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Berghof Foundation Annual Report 2024Online year in review
Our 2024 annual report gives an overview of our work around the world during the year as well as insights into our finances and funding.
- Year2025
Accountability mechanisms in YemenInsights from Taiz, Aden, Hadhramawt, and Al Mahra
Yemen has long ranked low on global corruption indices but has fallen to even lower levels since the outbreak of the war in 2014. Given a renewed interest by the internationally recognised government of Yemen in reforming formal accountability structures – and by international donors in the systems in place in Yemen as they mull options for more direct support – this study looks into de jure and de facto accountability mechanisms in Yemen and explores concrete governorate-level examples of accountability structures in Taiz, Aden, Hadhramawt, and Al Mahra.
- Year2025
- Author(s)DeepRoot Consulting
آليات المساءلة في اليمنرؤى من تعز وعدن وحضرموت والمهرة
لطالما احتلت اليمن مرتبة متأخرة في مؤشرات الفساد العالمية، إلا أن مستويات الفساد شهدت تدهوراً أكبر منذ اندلاع الحرب في عام 2014. وفي ظل الاهتمام المتزايد من قبل الحكومة اليمنية المعترف بها دولياً بإعادة هيكلة منظومة المساءلة الرسمية، وتنامي حرص الجهات الدولية المانحة على فهم طبيعة الأنظمة القائمة في اليمن تمهيداً لتقديم دعم أكثر مباشرة، تأتي هذه الدراسة لتتناول آليات المساءلة من حيث الإطارين القانوني والفعلي، مع التركيز على نماذج تطبيقية لهياكل المساءلة على مستوى المحافظات، لا سيما في تعز وعدن وحضرموت والمهرة.
- Year2025
- Author(s)DeepRoot Consulting
Berghof Foundation Annual Report 2023Online year in review
Our 2023 annual report gives an overview of our work around the world during the year as well as insights into our finances and funding.
- Year2024
Observe and ActThe role of Yemeni political movements in the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security framework
Together with Fight for Humanity and supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, we initiated a participatory action research initiative in Yemen involving three key political movements or entities: The Islah Party (Al Islah), the Southern Transitional Council (STC), and Ansar Allah. A team of local researchers, alongside a national coordinator, set out to identify and better understand the factors that encourage the movements to promote the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security framework.
- Year2024
الملاحظة والفعل:دور الحركات السياسية اليمنية في تنفيذ إطار عمل المرأة والسلام والأمن
قامت منظمة الكفاح من أجل الإنسانية ومؤسسة بيرغهوف، بدعم من وزارة الخارجية الألمانية، بالتعاون لإنجاز بحث عمل تشاركي في اليمن ضم ثلاث حركات أو كيانات سياسية رئيسية: حزب الإصلاح، والمجلس الانتقالي الجنوبي، وأنصار الله. وقد أجرى فريق من الباحثات المحليات، إلى جانب منسقة وطنية، هذا البحث لتحديد وفهم أفضل للعوامل التي تشجع هذه الحركات السياسية على تعزيز جهود التنفيذ لإطار المرأة والسلام والأمن وخاصة في مجالات حماية النساء والفتيات ومشاركتهن السياسية في حالات النزاع المسلح.
- Year2024
Empowerment lies withinOpportunities and challenges for the implementation of the Women, Peace & Security framework by political movements in Yemen
This policy brief analysis the role that political movements in Yemen play in implementing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) framework, especially in safeguarding and fostering the involvement of women and girls in peace and security matters. It offers recommendations on how international actors can enhance support for WPS policies and practices in relation to political movements in Yemen.
- Year2024
- Author(s)Ann-Kristin Sjöberg, Wameedh Shakir, Véronique Dudouet
Berghof Foundation Annual Report 2022Online year in review
Our 2022 annual report gives an overview of our work around the world during the year as well as insights into our finances and funding.
- Year2023
Berghof Foundation Annual Report 2021Online year in review
Our 2021 annual report gives an overview of our work around the world during the year as well as insights into our finances and funding.
- Year2022
Changing Local Governance in YemenThe areas under control of the internationally recognised government
Local governance is changing in Yemen, with far-reaching effects on the way state institutions function, on central-local relations, and on service provision and citizens’ experiences of the state. Earlier Berghof research (Rogers 2020) highlighted the ways in which war and Houthi policy were re-drawing central-local relations and the functioning of local governance in the areas under Ansar Allah’s control. This paper complements that investigation by examining the changes under way in the areas under the control of the internationally recognised government.
- Year2022
- Author(s)Katharina Jautz, Monder Basalma, Joshua Rogers