Director of Presidency Office Uncovers Blacklist of Guilty Intl. Humanitarian Organizations

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M.A.

Sana’a Sunday uncovered the blacklist of international humanitarian organizations operating in Yemen that invest in the sufferings of Yemenis and their plight, announcing in the opening of conference a number of models of fraud and the exploitation of international organizations for millions of dollars in aid to the Yemeni people, wasted under the allegation of operating expenses of the organizations.

In his speech at the opening of the conference of the declaration of the humanitarian needs plan for the year 2019, the Director of the Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Yemen — Chairman of the National Authority for Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response, Ahmed Hamed– conveyed explicit messages to international organizations working in Yemen.

Hamed noted in his speech to what some international organizations are offering to the Yemeni people from the tons of medicines that have expired or are close to expiry, which has happened last year in 2018, revealing other issues like fraud and irresponsible actions by international organizations.

“An international organization – not named – got financial aid to Yemen amounted to $ 5 million, but it took $ 3.1 million for itself under operating expenses and provided the Yemeni people with less than $ 2 million in aid,” Hamed said. “While another organization received international assistance in the name of the Yemeni people of 750 thousand euros and gave the Yemenis only 50 thousand euros of aid, and the organization spent the rest of the amount of 700 thousand euros under the name of operating expenses.”

“This is not the time for operational expenses,” Ahmed Hamed said. He expressed the hope that international organizations would provide assistance to the Yemeni people with loyalty, not drain them in the name of operation expenses and deprive the Yemeni people of the help they require to sustain a normal life.

The Chairman pledged that “this situation will be addressed and corrected in the current year 2019.”
“When we demand dialysis solutions, we do not want treatment for intestinal worms and Ascaris,” he said. Explaining that “the solutions for dialysis provided by some international organizations of Yemen is not in accordance with specifications and cause damage to dialysis devices.”

“Any material or assistance provided by the United Nations and its humanitarian organizations in all sectors, including the agriculture sector, must be examined,” he said. “An international organization has provided food salt as fertilizer, rotten food, etc.”

The Chairman revealed that any project in the Authority will be studied in coordination with the concerned authorities in the relevant ministries. After review, the implementation of the projects will be supervised and monitored to ensure that any errors that may occur would be eliminated.

He called on the international organizations operating in Yemen to “work in an exemplary and credible manner so that the needs are well thought out, organized and meet the actual needs of the afflicted Yemeni people, not the specific vision of organizations that do not serve the reality of humanitarian action.”