Bio

Sarah Vuylsteke

Sarah Vuylsteke

Sarah Vuylsteke worked as the Access Coordinator for the United Nations World Food Programme in Yemen from February to December 2019. In this position, she traveled throughout the country, interacting with representatives from all sides of the conflict trying to facilitate aid delivery. Since 2015, she has worked for the United Nations and other international organizations in South Sudan, Yemen, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Afghanistan. Prior to 2015, Vuylsteke worked on human rights and conservation issues in Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. She has an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam, and has authored and co-authored articles and reports for various agencies on political, economic, and humanitarian issues, including the Sana’a Center series on humanitarian aid in Yemen, “When Aid Goes Awry.”

Publications

Contributions

Main Publications June 15, 2023 39:47 MIN Revisiting the Sana’a Center’s Humanitarian Aid Reports: Then and Now By Sarah Vuylsteke Analysis March 15, 2022 05:30 MIN Flawed Data Continues to Plague Humanitarian Response in Yemen By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 29, 2021 10:58 MIN Monitoring: Accountability Falters When Oversight is Outsourced By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 29, 2021 38:28 MIN Rethinking the System: Is Humanitarian Aid What Yemen Needs Most? By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 29, 2021 60:22 MIN A Principled Response: Neutrality and Politics By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 28, 2021 17:45 MIN A Centralized Response is a Slow, Ineffective Response By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 28, 2021 59:30 MIN To Stay and Deliver: Sustainable Access and Redlines By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 28, 2021 72:25 MIN To Stay and Deliver: Security By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 27, 2021 38:40 MIN Challenging the Narratives: Is Yemen Really the Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World? By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 27, 2021 21:54 MIN A Data Case Study: Famine in Yemen By Sarah Vuylsteke Report section October 27, 2021 53:59 MIN The Myth of Data in Yemen By Sarah Vuylsteke Reports October 27, 2021 When Aid Goes Awry: How the International Humanitarian Response is Failing Yemen By Sarah Vuylsteke