| Overview : Background Since the rapid escalation of fighting in Yemen since March 2015, conflict has spread to 20 of Yemen’s 22 governorates, prompting a large-‐scale humanitarian crisis aggravating an already dire situation brought on by years of poor governance, political instability, weakened livelihoods and endemic poverty. More than 12 million people have been directly affected by the conflict. While it has been possible to gain preliminary information on some key needs from the MIRA assessments conducted jointly by humanitarian partners and dedicated data gathering initiated by UNDP staff and partners, there is an urgent need to comprehensively verify the extent and nature of Early Recovery needs in most affected areas to inform and kick-start early recovery programming and advocacy to make Early Recovery and resilience-fostering an integral part of relief efforts from the outset. As part of UNDP’s support to Yemen, the UNDP Office would like to conduct an Early Recovery and Livelihoods Needs assessment to identify priority needs for the immediate and short-term recovery process. UNDP Yemen will also pilot SenseMaker in partnership with Cognitive Edge to roll out the methodology highlighting the impact of the crisis on livelihoods using micro-narratives. The Early Recovery and Livelihoods planned to support poor families in ABYAN by providing supply package of goats with the total of 200 male and female goats for almost 33 families. The Youth Economic Empowerment project aims to support the Government and the people of Yemen during the unprecedented transition, addressing youth unemployment as one of the root causes of conflict. The project will be at the core of the Emergency Livelihoods focus within the new Early Recovery and resilience building programming | 
