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Evaluation finale du Programme d'appui à la Société civile à Madagascar (DINIKA II) <p class="ql-align-justify">L'objectif spécifique de ce marché est de réaliser<strong> l¿évaluation finale du programme d¿appui de l¿UE à la Société civile à Madagascar «&nbsp;DINIKA II&nbsp;» (2018-2023) </strong>dans son intégralité (Fonds commun et assistance technique) selon les standards attendus en matière d¿évaluation. &nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Cette évaluation est principalement vouée à fournir aux services compétents de l¿Union européenne, aux parties prenantes intéressées et au grand public:</p><p class="ql-align-justify">-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;une <strong>analyse globale et indépendante de la performance</strong> du programme DINIKA II, en prêtant une attention particulière à ses résultats, en comparaison avec les objectifs fixés&nbsp;;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;des <strong>leçons et des recommandations</strong>, de manière à améliorer les actions futures. </p><p><br></p>
Projet de Renforcement et d'Organisation de la Fili¿re Inclusive-Lait - PROFI-Lait Plus <p class="ql-align-justify"><u>L¿objectif principal</u> sera de contribuer à l¿amélioration durable des conditions de vie et la résilience des ménages producteurs laitiers, en favorisant une production soutenable et un accès sécurisé au marché .</p><p class="ql-align-justify">L¿<u>objectif spécifique</u> sera d¿améliorer de façon durable et inclusive l¿efficacité de la filière lait dans les régions Analamanga, Itasy, Vakinankaratra et Bongolava.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">L¿action permettra d¿améliorer durablement la situation des groupes cibles et des bénéficiaires finaux suivants :</p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>2400 éleveurs dont 1000 nouveaux éleveurs additionnels dans les nouveaux bassins laitiers (Bongolava et Vakinankaratra) composés de 40% de femmes, et leur famille</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Les membres de 125 organisations de producteurs (OP) dont 50 nouvelles OP dans les nouveaux bassins laitiers (éleveurs, producteurs de fourrage, collecteurs, etc)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>les prestataires d'appui à la filière lait : production d'animaux reproducteurs améliorateurs de la production laitière, inséminateurs, vétérinaires et agents de santé animale</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>les femmes dans les fermes formées en transformation artisanale pour l¿autoconsommation des nourritures à haute valeur nutritionnelle</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>les enfants dans les ménages bénéficiaires</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>la population rurale consommatrice de produits laitiers vivant au sein des communes où les actions seront mises en ¿uvre;</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>les populations rurales et urbaines consommatrices des produits laitiers</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-align-justify"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>les membres du Malagasy Dairy Board</li></ol>
Activity under preparation Appui à la Sécurisation Foncière et à la Gouvernance locale (ASFGL) - Phase 2 <p>OG: ''Contribuer à l¿amélioration de la gouvernance locale à Madagascar, sur deux régions ciblées, en menant des actions de sécurisation foncière qui se traduiront par des appuis techniques aux 13 communes des régions Analamanga et Itasy''. OS1 : "Rendre les guichets fonciers plus performants et pérennes : Garantir aux usagers la disponibilité continue d¿un service de proximité. Améliorer progressivement les résultats du GF en conformité avec le cadre juridique et règlementaire en vigueur et de le rendre autonome financièrement et techniquement"; OS2 : "Renforcer les ressources financières des communes par la relance de la fiscalité locale : La plupart des communes connaissent des difficultés financières qui freinent leur capacité à investir voire à honorer leurs charges fixes. L¿objectif est d¿appuyer les communes, par le biais des GF, à valoriser leurs potentialités fiscales, notamment foncières, pour améliorer leur autonomie financière et technique"; OS3 : "Faciliter la gestion du territoire communal par la mise en place et opérationnalisation des outils de planification territoriale appropriés : Une meilleure organisation de l¿utilisation des espaces permet de valoriser les ressources disponibles au niveau des communes au profit du développement. L¿objectif est donc d¿aider les communes à améliorer la gestion de leur territoire en mettant en place un outil de planification territoriale approprié (Schéma d¿Aménagement Communal)"; et OS4 : "Améliorer la gouvernance au niveau des communes d¿intervention : Il est vain de pérenniser les GF si ces efforts ne s¿accompagnent pas d¿une amélioration de la gouvernance locale. L¿objectif est donc d¿accompagner les communes en favorisant des principes de bonne gouvernance et de transversalité".</p>
PARTICIPE: Citoyennet¿ active pour un processus ¿lectoral plus transparent, d¿mocratique et ¿galitaire ¿ Madagascar Contract related to: PARTICIPE: Citoyennet¿ active pour un processus ¿lectoral plus transparent, d¿mocratique et ¿galitaire ¿ Madagascar - The Covid-19&nbsp;pandemic is having significant negative repercussions on human rights, democracy and the rule of law in many parts of the world &nbsp;and on the space for civil society organisations active in the promotion of human rights and democracy. An urgent reaction is required in the third quarter of 2021 to limit the harm done and contain further entrenchment and worsening of the situation. &nbsp;The overall objective of the action is the worldwide promotion and protection of: (i) human rights and fundamental freedoms; (ii) democracy; and (iii) the rule of law. The action will achieve this so by supporting and strengthening civil society organisations (CSOs), democracy activists and human-rights defenders working on critical human rights and democracy in non-EU countries. It may also cover, where relevant, the promotion of international humanitarian law. The action will mainly be implemented through competitive processes.This action will mainly be implemented by EU delegations in-country so as to: (i) better respond to the country-specific contexts; (ii) take into account the local challenges of the current COVID-19 crisis; (iii) be as close as possible to the needs of the rights holders; and (iv) promote a sense of `ownership¿ of the action among local actors. The grants will aim at implementing the priorities listed in annex III Annex of the Regulation (EU) 2021/947 in line with Human Rights and Democracy country strategies. Implementing these priorities will also contribute to the EU action plan on human rights and democracy 2020-2024. The actions financed under the country allocations will be in line with: (i) the relevant EU action plan for human rights and democracy; (ii) EU guidelines on human rights; and (iii) the respective Human Rights and Democracy country strategies. All actions will follow a human rights based approach putting people at the centre of actions and also focus on promoting gender equality.
Activity under preparation UE Santé - Ezaka ho Tomady : Assistance technique pour le Renforcement du Système de Santé Contract related to: UE Santé - Ezaka ho Tomady : Assistance technique pour le Renforcement du Système de Santé - Cette action vise à contribuer à l¿amélioration de l¿accès et de la qualité des services de santé essentiels.&nbsp;L¿action appuie les objectifs du Programme Indicatif Multi annuel 2021-2027 en faveur du développement humain du pays, valorisant le potentiel de la population de Madagascar et notamment des femmes et de la jeunesse, ce qui est une condition indispensable pour le développement du pays et pour la lutte contre la pauvreté. Elle est alignée avec la priorité du Président de Madagascar de promouvoir l¿accès universel à la santé pour la population malgache.&nbsp;La composante 1 vise à étendre et renforcer l¿accès à des intrants de santé de qualité et à bas coût dans l¿ensemble du pays via la centrale d¿achat de médicament SALAMA. La SALAMA, est un dispositif solide, partenaire historique de l¿UE et constitue un élément indispensable d¿un système de santé résilient.&nbsp;Le développement continu de SALAMA rend disponible toute l¿année, y compris en cas de catastrophe naturelle ou d'épidémie, les intrants de santé essentiels dans tous les districts. Cette disponibilité constante des intrants constitue un pilier primordial du système de santé et une condition indispensable pour le cheminement vers la Couverture Santé Universelle (CSU). Cette composante sera réalisée tout d'abord via l'amélioration du fonds de roulement de SALAMA, permettant de financer la croissance de la structure, puis via la création de nouvelles infrastructures de stockage dans le cadre d'un processus de décentralisation, par le renforcement de la logistique de transport. L¿accélération de la digitalisation facilitera la mise en ¿uvre de formations à distance pour garantir l¿effectivité et la performance de cette mise à l¿échelle. Enfin, un appui sera apporté à l¿amélioration du cadre réglementaire et de l¿assurance qualité du médicament, en lien avec les inititaives régionales qui exsitent dans ce domaine.&nbsp;La composante 2 oeuvrera à l¿amélioration de la qualité de l¿offre de soin de santé et de nutrition et à son accès dans les régions de concentration de l¿UE (Action Pacte Vert et Tous Redevables). Il s¿agira d¿articuler les niveaux communautaires, Centres de Santé de Base (CSB) et hopitaux de district pour proposer des soins de santé primaire plus complets tout en les rendant accessibles au plus grand nombre, y compris dans les contextes difficiles avec des mécanismes de prise en charge pour les plus démunis. Cette prise en charge holistique, y compris la prévention de la malnutrition, pourra ouvrir la voie à une opérationnalisation de la CSU à terme. Cet appui à l¿offre de soins fera une place aux approches innovantes (e-health notamment) et les différents niveaux d¿intervention complèteront les programmes d¿autres partenaires présents dans les régions ciblées le cas échéant.La composante 3 permettra d¿agir durablement sur la gouvernance (les resources humaines et financières du système de santé malgache). Ceci permettra de contribuer à sa résilience à travers une meilleure gestion des ressources décentralisées (dotation CSB), mais aussi à une gestion plus efficace au niveau central grâce aux liens avec le Programme Tous Redevables en cours de construction. Cette composante renforcera aussi le rôle de l¿UE&nbsp;: son rôle de plaidoyer pour le maintien d¿une gestion autonome des intrants, de la stratégie de financement de la santé ou de la mise en cohérence des approches communautaires. Enfin, des actions seront mises en ¿uvre pour renforcer la redevabilité du système de santé et le rôle de contrôle de la société civile.&nbsp;
Research/Extension/Training: Vocational Training and Agricultural Productivity Improvement Programme The programme's goal is to contribute to an increase in the income of smallholder farmers through professional and vocational training (especially of young rural people), leading to an improvement in productivity and agricultural products marketing.The programme, and more specifically its first component, the National Strategy for Agricultural and Rural Training (SNFAR), aims to strengthen the national structure of agricultural and rural training as a whole. From the outset, FORMAPROD will provide support for the implementation of SNFAR and for the operationalization of the National Council for Agricultural and Rural Training (CNFAR). It will support the work and functioning of the executive secretariat of CNFAR and the operational implementation of the national agricultural and rural training network. It will assist in the development of institutional arrangements, statutory instruments and norms of training institutions.
Rural Development: Rural Income Promotion Programme The programme''s development objective is the reduction of rural poverty in the province of Toamasina by increasing rural income and improving the capacity of the grass-roots community of taking responsibility for their own development. The overall objective is to increase and secure sustainably the income of small producers in the programme area and their food and nutrition security. The programme has two specific objectives: (a) improved access for small producers to markets and improved value for their products, through: (i) rationalization of crop collection systems; (ii) reinforcement of the negotiating position of the small producers; (iii) improvement of the quality of the products; (iv) development of partnerships between groups of producers and commercial operators, namely to increase the added value at producers level and introduce new products or labels; and (v) improvement of product transport conditions (increased physical accessibility); and (b) environmentally sustainable intensification, growth and diversification of the rural poor productive base, including for the most vulnerable, through: (a) an improvement in local governance enabling an effective participation of vulnerable groups in the development process mechanisms; (b) strengthening of producer organizations; (c) improved access to rural financial services; (d) provision of quality agricultural advisory services; (e) financial support for investment by small producers.
Agricultural Development: Project to Support Development in the Menabe and Melaky Regions The primary goal of the project is to establish a sound legal, regulatory and market-responsive environment within the agricultural sector, particularly with respect to land tenure and agricultural services, which will help the country in its efforts to reduce poverty. Within this overall goal, the major objectives of the project are to improve access by the rural poor to land and water resources in order to optimize agricultural production and ensure as sustainable increase in their incomes, while limiting the rural exodus towards urban centres.The specific objectives of the project are to: support policy, processes and actions ensuring good local governance, land security and land use rights by establishing an appropriate legal and regulatory framework, both nationally (under the National Land Policy Programme - PNF) and regionally (to be implemented by the Land and Property Rights Directorate - DDSF - and communal land use offices), within the structure of decentralized land use management responsible for both direct farming (primary land rights) and indirect farming (non-owner, secondary land rights);promote the sustainable development of the rural poor''s agricultural productive base through: conservation and management of inland valleys and small watersheds; application of erosion control measures; sustainable management of soil fertility using a farming system approach; organic fertilizers and production inputs, including building beneficiary capacity through the provision of training and technical and financial services adapted to the needs of the rural population concerned.
Rural Development: Support to Farmers' Professional Organizations and Agricultural Services Project The project goal is to strengthen farmer organisations in order to improve agricultural production and to increase rural families' income. Specific objectives are to (i) reinforce farmers and their organisations to better integrate them in the economy, (ii) facilitate farmers access to services by matching demand and supply of service through the intermediation of CSAs, (iii) increase the level of production by putting in place financial mechanisms answering the demand of services through the FDA/FRDA.AROPA activities will contribute to the diversification of the rural economy and to poverty reduction as envisaged in the MAP. Upon completion it is expected that the project will have enabled farmers' organisations and federations, delivering services to their members and strengthening value chains. In addition the project will support the government in finalising and implementing the sector wide approach in agriculture.
