Integrated humanitarian WASH and Child Protection interventions to out of camp IDPS and vulnerable returnees in Iraq SC proposes an 8-month integrated WASH and Child Protection intervention designed to support 13,949 of the most at-risk out-of-camp IDPs and 17,800 returnees across four governorates Kirkuk, Diyala, Dohuk and Salah Al-Din to re-establish a sense of safety and confidence in the midst of uncertainties arising from displacement and the impact of COVID19. The project will be implemented in partnership with Al Ghad in Haiwija and Voice of Older People and Family NGO (VoP) in Sumel, while SCI will be directly implementing in the other locations. Preventative and responsive interventions from the list of priority activities per cluster will support comprehensive WASH and child protection interventions in line with the HRP, cluster-specific objectives, and standard allocation strategy objectives. 

SC and Al-Ghad will provide sustainable and durable water and sanitation support and promote good hygiene practices for IDPs and returnees through the rehabilitation of dysfunctional water networks both at the community and HH level. SC amp Al-Ghad will work with the Directorate of water (DoW) and engage communities in the identification of water systems that require rehabilitation works to achieve functionality. Sanitation facilities at HH level, will include privacy and safety measures to ensure families benefiting from the assistance acquire access to safe, equitable and accessible sanitation facilities that are gender sensitive and provide privacy to women and girls to practice. SC will work with community members and the municipalities to mitigate the risks of waste accumulation through direct waste collection, utilizing the cleaning campaign approach in affected communities. SC will also undertake hygiene promotion which is in line with cluster recommendations on the topics to be covered. Al-Ghad will focus on the Hawija district providing water quality monitoring, along with rehabilitation of water networks and water stations, the rehabilitation works will focus on the returnee population to promote sustainable solutions, Al-Ghad's activities will also be complemented with hygiene awareness-raising.

VoP will provide PSS, legal assistance, civil documentation, and support the re-establishment and training of the community-based networks and training on advocacy for community leaders including youth, and run the two child-friendly spaces in Dohuk. SC will implement all other child protection activities suggested by the cluster in both Baquba and Hawija (Al-Riyadh). SC will adhere to the Iraqi case management SoP and the COVID-19 guidance developed by the Case Management Technical Working Group (CMTWG). Girls will be provided with gender-sensitive case management processes and services considering cultural and gender-related issues. Psychosocial distress, anxiety, children with disabilities, Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG), gender-based violence (GBV), and sexual abuse will be given equal priority, and cases referred to appropriate services. SC and VoP will develop a referral pathway and refer cases to specialized service providers. Both partners will solicit input from local community-based networks and train the members of those structures on monitoring and referral mechanism (MRM), the centrality of protection, safe reporting, safe identification, and referral, to identify the critical cases of at-risk children and refer those cases to case management. SC, VoP in Duhok and child protection committees (CPC) will implement awareness-raising on CP, hygiene, and sanitation key areas of concern, child rights, and prevention of child abuse.