RECO efficiently and effectiveness reach beneficiaries by 200% confirming to humanitarian standards with the lowest humanitarian operation cost ever in Yemen
Resilient Communities Organization (RECO) is aware of conflict sensitivity and gender during the implementation of projects. With the inclusion of targeted communities and other stockholders, RECO explain the project components and its approach with full clarity. In one project of food security (cash/voucher), RECO realized there were huge needs in targeted society with negative rumor among targeted communities about exchange rate differences. That was during the period of sharp depreciation of local currency exchange rate against USD which was the currency of the project. To keep its integrity and honesty high under all circumstance, RECO led efforts to persuade the project partners to utilize the extra generated amounts, resulting from the exchange rate differences, for the same project to respond to the huge need. The project team explained the related project budget item line and how much differences would be generated, how much food baskets will be brought to extra beneficiaries? Targeted communities and relevant local authorities and FSAC cluster were informed as well. More than that RECO has utilized its equipment’s, volunteers, savings, used voluntarily 3 of its executive’s own vehicles were used with no financial return. This resulted into achieving the project outcomes by about 184%, reached project indicators in term of number of beneficiaries by almost 200%. This all has been done with almost the same operational budget, in which extra operation budget (for the other 100% increase) did not exceed 1.33% of the cost of the project with door to door verification and same activities as for the quantities stated in the proposal. That result was even beyond the expectations of targeted communities. The efficiency and effective level that RECO has shown made more resources available to expand lifesaving food security assistants to most vulnerable in Yemen as about 80% of the population food insecure and at the risk of famin, according to multiple UN agencies. It worth mentioning that this project has been implemented by RECO in partnership with the Young Leadership Foundation through OCHA funding mechanism during the period July 2017 - February 2018.
Donor project code: YEM-17/3420/ISA2017/FSAC/NGO/6132
RECO Project Code: FO517
Donor project code: YEM-17/3420/ISA2017/FSAC/NGO/6132
RECO Project Code: FO517