HUMANITARIAN FUND 2020 Cost Extensions Strategy As of 29 October 2020

Overview • This allocation strategy is issued by the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC), in consultation with the Clusters and Advisory Board of the Iraq Humanitarian Fund (IHF), to set the IHF funding priorities for the cost extensions of selected ongoing projects to address critical operational gaps of underfunded sectors. • A total amount of up to US$12.3 million is available under this strategy. The strategy outlines the funding priorities and rationale for the prioritization. • This strategy also provides strategic direction and a timeline for the cost extension process. • The cost extensions modality has been selected for the following reasons; ➢ Overall priority humanitarian needs have not shifted dramatically since the project implementation began for the 2020 1st Standard Allocation. ➢ A Standard Allocation process is time-consuming and labour-intensive and would clash with the timeframe for the 2021 HNO/HRP development process, creating additional workload on partners and clusters. ➢ Cost extension of ongoing IHF-funded projects, a new grant modality introduced to Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs) in 2020, will allow for quick disbursement of funds with minimum processing time and extra work for clusters and partners to support the expanded operation of already-formed consortia.

Allocation strategy and rationale Among the 20 projects funded through the 2020 1st Standard Allocation, based on cluster recommendations, the IHF proposes the cost extension of approximately $10 million for 14 projects covering the following sectors: Protection (including GP, HLP, CP and GBV), Health, WASH, Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance, Food Security and Education (the latter partially). The Health cluster has requested cost extensions of ongoing projects funded through 2019 IHF allocations, noting that the partners implementing these projects are better suited to cover the priority needs and locations than those funded under the 2020 1st Standard Allocation. The Shelter/NFI cluster, which was not funded through the 2020 1st Standard Allocation, also requested an exceptional consideration of cost extensions of selected projects funded through the 2019 2nd Standard Allocation, noting the critical shelter needs of out-of-camp IDPs who are exposed to an increased risk of COVID-19. In view that the cost extension modality should be used to allow best placed partners to address priority needs and noting the significant underfunding of the Shelter/NFI sector, the HC has endorsed the proposed cost extension of selected 2019 projects as part of the COVID-19 flexibility measures. This brings up the total funding requirements for cluster-recommended cost extensions to around $12 million. The actual top- up amount per project will be determined during the project revision and approval process, informed by cluster priorities vis-à- vis partner capacity, and may fluctuate slightly.

Prioritization of projects and activities to be cost-extended • Only cluster-recommended, ongoing IHF projects funded through the 2020 1st Standard Allocation (and the 2019 2nd Standard Allocation where relevant) will be considered for cost extensions with a top-up grant no greater than the original grant amount1. • To the extent operationally relevant and feasible, a cost extension should seek expansion of activities to address unmet priority needs in a timely manner, including through additional beneficiary and/or geographical coverage and complementary activities as per cluster recommendations (see the details in Annex 1) , rather than extending the project duration with the same planned activities. • All projects to be cost-extended should be continuously implemented by the original contracting partner. However, they can include additional consortium or sub-implementing partners where operationally relevant. Inclusion of national partners in consortia and their capacity building are continually encouraged.

1 A limited number of ongoing health and shelter/NFI projects funded through the 2019 2nd Standard Allocation have also been recommended for cost extensions by the respective Clusters on an exceptional basis. P a g e | 2

Project Proposal Preparation and Submission Cost extension will be processed as a project revision in the GMS (please refer to the technical guidance at: https://gms.unocha.org/content/project-revision?plid=466). Contracting partners of the projects selected for cost extension should liaise closely with relevant clusters to receive their operational guidance and approval for the proposed revision.

Contacts and complaints mechanism All correspondence regarding the IHF should be sent to [email protected]. Complaints from stakeholders regarding the IHF allocation process should be sent to [email protected]. The OCHA Head of Office will receive, address and refer any critical issues to the HC for decision-making.