Governance Institutions and Cooperation (Sierra Leone) Sierra Leone is a country that faces many challenges with decentralization and provision of basicpublic goods. This makes collective action among citizens important, either to fund local publicgoods, or for citizens organizing demands to the state. As a result, local leaders are key to helppeople solve these problems. But as in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Sierra Leone has bothtraditional and democratically elected leaders co-existing. This study then aims to compare thesetwo types of leaders in terms of how they provide incentives for people to cooperate.The results of this study are important for policy makers, either governments or NGOs, thatimplement policies that involve a collective action problem. This happens in different contexts likeraising taxes, community monitoring/provision of sanitation services, or even in a public health crisiswere people need to comply with costly behavior. The project can help guide polices in this spacethat require the policy maker to engage with local leaders; particularly choosing the way to includeeither traditional or democratic leaders as a means to achieve the desired behavior of citizens.My study uses a field experiment where participants from rural communities in Sierra Leoneencounter a collective action problem embedded in a real project run by an NGO. Specifically,participants will decide to ether keep money for themselves or contribute to a community projectbenefiting many people. I randomly assign participants to a situation where either their local chief ortheir local councilor will help the NGO by incentivizing contributions from participants. I alsorandomize the technology available to leaders to promote cooperation. I focus on leaders usingmoral standards of behavior, monetary fines, reputation punishments, and targeting of participants.Thus, I disentangle when are these leaders better suited to solve collective action problem
IGC 2 for Governance Institutions (Sierra Leone) Sierra Leone faces many challenges with decentralization and provision of basic public goods. This makes collective action among citizens important, either to fund local public goods, or for citizens organizing demands to the state. As a result, local leaders are key to help people solve these problems. But as in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Sierra Leone has both traditional and democratically elected leaders co-existing and there is a conflict between responsibilities and scope of work between local councils and traditional authorities. One key dimension in which this conflict occurs is tax collection, as traditional leaders have been historically responsible for collecting taxes but, since the decentralization reforms of 2005, local councils were also endowed with the capacity to collect own source revenues to fund their operations. Nonetheless, local councils’ capacity to self-finance their operations is very limited, and thus they conflict with traditional authorities who are better positioned to mobilize resources from citizens. This study aims to compare these two types of leaders in terms of how they provide incentives for people to cooperate. It will use an artefactual field experiment where participants from rural communities in Sierra Leone encounter a collective action problem embedded in a real project run by an NGO. Specifically, participants will take part in a community activity where they will have to decide to ether keep money for themselves or contribute to a community project benefiting many people. Participants will be randomly assigned to a situation where either their local chief or their local councilor will help the NGO by incentivizing contributions from participants. Through this, the study will compare leaders within communities and their effectiveness in raising contributions
Managers, Motivation, and Worker Productivity: Evidence from Survey Enumerators (Uganda) How do supervisors impact the performance of workers under their management? In large companies (particularly in manufacturing and service sectors) the role of direct supervisors is often distinct from organization-wide policies on wage structure (e.g., pay-for-performance) and recruitment. Instead, supervisors rely on non-monetary mechanisms within the firm such as worker motivation and support to incentivize better performance (Lazear et al., 2015). The role of these managerial inputs may be especially salient for firms in developing countries that have limited recourse to formal incentives (e.g., enforceable employment contracts). Whereas economists have extensively studied the effect of managers on performance (e.g., Bertrand & Schoar, 2003), the paucity of granular data on employee-level output and supervision has limited a deeper exploration of how these effects take place. In this project, I focus on unpacking the ‘manager fixed effect’ or a supervisor’s value-added component in employee performance through two distinct channels: monitoring and motivation. Causal evidence on the impact of supervision on employee performance through these channels can inform organizations’ investment decisions in frontline supervision, as well as personnel policies to maximize workplace productivity. Moreover, I plan to study this question by partnering with a large survey research company in Uganda. That is, I study the role of supervisory inputs for the output of survey enumerators in primary data collection activities. This has the added advantage of furthering our understanding of how investments in supervision translate into better quality data for research purposes. Consequently, outputs from this study could help to inform personnel training and organization in both private data collection companies (including the multinational company I partner with) and public statistical agencies such as the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. In the remainder of this note, I refer to enumerators as ‘employees’ and their team leaders as ‘supervisors’ to highlight lessons from the proposed project for both research and personnel management more broadly.
Evidence to Impact in Education Renewal In Rwanda, IPA’s work under the WWH pilot will contribute to our shared goal of building a cultureof evidence-based decision making within the Rwanda Ministry of Education (MINEDUC). We willcontinue investing in the Ministry's data architecture, building partnerships that will leveragecollaborations with Rwandan and international researchers, building policy-analytic capacitywithin MINEDUC, and supporting MINEDUC to create iterative feedback loops between policydesign, evaluation, and adaptation In Kenya, under the WWH pilot, IPA will continue to catalyze the institutionalization of data and evidence-based policymakingwithin the education ecosystem. IPA will continue collaborating withpartners to support the MoE’s establishment of the Evidence Hub, share relevant existing evidenceto inform decision-making, and facilitate cross-country learning exchanges. Ultimately, we hope thatthese activities will lead to the institutionalization of evidence-based decision making with educationpolicymakers, especially targeting education reforms aimed at improving foundational learning leve
IGC for SL Elections 2023 (Sierra Leone) This project consists of a pilot where we plan to explore potential solutions to this challenge with our partners in government (from both national and local levels) and civil society in connection with the 2023 Local Council Elections in Sierra Leone. We are applying for funding to develop and pilot an initiative that would: i) identify, screen, and encourage high quality potential candidates to enter politics; and ii) share information about these potential candidates with political parties and/or civil society organizations working to enhance the electoral process. This will be done through conducting different surveys with different groups, including voters, delegates, party officials, and aspirants to better understand the selection process (in particular party internal processes for appointing aspirants to candidates), barriers faced by citizens wanting to become aspirants, attributes preferred by voters, and attributes by delegates and party rank. The intention is to increase the information available to all party members (national and local) to make the best decisions on the basis of qualifications and representation of aspirants. The pilot grant would specifically support: i) piloting variants of the proposed intervention in several communities; ii) collecting data on the current cohort of elected Local Councillors; and iii) hiring a research manager based in-country to oversee activities. This project is falls under the State theme, and it is aligned with the IGC research programme on state effectiveness. In particular, this project falls under the two sub topics: A. Representative and effective political leaders B. State Accountability
Creating comparative advantage: identifying information and technology constraints facing SMEs in supplying large firms Across a number of developing countries, governments are looking for innovative ways to promote competitive local production. There is potential for large (exporting/foreign) firms to have significant positive effects on the performance of domestic suppliers by sharing ideas, skills and technology (Javorcik, 2004; Havranek and Irsova, 2011; Alfaro-Urena et al., 2019). There have been a number of studies examining different constraints to SME competitiveness that limit their ability to supply larger firms, including access to finance, lack of capital, limited skills, limited scale of production, and poor quality of products (Bassi et al., 2020; FSDU, 2018; Gereffi and Fernandez-Stark, 2016; Hjort et al., 2020; von Hagen, 2011). Less well-understood is the information frictions that these SMEs face that mean large buyers often resort to using international suppliers at the cost of creating domestic supplier chains. We aim to inform the design of government supplier development programs to address these constraints by exploring the role of four distinct information constraints to supplier linkages in Rwanda: I. Information frictions about the existence of and prices offered by SME suppliers (e.g., buyers might not be aware of the local suppliers due to search costs) II. Information frictions about the product quality of SME suppliers (e.g., buyers might be unsure about the quality of inputs made by local suppliers due to lack of credible certification); III. Information frictions about the reliability and management quality of SME suppliers (e.g., buyers might be unsure of whether they can trust local suppliers to deliver on time) IV. Information frictions on the part of suppliers about the exact requirements of larger buyers (e.g., particular quality standards that need to be met) We aim to answer these questions through a two-phased approach: first, we will conduct a diagnostic phase, where the research team will use rich administrative tax data, firms’ surveys and product quality testing to understand which of the above constraints are most pressing in Rwanda and to design a policy relevant intervention to alleviate these constraints. In the second phase, we will evaluate this intervention using a large-scale RCT. The intervention will involve the creation of a matching platform where large buyers can access information on local suppliers and vice versa. Information would be provided on not only buyer demands and the existence and contact details ofsuppliers, but also on the quality of supplier products and reliability in delivery (with these components randomized to separately identify each constraint.
National Apprenticeship Programme Evaluation 10-year follow-up (Ghana) This project requests gap funding to complete data collection on 3,400 young people who applied to gain access to a traditional apprenticeship in Ghana via a government placement program in 2012. The 10-year follow-up survey is already 80% funded (by J-PAL JOI) so we are requesting that IGC fund the final 500 or so surveys. The data collection effort was launched in July of 2022 and we have achieved an 86% tracking rate (so far) in the six districts (of 32 sample districts around the country) that constituted the first wave of data collection. Additional overlapping survey waves have since been launched in conjunction with final mop-ups in these initial districts. The original study was a collaboration with the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET, now CTVET) and was heavily informed by their research interests (in skills development, testing, and heterogeneity across training firms) and insights (about ex-post monopsony power in training firms and long training periods). Three nested sister studies randomized (1) access to the program, (2) (conditional on preferences) firm placement among treatment applicants, and (3) a skills-test based incentive for trainers (among women who took up). In 2017, we conducted a 5-year follow-up and found that (1) training increased self-employment earnings, (2) training decreased wage-employment earnings by more than the increase in self-employment earnings, and (3) training with a higher-quality firm increased self-employment earnings. In the 10-year follow-up, we hope to (1) track earnings trajectories in the longer-run as businesses formed by trainees mature, and (2) explore (random) heterogeneity by training firm characteristics to understand "intergenerational" firm productivity in the newly created firms formed by graduating apprentices.
Managers, Motivation, and Worker Productivity: Evidence from Survey Enumerators (Uganda) How do supervisors impact the performance of workers under their management? In large companies (particularly in manufacturing and service sectors) the role of direct supervisors is often distinct from organization-wide policies on wage structure (e.g., pay-for-performance) and recruitment. Instead, supervisors rely on non-monetary mechanisms within the firm such as worker motivation and support to incentivize better performance (Lazear et al., 2015). The role of these managerial inputs may be especially salient for firms in developing countries that have limited recourse to formal incentives (e.g., enforceable employment contracts). Whereas economists have extensively studied the effect of managers on performance (e.g., Bertrand & Schoar, 2003), the paucity of granular data on employee-level output and supervision has limited a deeper exploration of how these effects take place. In this project, I focus on unpacking the ‘manager fixed effect’ or a supervisor’s value-added component in employee performance through two distinct channels: monitoring and motivation. Causal evidence on the impact of supervision on employee performance through these channels can inform organizations’ investment decisions in frontline supervision, as well as personnel policies to maximize workplace productivity. Moreover, I plan to study this question by partnering with a large survey research company in Uganda. That is, I study the role of supervisory inputs for the output of survey enumerators in primary data collection activities. This has the added advantage of furthering our understanding of how investments in supervision translate into better quality data for research purposes. Consequently, outputs from this study could help to inform personnel training and organization in both private data collection companies (including the multinational company I partner with) and public statistical agencies such as the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. In the remainder of this note, I refer to enumerators as ‘employees’ and their team leaders as ‘supervisors’ to highlight lessons from the proposed project for both research and personnel management more broadly.
