Mobile CCCM Response to COVID-19 in Informal Settlements Blumont, in partnership with Sahara Economic Development Organization (SEDO), an Iraqi NGO, will provide camp coordination and camp management (CCCM) activities to respond to critical needs identified in informal settlements in priority target locations in Salah al-Din, Kirkuk and Diyala governorates. Proposed CCCM activities will support COVID-19 preparedness and response interventions. This 8-month program targets 13,168 beneficiaries including 12,336 Iraqi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in 16 informal settlements, and 832 people living in surrounding communities. 
The overall project goal will contribute to the 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan’s (HRP) objectives and prioritize interventions that address gaps related to the physical and mental well-being and living standards while strengthening the centrality of protection as a cross-cutting objective. As prioritized in the Periodic Monitoring Report (PMR) for 2019, this project will address the CCCM cluster needs and gaps of fulfilling minimum standards for informal IDP sites, specifically in Balad, Kirkuk City, Al-Khalis and Baquba. The project design is needs-based and targets geographic priorities outlined in the Allocation Strategy. Based on our experience providing CCCM throughout the region, Blumont is well-positioned to implement this project with ongoing activities in priority areas through existing CCCM teams providing services to informal settlements as well as managing Laylan Camp in Kirkuk, Al-Karama Camp in Salah al-Din and Al-Wand Camps in Diyala. Blumont has remained operational in these governorates despite the threat of COVID-19.
Blumont and SEDO will deliver gender and conflict-sensitive program through a protection lens. Blumont will leverage its existing CCCM mobile teams for needs identification, site management, monitoring, community outreach, and referrals. Activities to be implemented will contribute to ensuring a  safe living environment as well as promoting community self-reliance by gathering critical information through various types of surveys and assessments, conducting community outreach and advocacy, supporting/establishing site committees, conducting site management and site risk reduction works, referral management, and supporting preparedness and response activities for COVID-19 as needed. The host community will be engaged through participation in community leadership training and in community and COVID-19 awareness sessions. The project will be accountable to affected populations through community complaints and feedback mechanisms.
Blumont’s guiding implementation approach is compliant with Sphere Standards, CCCM and Shelter Cluster Guidelines, the CCCM Toolkit, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) guidelines on protection of displaced persons and adheres to UNHCR’s essential principles of protection in camp management. This project will also prioritize the following frameworks:
1.Adherence to the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. Blumont will ensure that assistance provided is compliant with international laws, guidelines, and agreed-upon standards.
2.Commitment to inclusive program design, implementation, monitoring, and learning. Blumont will account for ethnic, religious, disability, cultural, and other minority status indicators to ensure marginalized communities and those most vulnerable receive equal access to assistance.
3.Community-based approach to camp management. Blumont will support informal site populations to self-govern by providing leadership opportunities for local leaders to build capacity and serve as decision-making authorities while ensuring community buy-in of program activities.
4.Commitment to gender, protection, and conflict sensitivity. The program will mainstream gender, protection, and conflict sensitivity to ensure such considerations are incorporated in all aspects of program design and implementation from planning, monitoring, evaluationamp learning