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Timeline and procedure

Phase Cost Extension Steps Who Date

Concerned clusters to feedback on the relevance and Clusters Completed possibility of cost extension of 2020 SA1 projects

Advisory Board (AB) meeting to endorse Reserve Allocation Completed HC, AB, OCHA HFU and cost extension options (1 October) IHF to draft common guidance on cost extensions with Clusters, OCHA 4 to 13 October Cluster inputs HFU

PREPARATION HC and AB to review and endorse the list of projects to be HC, OCHA, AB 14 to 27 October cost-extended

Cost extension guidance for partners finalised OCHA HFU 28 October

Revision process opened for projects to be cost-extended

HC, OCHA HFU 29 October in GMS

MENT 29 October to 9

REVISED REVISED DEVELOP

PROJECT Partners November Project Revisions (on rolling basis) – Partners to submit

Clusters, OCHA revision requests and specific revisions on GMS for cluster 10-12 November HFU and HFU approval and address any cluster/HFU comments

REVIEW REVIEW Partners 15-16 November PROCESS

Clusters, OCHA By

Final check and budget approval HFU 18 November By Grant Agreement Amendment (GAA) preparation OCHA HFU 19 November By HC signs GAA / Final approval HC 22 November

APPROVALPHASE By GAA countersignature Partners 23 November From

GAA final clearance OCHA HQ 24 November

MENT From First disbursement of top-up grant OCHA HQ DISBURSE 1 December

IRAQ HUMANITARIAN FUND 2020 1st Reserve Allocation and Cost Extensions Strategy Annex 1: Cluster priorities for the cost extensions of ongoing projects

Cluster needs and key issues to be addressed Cluster Priority Location Recommended Activities Budget2 through Cost Extensions Continuity of Learning • 1-2-1 education support to vulnerable For the cost-extension, the Cluster is children; regular follow-up; recommending the expansion of the • Support rollout of blended learning, Over 9 million students including the 330,500 current project ‘Production of Self- allowing flexibility for children engaged children targeted in the 2020 HRP, have lost Learning Materials’ to provide in non-educational activities. access to education as all education-related strengthened and more focused • Build up the capacity of more teachers in activities including schools were forced to close at individual remedial classes throughout remote learning through training, and the end of February due to the COVID-19 outbreak. the school year for girls and boys at risk equip them with appropriate devices to There is no clear indication from the two Ministries of dropping out, or those who have only reach more vulnerable students. of Education as to when schools will reopen in limited access to formal and informal • Collaborate with other Cluster partners in Iraq. COVID-19 exposes an already fragile education. Through sustained individual the development of teacher training - education system which was weakened by years of support and provision of learning Teacher Preparedness training pack, conflict and, without innovative solutions to this resources, at risk and hard-to-reach training in virtual classes Ninewa: , Tel Afar, problem, more children will be unable to enjoy their children and young people will be • Conduct minor rehabilitation to water -Qayrawan, Ba'aj $600,000 right to education. supported to stay on at education. hygiene points, provide cleaning Additionally, increasing the number and Salah Al-Din: Balad, materials, and protective gear to create a Education The programmatic approach for this funding round will focus on strengthening the continuation of capacity of teachers, equipping them with safe learning space for students. learning through activities that strengthen the knowledge and resources to engage in • Consider gender, inclusion, safeguarding blended learning approach, while investing in more distance teaching, will help children learn and accessibility in preparing schools for and better equipped teachers, leveraging local and better, thrive and have better life safe reopening; engage communities in national resources to encourage children back to chances. The Back to Learning (B2L) the process school, and making learning spaces safe for campaign will help children realise their • Conduct community mobilisation children to return to. The cost extension will right to education, and mobilise activities to help children back into enable consortium partners to implement activities communities and engage them in their learning; outlined in the COVID-19 Addendum, and utilise children’s education. Provision of • Conduct safe outreach activities to guidance and resources developed by the Cluster. cleaning resources to schools, minor highlight the importance of education for rehabilitation to water and hygiene points girls and boys. will make schools and learning spaces • Support the continuity of learning during safe for students to return to. school closures and lockdowns.

