Displacement and Returns Update Returns Working Group, 31 Aug 2021 Protracted Displacement District of Origin Factsheet
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Displacement and Returns Update Returns Working Group, 31 Aug 2021 Protracted Displacement District of Origin Factsheet 2 3 4 4 THANK YOU REFAATO at a glance 30 Aug 2021 GROUND RULES • PLEASE mute your mic if you are not speaking to avoid any echo or disturbance for the other participants • Use the digital “Hand Raise” sign for questions/queries, you can drop your question/query in the chat box as well • Turn-off the video to minimize the usage of the bandwidth as much as possible • General questions will be addressed; however, we expect that some of them would need the specialized teams’ feedback as well as the Senior Management approval, therefore, a follow-up will be applied in cooperation with RWG in this regard WHO WE ARE? REFAATO stands for? REconstruction Fund for Areas Affected by Terroristic Operations (REFAATO) • Established by GoI in 2015 as per the National Budget decree #28 • The establishment was followed by declaring the REFAATO TOR as per decree #2/2015 • Organizational re-structured and accredited by COMSEC - Decree #3 dated 2017 • REFAATO’s areas of responsibilities defined to be: Anbar, Diyala, Salah al-din, Ninewa, North Babil, Baghdad belt (Abo Ghareeb) and parts of Kirkuk Key Objectives: The strategic objective of REFAATO is to contribute to restoring the situation to its previous state, by providing services to all individuals in the liberated areas • Reconstruction and rehabilitation of the areas affected by terroristic operations and alleviation of the impacts of terrorism there. • Fix the damages in the infrastructures • Compensating the wasted development opportunities to achieve the national, social and humanitarian objectives of Reconstruction. WHO WE ARE?; STRUCTURE The administrative & THE OFFICE OF THE FUND affairs division THE CONTROL AND The financial affairs INTERNAL AUDIT division THE PRESIDENT OF Administrative and legal REFAATO affairs section COUNSELORS The legal division The information and public relations The division of VICE PRESIDENT OF international affairs and REFAATO grants The contracts division The division of engineering and follow-up The engineering and THE BOARD OF technical affairs division TRUSTEES The technical affairs Division of planning & preparing of studies WHO WE ARE? Vision: Building confidence between the Iraqis and the state on the one hand, and between Iraq and the international community on the other hand. Mission: Rebuilding people and walls and sustaining the economic wheel in cities affected by terrorist operations. REFAATO’s Strategic Dimensions: 1. The social dimension: Renewing the social bond between the government and citizens in the liberated areas, as well as rebuilding credibility and confidence 2. The economic dimension: To perpetuate the economic wheel in the affected areas in cooperation with the relevant parties 3. Physical dimension and services: Reconstruction of public and private infrastructure facilities affected by Terrorist Operations WHO WE ARE? REFAATO aims to: 1. Provide a helping hand to the Iraqi government to rebuild vital parts of the destroyed infrastructure in order to return the displaced citizens to their homes and cities 2. Contributes to reviving local economies and re-integrating them with other economies in the country by reforming the connectors linking them 3. Contributes to improving living standards in the areas within the boundaries of the targeted municipalities by repairing and expanding most of the water supply, sanitation, transportation, electrical services, solid waste management, and debris removal HOW WE WORK? The Fund acts as a coordinator and monitor for the implementation of loans provided to Iraq, such as the World Bank loan and the German Development Bank loan, which are implemented by sectoral ministries or through grants (the Kuwaiti grant for the health sector, the Chinese grant for municipal machineries, and the Czech grant for different sectors in Hamdaniyah). The fund also acts as an executor of projects presented to it from the affected governorates through the amounts allocated in the federal budget Main responsibilities: • Ensure the with the concerned authorities to set priorities for projects in the affected governorates • Seek and identify grants, donations, aids and loans • Carrying out contracting procedures and following up the implementation of projects • Follow up the implementation of reconstruction projects financed by grants and loans • Presenting the necessary plans for reconstruction and setting the necessary policies to achieve the state's goals • Organizing and sponsoring local and international conferences and exhibitions related to reconstruction in an effort to attract grants, donations and assistance. HOW