Yemen Info Board

About YIB

Background

Germany considers a collective coordinated response in the spirit of the Humanitarian-Development-Peacebuilding (HDP) Nexus as essential to addressing the multi-dimensional and protracted crisis in in Yemen. A key pillar of this partnership, Germany initiated the Yemen Information Board (YIB) in 2020 and launched the first version in Amman in March 2021.

Purpose

The YIB serves as an essential instrument for operationalizing the HDP Nexus in Yemen, providing an online tool to facilitate joint analysis, planning and coordination of aid to Yemen.

It provides an overview of active and planned projects and activities, and corresponding donor funds.

Designed to cater HDP-Nexus programming and implementation, the YIB encompasses both quantitative and qualitative data pertaining to various intervention types, including humanitarian assistance, transitional development aid, stabilization, long-term development, and peacebuilding efforts in Yemen.

By consolidating diverse data and information sources into a single platform, the YIB provides the informational foundation for joint analysis and coordinated data-driven decision-making by actors engaged in humanitarian, development, and peace support to Yemen, thereby advancing the effectiveness and efficiency of international engagement in country.

Through features such as a project pipeline, peer-learning and reviewing mechanisms, geographic and sectoral project overviews, progress tracking tools, an electronic library of research analyses and assessments, and dedicated working areas for the Yemen Partner Group (YPG), the Yemen Partner Technical Team (YPTT) and the sectorial HDP-Nexus working groups, the YIB is poised to achieve its objective of enhancing data-driven decision-making and coordination among donors to Yemen and UN agencies.

The added value and efficacy of the YIB is contingent upon robust engagement with the platform by the international community.

Features

The YIB provides the following functions:

Visualized overview of past, ongoing, and planned humanitarian, development, and peace programs
Project pipeline to facilitate joint analysis and HDP-programming
Collaborative spaces for the Yemen Partner Group (YPG), the Yemen Partner Technical Team (YPTT) and HDP technical working groups, including a tool to track progress against sectoral objectives
Resource hub and electronic library for knowledge management of qualitative data, including analysis and assessments
Collection of external data sources relevant for Yemen
Collective calendar with overview of important events for better planning

Donor & Implementing Organization

The YIB is funded and steered by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

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Data Partners

Multiple data partners are contributing to the YIB, incl. bilateral and multilateral donors as well as the UN.

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One additional partner is the Data and Information Group (DIG), the HDP working group on data management established under the HDP coordination structure of the UN and donors.

The YIB operates as a collaborative platform, inviting questions, comments, additions, or recommendations to be submitted to yemeninfoboard@giz.de.

Currently undergoing development and in a beta phase, the YIB is diligently validating data, information, and functionality to ensure accuracy and reliability.

