UNHCR report on Northern Iraq : April 1991 - May 1992.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The object of this paper is to give an outline of UNHCR's experience in the second phase of the Gulf Emergency Operation, roughly corresponding to the UN Secretary-General's Appeal of 10 April 1991, up to the 'scale-down' of UN relief operations on 30 April 1992. A substantial component of the paper addresses what UNHCR considers as programmatic needs which are central to the rehabilitation/development of the northern governorates of Iraq. The Introduction to the report presents background information on the general situation in northern Iraq in relation to the humanitarian assistance in the area, especially in terms of the activities of UNHCR. The report then describes the activities of UNHCR in eight different sectors: economy, individual shelter/housing, water and sanitation, health, food, transport and storage, agriculture, education. Each section describes current operations and contains recommendations for future assistance. The section on health, the largest of the report, presents a medium-term programme and an overview of recent and current health programmes. Attention is given to the context in which UNHCR's programme is sited. The report contains extensive annexes which detail information on some of the sectors. Several maps and tables complement the text.
The object of this paper is to give an outline of UNHCR's experience in the second phase of the Gulf Emergency Operation, roughly corresponding to the UN Secretary-General's Appeal of 10 April 1991, up to the 'scale-down' of UN relief operations on 30 April 1992. A substantial component of the paper addresses what UNHCR considers as programmatic needs which are central to the rehabilitation/development of the northern governorates of Iraq. The Introduction to the report presents background information on the general situation in northern Iraq in relation to the humanitarian assistance in the area, especially in terms of the activities of UNHCR. The report then describes the activities of UNHCR in eight different sectors: economy, individual shelter/housing, water and sanitation, health, food, transport and storage, agriculture, education. Each section describes current operations and contains recommendations for future assistance. The section on health, the largest of the report, presents a medium-term programme and an overview of recent and current health programmes. Attention is given to the context in which UNHCR's programme is sited. The report contains extensive annexes which detail information on some of the sectors. Several maps and tables complement the text.