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Providing access to emergency education and child protection services for school-aged IDP children in Northern Iraq. The overall objective of the project is to provide immediate access to inclusive, safe and protective learning environments to 3,000 IDP girls and boys displaced due to the military operations to retake Mosul City. Displaced children and youth will benefit from quality and life-sustaining learning through non-formal education, psychosocial support and child protection services provided by trained educators. 
The proposed project aims to enhance the capacity of the education actors to provide assistance to the newly displaced children, addressing their education needs with a harmonized approach based on the adapted Education in Emergencies modules and INEE Standards, as well as of PIN Emergency team to effectively collect and analyze data.

The key project activities aiming to enhance preparedness to provide emergency education to IDP school-aged children will include: procurement of equipment to set-up 15 mobile child friendly/temporary learning spaces (TLS) incl. winterization measures needed in the TLSs to secure and better accommodate the 3,000 targeted children, recreational kits, school-in-a-box kits and other scholastic materials, etc. In terms of capacity development, the project will target 50 women and men selected from national and international NGOs and governmental departments such as DoE (Department of Education) and DoLSA (Department of Labour and Social Affairs) who will attend a five-day Training for Trainers (ToT) on Education in Emergencies (EiE) methodologies and tools. The ToT will include modules on contextualized INEE Standards, Psychosocial Support (PSS), Psychological First Aid (PFA), life skills, positive discipline, Mine Risk Education (MRE), Child Protection and Child Protection referral pathways. The training will be held twice during the project implementation period, targeting 25 people with each session, to better include the new education actors who will arrive in KR-I when the Mosul operation starts. Additional 10 members of PIN Emergency response team will also be trained on how to conduct emergency needs assessment, post distribution monitoring, evaluation surveys, on data collection and evaluation, and on how and when to use KoBo toolkit for a more efficient monitoring and evaluation of the project activities.

As overall activity within this project, considering the role of PIN as a co-chair of the Education Dohuk sub-cluster, will be promotion of a coordinated and harmonized response to the educational needs of the newly displaced and accessible (considering the security situation) communities, thus the project includes contextualization, printing and dissemination of Education in Emergencies training modules and promotion of contextualized INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies modules among education stakeholders (national and international NGOs, UN agencies and governmental departments), which will be than delivered through a workshop to directly 20 education and child protection workers and indirectly to all their colleagues.
Emergency shelter provision for IDPs in northern Iraq Iraq faces a complex and growing humanitarian crisis. Over 10 million people  need some form of humanitarian assistance. The situation remains fluid and volatile due to ongoing violence. Military operations led by Iraqi security forces to retake Mosul  from ISIL began on 17 October. It is estimated that as a result of the effort to retake Mosul there will be 700,000 people who will displaced. with 200,000 displaced in the initial attack. It is planned that the Iraqi Security Forces, with Peshmerga support will assist IDPs through humanitarian corridors and then screen them behind the frontline. After the screening process is complete IDPs will be transported by Ministry of Transport to pre - designated sites where they will be given humanitarian support by humanitarian organisations. Although humanitarian partners have not been able to directly access Mosul since June 2014, reliable sources indicate that as many as 1.2 million to 1.5 million people are living inside the city. 

Displaced people continue to experience unmet shelter needs. Dignified, sustainable shelter solutions are necessary to provide options for these families in Iraq. Inadequate existing shelter conditions contribute to significant protection needs, endangering women and girls. Women, men, girls, and boys face increased vulnerability to sexual and gender-based violence in insecure shelter conditions. Based on UNHCR protection monitoring at household level, 37 per cent of displaced people living in critical shelter types and camps, are forced to live alongside unrelated families in overcrowded conditions. Exposure to risk and vulnerability are pervasive, especially for the 25 per cent of displaced that are women and adolescent girls of reproductive age. These women and girls also have specific needs related to menstruation and cultural norms of modesty, which often are not met in existing shelter conditions. Sexual harassment and verbal abuse of displaced people is so severe and commonplace that many women and girls have receded from public space, increasing their social isolation. 


Once military operations begin, large-scale displacement is expected, either cumulatively over time, or suddenly and en masses. Populations on the east bank of Mosul city are expected to flee towards safer areas in the Ninewa plains. Civilians on the west bank are likely to flee southwards to Tikrit, where services are available. 

A significant number of families will probably flee northwards toward the Syria Iraq border to retaken villages. Displacement towards ISIL-controlled districts, including Tel Afar, is also expected. The impact of the Mosul military campaign on civilians will be devastating. Mass casualties among civilians are likely and families trying to flee areas controlled by ISIL are expected to be at extreme risk. 

