Women-led and women’s rights organizations in Yemen are vital first responders, yet they remain chronically underfunded and excluded from decision-making spaces. The IRC’s new research highlights the urgent need to shift power, reform funding systems, and invest in local leadership. We’re calling on donors and INGOs to act now—recognize, resource, and elevate these frontline actors at the heart of Yemen’s humanitarian response.

Women-led and women’s rights organizations in Yemen are vital first responders, yet they remain chronically underfunded and excluded from decision-making spaces. The IRC’s new research highlights the urgent need to shift power, reform funding systems, and invest in local leadership. We’re calling on donors and INGOs to act now—recognize, resource, and elevate these frontline actors at the heart of Yemen’s humanitarian response.

Women-led and women’s rights organizations in Yemen are vital first responders, yet they remain chronically underfunded and excluded from decision-making spaces. The IRC’s new research highlights the urgent need to shift power, reform funding systems, and invest in local leadership. We’re calling on donors and INGOs to act now—recognize, resource, and elevate these frontline actors at the heart of Yemen’s humanitarian response.

Women-led and women’s rights organizations in Yemen are vital first responders, yet they remain chronically underfunded and excluded from decision-making spaces. The IRC’s new research highlights the urgent need to shift power, reform funding systems, and invest in local leadership. We’re calling on donors and INGOs to act now—recognize, resource, and elevate these frontline actors at the heart of Yemen’s humanitarian response.

This paper provides guidance on how to apply the urban context analysis toolkit. The toolkit is a set of practical tools (such as questionnaires, analysis tables, and report templates) tailored for humanitarian organizations to conduct an analysis in urban responses by understanding the political, social, economic, service delivery and spatial dynamics. The toolkit was developed based on a series of pilots by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in five urban crises contexts with a focus on displacement crises.

Today, more than half of the world’s displaced people live in urban areas and the average length of displacement is 25 years. The humanitarian sector must adapt to meet the challenges of an urbanizing world and the increasing role of cities as places of refuge and economic opportunity, as well as sites of heightened risk of crisis, marginalization and inequality.