Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham:

We have different ways of addressing what we call "underfunded situations". Generally speaking, the underfunded situations are the ones that have less attention globally. We have a very specific window in the central emergency response fund, CERF, and those funds are directed towards underfunded emergencies.

I think it is twice a year that we have an assessment analysis of these areas. We have less than the standard funding that we have for other countries and we direct funding towards that. I think that is one way of addressing this issue of the silent areas.

I briefly mentioned Yemen earlier when I mentioned the Safer oil tanker, which was a rusting vessel lying idle in the sea, but contained millions of gallons of oil. There would have been a massive ecological and environmental disaster and we focused a lot of our work on that. Yemen is a huge operation for us. I neglected to mention the other aspects of that operation and the Deputy is absolutely right to highlight that. There are tens of millions of people in need in Yemen. We have a strong office and capacity in terms of the humanitarian community to address those needs. We had a few years of very good funding there. Like all the other countries, it has also suffered from significantly reduced funding recently.