FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENTCASE : YEMENFirman BachtiarFor final project Financing for Development World Bank Group MOOCMarch 2017

YEMEN IN NUMBERGDP - real growth rate:

• -4.2% (2016 est.)

• -28.1% (2015 est.)

154 of 182 on the UNDP

Human Development Index

Industrial production growth rate:

-27% (2016 est.)

Unemployment rate: 27% (2014 est.)

Gross national saving:

-2.9% of GDP (2016 est.)

-3.7% of GDP (2015 est.)

Population below poverty line: 54% (2014 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

• $2,500 (2016 est.)

• $2,700 (2015 est.)

• $3,900 (2014 est.)

Some Issues Need to be solve:

• Oil: energy expertsestimate that Yemen’sreserves will be entirelydepleted within the nextten years.

• Water: Shortages are acutethroughout the country andSana’a risks becoming thefirst capital city in the worldto run out of water.

• Unemployment: workforcehave pushed unemploymentto 35 %, on par with theGreat Depression in theUnited States.

• Education: More than two-thirds of the population isunder the age of 24 andilliteracy stands at over 50%.

• Chronic Food Insecurity and Malnutrition : Overall, more than 10 million people suffer chronic hunger out of a population of 25 million.

• Extreme poverty: insecurity and conflict, high inflation, serious social and economic implications that are already discernible. Poverty is estimated to have climbed from about 43 percent of the population in 2009 to almost 55 percent in 2012.

FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENTRESPONDING & PROPOSE SOLUTION

FOR : WATER AND EDUCATIONYEMEN CASE:

1. PROJECT FINANCING FOR WATERThe domestic finance markets for add totality and improved effectiveness of investments, Continued emphasis on cost recovery in the water supply sector makes this possible, Market return helps increase sustainability

Small water and sanitation service providers – community managed and small private local providers – funded through finance institution by developing a business line in small water projects

• Medium to large utilities –urban centers and small towns – possibility of funding troughintermediation ( domestic financing institutions ) and direct market access.

WATER PROJECT AIMING:•Expanding safe water-supply & sanitation services to meet basic human needs

• Ensuring an adequate supply of water for sustainable food security

• Ensuring that water for the environment is adequate in quantity and quality

• Ensuring an adequate supply of water for urban, agricultural, energy, andhydropower production, industry, tourism and transportation development

• Developing non-conventional resources such as desalination and re-use of water.

2. PROJECT FINANCING IN EDUCATIONThe education and training will determining economy in the future, preparing the labor and decrease poverty in the future. This means that the country's economy will be made of they own various SME, new companies, small industries and industries that will have different advantages and disadvantages in the future.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING AFFECT THE ECONOMYThe program better with informalpractical hand to hand within sort termbut with sustainable short training timeto time. education system that canproduce workers able to function indeveloping, such as those in the fieldsof

• Agriculture technology, the geographical situation differ each area, need different practical technology application.

• Fish/ poultry technology, the rural people also can increase the income with the fish/poultry farm with better method.

TVET EDUCATIONTVET (Technical Vocational Education Training) to push entrepreunal and skill labor, such as:

Electronic

Electrical

Welding

Plumbing

Civil works

Other tvet area,,,,

VACATIONAL EDUCATION FOR NATION DEVELOPMENT

Education empowers people with the knowledge, skills and condence they need to shape a more stable and peaceful future.

TVET can facilitate the transition from poverty to better economics of the nation by the application of environmentally appropriate knowledge and skills

SOME THINKING FOR PUSH THE TVET EDUCATION IN YEMEN

• Set up Teacher training center this is very important for training of trainers because Qualified and motivated teachers and instructors are key for effective learning and are at the heart of TVET quality.

• Short term tvet education (around 3 month) for basic training with modular system training so person who have finish one course can continue to another as needed by workplace.

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