Glossary

Term/Abbreviation	Explanation/Comment
ACAPS	Independent conflict, disaster and humanitarian analysis organization established as “ Assessment Capacities Project”. Specializes in needs analysis, data, training, methodological tools for “evidence-based responses”. Source
ACLED	The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project collects real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world. Source
BMZ	The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, is Germany’s federal agency for development cooperation.
CCCM	Camp Coordination and Camp Management is the technical sector that coordinates the temporary assistance and protection activities to displaced persons living in camps or camp-like settings (including all temporary communal shelter options such as formal camps, collective centers, communal buildings, spontaneous settlements, transit centers, evacuation centers, reception centers or those that may require relocation due to proximity to hazard, insecurity or eviction). Source
DIG	The purpose of the Data and Information Group is to provide an opportunity to connect for those working in and/or on Yemen who are interested in filling in Nexus-oriented data and information gaps, improving data and information quality, avoidingduplication and excessive costs, and ensuring efficient, harmonized and coordinated delivery of data and information that is most useful for users. Source: ToR DIG
ECHO	European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations is the EU’s humanitarian aid and civil protection office and acts as a humanitarian donor in crisis contexts. Source
EDA	The Eidgenössisches Departement für auswärtige Angelegenheiten is the Swiss federal department for development cooperation and foreign relations.
EU	Designates the European Union as a development donor.
FCDO	The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is the United Kingdom’s government department responsible for development cooperation and designates the United Kingdom as a development donor.
FRA	Designates France as a development donor.
GIZ	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is the service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development with the Federal Republic of Germany as its sole shareholder. One of the main commissioning parties is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
HDP-Nexus	The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus is a concept of international cooperation that aims to link humanitarian, development, and peace engagements. Ultimately, its goal is to foster more efficient and effective approaches in disasters and conflicts. Following the Humanitarian World Summit 2016, a resolution called on development and humanitarian actors to work collaboratively together and find “A New Way of Working”.
HHS	Households - Unit of measurement common in humanitarian needs analysis.
HSCG	The Health Sector Coordination Group is a coordination group for actors and stakeholders in the Health sector in Yemen to effectively and efficiently exchange on developments and activities.
JICA	Japan International Cooperation Agency – Japan’s federal agency in development cooperation and a development donor.
JWP	The Joint Work Plan is an RCO internal document portraying activities of more than 20 UN agencies implementing in Yemen and serves as on of the data foundations within the YIB.
NED/NDL	Designates the Netherlands as a development donor.
NFI	Non-Food Items are individual and general household items provided in humanitarian response to preserve health, safety, dignity, and wellbeing of their recipients. In some instances the Shelter Cluster is also designated as Shelter/NFI.
People Targeted	“ People targeted ” is a sub-set of People in Need and represents the number of people humanitarian actors aim or plan to assist. This projected number is typically, smaller than the number of People in Need given: (a) it is rare that international humanitarian actors can meet all needs; (b) needs are also being addressed by actors not participating in the joint plan, including national Governments; and (c) people in need are not always accessible. Source
PiN/ People in Need	The 2016 IASC guidance on Humanitarian Population Figures defines People in Need as a subset of the affected population. They are defined as those members: hose physical security, basic rights, dignity, living conditions or livelihoods are threatened or have been disrupted, and whose current level of access to basic services, goods and social protection is inadequate to re-establish normal living conditions with their accustomed means in a timely manner without additional assistance. Source
RCO	The Office of the Resident Coordinator (RCO) is the main support structure for the activities of the Resident Coordinator and the country team, to help strengthen the joint activities of the United Nations system in Yemen. Source.
RRM (Kits)	Rapid Response Mechanism - The rapid response mechanism is an emergency response modality for delivering humanitarian aid to vulnerable people, including children, displaced by ongoing insecurity. Source . Rapid Response Mechanism kits include food, family basic hygiene kits and a female kit. Source .
SFD	The Social Fund for Development (SFD) is a non-profit organization working in Yemen. It was established by Law No. 10 of 1997 to contribute to achieve, and align its programs with, goals of the national social and economic development plans for poverty reduction (DPPRs). Source
SFD	The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) was established as a governmental institution to provide support in the form of soft loans to finance development projects in developing countries. As a member of the international development community, SFD has been supporting least developed countries (LDCs) in overcoming the difficulties and challenges that they are facing by financing impactful and critical projects and programs. Such projects contribute to the economic and social growth in those countries and improve the standard of living for their people. Source
SIDA	Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is Sweden's government agency for development cooperation.
SUI	Designates Switzerland as a development donor.
USAID	The United States Agency for International Development is the United State’s federal agency for international cooperation and designates the US as a development donor.
WB	Designates the World Bank as a development donor.
WSCG	The overarching goal of the Water Sector Coordination Group is to improve the quality, effectiveness and coherence of aid and policy dialogue in the water sector in Yemen, including on questions of financing. It, therefore, contributes to improving the overall effectiveness of international engagement in Yemen. The WSCG responds to the need to strengthen humanitarian, development and peace(-building) coordination in the Water Sector in Yemen. Source: ToR WSCG
YETI	The Yemen Economic Tracking Initiative (YETI) dashboard and dataset track key economic trends, developments, and risks to support economic policymaking for Yemen. YETI provides a greater overall and comparative understanding of the current political-economic situation in the country. Source
YIB	Yemen Information Board – The dashboard developed under the auspices of the German Embassy is meant to serve as a data and information aggregation platform (“platform of platforms”). Providing data analysis and visualization, it ultimately serves as a Nexus-coordination instrument for the international engagement for and with Yemen to fulfill the YPTT tasking to the DIG to map existing programs and activities across the HDP-Nexus.
YPG	The Yemen Partner Group seeks to align the priorities of UN agencies and the international community, bring clarity and coordination to their activities and operationalize the recommendations from the SOM. The YPG also responds to a systemwide recommendation from the latest Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the Yemen crisis towards “a coordination architecture that includes key development partners such as the World Bank”. The overarching aim is to make international engagement in Yemen more effective. The YPG is a an inclusive, strategic-level entity that is supported by a technical group, the Yemen Partner Task Team (YPTT). Source: ToR YPG
YPTT	The Yemen Partner Technical Team is a technical forum supporting the work of the Yemen Partner Group (YPG) […]. The purpose of the YPTT is to act as the implementation arm of the YPG, to take forward and examine priorities and policy issues at the technical level and to coordinate technical work across diverse partners working with a nexus approach on Yemen. Beyond technical coordination, the YPTT may choose to engage in improving the coherence of different (potential) funding streams, in support of the overall development objectives for Yemen. Source: ToR YPTT

