New Kuwait partnership for renewable solar energy

New Kuwait partnership for renewable solar energy

Aden, Yemen: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) welcomes our new Yemen-focused partnership with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. To kick off the partnership, the Kuwait Fund provided a generous US$ 2.5 million to a new UNDP project called Renewable Energy Improve Access to Health Services and Livelihood Opportunities (HEAL).

As Yemen continues to be one of the world’s worst humanitarian and development crises, the country has suffered from lack of access to basic services such as energy. This issue plagues not only private residences and businesses, but also critical services such as healthcare facilities. Due to price hikes and fuel scarcity, as well as the ongoing conflict, barely half of the hospitals and clinics in Yemen are fully operational. The HEAL project – being implemented between September 2022 to June 2023 – will work to address this lack of continued energy access in critical healthcare facilities in Abyan, Aden, Hajjah, Lahj, and Sana’a.

“Projects like HEAL are important to the ensure the continuity of providing healthcare services in Yemen,” says Dr. Qassim Bahibah, Yemen’s Minister of Public Health and Population. “The Ministry provides around 25,000 liters of fuel a month to a small health facility to ensure uninterrupted healthcare