About the ILO in Yemen

Since 2014, Yemen has suffered from violent conflict and political instability, which have given rise to the world’s most severe humanitarian crisis, thereby adding pressure on the country’s mounting challenges, including frail institutions and insufficient public services. The crisis in Yemen was further exacerbated in 2016 by the cholera outbreak and again in 2020 with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The livelihoods of Yemenis have been profoundly disrupted, resulting in mass-scale unemployment and the closure of enterprises across Yemen. As such, ILO’s interventions in the country have been focusing on building resilience and enhancing the livelihoods of the most vulnerable persons and communities, through the creation of short- and long-term sustainable employment, building the capacity of national institutions and access to basic services and decent work.