The conflict in Yemen is now in its seventh year despite the concerted efforts of the UN and the international community towards a peace agreement. Analysis of the current situation indicates that the parties to the conflict show no signs of backing down from their demands, nor towards effecting any form of a peace agreement that may allow an easing in the severity of the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in the country. The more protracted the conflict, the greater the deterioration in the humanitarian conditions in Yemen, and the greater the deterioration of the state and its capacities to function in the service of its people, or to recover if and when
a peace agreement is reached.
Yemen is now in a precarious situation. As the current outbreak, a global pandemic and multiple challenges such as cholera, state institutions have reached a high level of dysfunction and incapacity that the national response to this crisis has had to be overwhelmingly supported, organized, financed and at times implemented by external organizations including the UN. This, however, is just one example of a crisis exposing the vulnerability of the state to respond to emerging crises. The situation is as critical in other sectors including education, agricultural extension,