2 The actual top-up amount per project will be determined during the project revision and approval process, informed by cluster priorities vis-à-vis partner capacity, and may fluctuate slightly. P a g e | 5

• Establish 67 homestead gardens ($27,420) In Iraq, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the Agriculture inputs and livestock assets • Provision of 20 greenhouses for food system and has impacted food availability, Government regulations have allowed increased productivity and household access, stability and utilization; movement agriculture producers to continuing income ($72,800) restrictions negatively impacted farmers' access accessing their fields and input markets • Improved production through enhanced to agricultural inputs and the market and to ensure ongoing agriculture production; access to animal health services and vulnerable households whose access to food however, as the COVID-19 pandemic fodder/feeds for small livestock farmers. became limited have resorted to negative coping evolves, disrupted supply chains may Through this activity, 3,000 beneficiaries strategies (source: FAO/WFP/IFAD/WB COVID-19 impact prices. Thus, vulnerable are provided with access to information Food Security Monitor reports and others). IDPs households may be unable to afford $487,110 on vaccination through campaigns, 150 and returnees are more vulnerable to these shocks inputs, potentially decreasing the amount beneficiaries through provision of animal and require immediate assistance to ensure their of land under cultivation and/or the feeds for sheep and training for continued food security. WFP price monitoring quantity/quality of the harvest. improved utilization of diversified and data indicates that food prices have remained Supporting domestic producers now is nutritious food sources from livestock. stable since the start of the crisis; however, essential to avoid food availability issues Ninewa: Sinjar > Sinuni, ($249, 280) movement restrictions have negatively affected in the upcoming season, thus Al > Bashiqa, • Provision of agricultural assets and households’ purchasing power as they lost their safeguarding domestic food supply and Tilkaef > Wana

Food Security Food inputs - Open field farm: To increase source of income. For agriculture-dependent long-term food security. households, this affected their ability to afford production per unit area and good inputs (i.e. seeds, fertilizers and animal feed), income for the HH resulting in a loss of earnings and limiting the Cash plus (cash, provision of inputs, quantity of food available on the market in training, including hygiene) upcoming harvest seasons. Vulnerable In light of COVID-19, cash transfers households, particularly those who depend upon paired with agriculture inputs/trainings daily wage labour, already have limited livelihood will provide an immediate income for • Improved access for 300 vulnerable sources and this is exacerbated in the current vulnerable populations to smooth beneficiaries to basic needs and $612,890 crisis, causing them to purchase more caloric- consumption patterns and reduce the agricultural input during lean season. dense food and/or adopting negative coping impact of the COVID-19 shock, while strategies, which will have a cascading impact on simultaneously boosting agricultural nutrition, health and labour productivity. livelihoods for longer-term, durable solutions. P a g e | 6

Sustaining services for people in displacement, mainly those in camps and priority locations, remains the priority need of the Cluster and therefore, this allocation is one of the resources that would partially fill the gaps outlined above. Diyala: Al Wand 1 camp Keeping in line with the IHF strategy of topping up Dohuk: Kaberto 1 and IHF-funded consortium projects currently being Dawodeia camps implemented, the Cluster has prioritized the 3 • projects from the 2019 2nd Standard Allocation, : Laylan camp Outpatient consultations since these are covering PHC services in some of • Laboratory investigations Ninewa: Al Qayara, the priority IDP camps. • Prescription and provision of essential Qaeyrrawan, Ain Al medicines

In order to prevent a sudden interruption of Continued provision of an uninterrupted Hissan, Al-Muhamadath, • Referral of complicated cases to higher essential PHC services to IDPs in camps and other package of essential primary healthcare Bartalla, Markaz level facilities $ 1,900,000

Health priority locations due to funding shortages, services mainly in priority camps Sheikhan, Markaz • Detection, verification, reporting and particularly in the backdrop of the protracted crisis Tilkaef PHCCS early response of epidemic-prone where the capacity of the Iraqi MoH is still not up Salah Al Din: Markaz diseases to par to cover the basic needs of the IDPs and and Markaz Shirqat • Reproductive health and family planning those newly returning to their homes despite the PHCCs and -Hay Al service-provision continued efforts to strengthen their capacity to Teen take over services currently provided by humanitarian partners, coupled with the COVID-19 : Ashty pandemic and the upcoming cholera/flu season, it and Tazade camps would be vital to sustain these services to manage and mitigate preventable morbidity/mortality among vulnerable population groups, with special focus to women, children and the elderly. P a g e | 7

