Yemen: Addendum to the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP): Urgent Funding Requirements [EN/AR]

Context

Humanitarian action faces unprecedented challenges in 2025— both globally and in Yemen. Aid organizations are grappling with drastic cuts to their funding, forcing them to substantially scale back and cut critical programming. As of 13 May, the Yemen 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) was just 9 per cent funded, with US$222 million received out of a $2.5 billion total requirement. This is the lowest funding coverage in well over a decade.

Similar to other crisis settings, these funding cuts mean millions of Yemenis risk losing the assistance they need to stay alive. Already, communities have been affected as protection, health care and other critical services have been heavily impacted. Food, nutrition, cash, shelter, non-food items and other forms of assistance are drying up, while support for dedicated services, particularly for women and girls, have been reduced. In the absence of a major shift in these trends, humanitarian and protection needs—already at dire levels at the start of this year—will worsen across many parts of the country and will likely cause an increase in morbidity and mortality in the coming months.

Funding cuts and programme closures are compounding other drivers of humanitarian needs. The deepening economic crisis (including unprecedented currency depreciation in areas controlled by the Government of Yemen), conflict, disease outbreaks and climate-related shocks pose severe risks to the most vulnerable communities. At the same time, the ongoing escalation in the Red Sea and strikes targeting areas controlled by the de facto authorities (DFA) are impacting civilian infrastructure and increasing protection risks for the civilian population. Between January and April 2025, 970 civilian casualties were reported, of whom 667 were killed or injured due to airstrikes. Humanitarian organizations also continue to contend with other significant challenges, including the ongoing detention of humanitarian personnel by the DFA, the impacts of the recent US designation of Ansarallah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and persistent humanitarian access impediments.

In response to this shifting landscape and in line with the global ‘Humanitarian Reset’ agreed upon by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, this addendum presents the most urgent funding requirements for life-saving activities from the 2025 HNRP, totalling $1.42 billion to assist 8.8 million people until the end of December 2025. It complements ongoing work by the Humanitarian Country Team to collectively reduce operational costs, create efficiencies and review the in-country humanitarian architecture, while also pursuing new avenues to further strengthen and elevate partnerships with local and national humanitarian partners. Collectively, these measures aim to align the humanitarian response to current realities and ensure that every possible dollar, rial and euro go to supporting the most vulnerable people across Yemen, while also enhancing the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and adopting a riskbased approach to programming.

This addendum does not replace the 2025 HNRP, which remains valid. Instead, it represents a collective effort by the humanitarian community to identify the most critical life-saving activities within the HNRP in an extremely challenging funding landscape. In parallel, enhanced efforts will be undertaken— including through the Yemen Partners Technical Team—to strengthen the engagement of development actors, who are critical for locking in the gains made in previous years and creating opportunities for resilience and recovery. Without these investments, we risk seeing more people, including people in severity level 3, being pushed into more acute levels of humanitarian need at a time when aid agencies will not have the resources to support them.

Over more than a decade of conflict and crisis, donors have demonstrated their steadfast commitment to supporting the people of Yemen. This generosity has saved countless lives, protected people from grave harm and provided hope to communities across the country. Without this continued solidarity, we risk witnessing a widespread collapse of essential services like health care, education, water and sanitation. Hunger will spike—adding to the 17 million people already acutely food insecure—as will diseases and malnutrition. A growing number of people will be affected by floods and other recurring climate related disasters. Protection risks will multiply, hitting vulnerable and marginalized groups hardest including women and girls, displaced communities, persons with disabilities and the Muhamasheen. These trends are poised to worsen further in the event of a continued escalation and in the absence of a political solution to the prolonged conflict that has caused such deep and widespread suffering for the people of Yemen.

The international community must do everything possible to avoid this devastating outlook. This includes supporting the continuity of the aid operation, including through flexible and predictable funding, so that humanitarians—foremost national Yemeni organizations—can save lives and mitigate the worst impacts of the crisis, while ensuring that protection remains central to all response efforts. United and committed engagement are also needed to prevent further escalation and facilitate the return to a path towards peace and longterm recovery