Methodology

This note covers the Yemen Information Boards data sources. The ever-growing repository of information includes content from various sources on specific sectors and locations in Yemen.

The platform includes both publicly available data and data contributed individually from data partners* as listed below:

• Development and humanitarian data from donors and UN Resident Coordinators Office (RCO) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• Funding data from OECD - Overall Development Assistance to Yemen
• Conflict data from ACLED

*This list may expand in the future.

Categories and Classifications of Data

As a result of a harmonization exercise, the OECD DAC CRS Purpose Codes – also used as reference for the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) - were selected as key reference for the classification of projects and activities across data-sources.

The YIB aggregated the OECD DAC CRS purpose codes to derive 10 thematic sector-classifications that projects and activities are assigned to. Focal points of bi- and multilateral donors assign each project or activity to this set of classifications/categories.

By building on OECD DAC CRS Purpose Codes, the codification of sectors is equally aligned to the standard used by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This paves the way for future harmonization exercises.

To facilitate data analysis all data is assigned a primary intervention type, including the categories Humanitarian, Development, Peace, and Resilience. In addition the YIB provides the option to assign markers of crosscutting themes, including gender, human rights, climate change and peace.

Information on location is equally provided to the level of granularity of governorates. The YIB offers the option to expand to the level of districts.

The YIB is currently undertaking efforts to harmonize codification and envisions the shift towards P-Codes that are already used by OCHA as the common standard.

Development Project and Activity Data

The Yemen Information Board's data analysis and visualization features - culminating in the Project Overview - rely on a combination of the aforementioned sources. Focal points of bi- and multilateral organizations outside the UN-system are encouraged to update project data on a quarterly basis. This data is complemented by activities compiled by the RCO in the UN Joint Work Plan (JWP), a list of project information covering all development activities of UN agencies in Yemen reporting against the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) for Yemen. The RCO aims for updates two to three times per year.

Active implementers and donors are portrayed in the YIB and collected through bilateral data input and the RCOs Joint Work Plan (JWP). It is planned to harmonize the list of database implementers and donors with IATI’s list of publishing organizations.

Projects and activities in the JWP are tagged with a primary intervention type (Humanitarian, Development, Peace, Resilience) as UN organizations may have dual-mandates or implement activities with a dual-mandate character. Furthermore, activities may be funded through formally humanitarian channels and the results of the activities are reported in the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). In both cases, the activities are considered humanitarian in nature and consequently displayed on the left side of the landing page.

Humanitarian Data

OCHA Yemen does currently not gather data on project-level but by result-areas along a set of standard indicators. The YIB uses a selection of 112 specific indicators that align to the 10 abovementioned sector classifications and receives them on a regular basis from OCHA. The information on monthly targets and reached populations is presented on the main page. As OCHA is not utilizing the OECD DAC CRS Purpose Codes, the YIB assigned each cluster to a corresponding OECD DAC CRS Purpose Code sector.

OCHA data is publicly accessible through the cluster dashboards at Yemen | ReliefWeb Response.