Civilians who manage to escape will almost certainly be subjected to screening and possible detention and confinement. Civilians under siege are likely to be at the highest risk of hunger, deprivation, lack of medical assistance and human rights violations.
Addressing the critical sanitation and hygiene needs of conflict-affected and underserved communities in Ninewah governorate Fleeing the military forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces (ISIL) who besieged Sinjar City and the surrounding villages in August 2014, up to 30,000 Yezidis people reached the Sinjar Mountain to find shelter. Most of them can’t return home as territory remains under ISIL control, or because the security is not guaranteed and the basic services are not functional in the newly liberated areas. Today, 1,545 families (about 12,491 persons) live on the mountain in very precarious conditions and new ones are expected next summer when the schools will be closed. Indeed, during school time few families live in other towns in order to offer a better education to their children, and prefer to spend the summer on the Mountain which is considered as their Earth. 
Up to date, the humanitarian assistance has been limited because of the distance, the proximity with the frontline and the challenge of the implementation. Aid has been focused on food, shelter and NFI provision, with little support to one school and two health facilities. 

Regarding the WASH sector, water supply  is ensured by few NGOs while the sanitation and hygiene component has been overlooked. Half of the families managed to build their own latrine in a very poor way, while most of the pits are full. As a result, the practice of open defecation is widespread. Bathrooms are almost nonexistent, limiting the personal hygiene practices. The solid waste management is missing, which makes the area prone to vectors-borne diseases, especially leishmaniasis. Diarrhea cases and skin infections are also reported by the health centers. 

The FRC wishes to provide a second-line response on Sinjar Mountain with the objective to upgrade significantly the living conditions of the vulnerable and underserved population. The project aims at ensuring the provision of WaSH services at household level, by achieving the following goals: 
- provide appropriate and safe latrine and bathroom facilities, 
- initiate a solid waste management, 
- ensure sustainability and empowerment of the community 
- raise awareness among the community on sanitation and hygiene issues
The FRC will address the needs of the overall conflict-affected population in the targeted site of intervention, including IPDs and host communities.
Enhance preparedness and response capacity of UNICEF, WASH cluster partners to ensure timely, effective emergency WASH support to newly or imminently displaced populations from Anbar and Salah al Din Governorates This project lies within the WASH Cluster strategic objective to meet immediate life-saving water, sanitation and hygiene needs of vulnerable, critically affected girls, boys, men amp women across Iraq. The project aims to support the first-line response for newly displaced populations from Anbar and Salah al Din Governorates who are on the move and/or in transitory camps, or newly arrived in established displacement settings. It will be scaled up to the second-line response in the more established sites, to ensure that basic needs are met and sustained and that no additional pressure is put on the populations who are facing longer-term displacement. 

This will be linked to UNICEF on-going efforts to reinforce WASH services in established settlement sites through other resources (OFDA and ECHO). Implementing partners in Baghdad, Anbar and Salah al Din Governorates are providing first and second line response to IDPs in hard to reach areas and on the move. These partners are coordinating with the WASH Service Centres (WSCs) established in the same area of interventions to ensure coordinated efforts and appropriate humanitarian access to the vulnerable populations.

With the objective of monitoring the WASH situation of IDPs and the WASH response in the Central Iraq Governorates, UNICEF launched in December 2015 the WASH Service Centers (WSCs) to optimize the capacity of WASH response through effective field coordination and service provision. The 10 established WSCs in Anbar, Babil, Baghdad and Salah al Din Governorates are working closely with the local authorities and other WASH partners in their respective areas to ensure the provision of acceptable, accessible WASH services for IDPs in and out of camps. 

In this framework, the project will: 
 Enhance the preparedness and the response capacity of the WSCs and optimize their efficiency to ensure timely, effective emergency WASH support to newly or imminently displaced populations. Their coverage and mandates will be expanded and their capacity in terms of staffing and financial operational budget:
 Support the WSCs to continue their coordination efforts with the local and national governmental authorities as well as the civil society organizations:
 Develop strategic and operational partnerships with key government social service providers, such as the Directorate of water, sanitation and municipal services, and the religious and community leaders.

Girls, boys, women and men require immediate support as the first line response of humanitarian assistance for new IDPs on the move and for areas cleared after military operations. UNICEF’s WASH partners will adhere and commit to develop partnerships with other sectors on integrating gender in their interventions, collaborating and coordinating their actions with other sectors on issues related to equality for women and girls, men and boys and those with special needs.
First-line Lifesaving Support in the Mosul Corridor and other Conflict-affected Areas in Iraq This project proposes key life-saving first-line interventions in health and food security to IDPs and other affected populations in the Mosul and Anbar corridors, consistent with the objectives of the IHPF, the second standard allocation guidance, and the objectives of the Food Security Cluster. 