Quality Upgrading and Competition: Theory and Evidence from Uganda’s Coffee Sector (Uganda) This project studies how market structure affects incentives for quality upgrading along developing country supply chains via a field experiment in the coffee sector in Uganda. In international coffee markets, there appear to be large returns to quality management. On world markets, higher quality coffee – ripe, undamaged, and washed– can receive premiums of over 90% compared to lower-quality coffee. However, farmers in developing country coffee production consistently fall short of these quality standards, resulting in an estimated $20-30 million per year in forgone revenue in Uganda's Rwenzori region alone (Morjaria & Sprott, 2018). What prevents farmers from providing the high-quality coffee that international markets demand? One possibility is that, due to long supply chains of intermediation, farmers may not have access to the same quality premiums offered by the world market. If farmers receive a smaller portion of the world price for high-quality goods than they do for low-quality, this will depress the price-quality gradient they face (as compared to that prevailing on the world market) and will discourage production of high quality, relative to incentives under an undistorted quality premium. Why might price-quality gradients diminish as they move upward through the supply chain? While there are many candidate explanations, we focus on the role played by market structure. Along the value chain, barriers to entry may be greater for intermediaries and processors of high-quality goods than for those serving low-quality markets. Expensive equipment is often required to process goods to the standard required by high-quality international buyers or to test raw inputs to ensure they are up to snuff. Less tangible but potentially equally important factors like developing a reputation for quality may also serve as a hurdle for potential entrants into the high-quality market. For this reason, there may be fewer intermediaries (and final processors) in high-quality goods compared to low-quality. The market power resulting from these barriers to entry may allow high-quality intermediaries to offer farmers a lower fraction of world price than do low-quality intermediaries, who – in the face of greater competition – may be forced to pass on a greater portion of the world price. These forces may depress the effective quality premium faced by farmers. Partnering with a leading coffee procurement, processing, and marketing company in Uganda, we conduct a randomized control trial (RCT) aimed at generating exogenous variation in quality premiums at different points in the value chain. As part of the experiment, Uganda’s largest exporter of coffee has offered randomly-selected traders (i.e., intermediaries) different prices for high quality coffee beans and for low quality. This generates exogenous variation in quality premiums offered to traders. We are interested in examining how much of the quality premiums will get passed through to farmers and how the premiums will affect the traders and farmers' incentives to invest in quality. In order to examine the role of market structure, we generate exogenous variation in competition for high-quality products by randomizing the saturation of the quality premium offers to traders across geographic markets.
Consolidating malaria control interventions to reduce incidence in high endemic districts of Pakistan Pakistan - Malaria - Directorate of Malaria Control, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination of Pakistan - DoMC/CMU Malaria. This program has the following goals: An estimated reduction in the reported malaria incidence of 10% at the national level compared with 2019. The objectives of this program are: To strengthen malaria programme management, to ensure that it is operating optimally at all levels in all target districts by 2023. To assure and sustain > 80% coverage for the provision of prompt and reliable malaria diagnosis and treatment services in public and private health facilities and community level as well in target districts by 2023. To ensure universal coverage of preventive measures in particular LLINs, appropriate to local transmission patterns and population characteristics, to reduce malaria transmission, incidence and prevalence by 20% in target districts by 2023. To strengthen disease and entomological surveillance, to efficiently gather, use and disseminate data in all target districts by 2023. To improve timely alert generation, detection and rapid response capability to cope with emergency situations for malaria epidemics in all target districts by 2023. To ensure delivery of an appropriate package of malaria control interventions to hard-to-reach at-risk population groups and communities in all target districts by 2023
Consolidating malaria control interventions to reduce incidence in high endemic districts of Pakistan Pakistan - Malaria - Indus Hospital & Health Network - TIH. This program has the following goals: An estimated reduction in the reported malaria incidence of 30% at the national level compared with 2019.. The objectives of this program are: To assure and sustain > 80% coverage for the provision of prompt and reliable malaria diagnosis and treatment services in public and private health facilities, and community level in target districts by 2026.. To ensure universal coverage of preventive measures in particular insecticide treated nets (ITNs), appropriate to local transmission patterns and population characteristics, to reduce malaria transmission, incidence and prevalence by 20% in target districts by 2026.. To strengthen disease and entomological surveillance, to efficiently gather, use and disseminate data in all target districts by 2026.. To enhance timely alert generation, detection and rapid response capability at district, provincial and national levels to cope with emergency situations for malaria epidemics in all target districts by 2026.. To ensure delivery of an appropriate package of malaria control interventions to hard-to-reach at-risk population groups and communities in all target districts by 2026.
Accelerated HIV Response through active prevention, linking to care and retention interventions for PWID and their partners in Pakistan Pakistan - HIV - Nai Zindagi - NZ. This program has the following goals: To address low prevention and testing programme coverage among key populations by scaling up community-based interventions. To address barriers to treatment access and initiation by phased introduction of treatment for all, devolving treatment maintenance services and stigma and discrimination training for health care workers. To strengthen the national M&E system to improve cascade monitoring. To address the need for treatment initiation support for PWID in the absence of an OST programme. The objectives of this program are: To increase coverage of the prevention services for MSM by 39% (of PSE) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline. To increase coverage of the prevention services for FSW (of PSE) by 44% by 2023 from the 2019 baseline. To increase coverage of the prevention services for TG (of PSE) by 56% by 2023 from the 2019 baseline. To increase coverage of the prevention services for PWIDs (of PSE) 56% by 2023 from the 2019 baseline. To increase coverage of the treatment services for PLHIV by 35% (of the estimated PLHIV) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline
Accelerated response to HIV through effective prevention, treatment, care and support interventions for Key Populations in Pakistan Pakistan - HIV - Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination of Pakistan - NACP. This program has the following goals: To address low prevention and testing programme coverage among key populations by scaling up community-based interventions. To address barriers to treatment access and initiation by phased introduction of treatment for all, devolving treatment maintenance services and stigma and discrimination training for health care workers. To strengthen the national M&E system to improve cascade monitoring. To address the need for treatment initiation support for PWID in the absence of an OST programme. To address the particular challenges faced by PWID with regard to treatment adherence by providing a continuum of care and support. The objectives of this program are: To increase coverage of the prevention services for MSM by 15% from 2016 to 2020. To increase coverage of the prevention services for TG by 27% from 2016 to 2020. To increase coverage of the prevention services from for FSW by 7% from 2016 to 2020. To increase coverage of the treatment services for PLHA by 19% from 2016 to 2020. To increase coverage of the prevention services for PWID by 57% from 2016 to 2020
Accelerated response to HIV through effective prevention, treatment, care and support interventions for Key Populations and surveillance in high risks areas Pakistan - HIV - United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Pakistan. This program has the following goals: To address low prevention and testing programme coverage among key populations by scaling up community-based interventions. To address barriers to treatment access and initiation by phased introduction of treatment for all, devolving treatment maintenance services and stigma and discrimination training for health care workers. To strengthen the national M&E system to improve cascade monitoring. To address the need for treatment initiation support for PWID in the absence of an OST programme. The objectives of this program are: To increase coverage of the prevention services for MSM by 39% (of PSE) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline. To increase coverage of the prevention services for FSW (of PSE) by 44% by 2023 from the 2019 baseline. To increase coverage of the prevention services for TG (of PSE) by 56% by 2023 from the 2019 baseline. To increase coverage of the prevention services for PWIDs (of PSE) 56% by 2023 from the 2019 baseline. To increase coverage of the treatment services for PLHIV by 35% (of the estimated PLHIV) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline
The Cash Consortium for Iraq (CCI) Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance and Access to Critical Services for the Most Vulnerable Conflict Affected Households in Iraq The Cash Consortium for Iraq (CCI) requests a $2,325,000 contribution from the IHPF to directly support 1,240 conflict-affected households with multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) to meet critical basic needs and reduce use of negative coping strategies in conflict-affected out-of-camp communities across Iraq and filling gaps in service provision as related to the 2019 HRP Strategic Objective 1 while also contributing to strategic Objectives 2. The CCI’s proposed response includes: - Provide 7,440 MPCA transfers to at least 1,240 extremely vulnerable households generating humanitarian needs that cannot be covered by existing national services and - Facilitate referrals for 130 vulnerable households to access complementary and critical humanitarian and national services including non-contributory social protection programs. Working together to maximize reach and efficiency, and leveraging access already obtained and established relationships with communities across CWG target areas, CCI partners’ IRC and DRC will prioritize areas where unmet needs among out-of-camp communities have already been identified, including Tikrit, Baiji, Shirqat, and Kirkuk districts. Where needs have been identified by CCI partners the assessed households will be transferred to IRC and DRC to enable a rapid response under this award utilizing this IHF funding complemented by other funding sources, where possible, to enable a complete response. A total of 2,497 assessed households have been reported to the CWG in priority areas by CCI partners. DSAs are already in place with CARE, ACTED, Tdh, Tearfund, PIN and Reach-Iraq to enable collaboration and duplicate checks. A DSA is currently nearing completion with ICRC. The CCI provides an inter-agency governance structure that is already established and coordination is mandated by the MoU. Through the consortium structure, shared ways of working are developed, partners trust each other, compromise, pivot and work together to promote a more effective overall response. The shared database enables efficient two-way data sharing, and prevents duplications with CCI and non-CCI partners. An online referral mechanism is established and automated to ensure consistent access to services at different CCI partners. The CCI provides free in-house legal counsel and support to obtain legal documentation and, if required, register with the SSN. CCI partners will also refer households into other critical humanitarian services they have on offer including CfW, tailored protection support, shelter assistance, MHPSS, etc. With 50 offices across 11 governorates (including Salah al Din and Kirkuk) CCI partners have expansive infrastructure to promote reach and access for comprehensive community-based programming at scale. Although this award will prioritize a response to needs in Kirkuk and Salah al-Din governorates, the CCI will stand ready to pivot. As per the CWG gaps, CCI partners are able to respond in other areas where needs have already been identified including but not limited to Al Qaim, Ana, Ramadi, Khaladiya, Heet, Fallujah, Balad, Sinjar, Mosul, and Tel Afar districts if required. DRC will target 330 households in Kirkuk and 330 in Shirqat. DRC will target 464 HHs in Baiji and 116 in Tikrit.
Cash Consortium of Iraq Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance and Access to Critical Services for the Most Vulnerable Conflict Affected Households in Iraq The Cash Consortium for Iraq (CCI), along with national partner Rehabilitation, Education And Community Health (REACH), request a $2,500,000 contribution from the IHPF to directly support 2,309 conflict-affected households (HHs) with multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) to meet critical basic needs and reduce use of negative coping strategies in conflict-affected out-of-camp communities across underserved districts of Iraq. This program is specifically in response to gaps in service provision targets outlined in the 2019 MPCA Chapter of the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). The program design primarily addresses HRP Strategic Objective (SO) 1 (Post-conflict transition towards durable solutions) while also contributing to SO 2 (Ensuring the centrality of protection) and SO 3 (Strengthening contingency planning and preparedness). The CCI’s proposed response includes: Provide 4,331 MPCA transfers to at least 2,309 extremely vulnerable households affected by armed conflict or affected by a shock, generating humanitarian needs that cannot be covered by existing national services Facilitate referrals for 415 vulnerable households to access complementary and critical humanitarian and national services including non-contributory social protection programs. CCI partners Mercy Corps (lead agency), Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) will leverage this opportunity to collaborate with REACH Iraq-- a leading national organization with demonstrated capacity for and experience with MPCA programming. Efforts across these four implementing agencies will maximize reach and efficiency, and leverage already obtained access and established relationships with communities across Cash Working Group (CWG) target areas. The proposed project will be implemented in priority districts with unmet needs among out-of-camp communities and gaps in MPCA coverage. Proposed locations include Ramadi and Fallujah (Anbar governorate) Khanaquin and Baquba (Diyala governorate) Telafar, Telkaif and West Mosul (Ninewa governorate) and Balad, Tikrit, Tooz and Samarra districts (Salah al-Din governorate). CCI and REACH Iraq will prioritize addressing existing assessed caseloads whenever possible (whether those internally identified by CCI or via other CWG or Shelter/NFI partners) under this proposed program. A total of over 2,000 assessed HHs have been identified by the CCI across the proposed priority areas. Data sharing agreements are already in place with a number of CWG partners to facilitate potential transfer of caseload. Proposed coverage locations are shown by partner in Annex 1. CCI partners have also identified Anaa and further locations in Ramadi (Anbar) and Muqdadiya (Diyala) as contingency areas. With offices across 11 governorates (including the governorates prioritized under this award-- Anbar, Diyala, Ninewa, and Salah al-Din), CCI partners have expansive infrastructure to enable reach and access at scale. The CCI represents a mature consortium model governed according to structures that have been in place and iteratively refined since its formation in early 2015. Since its formation, the CCI has delivered cash assistance to over 75,000 HHs across 10 governorates. This proposed program represents the first time the CCI will partner with an Iraqi organization, REACH Iraq, for MPCA implementation. REACH Iraq has demonstrated experience in MPCA implementation aligned with CWG guidance, and is well-positioned to work collaboratively with mentorship as needed from, and exchange of experience with CCI. While REACH Iraq will not be a full CCI partner, this IHF award will provide an opportunity for familiarization between CCI partners and REACH Iraq in working alongside each other to share experiences and learning regarding MPCA implementation.
