenges with difficult to identify focal points