IHAO intends on implementing the following interventions, all of which mainstream protection and gender aspects: 
	Food Security – IHAO will provide in-kind food support in the form of monthly rations to displaced and other vulnerable families in 3 areas: Baiji, Shirqat, and Qayyarah.  IHAO will reach 12,000 people in Baiji and 15000 people in Qayyarah through the distribution of month-long food rations for families. In Qayarrah, IHAO intends to distribute 2500 rations for families of six over the course of two months while in Baiji, IHAO intends to distribute 2000 rations for families of six over two months. In both locations, 100 rations per month will be distributed to host community families who are housing IDPs. In Shirqat, 4800 people will be reached through 800 monthly rations in one month. IHAO interventions will focus on the provision of food rations to the most vulnerable and ensure mechanisms are in place to facilitate the access of the most vulnerable to food rations. In this vein, IHAO will actively seek to identify unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), female-headed households, persons with disabilities, and the elderly to ensure access to food rations. IHAO will use its access as an initial service provider to identify, in particular, UASC for referral to case management services for family, tracing, and reunification.
Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance to vulnerable households expected to be displaced from Mosul. The proposed project will be implemented in the Tigris Corridor within South of Ninewa and Salah al Din governorates of Iraq and build upon Oxfam’s humanitarian response in this area which includes Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods (EFSVL) and Protection interventions. Already in September Oxfam began implementing unconditional cash grants in order to increase food security of target beneficiaries. The project outlined in this proposal will continue Oxfam’s efforts to reach vulnerable families with unconditional cash to those who have not had access to any assistant from other agencies this includes internally displaced peoples (IDPs) and host community members. 

According to HRP in Salah al Din governorate, vulnerable families have increasingly depleting productive assets and are engaging in corrosive coping strategies, such as reducing daily meals. This project’s main objective is to increase the resilience of vulnerable households, by bolstering food security and meeting other critical household needs, or support families’ recovery of assets. This objective will be achieved through the distribution of one-off unconditional cash transfers of $400 USD as agreed amongst the National Cash Working Group approved guidelines for cash transfers.  The expected immediate outcome is to ensure vulnerable households displaced to the area of Salah al Din can meet basic needs. The cash infusion for vulnerable families should impact their capacity to bolster food security, meet critical household needs, and support families’ by protecting their  depleted livelihood assets. 

The project will also positively impact local businesses, increasing their sales and help them recover from the periods of forced closures. Oxfam will partner with local cash transfer service providers (Hawalas) to ensure safe and efficient disbursement of cash to beneficiaries.

As with all Oxfam humanitarian responses, the specific needs of women, men, girls and boys will be taken into account throughout the project. The response targets IDPs and the most vulnerable members of the host communities, including returnees . A considerable number of returnees have been reported in the areas of Salah Al Din (Baji surrounding), places which experienced fierce fighting and damage from the conflict and brief occupation of Da’esh in 2014/15.

For beneficiary identification and selection, a comprehensive vulnerability scoring tool developed by Oxfam will be used to identify the families at greatest risk to receive the unconditional cash grants. This has been used successfully in other Oxfam interventions, where the criteria was developed in consultation with partners and local community members. Over 3,000 vulnerable households (HH) have already been identified and reached by Oxfam with this tool in previous interventions. The funding from this proposal will be used to expand the scale and reach of helping vulnerable families to have access to basic and life saving needs, through preparedness and first line interventions
Catch-up vaccinations for IDP children’s fleeing from the besieged areas of Anbar and Ninewa In line with the overall Cluster strategy, UNICEF will support the phased interventions in provision of a minimum package of emergency health care services and support of recovery of the existing health care system in the areas (mainly Ninevah and Anbar) where the population fleeing the besieged areas are seeking safety. 

Main activity will include integrating all U5 affected children within the routine national EPI schedule including catch-up polio and measles vaccination. The project will also ensure vaccinating all pregnant women with tetanus toxoid vaccine to protect their baby from acquiring neonatal tetanus (eight cases reported in 2015 – MOH reports).    To maximize the coverage, an extensive social mobilization campaign (IEC materials, and community events) to reach the target population would be undertaken. These campaigns are aiming to increasing demand for vaccination and reducing non-compliance. 

