IRAQ: Humanitarian Dashboard (May - August 2016)
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IRAQ: Humanitarian Dashboard (May - August 2016) SITUATION OVERVIEW The humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate. Ongoing military operations are forcing people into displacement at great personal risk with over 400,000 people newly displaced this year, including 85,000 from Fallujah in May and June and over 120,000 people currently displaced along the Mosul corridor. Critical needs continue to grow across all sectors. To date, the US$861 million Humanitarian Response Plan has received 54 per cent of the funding. The impact of this underfunding has been significant. Of the 226 projects in the Humanitarian Response Plan, over half have closed or could not start due to insufficient funding. An additional 67 programmes will close within the next three months, if no additional funding arrives. A boost in funding is urgently required to restart core activities forced to shut, to activate those that need to start and to prevent further closures of front-line programmes. Despite a difficult and volatile operating environment, humanitarian organizations have reached about 3.2 million people with some form of humanitarian assistance across Iraq. Health partners have been able to support over 3 million people this year and in addition vaccinated over 10 million children against polio. Food Security partners have provided help to more than 1 million people with food assistance and cash-based transfers. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) partners have ensured more than 900,000 people in at-risk communities have received safe, sustained, equitable access to a sufficient quantity of water through water trucking, maintenance of water and sanitation systems and facilities, solid waste collection, distribution of hygiene and dignity kits and other WASH services. Camp coordination and camp management partners have provided support to over 850,000 people by providing specialised assistance to people in camps and highly vulnerable temporary settlements. Over 700,000 people have received kits with household or shelter items, or have benefitted from replenish- ment and upgrades to their current dwellings through work carried out by shelter and non-food-items partners. Education partners have reached more than 550,000 people with some form of emergency education assistance this year, including in hot spot locations, and 140,000 people have been reached by protection partners through community-level and household assessments, awareness-raising sessions, and referral for cash assistance. Underpinning efforts by humanitarian organizations, the Logistics Cluster works to handle and store humanitarian commodities in Erbil and Baghdad to ensure coordina- tion and to organize the dispatch of supplies to recipient agencies. Telecommunications partners also work to support and address needs in telecommunica- tions among humanitarian stakeholders. Needs Population in need1 People displaced2 People targeted1 10 million 3.3 million 7.3 million includes displaced people, host communities displaced population people targeted and non-host in opposition armed group areas million Health 7.1 million 3.3 3.1 WASH 2.9 2.5 100% 1.8 Protection 2.1 1.2 increase since Food Security 1.5 January 2015 Education 1.3 Jun 14 Aug 14 Feb 15 Jun 15 Sep 16 Shelter/NFI 1.1 Total population Iraq: 36 million (2014 estimate) CCCM 0.4 HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLAN 2016 861million 56% 484 million REQUESTED (US$) FUNDED RECEIVED (US$) Requirements by cluster (million $)1 Per cent funded by cluster4 funded unmet Contributions (million $)4 million $ million $ Camp Coordination and 3.1 11.5 14.5 21% United States of Camp Management 133.1 America Coordination and 11.0 8.5 19.5 56% Common Services European 100.8 Commission 36.4 46.3 Education 82.7 44% WFP Carryover 96.4 Funds Emergency Livelihoods and Social Cohesion 26.5 17% 4.3 22.1 Germany 34.2 Emergency Telecommunications 1.5 41% 0.6 0.9 United Kingdom 32.3 Food Security 238.9 44% 106.2 132.7 Japan 17.1 43.9 39.8 Health 83.7 52% IHPF 15.0 2.4 100% Logistics 2.4 0.0 Canada 12.6 Multi-Purpose Cash 38.5 60% Assistance 23.3 15.2 CERF 8.1 70.2 43% Protection 30.5 39.7 Sweden 6.8 Rapid Response 21.8 8% Mechanism 1.8 19.9 Others 27.8 Shelter/NFI 179.6 37% 66.1 113.5 Water, Sanitation and 80.7 54% 4.4 37.2 Hygiene Creation date: 4 October 2016 unocha.org reliefweb.int iraq.humanitarianresponse.info Sources: 1. Iraq Humanitarian Response Plan 2016 2. IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix, August 2016 3. Clusters 4. fts.unocha.org - 4 October 2016 1 IRAQ: Humanitarian Dashboard (May - August 2016) PROTECTION The Protection Cluster continued to face challenges with underfunding (only 43% of the HRP 2016 requirement received) and limited access due to security reasons. 