While we aim to ensure the validity and completeness of data displayed, the YIB cannot be held responsible for inaccuracies that persist in the database.

Funding Data

As funding data is gathered through various streams of reporting, the values displayed are only indicative.

The JWP allocates funding amounts to activities of UN agencies (self-reported) within a multi-year timespan. These timespans are used as activity/project runtimes. The YIB then uses these amounts to calculate the average (arithmetic mean) and display an approximate yearly expenditure.

When entering project information manually, focal points from organizations need to enter a complete project budget which can be manually specified to a yearly distribution of funds. If left empty, the YIB uses the average (arithmetic mean) to display an approximate yearly expenditure.

During automatic currency conversion EUR/USD, the YIB uses the 2023 average exchange rate of 1.08 USD.

The OECD total funding data is only shown up to 2021, as more recent data is not yet available on the OECD data distribution suite.

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This text explains the websites Data protection measures, privacy policy and disclaimer and applies to the Yemen Information Board (https://yemeninfoboard.org).

Data Protection Notice

The data protection principles of GIZ are intended to protect the personal data you consent to be stored and processed as part of your registration.

How we collect your data

When you create an account, it serves as the basis for processing your data. Your data will be processed in accordance with applicable statutory data protection requirements. The personal data is processed only for registration purposes and to generate a list of users. Access to the dashboard is granted based on this data by project admins. The data collected for registration includes:

First Name, Family Name
E-mail
Organization, membership in working groups

During Sign-Up you will be asked to consent to the processing of personal data that is technically required to display the Yemen Information Board correctly.

The following information is stored for each page you view and each file you download:

Technical details of the browser used
IP address
Date and time
Page opened/name of the file downloaded
Quantity of data transferred

Temporary session cookies are used each time you view an individual page, to make navigation easier. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in your browser cache. Session cookies do not include any personal data and expire at the end of each session.

How we use your data

Once your profile is completed, your data will be made available to

GIZ Yemen –Strengthening Donor and Nexus Coordination for Yemen project as they are the data controller.

In addition, and as part of our responsibility with the data processor according to Art. 28 GDPR. it is possible that our software development company

Seagull Technology, which is also responsible for maintaining the system, may be granted access to your data if necessary.

GIZ will not pass your personal data on to any third parties unless it is compelled by law to do so (e.g., by law enforcement agencies). The information you provide as part of the online registration will be stored as long as the website is active.

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We use technical and organizational security measures to ensure that your data is protected against intentional and unintentional manipulation, deletion, and unauthorized access. These measures are updated in line with technological developments and adjusted on an ongoing basis to account for risks. The servers containing your data are managed by

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3. Your rights

You have the right to view, update or delete your user account and the information contained therein online at any time. You can request the correction, deletion and blocking of personal data from project admins at any time via the contact details in section below. Furthermore, you are always entitled to request disclosure of the data stored about your person by

GIZ.

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Data Privacy Policy

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH attaches great importance to responsible and transparent management of personal data for users who are visiting the

Yemen Information Board system.

Data controller is the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

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GIZ processes personal data exclusively in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG).

GIZ only processes personal data to the extent necessary.

When visiting the Yemen Information Board, the browser automatically transmits data that is saved in a log file. GIZ itself processes only the data that is technically required in order to display the Yemen Information Board correctly and to ensure its stability and security.

Each time the Yemen Information Board is accessed, the data stored includes, but is not limited to the page that is viewed, the IP address of the accessing device, the page from which the user was redirected, as well as the date and time of access.

A detailed list of the data stored is shown below.

Field	Displayed As	Description
Date	date	The date on which the activity occurred.
Time	time	The time, in coordinated universal time (UTC), at which the activity occurred.
Server IP	s-Ip	The IP address of the server on which the log file entry was generated.
Method	cs-method	The requested action, for example, a GET method.
URI Stem	cs-Uri-stem	The target of the action, for example, Default.htm.
URI Query	cs-Uri-query	The query, if any, that the client was trying to perform. A Universal Resource Identifier (URI) query is necessary only for dynamic pages.
Server port	s-port	The server port number that is configured for the service.
User name	cs-username	The name of the authenticated user who accessed your server. Anonymous users are indicated by a hyphen.
Client IP address	c-Ip	The IP address of the client that made the request.
User agent	cs (User-Agent)	The browser type that the client used.
Referrer	cs (Referrer)	The site that the user last visited. This site provided a link to the current site.
HTTP status	Sc-status	The HTTP status code.
Protocol substates	Sc- sub status	The sub status error code.
Win32 status	sc-win32-status	The Windows status code.
Time taken	time-taken	The length of time that the action took, in milliseconds.