Provision of specialized child protection assistance to highly affected out-of-camp IDP and returnee communities in underserved areas of Tilkaif, Tuz, Kirkuk. In line with the IHF 2nd Standard Allocation strategy for 2019, this project will directly support highly affected out-of-camp IDPs and returnee communities in underserved displacement and return areas in Tilkaif, Tuz, amp Kirkuk districts through the provision of specialized child protection services and community-based support interventions. For this purpose, WCUK, WVI and PAO have established a CP consortium to deliver coverage of key protection assistance in 4 out of the 9 underserved priority locations in Ninewa and SAD governorates with critical CP needs as identified by the CPSC’s allocation strategy: (1) Al Quba in Tilkaif District of Ninewa (2) Hay Komari-120 in Tuz District in SAD (3) Rahim Awa in Kirkuk District of Kirkuk. The project will seek to increase and strengthen the capacity of out-of-camp IDPs, returnees and frontline workers in these identified locations to address key child protection concerns at individual, household and community levels. As such, the project will target 4 main protection outputs: (A) Identification and response to individual child protection concerns through the provision of specialized services, including case management of girls and boys at-risk, legal assistance to obtain civil documentation, as well as mapping of services and/or establishment of referral pathways (B) Provision of structured and sustained psychosocial support programmes to affected children and caregivers in need of targeted PSS assistance (C) Strengthening of community-based child protection mechanisms to prevent and respond to child protection concerns through the establishment and support of community-based Child Protection Committees as well as community awareness sessions amp (D) Capacity-building of child protection and frontline workers to provide sustained child protection services and assistance. The project will be implemented through an community-center approach with the establishment of a Multi-Purpose Community Center (MPCC) offering a full package of services in each location of intervention. In order to provide the geographical coverage of the key prioritized locations, Consortium partners will be responsible for implementing the full intervention model per location based on each agency’s operational presence and added value: WCUK will be responsible for carrying out the intervention in Tilkaif District, WVI in Tuz District and PAO in Kirkuk District. The project will be implemented as an integrated CP consortium, with dedicated coordination and technical capacity to ensure support to all partners as well as the quality and cohesion of all activities. The project will have a total reach of 12,697 direct beneficiaries throughout a duration of 9 months starting in November 2019. The cost per beneficiary for a 9 month duration project is $104 with a total budget of $976,122.
CCCM Blumont, in partnership with Sahara Economic Development Organization (SEDO) local NGO Organization (SEDO), aim to provide camp coordination and camp management (CCCM) to IDPs in informal settlements using Mobile Response Teams to identify IDP populations and needs priorities in informal settlements, working at all levels to support safe, dignified, and voluntary returns. This 10-month program targets 10,560 families or 63,360 individual Iraqi IDPs within the priority target governorates of Salah al Din and Kirkuk. The overall project goal is to contribute to the Humanitarian Response Plan’s (HRP) dual objectives of post-conflict transition towards durable solutions and strengthening the centrality of protection. 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 Tuz in Salah al Din and Daquq and Kirkuk City in Kirkuk. Within the priority areas, the CCCM Rapid RASP tool will be used to identify the specific sites for intervention based on evidence from the tool as part of the area-based approach. The project design is needs-based with strategic relevance to the HRP as well as cluster objectives, and targets the geographic priorities as outlined in the PMR. To achieve these objectives, Blumont and partner SEDO will deliver a 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. The project will be comprised of 1 Outcome with 5 unique outputs including conducting needs assessments, conducting community outreach, supporting/establishing site committees, conducting site management, conducting advocacy, and finally referral management. The project will be accountable to affected populations through community complaints and feedback mechanisms, coordinated with IDP call centers. The interlinking and reinforcing project objectives include both the provision of humanitarian services and protection services. The focus of the program will be durable solutions through an area management approach. Blumont’s guiding implementation approach is compliant with Sphere’s Core Humanitarian Standards, the CCCM Toolkit, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee guidelines on protection of displaced persons and adheres to UNHCR’s essential principles of protection in camp management (CM). This project will also prioritize the following frameworks: Adherence to the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. Blumont will ensure that assistance and protection provided are compliant with international laws, guidelines, and agreed-upon standards. 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 all humanitarian assistance. Community-based approach to CM. Blumont will support camp 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. Commitment to gender, protection, and conflict sensitivity. The program will mainstream gender, protection, and conflict sensitivity in all activities to ensure such considerations are incorporated in all aspects of program design and implementation from planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
Child Protection and Legal Assistance program in Balad district (Salah Al Din governorate). Based on TGH extensive experience in Child Protection interventions in rural, urban and camp settings, as well as on its Iraqi partner NGO Justice Center’s expertise in legal assistance, the project aims at providing timely, culturally appropriate and gender sensitive child protection and legal services to conflict affected children and their families, while strengthening community based mechanisms of risks prevention and response. As such, both immediate responses and long term solutions will be implemented, notably by strengthening systems and service delivery, and building capacities. Based on the MCNA data and needs severity districts, as well as other secondary data and TGH/JC own needs assessments, TGH and JC propose to focus on Balad district in Salah Al Din governorate – though other areas of Dohuk and Ninewa governorates have also been considered. A mix of mobile and static approaches will allow TGH and JC to stay flexible and to maximize its population coverage in this underserved area. Notably, and thanks to teams composed of skilled Child protection staff and Lawyers, the intervention will tackle various risks that affect children’s access to their rights, development, resilience and well-being, and provide a comprehensive response. It will directly target children, adolescents but also their parents, and to a larger extent their community. Psychosocial activities adapted to age, gender and specific needs will be provided by taking into each group’s specificities at all stages of the intervention. TGH will develop activities in schools and learning spaces (such as PSS, trainings of teachers and social workers, awareness events, and whenever possible support and linkage between members CPCs and PTAs). The intervention will also target relevant stake-holders (teachers, social authorities, local authorities) to build their knowledge and capacity and improve on the long run children’s protective living and learning environment.
Delivery of community-based services and referrals to promote well-being and enhance protection among IDPs, returnees and other at risk populations of concern in Iraq In partnership with Iraq Health Access Organization (IHAO), IMC will contribute to the Protection Cluster’s and GBV sub-cluster efforts to provide GBV prevention and response to the areas where conflict–affected Iraqis, especially girls and women, are most vulnerable. By including community members and marginalized groups, such as persons with special needs, female heads of households, disabled people, adolescents, and older persons during project design and implementation, IMC and IHAO will ensure contextually appropriate and tailored interventions that meet the unique needs of each group. The intervention will include support for static women’s centers and GBV mobile teams to provide specialized protection assistance, prevention and support services for women and girl’s survivors of GBV in Diyala, areas around Baquba, Mansoriya in Al Khalis and Saad camps and Beiji and Yethreb in Balad (Salah al-Din). In order to mitigate GBV risk and prevent further violence, IMC and IHAO will also conduct community engagement activities. In addition, IMC will also deliver sessions from the Adolescent Girls’ Toolkit Curriculum, designed to empower girls living in Iraq through the delivery of Life Skills, Reproductive Health, Gender Based Violence (GBV), Financial Education and Leadership information.IMC will place a lot of emphasis in building on the capacity of IHAO both technically and operationally using a three tier approach 1. Capacity building and trainings 2. Shadowing and peer to peer support 3. On the job coaching and mentoring International Medical Corps (IMC) is an US-registered independent affiliate organization of International Medical Corps UK (IMC UK), with which IMC UK shares the same name and charitable objectives and mission. IMC UK and IMC work together to deliver assistance programs in an accountable and effective manner in pursuit of their commonly held charitable objectives. IMC UK will engage IMC to implement its programs in the field, with IMC UK oversight, according to the terms and conditions of any agreement that results from this proposal and the terms of the parties’ administrative service agreement. IMC maintains a branch office in Croatia, IMC Split, which provides administrative and operational support to IMC UK and to the programs on the ground, including but not limited to financial management, procurement management/international procurement, and logistics.
Strengthening the protection environment for conflict affected populations in Iraq Ninewa governorate The proposed project aims at addressing the most urgent Protection needs of IDPs, Returnees, and host communities in West Ninewa and in IDPs camps in the same governorate. The action, jointly designed by INTERSOS, Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), Public Aid Association (PAO), and Humanity and Inclusion/Handicap International (HI), targets needs of 21,133 individuals in situation of vulnerability under three different Protection sub-clusters: General Protection, Child Protection and Gender Based Violence. Activities of the consortium, led by INTERSOS, will be targeting Telafar district, Zummar sub-district, Ba’aj district, in addition to Ninewa camps (Hammam alAlil, Qayyarah Airstrip, and Jeddah camps) where only the GBV and PWD component will be implemented. The overall proposed project duration is nine (9) months. Vulnerable individuals in the targeted areas will be provided with a comprehensive and holistic package of Protection services designed not only to tackle and mitigate their most pressing needs, but as well to strengthen their resilience and to reinforce the Protection environment at both community and institutional level. Protection assistance includes “identification and referral” service for vulnerable persons in need of case management or other services legal assistance (awareness, counselling, administrative and court representation) services, including civil documentation and family law for GBV survivors full case management services for Persons with Specific Needs, Child Protection, and GBV cases, support to persons with disabilities, their caregivers and family members. For vulnerable individuals under case management, a package of internal specialized services such as psychological individual counselling, legal assistance, emergency cash assistance for high risk cases (only for PwSN cases) and structured PSS will be provided as needed structured PSS targeting adults awareness sessions on various Protection topics and risks faced by the community including legal topics, General Protection topics, Child Protection, and availability of services. Comprehensive community-based protection activities, including community forums and training of community members on Protection approaches will be carried out in Ninewa and will be complemented by training of and negotiations with authorities, with the aim of improving the protection environment. Women, girls, boys and men (WGBM) will be assisted with a mix of static and mobile approach in both urban and camp areas.
Provision of emergency one-off and multi-month multi-purpose cash assistance to vulnerable households affected by conflict The project will provide one-off and multi-month cash assistance (MMCA) to a total of 923 vulnerable households (approximately 5,538 individuals) in Kirkuk governorate. The cash provided will assist households to meet their critical basic needs according to household priorities. Cash assistance will be given regardless of the household status of either being an IDP, returnee or host family but on the basis of vulnerability of the household as scored using the new agreed socio-economic vulnerability scoring model from the Cash Working Group (CWG). It is anticipated that 249 households (approximately 1,494 individuals) will receive one off cash assistance, 541 households (approximately 3,246 individuals) will receive two MMCA and 133 households ( approximately 798 individuals) will receive three MMCA. Tearfund (TF) will address differing needs and vulnerabilities within the community by applying socio-economic vulnerability criteria as the basis for beneficiary selection. This is in recognition of the unique vulnerabilities faced by different sections of the community such as child headed households, those with disabilities or chronic illnesses, level of household income and those missing documents among other disparities. By providing cash to vulnerable households, individual households will be able to prioritise their needs and the needs of their respective members. Post distribution monitoring will be conducted to identify how cash is utilised within the household and whether it is likely to create any tensions within the household.
Emergency shelter and NFI assistance to improve living conditions of most vulnerable families in Iraq 1. Implementation period 1 (2020): The proposed intervention aims to provide shelter and NFI assistance to highly vulnerable IDPs located out of camps as well as returnees who live in informal settlements and critical shelters in Dohuk and Salah Al Din Governorates, in order to ensure secure and adequate living conditions. It was proposed in response to the IHPF’s Second Standard Allocation of 2019, taking into consideration the strategy and priorities articulated by the Shelter NFI Cluster. Three organizations will collaborate as a consortium to implement this project. Caritas Czech Republic (CCR), the consortium lead, Sahara Economic Development Organization (SEDO) and the United Nations Human Settlements Agency, UN Habitat. In this 10-month intervention, partners will implement the following activities: 1. Conduct Socio Economic Vulnerability Assessments (SEVAT) as follows: - CCR will conduct SEVAT assessments in Dohuk, Sumel District and Zakho District - SEDO will conduct SEVAT assessments in Salah Al-Din Governorate, Tikrit District. 2. Procurement and Distribution of 3,952 Sealing Off Kits as follows: - CCR will procure 1,400 SOKs for the distribution of SOKs in Dohuk Governorate, Sumel and Zakho Districts. - SEDO will procure 1,386 SOKs for the distribution of SOKs in Salah al-Din Governorate, Tikrit District. 3. CCR and UN-Habitat will work on the rehabilitation of Critical Shelter through cash for shelter modality as follows: - UN-Habitat will rehabilitate 100 HHs in Dohuk Governorate, Sumel District and Zakho District. - CCR will rehabilitate 100 HHs in Salah Al-Din Governorate, Tikrit District. 4. Support Rental Subsidies for the most vulnerable families who are in direct risk of eviction. This will be implemented directly by CCR and UN-Habitat as follows: - 20 HHs in Dohuk Governorate, Sumel District and Zakho District. (UN-Habitat) - 28 HHs in Salah Al-Din Governorate, Tikrit District. (CCR) 5. Distribution of 2,986 winterization NFI Kits (donated in-kind) as follows: - CCR will distribute 1,500 NFI Kits in Dohuk Governorate, Sumel and Zakho Districts. - SEDO will distribute 1,486 of NFI Kits in Salah Al-Din Governorate, Tikrit District. Partners will target 2,986 vulnerable HHs (2,651 IDPs and 335 returnee HHs). 2. Implementation period 2 (2021): In 2021, the proposed intervention aims to provide shelter assistance to highly vulnerable IDPs located out of camps as well as returnees who live in informal settlements and critical shelters in Dohuk and al Anbar Governorates, in order to improve their living conditions and to ensure dignified, secure and adequate living conditions. This intervention was proposed as a revision and elaboration of the IHPF’s Second Standard Allocation of 2019 and designed taking into consideration the strategy and priorities articulated in the allocation of the Shelter NFI Cluster. Three organizations will collaborate as a consortium to implement this proposed project. Caritas Czech Republic (CCR), the consortium lead, will cooperate with Swedish Development Aid organization (SWEDO) and Sabe' Sanabul Organization for Relief and Development (SSORD). SWEDO and SSORD will have the responsibility to conduct the Socio-Economic Vulnerability Assessment (SEVAT), other activities will be implemented by CCR directly. Until the end of June 2021, partners will implement the following activities: 1. Conduct Socio Economic Vulnerability Assessments (SEVAT) in two targeted governorates as follows: - SWEDO will conduct SEVAT assessments in Dohuk, Sumel District (Fayida Sub-districtl) and Zakho District (Rizgari Sub-district) - SSORD will conduct SEVAT assessments Anbar Governorate, Falluja District (Markaz Falluja, Al Grama and Al Saqlawiyah). 2. Distribution of 750 Sealing of Kitts in Dohuk 3. Support Rental Subsidies in Dohuk for 50 extremely vulnerable households 4. Emergency Shelter Repairs in Dohuk and Anbar for 650 households in total.