The COVID-19 outbreak in Iraq and subsequent containment measures have resulted in disruption of trade, banks and financial services with immediate and long-term economic consequences. It is anticipated that the number of vulnerable households that are unable to meet their basic needs will increase as the COVID-19 related impacts continue to slow down economic performance of the country limiting livelihoods Al.Falluja, Al.Kaim, options to vulnerable households. Many other Al. , Al.Rutba, coping mechanisms that people would normally Ana, Heet, rely on including remittances and credit system Al.Sulaymaniya, Al.Kadhmiyah, would now be exhausted due to the scale of Multipurpose cash Assistance to cover basic Al.Mahmoudiya, COVID-19 impacts. The immediate effect on all needs. Each eligible household will receive MPCA to 1,275 vulnerable households to Al.Muqdadiya, , sphere of economy would compress labour $800 upfront covering their basic expenses $1,500,000 cover basic needs including Food, NFIs, , Sumail, , opportunities and labour incomes cannot ensure at least for two months. MPCA grant will be MPCA rent, medicine and other expenses ErbilMakhmour, anymore minimum living standards leaving provided to eligible vulnerable households Al.Hawiga , Kirkuk, households struggle to cover their minimum living under the poverty line of IQD110,000. survival expenditures. Vulnerable households will Al.Mosul, Al.Shikhan, not be able to cover critical basic needs and Sinjar, Telafar, Tilkaef, services including food, hygiene, rent, health, to Al.Shirqat, Balad, mention a few, which would expose them to Beygee, Tikrit, Tooz, immediate health and protection risks. Khurmato MPCA is prioritized as a COVID-19 humanitarian response activity to cover basic needs of eligible households that are in need of humanitarian assistance. Cash transfers remain an effective form of humanitarian assistance to create access to basic needs and services as well as to stimulate the local economy. P a g e | 8

The protection monitoring in response to COVID-19 Provision of comprehensive protection • Case management demonstrated that the pandemic seriously assistance and services for the most at- • Cash for protection aggravated the protection situation for displaced risk and most affected individuals/HHs Ninewa: Districts of • PSS for adults and conflict-affected communities across all the through case management, including $250,000 Telafar (Zummar, Al- • Disability-specific services governorates included in the HRP, with the through referrals to multi-sectoral Ayadiya, Markaz Telafar, • Referral to specialized services or deterioration of protection concerns being interventions, cash for protection, as well Rabia), Tilkaef (Markaz assistance particularly acute in central-south governorates as PSS for adults Tilkaef, Al-Qosh, Wana), and Ninewa. In addition, protection issues Sinjar and Baaj3 worsened for population groups with specific vulnerabilities, including persons with disabilities, Provision of legal assistance for civil Anbar: Districts of Al- • Deployment of legal mobile teams and/or older persons, women and girls and children. The documentation, family law, and (Al-Amirya, support to mobile documentation pandemic exacerbated the stress, trauma and detention, as the lack of civil Markaz Al-Fallujah), Al- activities anxiety already experienced by IDPs due to a documentation is a key impediment to Ramadi (Al-Habbaniya,

• Provide legal assistance and counselling combination of factors involving the disruption of accessing essential public services Markaz Al-Ramadi, in $250,000 • Follow up with Courts and Civil Affairs normal life and community support network, the (including health services), often results particular Kilo 7 and Kilo Directorates for the issuance of civil imposition of lockdowns and restrictions on in restriction of freedom of movement as 18 informal settlements) documents freedom of movement etc. The widespread loss of well as arrest and detention and hampers and Ana (Markaz Ana) • Monitor and follow up detention cases livelihoods also compounded pre-existing the achievement of durable solutions Kirkuk: District of Al- socioeconomic vulnerabilities and directly

