Yemen saw the world largest humanitarian crisis with more than 11 million IDPs mostly vulnerable women and children. Given the precarious security situation and the fragmented socio-economic and political set-up in Yemen, Local NGOs (LNGOs) play fundamental roles to deliver basic humanitarian emergency assistance to the people in need in collaboration with international agencies. However, several LNGOs face major institutional and operational capacity gaps preventing their ability to survive in such very complex and challenging context. Lack of sustained role by LNGOs could put the delivery of humanitarian assistance at high risk of disruption, which may contribute to exacerbate hunger, famine and hardship of vulnerable people and communities.

LNGOs have significant capacity gaps in formulating succinct and concise project proposals for submission to potential donors for fund raising. They also lack sufficient advocacy and outreach capacities to establish and maintain partnership and collaboration with partners and donors. LNGOs face also major capacities constrains in project management and implementation in particular strategic oversight including fiduciary management, data collection and analysis, and M&E. In addition, key to mention the capacity gaps in risk management, and climate-resilient, risk-informed and conflict sensitive programming.