Emergency Livelihoods for Vulnerable Returnees in Kirkuk, Diyala and Anbar Following liberation from the Islamic State at the end of 2017, Iraq entered a transition period from emergency humanitarian relief to emergency recovery. Despite this transition, hard to reach (HTR) locations still possess significant humanitarian needs in the field of Livelihoods. Half a million returnees do not have access to sufficient livelihoods opportunities and basic services. The lack of support is jeopardizing the coping strategies of returnees and their reintegration within the community. Overall, the need of livelihoods support in 2019 is expected to affect 2.4 million people high levels of debt are likely to be caused by the need of basic services and the lack of sources of income to access these services. Women are more affected by this unemployment rate (56% compared to males at 29%). This project avails livelihoods opportunities to 1200 highly vulnerable returnees and host community members (non-displaced in recently accessible areas) to reestablish a livelihood 1200 vulnerable conflict and displacement affected people will access will receive emergency livelihoods assets and tools replacement grants and in-kind support to reestablish a livelihood and resettle in areas of origin. The project target areas with high density of returnees, targeting vulnerable people with high severity of needs from returnees and host community (non-displaced in recently retaken areas). Target communities include Kirkuk (480 HHs), mainly Hawija District Diyala (240 HHs), mainly Khalis district, and Anbar (480 HHs, mainly Falluja, Ramadi and Ana districts. The project is being implemented by four organizations ZOA International, Relief International, Wand Al Keir Human Organization and Al Rafedain Peace Organization.Through this intervention, ZOA and Al Rafedain will respond to the emergency livelihoods needs for 480 returnees and vulnerable host community households in Anbar, RI will respond to emergency livelihoods needs for 480 vulnerable returnees and host community members in Hawija, and WAHO will respond to emergency livelihoods needs for 240 returnees and host community HHs in Al Khalis, Diyala. The consortium will carry out such response by providing target groups with small grants of $600, for asset recovery and training and coaching on small business development, utilizing their skills in connection with the local market. Business coaching program is composed of 5 coaching visits for every beneficiary throughout the life of project (1. Needs assessment and introduction to tailor the coaching program 2. feasibility study 3. bookkeeping, 4 marketing and sales 5. Catch-up and evaluation of the coaching intervention). The small grant will be in two installments $400 in the first three months together with business development training, and an additional to a top up grant of $200 will be distributed to beneficiaries who would have already started or reestablished their small businesses during the program, together with the business coaching program, and with introducing a saving idea in Rotational Saving and Credit Associations (ROSCA), to be considered at choice in small groups among beneficiary businesses, which would contribute to ensuring sustainability of these businesses . In total, the project will directly serve 1200 vulnerable returnees and host community with sustainable assets recovery (including 60% female beneficiaries, with a particular focus on female youth). Both urban and rural livelihoods opportunities will be available in target areas, based on their sets of skills and type of livelihoods they want to re-establish activities will also be tailored to the context. Consortium members are already operational in selected in target governorates and districts through existing projects and programs Health, WASH and shelter programs, and therefore, consortium partners are well positioned to work there through this intervention.
Education in emergency and child protection integrated intervention in support of children affected by conflict in Iraq The twelve months project aims to provide children and adolescents affected by the conflict access to safe and protective learning spaces inclusive of psycho-social activities.Based on the program experience at the local level and strong coordination with government, Department of Education (DoE) , UN agencies, and Education Cluster, the consortium (composed of INTERSOS as lead and Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW)) will ensure safe access to quality education and protective learning environment for school aged (4-17) boys and girls in camps setting, including the provision of specialized services of child protection for the most vulnerable IDPs and returnees boys and girls in and out of camp settings.INTERSOS and IRW education interventions will continue to go hand-in-hand with the child protection (CP) ones. INTERSOS and IRW will intervene in camp setting with their own structured Temporary Learning Spaces (TLSs) in Qayarra Air-strip camp, Salamya 1amp2, Nimrood, enlarging the action to Haj Ali camp. IRW intervention will be a continuation of the one ended on 30th October 2018 in Air-strip camp, in the already established TLSs.In coordination with the education cluster, IRW will continue in providing non-formal education (NFE) to the children in the targeted area, mobilizing the same teachers, and (when needed) identifying others with a special focus on female ones among the families in the camp.The established TLSs has been provided with students’ and teachers’ kits, recreational kits, and schools box which will be used also for the proposed project while needed required additional supplies and maintenance of the caravans and tents will be provided under this allocation.The project team will also continue working with the formed community education council to raise awareness among parents/ caregivers on providing good parenting, emotional support, and basic child protection concepts. In order to run the activities in Haj Ali,INTERSOS will capitalize on existing TLS and/ or tents available inside the camp, thanks to the coordination with other educational actors and camp management. Support to formal schools will be provided including a number of formal schools’ teachers in the training in held in the camps.In order to ensure a future re enrollment of children in formal schools,INTERSOS will continue on supporting NFE services, improving interaction and complementary with the formal system in coordination with other NGOs and e government structures also in Nimrod, Salamiya 1amp2.The proposed intervention ensures the targeted conflict-affected children IDPs in camps are guaranteed with access to quality education, by building the capacities of teachers and PTA members, providing learning material, delivering NFE, and mainstreaming PSS and CP through awareness raising and parenting programs targeting the communities. In the retaken areas, along with the implementation of awareness campaigns targeting community members have its main focus on returnees and vulnerable children from the host communities promoting, CP case management and structured PSS. INTERSOS is already operating in Tel Afar with an integrated education-CP project IRAQ/11267/05 supporting 8 formal schools. Using the premises of one of the schools targeted, this action will extend the activities engaging a broader target of out of school boys and girls. A community-based approach is followed throughout the action ensuring the participation of teachers, parents, community representatives and children in the design of the activities and in the implementation’s phase. The intervention targets school-aged children with a focus on extremely vulnerable girls and boys.Thanks to the cooperation with the(DoE) , the children with more difficulties in catching up with the curriculum will be referred to the TLS. The holistic approach followed throughout the action will allow the children to receive also emotional support enhancing their well-being.OPS: HIRQ19-PRO-CPNEDU-
Risk Mitigation Information Management Center The RMIM center will collect, analyze, and report security and explosive hazard-related information, which will facilitate security coordination, safe access and coordination of operations. iMMAP will provide regularly detailed IM situational maps, online real-time dashboards, snapshots, infographics, and situation reports on routes frequently used by Humanitarian Actors (HAs) or occupied by returnees and IDPs, areas around the camps and areas of humanitarian response. The objective is to improve the accessibility of humanitarian organizations to hard to reach areas including areas retaken from armed actors and newly accessible areas in addition, the project will provide risk information to affected communities about explosive hazards threatening their movement. Special attention will be also given to people deemed most vulnerable including girls and boys, women and elderly persons, through advocating for activities to be carried out immediately in their areas to protect the safety of their movements. Data will be collected through open source and media researches, secondary data shared by mine action Actors thanks to the MOU that iMMAP has with the Mine Action national Authorities which allows this information sharing. In addition, though the capacity building exercise, iMMAP will train other NGOs on data collection methodologies and on the usage of mobile data collection tools which will be managed by iMMAP and used by the HAs on the ground. This approach ensures that data collection and data sharing is done directly by actors already on the ground avoiding duplication of efforts and resources.
Strengthening Housing, Land and Property Rights in Anbar Through this project, NRC plans to support 1,805 beneficiaries (1,155 returnees, 289 internally displaced people (IDPs) and 361 vulnerable host community individuals) to increase protection of their legal identity and housing, land and property (HLP) rights in three districts of Anbar governorate identified by OCHA as high need: Fallujah, Heet and Ramadi. This project will build on NRC’s extensive experience in delivering legal protection activities in Anbar governorate as well as across wider Iraq. This project will strengthen HLP rights of target populations, and prevent and help resolve HLP disputes through legal assistance, and related legal counselling. NRC’s definition of legal assistance is any direct action taken on behalf of beneficiaries. Under this banner, NRC will include community-based activities, using collaborative dispute resolution approaches such as negotiation. It will also include supporting shelter partners to carry out more complicated HLP due diligence cases and help to ensure tenure security. This will include support for beneficiaries missing documentation, to apply for compensation claims, efforts to resolve disputes over land and housing, informal land tenure and tenancy or hosting arrangements. This project also includes providing technical and operational capacity building to a local NGO known as Al-Tadhamun (Iraqi League for Youth), building on NRC’s existing system of referrals with them. Given this is a new partner for NRC for whom due diligence will be conducted during the first phase of the project, there will be no financial contribution to Al-Tadhamun and only a small amount of joint information dissemination and collaborative dispute resolution activities that will be delivered together.
Holistic protection monitoring and service provision across Northern Ninewa and Dohuk Governorates Ninewa is the main originating Governorate of IDPs in Iraq and currently also hosts the majority of the returnees (1,550,000 IOM November 2018) whereas Dohuk Governorate host the majority of the IDPs in the Kurdish Region of Iraq (350,000 IOM November 2018). Returnees as well as IDPs and remainees face significant protection issues. Dorcas has been executing 68 FGDs in 2018 including 940 male amp female respondents in Ninewa along with 725 HH assessments to identify most prominent protection issues and their root causes. Most frequent mentioned protection issue amongst IDPs and Returnees that acerbates HH’s vulnerability are loss/absence of civil documentation, fear recruitment by armed groups in return areas, perceived ISIS affiliation and related detention, secondary displacement due to insecurity and lack of services in return areas, disputes of housing land and property, mental health issues and rampant (S)GBV incidents especially amongst women and girls. Based on each partner’s years of technical expertise, (Dorcas in general protection and legal support and Harikar in (S)GBV) Partners propose the implementation of protection services covering in total 18,752 IDP-, Returnee- and Remainee populations in Northern Ninewa (Sinjar amp Sinuni), and Dohuk Governorate (Zakho amp Sumel). This will be done through a combined mobile and static approach providing general protection services in Sinuni, Sharia Camp and Chamishko camp, and providing (S)GBV services in Sinuni and Sinjar.The packages exist out of: protection monitoring and HH-level assessments, awareness raising and community mobilization to tackle protection issues, provision of legal counselling and legal assistance by lawyers (related to HLP, Documentation, Detention), case management, provision of SGBV services and provision of structures PSS and ensuring adequate referral pathways for protection cases. Specific attention will be paid to the plight of women, girls and boys who are assessed to be extra vulnerable when there is a breach in the protective atmosphere (i.e. armed forces recruitment, (S)GBV, etc.).
Iraq Information Center As a two-way communication mechanism, the Iraq Information Centre ( IIC) is a link to the partnership between those who wish to assist those affected by the ongoing conflict in Iraq and those people who have been affected and who need assistance. The IIC is accountable to both constituencies. A collective accountability mechanism for the humanitarian response in Iraq, the IIC's promotes two-way communication between affected populations and humanitarian actors to: · Empower communities through the provision of accessible and timely information on how to access services and resources required to improve their situation, fulfilling their right to know, to ask questions and to participate in their own recovery · Help ensure efficient and effective coordination of humanitarian agencies, funds, and programmes operating in Iraq by collecting and circulating information about the urgent needs and priorities of affected populations and · Support an environment of collective transparency and accountability by: Establishing an easy-to-access and safe mechanism through which affected populations can lodge feedback and complaints Channelling feedback and complaints to humanitarian actors to influence humanitarian programming and shape quality advocacy and, Communicating with affected populations to gauge user satisfaction with the quality of information and guidance provided by the Information centre. Information and communication are critical forms of aid and key prerequisites for communities to participate in their own recovery. Access to information is a human right and people affected by conflict and disaster should have access to an ongoing, reliable flow of credible information on the disaster and associated relief effort. While communicating with affected populations has never been more essential, the simple provision of information is not enough. Two-way communication and feedback is critical to ensuring communication is effective and efficiently circulates the urgent needs and priorities of affected populations. Two-way communication systems deliver effective aid in the form of information, facilitating the recovery of communities in emergency contexts. Communities can be empowered by providing information to aid agencies, which in turn can be used to advocate and deliver solutions to genuine problems. Two-way communication prioritizes communication between humanitarian actors and affected communities to establish what support people need and, crucially, what they do not need. Strategic use of two-way communication leads to a more effective humanitarian response, ensures that communities get the right help, in the right place, at the right time, and ultimately empowers communities to be active participants in their own recovery. Two-way communication locates affected populations at the centre of programmatic decision making on relief and response. In 2019 and 2020, funds from IHPF will be used to continue core programming, expand programming by hiring an additional staff in order to scale as needed for the returnee agenda, enhance the outreach activities giving special attention to center and south and to extend the duration of the project. In addition to that, the IIC would like to strategically positioning itself within the new humanitarian context interlinking between humanitarian to recovery. Moreover, the IIC is an interagency tool that works towards achieving collective outcomes that reduce need, risk and vulnerability among affected population by sharing data analysis and assessment of needs to our partners.