GeneralProtection Hawiga (Al-Abbassi, Al- increased the risk of negative coping mechanisms Riyadh, Al-Zab) and and level of exposure to certain protection risks. In Community-based activities through Dibis4 • Community-Based Activities including out-of-camp locations in particular, protection community-based protection to address Salah Al-Din: Districts community-based protection committees monitoring highlighted an increase in issues issues of social cohesion arising in the of Balad (Yathreb), and peaceful co-existence interventions $100,000 related to economic exploitation, the inability or context of returns (risk of failed returns Beygee (Al-Synia, • Awareness-raising activities and difficulty to pay rent, the use of child labour by and secondary displacement) and Markaz Beygee) and Communication with Communities households to generate an income etc. protracted displacement Shirqat5 The proposed interventions aims to address the pre-existing protection issues and risks which have Protection monitoring at the community Diyala: District of Al- • Protection monitoring at the community been aggravated by the pandemic as well as the level to identify key protection risks and Khalis (Al-Masouriah, level using the Protection Monitoring protection issues resulting from failed returns, concerns generated by the pandemic, Markaz Al-Khalis) System developed by the NPC $50,000 secondary displacement and protracted expected camps closure and (Note: only in conjunction with at least one of displacement in out-of-camp locations. consolidation etc. and contribute to an the three other priority category of activities) integrated cluster analysis

3 Sinjar and Baaj are included for the Cost Extension to respond to acute needs arising from the recent returns. 4 Dibis is included for the Cost Extension to respond to gaps identified by partners and the National Protection Cluster (NPC). 5 Shirqat is included for the Cost Extension to respond to gaps identified by partners and NPC. P a g e | 9

The restrictions of movement and economic activity imposed by the authorities in order to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 have had a direct impact on IDPs’ access to safe, secure • Deployment of HLP teams and dignified housing because of reduced access • Provide legal assistance and counselling to livelihood opportunities and therefore the remotely or from distance to inform HHs Legal counselling of HH threatened with on their rights, obligations, draft rental inability of many households to pay rent. $100,000 eviction due to COVID lockdown agreement, and protect them from rental According to protection monitoring report, 64 per increases and evictions. cent of the respondents in out-of-camps cited that • Negotiate rental agreements between inability to pay rent is the second main socio- Kirkuk: Kirkuk, landlords and tenants. economic concern. In addition, 44 per cent of IDPs and districts

HLP and 17 per cent of returnees live in rented

- Ninewa: Mosul, Sinjar accommodation without a formal rental (Sinjar and Sinune), Tel agreement. The COVID-19 outbreak resulted in the Afar and Ba’aj districts suspension of all HLP activities requiring direct

Protection contact with beneficiaries and access to public Salah Al-Din: Balad, Tikrit and Tooz districts offices and governmental agencies and courts. In • Set up referral pathways and referral of addition, limited funds and resources for HLP cases for HHs who are unable to pay rent services have been limiting partners’ ability to for their accommodation and refer them Setup of referrals of cases to deliver engage with, and provide remote legal support to, to partners who can provide cash for rent $100,000 cash for rent support beneficiaries in order to respond to the increased • Engage with Cash Working Group and its needs. Continuous legal assistance to secure partners to seek support in regard to tenure rights for the households living in the rented cash for rent/HLP. accommodation, and set up referrals by HLP partners to other humanitarian and government service providers is therefore required. P a g e | 10

The Child Protection (CP) actors’ ability to provide this assistance has been severely restricted by the COVID-19 movement restrictions and preventative measures. Child protection risks have increased due to the risks presented by COVID-19 and related control measures, including an increase in violence against children such as domestic violence, psychosocial distress and the adoption of negative household coping strategies due to the loss of livelihoods such as child labour. Low child protection partner presence to deliver lifesaving activities in the locations of Baghdad, and Salah al-Din (Samarra, Kerbala, Kirkuk & Salah Al-Din remains a major gap Balad and Tikrit)

