Third-Party Monitoring for Strengthening Institutional and Economic Resilience in Yemen (SIERY)

Name of legal entity providing references: UNDP

Detailed project description: The Strengthening Institutional and Economic Resilience in Yemen (SIERY) Project were designed to bolster the resilience of local governance systems in Yemen. It is funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The project is based on the assessment in a context of protracted conflict and massive population displacements across the country, negatively affecting women, children, and youth disproportionately. The resilience and recovery of local populations cannot depend only on their self-help capacities or on foreign aid. It also needs local authorities to fulfill its mission more effectively in terms of core functions, essential service delivery, emerging needs (conflict resolution, humanitarian aid, disaster management, internally displaced people), and economic recovery. Local authorities in Yemen have proven to be remarkably resilient in the face of the prolonged effects of the conflict so far, but their situation is precarious. Further deterioration would have severe implications for the sustainability of aid and recovery and the viability of any future political settlement and transition.

Detailed description of the assignment (Services/Supplies/Works):

• Moore Yemen was contracted to verify alignment and conformity of the project interventions at ground level with all processes stated in the project document, including, but not limited to, conformity with safeguards’ requirements during implementation of subprojects, i.e the Project’s Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) and the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Framework. Moore Yemen assessed the level of satisfaction and awareness on various aspects of implementation, including participation of beneficiaries and community members, the local authorities, District Facilitation Teams/District Core Teams (DCTs), level of awareness on selection criteria and their entitlement as direct beneficiary, and gender issues. Moore Yemen collected feedback on fiduciary, environmental and social safeguards aspects, grievances, and gender issues. This TPM process worked as a community feedback mechanism.
• We assessed the implementation progress of visited sites at field level. Moore Yemen verified the availability of physical assets (e.g., the rehabilitated/renovated schools, rehabilitated market infrastructures, and others) and measured the quality of implementation vs. planned interventions. In addition, Moore Yemen conducted interviews with beneficiary and community to measure the level of satisfaction on implemented interventions in terms of progress, quality and benefit generated by the interventions for targeted communities. All cross-cutting issues including social cohesion, gender equality, environmental and social impact, conflict sensitivity, sustainability of results were also the key monitoring areas of this TPM assignment.
• Moore Yemen verified to what extent outcomes and immediate effects and impacts are generated for targeted beneficiaries and communities in accordance with those stated in the project document (prodoc). Other impact areas such as social cohesion, environmental and health impacts were also measured under this section. Moore Yemen collected success/case story with quotes from beneficiary and community as evidence of impacts of interventions.