Provision of Lifesaving Health and Protection Services to Newly-Displaced Populations in Iraq IMC will provide life-saving health and protection services to populations displaced by the impending offensive against the IS-controlled city of Mosul. 

OCHA has predicted that the ensuing emergency will be the most complex of 2016 and that up to one million people will be displaced across Iraq as a result of the liberation. Building on its history of providing integrated, first-line response activities in conflict-affected areas, IMC will preposition health supplies for the proposed Nargizlia IDP camp, and will directly implement MHPSS and GBV protection services in Al Alam IDP camp, both identified in the Mosul Central Planning Map as sites likely to receive large numbers of IDPs (16,200 and 9,000 individuals respectively). 

In Nargizlia, IMC will procure and store supplies sufficient for three months of first-line health response and enable flexibility for allocating preparedness funds to one month of response activities with training for staff.  This preparedness will ensure IMC's ability to rapidly respond to the urgent primary healthcare needs of IDPs in Nargizlia should the camp fill to capacity. The prepositioned supplies would facilitate the operation of a static primary healthcare center with the capacity to provide camp inhabitants (and host community members who may be granted access to the site) with standard services such as treatment of common morbidities, management of chronic and communicable diseases, and provision of basic reproductive healthcare. Also included in the proposed emergency supplies are IEC materials to enable dissemination of vital health messaging, screening and referral through a team of community health workers (CHWs). 

In Al Alam camp, IMC will continue to provide limited primary healthcare through a mobile unit funded under ECHO in the event that a static healthcare provider is not identified. With HPF funding, services will be expanded to include mental health support to the many people anticipated to be suffering from high levels of distress and possibly more complex mental health problems. Given that high numbers of camp inhabitants - particularly women and girls - are likely be survivors of GBV perpetrated by IS and other armed forces/ groups, IMC's GBV and MHPSS teams will provide awareness-raising and support sessions within Al Alam camp, with direct implementation of case management and referral to tertiary care providers where necessary. Vulnerable groups, community gatekeepers and relevant service providers within Al Alam camp will be sensitively targeted for receipt of awareness-raising activities. Referral systems will be created internally, reflecting IMC's integrated approach to service provision and ensuring linkages between primary health, mental health and protection programmes. Referral pathways will also be identified with relevant external service providers (both government and NGO-supported) to maximise access to legal, economic and protection support. Additionally, IMC will provide women and girls with dignity kits targeted according to vulnerability criteria.

All IMC staff will receive comprehensive induction training along with routine refresher training on identification, response and referrals of MHPSS and GBV cases in line with principles of survivor-centred care and consent.