Full case management services in the in CP Sub-Cluster response. Kirkuk (Kirkuk) prioritized locations under 2020 1st IHF • Provide comprehensive case The CPSC recommends full case management Allocation complemented by delivery of Baghdad (Resafa, management services $750,000 services for the most vulnerable girls and boys awareness raising and psychosocial Baghdad, Mahmoudiya, • Provide psychosocial support represent the main gap and top priority to be support to address child protection risks , Kadhimia) • Deliver awareness raising messages

Child Protection Child addressed by this cost extension, with a focus on directly increased by COVID-19 out of camp areas impacted by COVID-19. The Kerbala (Kerbala) selected locations of Baghdad, Najaf and Kerbala, Najaf (Najaf) Kirkuk and Salah Al-Din have a very low child protection partner presence in general except for the presence of the current CP partners who were funding under the 2020 1st IHF Allocation. Delivery of comprehensive case management services including alternative care for children who become separated or children driven to negative coping mechanisms due to COVID-19 is a priority as well as the delivery of awareness raising and psychosocial support to address child protection risks directly increased by COVID-19. P a g e | 11

• GBV case management • PSS To enhance GBV Prevention and Anbar: Falluja district, • Community Awareness Raising and The protracted crisis, deep-rooted gender Response systems and alleviate the Al-Garma; Ramadi sensitization on GBV, its consequences inequality, harmful social norms, limited livelihood $400,000 stress and anxiety produced by the district, Al-Araml • Provision of dignity kits opportunities, in conjunction with the recent Covid-19 pandemic • Referrals and follow-up to multi-sectoral COVID-19 socioeconomic consequences, have services such as health, legal, security, exacerbated GBV risks and some pre-existing livelihood, etc. forms of GBV, particularly, an increase in the number of domestic violence cases has been • Provision of case management to GBV reported during COVID- 19. Loss of income, survivors and protection cases; uncertainty about the situation and future, stress GBV & protection case management • Inclusion of dignity kits and/or cash $150,000 from confinement, and lack of social amenities assistance in case management based and networks have resulted in fuelling tensions on survivor’s needs.

and violence within households. These risks are • Provision of cash assistance to GBV

further worsened by the inability of GBV survivors Integrated Cash-based & livelihood survivors and protection cases to GBV to leave their homes to seek safety and support interventions mitigate protection risks and support due to movement restrictions. In light of the access to multi-sectoral services; $210,000 economic strains and uncertainty, women and girls Ninewa: Baaj, Telafar • Provision of livelihoods (including small with limited resources, especially within the business grants) and skills/capacity female-headed households and those perceived to Anbar: Fallujah, Ramadi, development for GBV survivors and be affiliated to extremist groups, are at heightened Qaim, Anaa protection cases. risk to resort to negative coping strategies and be • Update referral pathways in targeted Referrals and follow-up to multi-sectoral exposed to sexual exploitation and abuse or communities; transactional sex. In addition, social norms and services such as health, legal, security, $120,000 • Disseminate the referral pathways; fear of experiencing GBV become obstacles for livelihood, etc. • Train staff on safe referral. women and girls who may have COVID-19 to access quarantine or health facilities to receive • Development and distribution of IEC care. Community Awareness Raising and materials; sensitization on GBV and protection • Organization of media campaign; $120,000 risks • Sensitization sessions with non-mixed groups of women and men. P a g e | 12

