Country profile: Yemen
This country profile provides a summary of the risks that Yemen faces and its key priorities for disaster risk management. Yemen is highly exposed to a number of natural hazards, with floods being the most recurrent. Yemen’s approach to managing disasters in the past has been mostly reactive, focused on post-disaster relief and recovery activities. Recently, with help from the international community, Yemen has taken important steps to improve the country’s resilience and to move from ex-post disaster relief to ex-ante preparedness and risk reduction.
This profile also offers a snapshot of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery's progress in supporting disaster risk management in the country. In recent years, Yemen has advanced its disaster risk management (DRM) agenda. Nation-wide risk and water-management studies provided the basis for designing DRM planning and mitigation measures. As a result, there is now better understanding of the country’s main disaster risks as well as stronger determination by government officials to work more collaboratively with partners and donors.