The data in the log file is deleted after five days.

GIZ is obliged to store the data beyond the time of the visit in order to ensure protection against attacks against GIZ’s internet infrastructure and federal communications technology

(legal basis: Article 6 (1) e GDPR in conjunction with Section 5 of the German Act on the Federal Office for Information Security (BSIG). In the event of attacks on communications technology, this data is analysed and used to initiate legal and criminal action.

Data that is logged when accessing the Yemen Information Board system is only transferred to third parties if there is a legal obligation to do so or if the transfer is necessary for legal or criminal prosecution in the event of attacks on federal communications technology. Data will not be passed on in any other cases. This data is not merged with other data sources at GIZ.

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When you visit the Yemen Information Board system, small text files known as ‘cookies’ are stored on your computer. They are used to make the online presence more user-friendly and effective overall. Cookies cannot run programs or infect your computer with viruses.

The Yemen Information Board uses cookies that are automatically deleted as soon as the browser on which the page is displayed is closed (referred to as temporary cookies or session cookies).

This type of cookie makes it possible to assign various requests from a browser to a session and to recognise the browser when the Yemen Information Board is visited again (session ID).

Users who do not agree with the completely anonymous storage and evaluation of the data from their visit can opt out of the storage and use of the data at any time.

For this purpose, what is known as an opt-out cookie is stored on the device, preventing user data from being collected when the user visits the Yemen Information Board. In order for the opt-out to take effect, the cookie must be stored on every device used. As the cookie is stored in specific browsers (programs for internet access), the cookie must be stored in each browser used on each device (e.g., Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox).

When all cookies on a device are deleted, the opt-out cookie is also deleted and must be reactivated.

Processing of personal data when contacting us

When users contact us, the data provided is processed in order for GIZ to be able to respond to the enquiry. The following contact options are available: Registration form or E-mail.

The registration form provided on the Yemen Information Board enables you to register a new user. When you use the registration form, we process your first and last names, email address, and additional personal data provided in the inquiry. The processing is based on consent in accordance with Article 6 (1) a GDPR and for the purpose of processing your request.

By activating the checkbox and submitting the registration form, the user agrees to the transmission and storage of his or her personal data. It is possible to cancel the process of filling out the contact form at any time. Data is only transmitted if the form is sent. An SSL-encrypted connection is used to transmit the data to GIZ.

Alternatively, it is possible to contact GIZ via the email addresses provided. In this case, at least the email address but also any other personal user data transmitted with the email (e.g., family and given name, address) as well as the information contained in the email are stored solely for the purpose of contacting the user and processing the request.

The legal basis for the processing of data in connection with email communication is Article 6 (1) e GDPR.

The Yemen Information Board does not pass on personal data to third parties unless it is legally obliged or entitled to do so by law.

GIZ does not transfer personal data to third countries.

User data will not be kept any longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it is processed or as required by law.

Visitors to the Yemen Information Board have the right

To obtain information about their data stored by us (Article 15 GDPR)
To have their data stored by us rectified (Article 16 GDPR)
To have their data stored by us erased (Article 17 GDPR)
To obtain restriction of processing of their data stored by us (Article 18 GDPR)
To object to the storage of their data if personal data are processed on the basis of the first sentence of Article 6 (1) 1 f and e GDPR (Article 21 GDPR)
To receive their personal data in a commonly used and machine-readable format from the controller such that they can be potentially transmitted to another controller (right to data portability, Article 20 GDPR)
To withdraw their consent to the extent that the data has been processed on the basis of consent (Article 6 (1) a GDPR). The lawfulness of the processing on the basis of the consent given remains unaffected until receipt of the withdrawal.