Vulnerable people out of camps in substandard shelter remain the priority as shelter assistance remains key to ensure safety, privacy, dignity and protection from weather conditions. Assisting them through critical shelter support would help improving their living conditions, including strengthening their shelter for the protection against weather conditions, reduce overcrowding and improving health conditions through enhanced ventilation – all factors that may lead to increased risk of COVID-19 contagion, as well as other respiratory diseases which symptoms could be confused with COVID-19. Moreover, for the past 6 Shelter support through SOKs for critical months it is clear that socio-economic vulnerability Anbar (Falluja district - shelter and cash-based interventions for has increased even further, hence the risk of Amiriyat Fallujah, rehabilitation of critical shelter. secondary displacement due to loss of livelihood Markaz Fallujah, Al- and unaffordable housing situation. Garma and Al- Category 1 shelter repairs for IDPs in BzBz informal settlement and ‘uninhabitable Continuous restrictions imposed during the COVID 3,350 IDP and returnee families (20,100 Saqlawiyah sub- houses’ for newly returned households, in $2,500,000 pandemic had resulted in job loss and required individuals) living in critical shelter out districts) Markaz Fallujah, Al-Garma and Al- households to sell items and/or spiral further into of camps Dohuk (Sumeil and Shelter/NFI Saqlawiyah sub-districts. debt. This exacerbated a pre-existing housing Zakho districts) challenges, which has already affected everyone All beneficiaries will be identified using the who is expected to ‘stay at home’. Without Kirkuk (Daquq and SEVAT tool, to ensure the most socio- adequate housing, it is impossible to carry out Kirkuk districts) economically vulnerable will be identified physical distancing, good hygiene practices and and served based on resource availability. safely take care of those who must quarantine/isolate. As highlighted in the COVID 19 Addendum to the 2020 HRP, shelter improvement has become even more important to ensure healthy and dignified living conditions. Overall, all proposed interventions will directly contribute to improved living and climatic conditions for vulnerable HHs for the coming 2020/2021 winter season and lower the risk of COVID-19 spread in out of camp areas by reducing overcrowding and risk factors for respiratory infections and chronic illness. P a g e | 13

• Provision of safe drinking water Operate and maintain water and • Desludging of latrine cesspools sanitation services in compliance with Sulaymaniyah (Al- • Waste disposal WASH Cluster minimum standards and Sulaymaniyah, Kalar) • Cleaning and maintenance of showers, $500,000 indicators in the existing camps keeping latrines and water supply services Travel restrictions/curfews related to COVID-19, in view the protection and GBV Diyala (Khanaqin) • Hygiene promotion/COVID-19 awareness coupled with the ongoing issues related to access considerations. letters to humanitarian partners have prevented for camp residents WASH actors from rapidly distributing hygiene kits • Strengthening preparedness and as preventative measures to vulnerable response actions by pre-positioning of households. Pausing infrastructure rehabilitation Anbar (Al-Falluja, Al- hygiene items and emergency equipment in areas of returns leaves those returnees at higher Ramadi, , Al- (Kits) in priority locations. risk of COVID-19 infection, as well as other Rutba, Ana Al-Qaim) • Providing safe emergency water supply endemic diseases such as cholera due to unsafe (water trucking etc.) and emergency Emergency water and sanitation services and insufficient water. There is a need to give Ninewa ( Telafar, Al- sanitation facilities. for highly vulnerable populations in high emergency provision of WASH services in these Mosul, Sinjar, Al- • Emergency repair of dysfunctional water $500,000 risk areas and population experiencing WASH areas while simultaneously working on Hamdaniya, Tilkaef, Al- and sanitation facilities in informal shocks from COVID19 outbreak. infrastructure upgrades for sustainable solutions. Baaj, Al Hatra) settlements/centers, including limited WASH Cluster urgently prioritizes the Baghdad (Al- solid waste management/ desludging. implementation of the critical HRP activities with a Mahmoudiya, Al- • Monitoring water supply distributions direct link to preventing further spread of COVID- Kadhmiyah, Al-Karkh) and service provision. This include 19 and mitigating potential negative health regular testing and monitoring of water Kirkuk (Kirkuk, Al- outcomes among the most vulnerable populations, quality. Hawiga), especially in camp locations where there are no current partners and hard to reach locations Limited rehabilitation of dysfunctional Sulaymaniyah targeting IDPs. water and sanitation infrastructures to (Sulaymaniyah, Kalar) • Rehabilitation of Water and sanitation ensure quick access to potable water Salah Al-Din (Beygee, facilities, particularly focusing on areas $500,000 and safe sanitation, alongside local Tikrit, Al-Shirqat) of return. authorities (Directorate of water/Sewerage).

TOTAL $11,700,000