For inaccessible or hard to reach areas, UNICEF will establish a network of community volunteers called “Access Negotiators” who will discuss with the key influential people within the inaccessible communities possible options to open a humanitarian corridor to enable the vaccinators to reach the unreached or hard to reach children.
Project Priorities:

1)	Integrating all U5 affected children within the routine national EPI schedule including catch-up polio and measles vaccination

a.	Ensure availability and storage of all antigens at the site
b.	Provide transportation services and incentives for MOH/DOH staff to conduct vaccination

2)	Awareness creation among the families/caretakers on the role of vaccination to control vaccine preventable diseases - VPDs, quality of vaccines and the availability of services (vaccination points).
Addressing Urgent NFI needs in response to Mosul displacement Through this project, Mission East will be prepared to respond to urgent needs for non-food items for people newly displaced by the military operation approaching and in Mosul city. Mission East will reach at least 2,100  families in Tel Afar District of Ninewa Governorate with urgent first line NFI assistance. The needs of entire families, including men, women, boys and girls will be addressed through this intervention, with standard cluster Kit guidance taking account of differential needs and gender-specific needs. Rapid needs assessment will consult both men and women, and result in disaggregated data women will be able to collect items on behalf of their families and post distribution monitoring will pay special attention to women respondents. Measures will be taken to ensure that particularly vulnerable households, including those with members with disabilities are included and able to benefit from the distributions. Ultimately, in line with the Strategic Objective of the UN Contingency Plan for Mosul, this project contributes to mitigating the impact of conflict and insecurity by providing protection and humanitarian assistance to affected populations.
Emergency Shelter Support Response to IDPs from Mosul: Preparation of Emergency Shelter Kits In line with Iraq Humanitarian Pool Fund (IHPF) 2016 second standard allocation paper and the cluster first line response to the Mosul Flash Appeal, UN-Habitat aims to procure and store Emergency Shelter Kits targeting IDPs fleeing Mosul. In addition to the above, UN-Habitat’s strategy will consider the critical gaps in these targeted areas in consultation with the S-NFI Cluster to direct this response to cover such gaps in order to ascertain shelter emergency response reaches IDPs not covered by partners and also to avoid responding to areas already covered. The response will help to ensure that conflict-impacted families are able to live in safety and with dignity by providing newly displaced families with covered emergency shelter and providing settled families with support to upgrade and repair unsafe and substandard shelters. The contents of the Emergency Shelter Kits are 2 tarpaulins, 2 detachable steel poles, 8 ground metal tent pegs, 2 robes, 1 hammer and 1 shovel contained in a woven bag. The Emergency Shelter Kit is designed to construct emergency shelter and to also serve as sealing off kit to upgrade/repair existing damaged shelter.
Cash Assistance for Vulnerable Newly Displaced IDPs in Baghdad and Anbar The project will provide a one-off unconditional emergency multi-purpose cash transfer to 2,700 vulnerable IDPs (450 families) in non-camp locations in Baghdad and Anbar governorates. 

The one-time cash transfers will benefit 250 non-camp IDPs in Mahmoudiya, Baghdad, whilst a detailed market, feasibility and risk assessment in Amiriyat al Falluja, Anbar, will be undertaken in order to provide 200 newly displaced vulnerable non-camp IDPs (initially female-headed households, which are recognized as special vulnerable groups in Iraq) with cash assistance, if appropriate
Emergency Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance for Newly Displaced Conflict Affected Populations The Danish Refugee Council requests a $420,000.00 USD contribution from the Iraq Humanitarian Pooled Fund (IHPF) to directly support 800 newly displaced conflict-affected households from Mosul with one-off Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) to meet their critical basic needs. This includes first line response to meet the emergency needs of newly displaced internally displaced persons (IDPs) through a transfer of 400 USD and reduce the use of negative coping strategies. In line with the IHPF Second Standard Allocation priorities, the Mosul Central Planning Map, and the Cash Working Group strategic priorities, DRC will work in hard-to-reach areas where newly displaced IDPs are anticipated to arrive in Salah al-Din Governorate. 

The project leverages on DRC's current capacities and emergency cash distributions in the areas of intervention, meaning that DRC can rapidly scale up its ongoing cash programming to deliver the required assistance. This project was discussed with the Cash Consortium of Iraq and will build on existing harmonized tools among leading cash actors, including vulnerability assessments and beneficiary databases, enabling for an effective response. 

The flexibility of the MPCA modality will allow DRC to respond to critical needs of newly displaced populations, including in hard to reach areas. MPCA also enables each recipient household to address the unique and acute needs of its members (girls, boys, women and men). Households will be selected based on a tested vulnerability model that recognizes the acute vulnerability of, and will prioritize assistance to, female-headed households, households with a high dependency ratio, households including persons with chronic illnesses or disabilities, and households with high income/expenditure gap.