8.2 million people in need Needs Response 2% 26% Across Iraq, IDPs fleeing conflict continue to face Protection partners conducted 563 community-level and 22,950 reached / in need targeted / in need obstacles in accessing safety and restrictions on their household-level protection assessments (displaced people and freedom of movement. Safety options for GBV survivors returnees) across Iraq, and Rapid Protection Assessments in and across the country remain extremely limited. around Fallujah, Tikrit district, Kirkuk, Southern Ninewa and Salah Ongoing military operations in the country continue to al-Din. pose severe challenges to child protection actors to More than 11,000 vulnerable families were referred for cash provide a timely and effectively response to the most assistance: legal teams provided legal assistance for 730 cases and critical needs of women and children affected by the legal counselling for 749 individuals. conflict. Protection partners continued to carry out awareness-raising 144,416 2.1 m Across all areas of implementation, there is an urgent sessions and distributed information material to provide information people reached people targeted need for mine action, which is expected to grow more on displacement movements and protection concerns. pressing as IDPs return to their areas of origin. Protection partners in Baghdad continued to advocate for mobile teams to carry out the registration of displaced people and returnees. For more information, contact [email protected] or [email protected] CHILD PROTECTION, MINE ACTION AND HLP SUB-CLUSTERS Needs Response Children and their parents who have fled Fallujah have shown great signs of psychosocial Child protection partners provided psychosocial support services to more than 18,230 distress, requiring urgent need for psychosocial support (PSS) and specialized child children, specialized child protection services to 4,603 children, and support to 243 protection services at screening and reception centres, and for children living in IDP camps. unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), alongside regular child protection services An increased number of children and adult women involved in labour and street begging including family tracing and reunification or alternative care services where family could not be among the returnees was noted throughout the country; although the number of child traced. workers and beggars is small, more focused child protection interventions are required. Inter-agency guidelines for child protection mobile team have been developed. Access to safe areas and protection from the risk of unexploded ordnance, IEDs, etc. The sub-clusters continued to provide training on case management SOPs, monitoring and remain a major concern in Fallujah and surrounding areas. Major risks of exposure to IEDs reporting mechanisms, UASC case management, collaborative dispute resolution and and explosive remnants of war affects people fleeing fighting areas to safety in Erbil and representatives. Kirkuk governorates. Coordinated risk awareness information needs to be delivered to newly displaced people. For more information, contact Child Protection - bpfi[email protected] or [email protected] MineAction - [email protected] or [email protected] HLP [email protected], [email protected] GBV SUB-CLUSTER Needs Response There is a significant lack of GBV response services in the newly government-controlled GBV partners continue to provide emergency response and psychosocial support to GBV areas. Safety options for GBV survivors across the country remain extremely limited. An cases through mobile teams and house-to-house visits, including case management for acute shortage of general PSS and mental health care among new arrivals, especially men identified GBV survivors in these areas and the distribution of dignity kits to vulnerable and boys, is due to a lack of partners specialized in dealing with these services as well as a displaced women. lack of private spaces to provide these services. 14,386 women and girls have received GBV services through women’s community centres Survivors of GBV face a significant threat of further violence at the hands of their families across Iraq: more than 3,500 women received psychosocial support in Anbar and 2,224 in and perpetrators, as well as rejection by their family and communities post-incident. Where Sulaymaniyah Governorate. safe houses/shelters do exist, they are in poor condition, do not meet the basic needs of Trainings of trainers have been held for cluster partners, doctors, and social workers on the survivors, and are highly stigmatized. adolescent girls’ programming toolkit, the GBV information management system, working with GBV survivors, referral pathways and the clinical management of rape, and protection