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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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