SANA'A, March 26 (Saba) - The mid-term review of the UN development aid program is to be held in Sana'a next Wednesday.

The mid-term review meetings will be co-chaired by the Planning and International Cooperation Minister Abdul Karim al-Arhabi and UNDP Resident Representative in Yemen and UN Resident Coordinator Pratibha Mehta.

A source at the Planning Ministry told the weekly 26 September that the meetings would focus on the implementation level of the UN programs and agencies in the country.

UN is one of the distinctive development partners of Yemen with about $ 40 – 50 million annual.

The total of the UN aid and development assistance to Yemen in various areas in five years, until 2011, reach $250 million via Population Fund, UNICEF, World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Development Program.

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