The Governor of Shabwa Governorate and Head of the Local Council, Awad bin Al-Wazir, affirmed the local authority’s keenness on the relationship and joint cooperation with various international and donor organizations in our country, within the framework of integrating joint efforts towards enhancing development and services provided to citizens in these exceptional circumstances that our country is going through. 

Governor Bin Al-Wazir stressed, during the meeting with Muhammad Nasser Al-Babakri, representative of the Society for Humanitarian Solidarity, Shabwa Office, the local partner of the World Food Programme, and in the presence of the Director General of the Office of Planning and International Cooperation, Dr. Omar Bahmid, the importance of coordination with the local authority when undertaking any measures related to activities and programs. Organizations with everything related to the province and their shares of funding from international organizations in development and humanitarian aspects.

During the meeting, which was attended by the Secretary-General of the Local Council, Abd Rabbuh Hashla Nasser, the Director-General of the Office of Planning and International Cooperation and representatives of the Office of the Society for Human Solidarity reviewed the procedure taken by the World Food Program to delete (8067) cases from the assistance it provides from the total number of cases approved for Shabwa Governorate, which amounts to (42623) cases.

The Director General of the Office of Planning and International Cooperation indicated that the World Food Program conducted a field study in 2018 AD, through the local partner, the Society for Humanitarian Solidarity in the governorate, and decided to re-evaluate the cases through the re-targeting program in 2024 AD, and to hold a workshop in the capital.

Dr. Bahmid explained that the program held a workshop in Aden attended by representatives of all liberated governorates, including Shabwa Governorate, to be followed by a workshop in the governorate’s capital in which representatives of local authorities in the directorates and committees affiliated with the program and the local partner, the Solidarity Association, participated, explaining that the World Food Program had violated the plan. Re-targeting and procedures to write off cases of beneficiaries from Shabwa Governorate without field visits and without coordination with the local authority in this regard.

At the conclusion of the meeting, the local authority in Shabwa Governorate expressed its rejection of this measure taken by the World Food Programme, demanding the necessity of re-evaluation through the program’s local partner, the Humanitarian Solidarity Organization, holding those responsible for it responsible for the consequences that will result from taking those measures that were taken without taking the necessary measures. Including coordination with the local authority.