Integrated Mine Action to enhance resilience of conflict-affected communities in Diyala Governorate Following decades of conflict, Iraq is one of the most contaminated countries in the world with landmines, Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) a situation compounded by the recent conflict with the IS group. The presence of these explosive hazards prevents the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and impedes longer-term recovery initiatives. The project aims at facilitating returns of population and access to land by reducing the immediate threat posed by IEDs and UXOs. This will be done by deploying HI Multi-Task Teams (MTT) to survey, prioritize, and clear tasked contaminated areas while raising awareness of local communities on the threat posed by IEDs and UXOs and by deploying Risk Education Teams to deliver key prevention messages. The outcome will result in clearance of high priority Confirmed Hazardous Areas and the release of land for safe civilian use, and the destruction of identified explosive hazards. The project will take place in Diyala governorate – Khanaqin District - where the level of contamination from both the ISIS group conflict and legacy landmine contamination is a significant threat to the population and where the level of return is high (especially around Jalawla City). The target beneficiaries are the 68,100 men, women and children inhabitants of the contaminated areas, including returning population and IDPs from the targeted regions. HI will select the beneficiaries for this intervention according to the humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality, without any discrimination in terms of ethnicity, confession, gender, age, or political opinion. HI’s teams will respect “Do no harm” principles and will pay specific attention to gender and disability issues (see section VI for more information). For this project, HI will prioritise implementation of a large scale response in Khanaqin district which has been identified by the Mine Action sub cluster as a priority location. Majority of activities for this project are allocated to clearance and survey activities which requires a higher budget and the remaining RE activities will represent a smaller portion of the project however will be complimentary to the overall intervention. Furthermore, 88% of beneficiaries will be reached out of clearance operations and the 12% remaining through Risk Education.
Education assistance for conflict-affected populations in Iraq This project aims to increase access to formal and non-formal education for conflict affected children by improving the quality of formal education, providing safe inclusive non-formal education, and minimizing protection risks for vulnerable children and communities. This project will target IDP children in camp setting in Ninewa, and areas of return and out of camp IDP children in both Ninewa and Anbar. This project will support 30 schools: 18 schools in Baaj district, 4 schools in Sinjar district (south of Sinjar), 2 schools in Hamman Al-Alil 1 amp2 consolidated, 4 schools in Ana district, , and 2 schools in Ramadi district. Non-formal education (NFE) will be provided in two School Support Centers (SSC) in HAA. In addition to high vulnerable conflict affected children aged 6-18, this project will also target adults including parents, caregivers, community members, as well as teachers, lecturers, education facilitators, and other education personnel including Directorate of Education (DoE) staff. To support protection mainstreaming, NRC will conduct awareness and sensitization campaigns on the importance of girls' education through Parent Teachers Associations (PTAs), Mother Groups (MGs) and Adolescent Girl Clubs (AGCs), who will be enlisted as advocates to promote girls and children with disabilities’ enrollment among their peers. Specific programming will be considered for children with disabilities to encourage their access, inclusion and participation in education programmes, and teachers will be trained in Child Safeguarding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) in Schools. The project builds on NRC’s education programme material including Teachers in Crisis Context (TiCC), Better Learning Programme (BLP), Basic Literacy and Numeracy (BLN), Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and Child Safeguarding, AGG Toolkits, and MGs. It also builds on NRC education response in HAA 1 and 2, Baaj, Ana, and Ramadi, supporting both formal education and access to alternative learning pathways for conflict affected children. NRC has strong relationships with the DoE in Anbar and Ninewa and will continue to coordinate and communicate with them, as well as with the Ministry of Education (MoE), to ensure effective delivery of assistance. This will include advocating and collaborating with the DoE Planning Departments to facilitate the continued rehabilitation and re-opening of formal schools, back to school campaigns and to ensure all policy changes are rapidly adapted into project implementation
Access to Primary Health Care for Iraqi IDPs, Returnees and Host communities living in Kirkuk, Ninewa and Anbar Governorates. The proposed project seeks to contribute to IHF health cluster allocation priorities to continue provision of an uninterrupted package of essential primary healthcare services in priority locations in Ninewa and Sulaymaniyah Governorates. This intervention will provide continuation of ongoing as well as newly establish life-saving assistance while ensuring access to essential and quality health care services for returnees amp IDPs’ families in a manner that is accountable, conflict-sensitive and supports the government's responsibility as the first responder. WV prioritizes the first-line response with front-line service delivery. This will ensure access to essential, life-saving medicines, consumables, and equipment for primary health care services for vulnerable populations. IHF will allow WV to respond to assessed, prioritized, unmet health needs or gaps in primary health care (PHC) service provision and to reduce morbidity and mortality of highly vulnerable populations, including returnees and IDPs. The proposed project will contribute to essential PHCC support in and out of camps per SPHERE standards, which will include: treatment of common illnesses communicable and non-communicable, provision of essential medicines and equipment, health promotion and education including COVID-19 awareness, DoH supported routine immunizations, reproductive health (RH) care, including antenatal care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC), family planning and referral for skilled delivery, counselling on treatment adherence, strengthening capacity of the DoH staff, as well as, the referral mechanism at the community and clinic level. All children under 5 will routinely be screened for malnutrition and referred as appropriate. Surveillance of outbreak diseases through national EWARN will be supported along with routine HIS reporting. Preventive and curative services, linking with the community health programming for health education and behavior change to reduce communicable diseases. Moreover, the proposed approach incorporates all the eight components of PHC to ensure access to comprehensive care. These are (a) health promotion, (b) nutrition, (c) WASH (hygiene promotion), (d) maternal and (e) child health, (f) immunization (through liaison with Department of Health (DoH/UNICEF)), (g) management of illnesses, and (h) provision of pharmaceuticals. WV proposes to use IHF as co-funding to continue as well as expand the provision of support to PHCCs in the following targeted locations which are part of the health cluster’s areas of priorities 1. Ain al Hissan village in Sinjar/Ninewa Governorate, where WV has taken over the provision of PHC services after Medair left the consortium and has withdrawn activities from Iraq. With the resumption of IDP camp closures by the government of Iraq (GoI) since mid-October 2020, the number of returnees in Ain al Hissan is expected to increase in the near future. Due to the DoH's limited financial and personnel resources to provide sufficient quality PHC services in Ain al Hissan, WV proposes to increase its health services in the PHCC there from 3 to 5 days. 2. Tazade IDP camp in Sulaymaniyah Governorate as a new location. Following a recommendation from the Health Cluster, WV will expand its health services to provide a minimum package of comprehensive primary health care in the PHCC (5-days a week), as there is a huge gap in PHC service provision in the camp with no access to health services for IDPs since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq in March 2020, apart from transfers of patients to a hospital outside the camp in case of emergencies.
Provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Support to Out of Camp Affected Populations This proposal represents projects from the seven partners who make up the WaSH Out of Camp Consortium (WOCC) led by Solidarités International and representing Arche noVa, Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI), French Red Cross (FRC), Oxfam, Relief International (RI) and Terre des Hommes (Tdh). These seven partners are proposing projects which provide essential WaSH services, critical upgrades and repairs and where possible, longer term durable solutions for the provision of services. Arche Nova - AN will implement works in Khanaqin district, Diyala Governorate, on rehabilitation of decentralized water supply systems in small villages and towns, increase hygiene and health awareness, provide assistance in repair of WASH facilities in social institutions (schools and health facilities), solid waste management and provide water for villages and small towns. COOPI - This project focuses on improving the WASH conditions of vulnerable returnees and host communities in Centre East Shirqat, Salah ad Din Governorate. The project will focus on the rehabilitation of the existing WASH infrastructures in two villages: Water Treatment Plants, Chlorination systems and water network, in order to guarantee access to continued, improved, safe and drinkable water supply to host communities and returnees. Awareness campaigns and distributions of vouchers for hygiene related NFIs will be provided. French Red Cross (FRC) and IRCS (Iraqi Red Crescent Society) will work in Sinjar City, and propose to rehabilitate damaged boreholes in Sinjar Centre. The intervention will maintain the solid waste collection service, implement hygiene promotion campaigns and rehabilitate school WaSH infrastructures, complemented by a participative hygiene training for school aged children using the CHAST (Children Hygiene and Sanitation Training) approach adapted to Iraqi context. Oxfam - The project aims to target returnees in Baaji (Baja) Governorate, in specific Baaji Town and surrounding villages (Az Auman, Tall Ghazal, Tall Khalil, Tawilah, Abd Al Aziz, As Silityiah). Oxfam’s proposal aims to provide reliable water supply from 4 of the 13 existing boreholes sited in Kharab Bazar to Baaji Town (and villages along the water transmission mains). Hygiene promotion is also a shared activity between two consortium partners: TdH will lead the HP activities in schools and Oxfam will target only most vulnerable groups. Relief International - RI’s project in Western Anbar proposes to support the operation and maintenance of water and sanitation facilities, through the rehabilitation of WASH infrastructure in schools, and repair Water Network Systems, Water Compact Unit (WCU) and Reverse-Osmosis Systems (ROS). Hygiene promotion and public health promotion activities with contextualized Information. This will focus on behavioural changes and conditions, and knowledge, attitude and practices of the communities, particularly those related to water borne diseases and cholera outbreaks. TDH - Tdh aims to target returnees in Tel Afar district (Ninewa governorate), and will carry out rehabilitation works on the public water network inside Alayaditya city and install pipe extensions to 4 more villages. Repair works will be undertaken on Local A pumping station in Tal Afar, 3 schools and a healthcare centre in Sinjar and the public water network inside Sinjar city. SI - SI proposes an intervention in the Muhalabiya area of Mosul district, to improve the water quality at the household level and support water quality improvement with the training of community hygiene promoters to promote safe water handling and disease prevention, including cholera prevention. SI will also ensure the provision of water through water trucking in the southern areas of Muhalabiya sub-district for households in acute need who do not have water network connection, and explore options for a sustainable solution for this district, to be proposed in the first allocation of 2019.
Responding to Urgent Gaps in CCCM in Camps in Anbar. This project aims to cover critical gaps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in protracted displacement in camps that are likely to remain open or serve as transition camps in Anbar, through Camp Management Support. CCCM activities implemented by IOM’s CCCM Mobile Teams will focus on capacity building for local actors, improvement of access to critical services and critical site risk reduction. All activities will be supported by a communication with communities (CWC) component aiming at reinforcing two-way communication with communities while increasing accountability towards affected population (AAP). Key activities that will be implemented include: 1) Capacity building of national site management actors, in the form of OTJ training, ensuring that relevant site managers and support staff can increasingly assume more responsibility in directly providing assistance to IDPs, in ensuring two-way communication and in increasing access to services 3) Provision of support to formal camp management and local authorities in consolidating camps within Ameriyat al Fallujah (AAF), based on Cluster Camp Consolidation Strategy and Cluster guidance, supporting vulnerable households within this exercise 4) Strengthening coordination structures in formal sites through the establishment or support of self-governance structures and site representative networks which will engage the IDPs for their active participation in the daily management of formal camps as well as in CWC community based activities 5) Collect up to date and reliable information on sites for dissemination to partners and Clusters and improve camp management’s capacity in information management and referrals 6) Supporting site care and maintenance through Cash for Work (CfW) that will provide financial resources for basic site infrastructure improvements and upgrades fire safety equipment and training in order to minimize risks for IDPs. HRP reference code: HIRQ19-CCM-154285-1 The list of camps under this contribution is provided in annex02_AAF camp list.
