Document status: current. Last source check: 4 Nov 2026, 09:59 UTC. Extracts below retain the donor’s source wording.
Countries and scope
Yemen
Yemen
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Funding priorities
The humanitarian response shall be compliant with EU thematic policies and guidelines that are described in the HIP policy annex. To factor in the volatile context, the response shall also provide for a high degree of flexibility and adaptability.
Response strategy ↗DG ECHO will prioritise lifesaving and conflict-sensitive responses to the needs stemming from ongoing conflict and hazard-induced disasters, while continuing to address acute needs of vulnerable hosting communities, displaced people, people on the move, refugees, asylum seekers and marginalised groups.
Response strategy ↗In order to do so, DG ECHO will prioritise the following sectors:
Response strategy ↗Education in Emergencies (EiE) as the EU is committed to allocating 10% of its initial humanitarian aid budget to EiE, where operational and context-specific challenges allow.
Response strategy ↗In northern Yemen DG ECHO will exclusively focus on most pressing life-saving activities.
Response strategy ↗Integrated, multi-sectoral responses, maximising impact and geographical coverage in high severity areas across the whole of Yemen. Ensuring efficient referral systems is also key.
Response strategy ↗Actions integrating the centrality of protection, reducing protection risks and negative coping mechanisms.
Response strategy ↗Evidence-based programming, relying on quality information and data analysis including countrywide and localised assessments to ensure adequate identification of risks, needs and vulnerabilities, effective prioritisation, and accountability.
Response strategy ↗Flexibility and adaptability through contingency planning and emergency capacities. The use of ECHO flexibility tools, such as Crisis Modifiers is encouraged. Where relevant, DG ECHO also supports the establishment of Rapid Response Mechanisms (RRMs) and systems to enhance anticipatory action and early response models.
Response strategy ↗DG ECHO will give particular attention to the partners ability and capacity to:
Response strategy ↗Safely access and impartially deliver humanitarian assistance, with adequate international and national staff in proximity to beneficiaries.
Response strategy ↗Adopt proactive measures to increase efficiency such as resource sharing and collaborative arrangements.
Response strategy ↗Ensure multi-risk approach in their analyses.
Response strategy ↗Foster self-reliance capacities of targeted households/communities, with efforts to build upon them.
Response strategy ↗Coordinate with other humanitarian and recovery/development actors, ensuring exit strategies, potential synergies and active participation in evidence-based advocacy.
Response strategy ↗Mainstreaming preparedness across relevant sectors is a horizontal priority. This includes promoting community-based preparedness in areas at risk of floods, extreme meteorological events and/or disease outbreaks. Partners should provide an analysis of the environmental impact of their proposed action and a risks mitigation strategy taking into account the limited natural resources and conflict dynamics.
Response strategy ↗DG ECHO supports equitable and increased partnerships with local NGOs, whenever possible as part of its localisation agenda.
Response strategy ↗Multi-year and/or multi-annual funding projects (with a minimum funding allocation of 24 months), could supported where it increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the action, as further detailed in the HIPTA. There will be no new PPs in 2026.
Response strategy ↗In addition to the resources of this HIP, DG ECHO can also mobilise under other instruments, such as ReliefEU. The objective of the ReliefEU Capabilities is to support humanitarian partners via the provision of specific services and capabilities. The operational tools are designed to provide rapid but temporary support to partners to fill operational gaps in the humanitarian response where the humanitarian community struggles to provide timely support, thus helping to cover immediate needs of the affected population and to strengthen humanitarian access with the provision of safe and reliable transport, logistics and supply chain solutions.
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Partner eligibility
Only ECHO partners are eligible to submit a project for funding;
Eligibility criteria ↗No award will be made to NGO partner organisations which have not complied with their obligations concerning the submission of audited financial statements (i.e., which would not have submitted those in due time to the Commission without a proper justification) or which would appear not to offer sufficient guarantee as to their financial capacity to implement the proposed actions (in light of their liquidity and solvency ratios as appearing from their latest available annual statutory accounts certified by an approved external auditor).
Eligibility criteria ↗All awards made using EU Funds must respect the Conditionality Measures9 issued under any Council Implementing Decision adopted in accordance with Article 6 of EU Regulation 2020/2092 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget10 (“Conditionality Decision”).
Eligibility criteria ↗The Commission hereby notifies applicants under this HIP/TA of the following Conditionality Decision (valid at the date of publication of this HIP/TA):
Eligibility criteria ↗9 Conditionality Measures against a Concerned Entity, may, for example, include, amongst others, the requirement to suspend payments or the implementation of the legal commitment to/with the Concerned Entity; and/or terminate the legal commitment with the Concerned Entity; and/or prohibit entering into new legal commitments with the Concerned Entity. Conditionality Decisions and Measures issued under Council Implementing Decisions may impact the implementation of grants, contributions and procurement contracts awarded, as the Commission is required to ensure the application of these Conditionality Decisions
Eligibility criteria ↗and Measures in the implementation of the EU budget via both direct and indirect management. implementation of grants, contributions and procurement contracts awarded, as the Commission is required to ensure the application of these Conditionality Decisions and Measures in the implementation of the EU budget via both direct and indirect management.
Eligibility criteria ↗10 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget OJ L 433I, 22.12.2020, p. 1–10
Eligibility criteria ↗12 Act IX of 2021 on public interest trust foundations with a public service mission (entry into force 01/01/2023).
Eligibility criteria ↗13 Available (in Hungarian) at:[https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2021-9-00-00](https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2021-9-00-00)
Eligibility criteria ↗Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506 of 15 December 2022 on measures for the protection of the Union budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law in Hungary11.
Eligibility criteria ↗This Conditionality Decision, in particular its Article 2.2, prohibits legal commitments under direct and indirect management with any public interest trust established by Hungarian Act IX of 202112, including those entities listed in Annex I to Hungarian Act IX of 202113 and other affiliated entities maintained by them (“Concerned Entities”). The Commission will further notify when the above- mentioned Conditionality Measures are lifted.
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Apply the round-specific restrictions below together with the complete partner and award conditions.
Allocation rounds and submission dates
Allocation round 1
Indicative date has passed
- Published date / wording
- Indicative date for receipt of the above requested information: 08/01/2026.
- Potential or pre-selected partners
- Potential partners7: All DG ECHO Partners
Dates are indicative and remain in their published context. A date shown here does not certify that new applications are being accepted. Confirm the exact cutoff time and applicable instructions.
Official documents and versions
- HIP version 1 ↗ Version 1 · document read · 4 Nov 2026, 09:59 UTC
- Technical annex version 1 ↗ Version 1 · document read · 4 Nov 2026, 09:59 UTC