UNDP presents $7m to support transition in Yemen

Yemen and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed here on Sunday an agreement to support the popular participation in making peace and development.Under the agreement, the UNDP and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides about US$ 7.3 million devoted to support the peace during the transition phase and to promote the popular participation in making peace, development and revising the legal and political amendments approved within the outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC).On another hand, the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) and the UNDP signed the document of the electoral support project (phase II) aiming to strengthen the SCER's capacities in the management and supervision to undertake the coming elections according to the terms of the Gulf initiative.