Emergency SNFI and CCCM response to vulnerable populations in Iraq Through a 10-month multi-sectoral initiative, ACTED and IMPACT seek to contribute to an improved understanding of humanitarian gaps and needs while promoting safe and dignified living conditions for vulnerable displaced populations living in formal and informal settlements across Iraq through: SNFI: access to safe and appropriate shelter to 25,365 IDPs in Bersive 1, Shariya and Yahyawa camps (8 months, January – August 2019, USD 2,562,581) HPC - HIRQ19-SHL-154743-1 CCCM (Dohuk and Ninewa): monitoring of service delivery in and out of camps and support to camp governance structures (8 months, January – August 2019) and CCCM (Sulaimaniayah and Diayla): maintenance support to camp infrastructure of Tazade and Qoratu Camps (4 months, January – April 2019) USD 530,000. HPC - HIRQ19-CCM-154694-1 REACH: provide nationwide Information Management support to the CCCM cluster and improved planning and monitoring of humanitarian assistance (8 months, March – October 2019, USD 300,000. HPC - HIRQ19-CCM-154576-1 As part of the Shelter component, ACTED will ensure that vulnerable IDPs in camps have access to safe, appropriate shelter through tent replacements in Bersive 1, Shariya (Dohuk Governorate) and Yahyawa (Kirkuk Governorate) IDP camps. ACTED program teams will raise awareness within the targeted camps on the process and layout of the intervention prior to activities starting and engage Camp community mobilizers for information dissemination. Activities will involve the community through CfW activities. ACTED will furthermore continue its CCCM activities to ensure that IDPs in camps have access to life saving assistance and protection. ACTED will carry out activities to improve the camp management capacity of local actors and promote the self-reliance of IDPs in Dohuk camps. Among these CCCM activities, ACTED will work on establishing/supporting existing governance structures and focal points for formal and informal camps to ensure accountable participation, provide training on camp governance amp coordination as well as provide specific capacity building activities to IDP communities in informal settlements across Ninewa and Dohuk governorates. ACTED will carry on the monitoring of service delivery in formal camps in Dohuk governorate and conduct informal sites assessments to identify gaps and avoid duplication of activities and participate in relevant CCCM coordination forums. Through the CCCM mobile and static team modality and the monitoring, mapping, and referral of humanitarian needs and environmental risks in camps and informal settlements, ACTED will contribute to improving the information management in the targeted areas. Responding to identified needs in Qataru Camp in Diyala governorate and Tazade Camp in Sulaymaniyah governorates, ACTED will provide maintenance support to camp infrastructure under its CCCM component to ensure the strengthening of present structures. Care and Maintenance activities will also be incorporated into interventions in Dohuk camps. For REACH, planned activities under the CCCM will focus on 1) addressing information gaps on IDPs living in formal camps and informal sites, 2) improve planning and monitoring of humanitarian assistance and 3) facilitate risk reduction in and out of camp settings. REACH will continue providing IM products to enable specialized assistance to reach the most vulnerable displaced individuals across Iraq supporting safe and voluntary returns, while contributing to the progressive identification of durable solutions to displacement. REACH will conduct: Camp profiling, Risk Assessment Site Priority (RASP), and Intentions Surveys in formal camps and informal sites. Additionally, REACH will support the CCCM Cluster in the form of a part time dedicated Assessment Officer, who can work on ad hoc requests from the Cluster on additional analysis on REACH data specific to the needs of the Cluster, and will sit up at UNAMI with the Clustuer one day per wee
Provision of critical CCCM, Shelter and WASH support for protractedly displaced populations in the Qayyarah Airstrip Emergency Site and Qadissiya Complex In line with SO1 and SO2 of the Iraq Humanitarian Response Plan 2019 and the most critical needs and gaps prioritized for the 1st Standard Allocation of the Iraq Humanitarian Fund, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) proposes to respond to urgent CCCM, Shelter and WASH needs among protractedly displaced populations in the Qayyarah Airstrip Emergency Site (Ninewa Governorate) and urgent CCCM needs in Qadissiya Complex (Salah al-Din Governorate). The two target sites, hosting a combined population of approximately 7,762 households, expected to remain open throughout 2019, require multi-sector support to ensure continued service provision and adequate living conditions, including care and maintenance of basic infrastructure and site risk reduction. The proposed flood mitigation activities for the stormwater system, drainage and roads in the Qayyarah Airstrip will mitigate the impact of flooding from the rainy winter season and the associated risks to the health, dignity and safety of residents. Since Qayyarah, is expected to be one of the last remaining camps and to remain open for multiple years, DRC proposes to construct a basic water network as a longer-term and more cost effective solution for water supply in the camp. Continued engagement with camp representative structures (Qayyarah, Qadissiya) and government camp management (Qadissiya), including capacity building, will ensure functioning site management and facilitate identification of gaps and mobilization of responses. The proposed project activities are described in DRC's HRP 2019 submissions for CCCM (HIRQ19-CCM-153958-1) Shelter (HIRQ19-SHL-154837-1) and WASH (HIRQ19-WSH-154724-1).
Strengthening Response and Prevention of Gender Based Violence in conflict-affected areas in Kirkuk and Ninewa governorates, Iraq IRW is currently implementing two GBV (Gender based violence) projects in Baghdad, Anbar and Kirkuk to provide confidential GBV case management, psychosocial support, awareness raising and counselling through survivor centred approach from a women exclusive space center (WSC). During the four years of UNFPA funded project in Kirkuk, IRW has been managing to provide in and out of camps specialized GBV services through 14 WSCs whereas in third year of GAC (government affairs Canada) funded project Islamic Relief is providing specialized GBV services through establishment of 12 WSCs for the vulnerable women of girls in Baghdad and Anbar. AlMesalla (NNGO), implementation partner of IRW is currently managing 7 WSCs in East Mosul with a specialized team on GBV case management. To contribute to the priorities and unmet needs of the GBV sector in Iraq, the project is in line with the SDG # 3: Good (mental) health and well-being and SDG # 4: Gender equality with exclusively focusing on vulnerable IDPs women and girls in 3 locations 1 camp and 2 out of camps in Ninewa and Kirkuk.. The ten months project aims to address the gaps highlighted in 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview, GBVIMS data (Jan – Jun 2019), GBV Sub cluster and coordination with other GBV actors. Through this project IRW will lead the consortium and will technically advise Almesalla to support vulnerable women and girls and persons with specific needs. These ten months intervention will support GBV survivors by providing specialized GBV case management, PSS and recreational activities through Women exclusive Space Centres (WSCs). The project will ensure capacity development of field staff to ensure quality of services. The project will also work with women and girls and develop community-based circles of support to enhance resilience and minimize the risks of further harm. To cope with the trauma, isolation and stigmatization, the project will raise awareness by organizing structured interactive activities. This survivor cantered approach and activities will facilitate women and girls to cope with the psychological trauma and emotional stress they have gone through. And from the findings of our GBV programming in other governorates, females shared that having a women exclusive space give them relief and confidence on ourselves. This intervention further supports them to develop community-based circles of support that can facilitate each other, enhance their resilience and also serve as an exit strategy. Female health and hygiene are one of the concerns and needs of the female communities. To facilitate further and project will contribute to improve reproductive health of adolescent girls and women through health and hygiene awareness sessions along with dignity kits. This will not only help adolescent girls and women for the time being but also will make them aware of health and hygiene management. Hence, this activity will contribute to change behavior of the communities for better health and hygiene management especially adolescent girls. GBV prevention is about addressing the root causes of violence and discrimination. To address the causes, the project is aiming to involve different segments of society to holistically contribute for the prevention of gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse. Considering the context, project will engage men, boys, and ethnic and faith leaders at different levels of project implementation. Project will establish or strengthen male networks and sensitize them around FGM, early marriages and girls’ education. Project will also work with ethnic and faith leaders (both male and female) to advocate for the girls’ education, early/forced marriages, FGM and other related issues
Nissa II - Strengthening the provision of GBV services in Ninewa governorate While the combat operations against the Islamic State (ISIS) have ended, hundreds of thousands of displaced people are returning or preparing of return. Unfortunately the return is not so easy due to security concerns, damage on houses as well as infrastructure, lack of job opportunities and basic health and protection services. Un Ponte Per (UPP) and Women Rehabilitation Organization (WRO) have been providing integrated GBV and MHPSS services in Mosul and nearby IDPs camps for over a year, and with this project they are aiming in joining efforts and capacities to continue supporting GBV survivors and those at protection risk in Mosul and Sallamiyah Camp. The project will built on the previous IHF projects implemented in 2018 by both organisations and on the experience acquired in these specific areas. The approach of integrating specilized GBV services with Mental Health support is proven to be effective in this specific context, and the use of static units inside Primary Heath Centres guarantees accessibility and safety for all targeted beneficiaries. The project will address the psychosocial challenges of Women, Girls, Men, and Boys survivors or at risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) through increased outreach and awareness raising, case management, structured psychosocial support, referrals to other protection services and training of community members. Special attention will be paid to widows, divorced and unmarried head of households, as well adolescent girls, due to the higher exposure to GBV risks they face in the current context. Another important aspect of the project is the engagement of men and boys to the program and the establishment and training of community groups. The support will be provided through static as well as mobile response. Through 4 static centres and 4 outreach teams in West and East Mosul, and Through 1 static centre and 1 outreach team in Sallamya camp UPP and Women Rehabilitation Organization will provide these joint response and prevention activities: 1. Conduction of continuous GBV assessments: Focus group discussions and key informant interview Adolescent girls’ assessment Service mapping exercise GBV situational analysis 2. Provision of awareness raising and community outreach activities to WGBM: Door-to-door dissemination of information on available GBV-related services Awareness sessions on domestic violence, reporting, sexual violence and family planning with a special focus on men and boys Mass information campaign through dissemination of key messages on prevention, where to report, physical and mental health consequences of sexual violence and other forms of GBV, how to access care, victim blaming/rejection/isolation, etc. 3. Provision of Individual and group psychosocial support: Specialized GBV case management (level 3 of the MHPSS pyramid) Individual specialized psychological counselling (level 3) PFA and group counselling (level 2) Resilience and adolescent girls’ programs (based on AG toolkit for Iraq) (level 2) referrals system to specialized psychiatric services (level 4). 4. Coaching, mentoring and supervision sessions on GBV prevention and response of staff working with GBV service providers (Project in consortium with WRO, registered and approved in OPS with the code HIRQ19-PRO-GBV-154752-1 - "GBV assistance in the Nineva Governorate")
Provision of Comprehensive Lifesaving Healthcare Services across Iraq A consortium comprised of Stichting Cordaid, Doctors Aid for Medical Activities (DAMA) and Iraq Health Access Organization(IHAO) will provide immediate health assistance to vulnerable populations in 11 hard to reach areas across Iraq by responding to a gap in primary health, mental health, and SGBV services. The project will deliver a Comprehensive Primary Healthcare Package (CPHP) of services to vulnerable IDPs, returnees, and host community members. The healthcare package will include provision of primary health care, mental health and psycho-social support services (MHPSS), referral and training for Sexual and Gender-based Violence, community outreach and awareness through community health workers (CHW), maintenance of PHCs, and a comprehensive capacity building program for DOH staff and local health actors. With Cordaid acting as consortium prime, programming will target undeserved communities across Ninawa, Kirkuk, Salahaldin, Duhok and Anbar Governorates. Services will be delivered through both static PHCs and Mobile Medical Teams in the targeted areas. Primary healthcare will include general medical consultations for non-communicable and chronic diseases, communicable diseases, Reproductive Health (treatment of sexually transmitted infections, ante-natal and post-natal care, and family planning). In addition, all medical supplies and pharmaceuticals required for the proposed locations will be procured by the consortium members
Provision of specialized child protection assistance and community-based support to highly affected children and communities in Tal Afar, Tooz, Zakho, Sumel and Mosul Districts In line with the IHF 1st 2019 SA strategy, the proposed project intends to support highly affected IDPs and returnee communities in hard to reach areas and areas of displacement in Tal Afar, Tooz, Zakho, Sumel and Mosul districts in both camp and out-of-camp locations, as well as in AoR. For this purpose, Tdh and WCUK have joined in partnership to be able to provide a wide geographical coverage of key identified priority locations with critical CP needs as identified in the allocation strategy. The partners will provide specialized protection support to children and their families and communities to improve access to services, promote community-based child protection mechanisms and dynamics, as well as increase mainstreaming and understanding of child protection concerns among key actors and stakeholders.The project will target a total of 5 specific locations identified within the CPSC IHF allocation strategy in Ninewa, SAD and Dohuk governorates, based on Tdh and WCUK’s current operational presence and strategic added value in the following locations: (1) Tel Afar district, (2) Tooz district, (3) Chamishko Camp - in Zakho district, (4) Kanke Camp - in Sumel district amp (5) Qayarah Airstrip Camp - in Mosul district. Within the project’s strategy, Tdh will support returnees and out-of-camp IDPs in Tel Afar and Tooz districts, while WCUK will support in-camp IDPs in the three identified priority camp locations in Zakho, Sumel, and Mosul districts. This will allow the partners to address critical CP gaps over a wide geographical reach, while targeting the specific needs of the different affected populations groups: returnees, out-of-camp IDPs and in-camp IDPs. The project will reach a total of 6,370 direct beneficiaries over the span of 7 months, starting on February 2019. Tdh amp WCUK will help cover identified critical CP gaps in the targeted priority locations, through the provision of case management services for at-risk children, legal assistance in accessing civil documentation, mapping of services and strengthening of referral pathways, provision of structured PSS programs for children, Parenting Programs for caregivers, Emotional Support Groups for children with additional need for PSS assistance, awareness raising campaigns and activities on CP issues, establishment and/or strengthening of CBCP structures, including CPCs, Youth Advocacy Groups, and adolescent-led groups, and training on C approaches and mainstreaming for CP and non-CP practitioners, as well as training of teachers and school personnel as case management focal points. The proposed project refers to the OPS Project Code: HIRQ19-PRO-CPN-153816-1.
