The Agency for International Development (USAID) is preparing to issue a pre-solicitation notice for the "Yemen Communities Together" program, aimed at mitigating conflict and strengthening social cohesion in Yemen. The program seeks innovative methodologies to support local institutions and organizations in promoting peaceful resolutions and addressing community needs through collaborative efforts. This initiative is critical for enhancing the capacity of Yemeni civil society and conducting stabilization activities in areas with low levels of violent conflict. Interested organizations currently operating in Yemen are encouraged to prepare for the upcoming solicitation, which is expected to be released on Grants.gov within 30 days. For further inquiries, potential applicants can contact Craig Smith at csmith@usaid.gov or by phone at 202-712-0000.

USAID/Yemen intends in the near future to issue a solicitation for a program(s) to mitigate conflict, strengthen social cohesion, promote the peaceful resolution of differences while capitalizing on stabilization opportunities in Yemen. USAID will seek innovative and flexible methodologies through co-creation and collaboration to support learning and small-scale activities that strengthen the ability of local institutions and organizations to serve as neutral arbitrators and meet citizen&#8217;s needs in ways that mitigate the conflict, strengthen social cohesion and promote the peaceful resolution of differences while capitalizing on stabilization opportunities. USAID believes critical to the success of this program is the implementation of regular and iterative conflict analysis, using this information to learn and adapt designed community-based, capacity building and conflict mitigation initiatives. USAID also believes broadening the capacity of Yemeni civil society to conduct these types of identified interventions as well as partnering with government bodies to identify and address community priority needs is integral to this work. Activities will need to be conducted in areas where implementing partners and third party monitoring and verification mechanisms have access and the ability to operate. With regards to Stabilization, USAID is seeking to conduct stabilization efforts by implementing small-scale, fact-finding stabilization activities to serve as examples for future programing and/or to inform international community approaches to stabilization in Yemen. A working theory is Stabilization programming might be conducted in an area (1) experiencing a low level of violent conflict for a sustained period of time; (2) that contains potential partners who are receptive to US Government assistance and have credibility with the local population; (3) with a functioning local authority or local system that is considered legitimate by the local population; (4) that displays a degree of resilience to watershed events and the influence of external stressors; (5) with the local capacity to collectively plan, prioritize, manage, and monitor stabilization assistance; and (6) that has some economic resources and stability but is not profiting off of the conflict. Using the co-creation and collaboration methods, USAID/Yemen will work with potential implementing partners and seek input and feedback on important operating issues such as: &#8226; Feasibility and relevance to the Yemen context and effective methodologies to addressing the operational challenges in Yemen; &#8226; Approaches and constraints to broad-based geographic coverage across Yemen; &#8226; Effective approaches to operationalizing neutrality when working with local Yemeni partners and communities; &#8226; Realistic approaches to stabilization programming appropriate to the Yemeni context; and &#8226; Actionable approaches to analysis and learning. THIS PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. THIS NOTICE IS TO ALLOW POTENTIAL IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS TO BEGIN TO CONSIDER POTENTIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE AREAS OF STABILIZATION, CONFLICT MITIGATION, AND CIVIL SOCIETY. A FORMAL SOLICITATION WILL BE RELEASED ON GRANTS.GOV WITHIN THE NEXT 30 DAYS OR LESS. 

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