WE WORK? Project Selection Criteria: • Population density • Level of damage • Scale and scope of the proposed project (financial cost, coverage of communities) • Level of benefit by the target communities P.S: ReFAATO doesn’t target projects with legal outstanding issues or has less than 70% of overall damage Project Identification Mechanism: For projects funded by federal budget MoP MoP Local Local government/ MoF/Donors government (for Initial (For Sectorial listing) endorsement) directorate For projects funded by loans: MOP Local government REFAATO (for endorsement) REFAATO TYPE/STATUS OF PROJECTS FEDERAL BUDGET SOURCE OF LOANS FUNDING GRANTS LOANS GRANTS • EODP / Emergency Operation for Development • State of Kuwait Grant no. 79 to support health Project $350 M from World Bank sector in the liberated areas $100 M • EODP- AF/ Additional Fund $ 400 M from World • Czech Republic Grant to support Electricity and Bank Health Sector in Hamdaniya/ Nineveh CK 10 M • GCFI/ German Credit Facility to Assist the Return of • Republic of China Grant to supply machinery for IDPs in Iraq EUR 500 M from KfW Bank municipalities in the liberated areas CNY 60 M EODP stands for: Emergency Operation for Development Projects TYPE/STATUS OF PROJECTS Percentage of Contracted Number of Number of Number of Number of Financial completed to amount / contracted planned ongoing completed Notes year contracted Billion IQD projects projects projects projects projects Completed projects 100% 150 ـــــ 150 150 2016 19,784 97,432 2017 159 163 0 159 %100 3 projects planned for which work has been withdrawn 109,122 2018 196 198 6 190 %97 Two projects postponed to 2019 357,383 2019 446 462 158 288 65 16 projects that have not been contracted are postponed 4,962 2020 23 23 0 23 %100 All projects of the 2020 plan were implemented on the special program plan TYPE/STATUS OF PROJECTS A TABLE REPRESENTING THE FIGURES OF PROJECTS OF REFAATO AS PART OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET BY SECTORS SINCE 2016 UNTIL 2020 Sectors Municipali Trade Education Higher interior Farming Youth and health Roads and electricity water and Water Government Total Governorate t-ies Education sports bridges sewage Resources circles total done total done total done total done total done total done total done total done total done total done total done total done total done total done Ninawa 21 18 8 5 39 29 26 17 8 7 6 2 1 0 10 10 10 10 21 14 8 7 3 2 8 5 169 126 Anbar 30 21 3 3 69 53 30 24 12 11 3 3 3 3 12 10 19 15 31 29 121 115 12 12 15 12 360 311 Salah Al Din 22 20 0 0 20 13 4 2 12 10 0 0 1 1 4 1 13 7 3 3 9 7 0 0 7 4 95 68 Diyala 21 12 0 0 21 16 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 4 2 56 52 18 15 22 19 0 0 0 0 146 118 Kirkuk 16 14 2 2 18 8 1 0 9 8 2 2 0 0 16 15 6 6 17 16 1 1 3 2 91 74 Baghdad 38 29 0 0 23 20 0 0 3 3 0 0 5 5 2 2 15 13 14 11 2 2 6 5 108 90 North Babil 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 1 0 17 17 0 0 0 0 23 22 Total 148 114 13 10 191 140 61 43 47 40 11 7 6 5 35 28 120 105 99 82 208 192 18 17 39 28 996 811 TYPE/STATUS OF PROJECTS (grants and loans) GRANT AND LOAN PROJECTS FOR WHICH THE FUND ACTS AS A SUPERVISOR AND COORDINATOR Planned vs. ongoing vs. completed NUMBER OF NUMBER OF NUMBER OF NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF FINANCING TYPE AMOUNT ALLOCATED PLANNED CONTRACTED COMPLETED ONGOING COMPLETED PROJECTS PROJECTS PROJECTS PROJECTS PROJECTS World Bank Emergency Loan EODP $350,000,000 130 133 123 10 92% World Bank Emergency Additional Loan EODP $400,000,000 145 133 44 89 33% German grant for the Corona Pandemic $24,000,000 5 5 0 5 0% German loan GFCI € 500,000,000 50 28 2 26 7% Czech grant $458,000,00 10 10 10 0 100% Chinese grant (118) $9,000,000 7 7 7 0 100% Round 1 17 18 Kuwaiti grant $100,000,000 55 Round 2 37 31% 0 36 TYPE/STATUS OF PROJECTS REFAATO’s projects can be easily checked through the below link. The website provides a general information on the geographical location of the project as well as its status (whether its planned, ongoing or completed) https://www.refaato.iq/en CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT The REFAATO adopts a strategic approach to communication and communication with citizen engagement mechanisms. The communication strategy designed and implemented as a two-way communication to ensure that the voice of the communities is heard, enhanced and channeled through feedback mechanisms from the beneficiaries to ensure that their concerns and queries are addressed in a timely manner. Outreach activities also allow for the transmission of clear and consistent messages to support effective project implementation by proactively informing, directing and managing prospective beneficiaries and communities, promoting understanding and belief in the process, as well as generating and sustaining stakeholder interest and ownership of the rebuilding process.