The development objective is to fill the knowledge gap in Yemen on social and economic indicators and poverty by developing and implementing the next round of the Household Budget Survey (HBS). This will be achieved through supporting the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) of Yemen in survey design, sampling, enumeration, and data entry and processing. Reliable contemporary data is urgently needed, all the more so in the context of the major crises Yemen has undergone recently; the last HBS was conducted in 2005-06. Survey-generated data will be used to support the poverty-reduction efforts of the Government of Yemen and of international donors by meeting their data and analytical needs for planning, decision-making and monitoring purposes.