Comprehensive Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene assistance to restore services and reduce public health risks for the most severely conflict-affected areas in Iraq By early 2018, Iraq began its transition into a post-conflict context as the military conflict and occupations by armed opposition group (AOG) came to an end. The intensity of the conflict led to a widespread destruction of or damage to infrastructure, a consequent disruption of basic services, and a large scale displacement of affected people. Many water networks and water treatment plants were heavily damaged and their equipment was stolen, while the sanitation and water supply facilities at schools and healthcare facilities that had been co-opted for different uses during the conflict were damaged or fell into disrepair. Even with the end of the conflict and the slow returns of displaced people, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in many severely affected locations continue to remain disrupted or operating at low or fluctuating capacities. Without an integrated response to restore services and promote safe hygiene practices, many people living in or returning to these areas remain deprived of sufficient life-sustaining WASH services and remain at risk of a consequent deterioration of their health status. Moreover, a lack of services continues to be a highly cited reasons for people choosing to remain in vulnerable situations of protracted displacement. In order to address these needs, the applying consortium of 6 partners, Terre des Hommes (Tdh) – Lausanne, Arche Nova (AN), World Vision (WV), Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH), Sorouh for Sustainable Development Foundation (SSDF), and Janat Al-Frdaws Foundation for Relief and Development (JF), proposes to undertake a comprehensive and integrated 8-month WASH intervention in 13 of the 14 highly prioritized, severely affected districts in Ninewa, Salah Addin, and Diyala governorates. The proposed intervention will (1.) seek to improve access to safe water, exceeding the SPHERE standards, at community levels through the 7 rehabilitation of Water Networks and 2 Water Treatment Plants and other facilities, (2.) equitably improve the availability of water and sanitation facilities at 38 schools and 6 health facilities through a targeted rehabilitation activities and waste-management support activities, and (3.) improve hygiene practices at community, school, and health facility levels through gender-tailored hygiene promotion activities, and the distribution of gender-tailored hygiene items, benefiting an estimated 113,057 people. All rehabilitation activities will seek the participation and training of local stakeholders in all of the design, implementation, and exit stages of the project, in order to ensure local ownership of the work and a smooth handover at the end of the project. Moreover, the intervention at schools (WASH in Schools) and health facilities (WASH in Health) will follow a comprehensive approach, in order to address all WASH needs of people of all ages, genders, abilities, and intersectional vulnerabilities. Furthermore, in using a consortium approach for a collaborative and coordinated implementation, the consortium will seek to develop partners’ capacities, specifically but not only supporting the consortium’s NNGO partners, through peer-learning, mentorship, targeted training, and knowledge brokerage. The proposed project will provide durable WASH solutions for targeted communities, ensuring that local stakeholders have ownership of the interventions and appropriate training and tools at hand to continue to operate and maintain WASH services, allowing for a sustained impact of the project’s results.
Provision of immediate lifesaving Assistance, Agricultural inputs and Income Generation Activities for most vulnerable Returnees and host communities in Ninewa Governorate The project will provide emergency lifesaving assistance and livelihood kits to the beneficiaries in order to support the livelihoods of the most vulnerable and food insecure people in the Ninewa Governorate. The food voucher and the cash components of the project will be linked closely linked to the 4 month lean/hunger season and the provision of emergency livelihood inputs, especially crop kits, is closely linked to the agricultural season. Crop seeds must reach farmers at planting time, not too early as seeds may be used for other purposes, nor too late, in order to make the best use of the rains. The procurement process of crop inputs is long and also linked to the agricultural season. WV will maximize the procurement of locally produced seeds, either through seed fairs where possible or through local procurement of seeds. Tools, vegetable seeds and agricultural tools have a delivery time of up to 12-14 weeks. The crop kit consists of crop seeds and one hand tool. The composition of the crop kit varies depending on the agro-ecological zone where it will be distributed. The composition of the vegetable kits will depend on the preference of the recipients and their knowledge/capacities. For both the crop and the vegetable kits, leaflets providing explanations on how to use the seeds will be provided. To improve the food security status of Returnee populations and a dual approach is enhanced by the consortium of World Vision and Dorcas. On the one hand, Food Vouchers 1,950 Households = 11,700 individuals Cash for Work 300 individuals = 1,800 individuals plus their families, Greenhouses 22 Households = 132 individuals, Poultry Gardens 200 Households = 1,200 individuals, Agricultural inputs for small holder farmers 100 Households = 600 individuals, Livestock inputs for small holder farmers 45 Households = 270 individuals and Vegetable gardens for 100 Households = 600 individuals. World Vision will focus on Tel Afar (Zummar / Rabea) and Hamdaniya districts, while Dorcas will focus on Sinjar (Sinjar Markaz amp Al Shamal sub districts) amp Telkaif (wana sub-district. The OPS number to which you will have to refer is: HIRQ19-FSC-153922-1
Ensuring essential health care services for the IDPs in the camps, returnees, and host communities in the hard to reach locations and initiating the transition in the conflict-affected governorates of Iraq. The OPS code is, HIRQ19-HEA-154306-1 / location_on Iraq 2019 / WHO / Health The project will aim to provide essential health care services for the IDPs in the camps, returnees and host communities in the remote locations where the routine health care services have not been established yet. In addition to that, the project will emphasize the transition and integration of humanitarian health care services into the national health system. The response strategy will include providing the following services to the target population 1. Provide comprehensive primary health care services for the IDPs, returnees and host communities including improved physical and mental health screening facilities in (Sinjar town (Non-camp location), Laylan 1 camp, Amriate Al-Falluja IDP camp, Bersivi 1 IDPs camp, PHC Tazade camp, PHC Surdash camp, PHC qarato, Debaga 2, Harsham, Bahrka 2, Hassan Sham U3, Hassan Sham U2) 2. Continue and improve referral health services with improved, infection prevention, and physical and mental rehabilitation services 3. Transpose the Early warning and response network of communicable diseases and initiate integration of early warning system into the routine disease surveillance system 4. Continue to conduct assessments, surveys and case studies to enhance information management, evaluate the quality of services, and plan for evidence-based interventions through an integrated health care service.
Delivery of community-based services and referrals to promote well-being and enhance protection among IDPs, returnees and other at risk populations of concern in Iraq. In partnership with Iraq Health Access Organization (IHAO), IMC will contribute to the Protection Cluster’s efforts to provide GBV prevention and response to the areas where conflict–affected Iraqis, especially girls and women, are most vulnerable. By including community members and marginalized groups, such as persons with special needs, female heads of households, disabled people, adolescents, and older persons during project design and implementation, IMC and IHAO will ensure contextually appropriate and tailored interventions that meet the unique needs of each group. To ensure continuity, IMC has found that communities are more likely to consider the ideas put forward by other respected community members than those put forward by people with whom they are not familiar. The intervention will include support for existing static women’s centers and GBV mobile teams to provide specialized protection assistance and support services for survivors of GBV in Habaniya Camp (Anbar) and Beiji (Salah al-Din). IMC will utilize the existing women’s centers in Habbaniya and Beiji, which is a women’s center belonging to IHAO. In order to mitigate GBV risk and prevent further violence, IMC and IHAO will also conduct community engagement activities. In addition, IMC will also deliver sessions from the Adolescent Girls’ Toolkit Curriculum, designed to empower girls living in Iraq through the delivery of Life Skills, Reproductive Health, Gender Based Violence (GBV), Financial Education and Leadership information. International Medical Corps (IMC) is an US-registered independent affiliate organization of International Medical Corps UK (IMC UK), with which IMC UK shares the same name and charitable objectives and mission. IMC UK and IMC work together to deliver assistance programs in an accountable and effective manner in pursuit of their commonly-held charitable objectives. IMC UK will engage IMC to implement its programs in the field, with IMC UK oversight, according to the terms and conditions of any agreement that results from this proposal and the terms of the parties’ administrative service agreement. IMC maintains a branch office in Croatia, IMC Split, that provides administrative and operational support to IMC UK and to the programs on the ground, including but not limited to financial management, procurement management/international procurements, and logistics.
Strengthening the protection environment for conflict affected populations in Iraq The project is designed to address the major protection gaps within NinewaGovernorate of Iraq. INTERSOS, Non-Violent Peaceforces (NP) and Mercy Hands (MH) aim to strengthen the protection environment for conflict affected populations (IDPs, returnees and host communities) intervening in Ninewa Governorate (Telafar, Jeddah camps 1-6, r, Tal Abita and Hatara). This initiative will provide comprehensive and holistic protection assistance packages to targeted individuals in order to mitigate protection risks as well as to foster self-resilience of affected individuals, with tailored assistance for highly vulnerable cases. Protection assistance includes protection monitoring aimed at identifying and referring vulnerable persons in need of case management or other services and collecting data on protection issues/incidents and trends to inform evidence-based advocacy legal assistance (awareness, counseling, administrative and court representation) services including civil documentation, HLP and family law for GBV survivors full case management services for Persons with Specific Needs. For vulnerable persons under case management, a package of internal specialized services such as psychological individual counseling, legal assistance, emergency cash assistance for high risk cases and structured PSS will be provided as needed structured PSS targeting adults (particularly women and PWSN) awareness sessions on various protection topics and risks faced by the community including legal topics and HLP, general protection topics, availability of services. Comprehensive community-based protection activities, including comm unity forums, community-level protection assessments and training of community members on protection approaches will be carries out in Ninewa and will be complemented by training of and negotiations with authorities to improve the protection environment. Intervention will target girls, boys, men and women among displaced and returnees communities in urban and camps targeted locations of Ninewa, with a mix of mobile and static interventions.
Shelter assistance for vulnerable households living in critical shelter conditions in Kirkuk governorate HRF, working as lead partner with REACH Iraq, will provide comprehensive shelter support in all priority districts within Kirkuk governorate as defined by the shelter cluster within the allocation strategy. HRF will target a total of 1,393 households, covering all 1,266 households identified as in need of urgent shelter assistance by the shelter cluster, while targeting a further 10% to cover vulnerable households in critical shelter that may have been missed during the assessment phase. HRF will provide sealing off kits (SOKs) to 1,253 households across Kirkuk governorate. It is predicted that roughly 10% of beneficiaries (rounded to 140) will be living in critical shelter requiring further rehabilitation, either in unfinished or abandoned buildings. In these instances, HRF will provide more bespoke assistance tailored to the specific case. This project will maintain protection and gender sensitivity throughout. For particularly vulnerable households in need of shelter assistance but unable to use materials themselves, HRF will employ casual cash for work labourers to carry out construction work. All HRF and REACH staff will be provided with safeguarding and PSEA training prior to distribution, and gender specific measures - such as separate queues for men and women - will be considered where necessary. Beneficiaries will be identified using the SEVAT, which takes per capita expenditure – an indicator of per capita consumption – as a proxy for vulnerability. This assessment tool contains a number of questions regarding shelter status, and is a suitable and cluster endorsed method of beneficiary selection. Selection criteria will include but not be limited to, female headed-households, households with a high number of dependents, and households containing ill or elderly members. Extension Summary: HRF, in communication with relevant Shelter Cluster colleagues, have developed an extension to the existing project code IRQ-19/3884/SA2/NFIs/INGO/13807, Shelter assistance for vulnerable households living in critical shelter conditions in Kirkuk governorate. HRF plans to update the outputs to reflect HRF evaluation of the first year and the changing Shelter Cluster objectives. HRF plans to continue targeting out-of-camp IDPs across Kirkuk governorate, utilising a combination of continued SOK distribution, continued critical shelter repairs and the addition of rental support. HRF plans to deliver the following additional targets 1. 720 vulnerable out-of-camp IDP households in Kirkuk governorate supported with sealing off kits (SOKs). 2. 230 vulnerable out-of-camp IDP households in Kirkuk governorate supported with the rehabilitation of unfinished shelters. 3. 50 vulnerable out-of-camp IDP households in Kirkuk governorate supported with rental subsidies. The total length of the project extension will be 7 months. Within this project extension, HRF plans to remove the partner REACH. This is due to budgetary constraints and the ability for HRF to implement this project alone.
Emergency Telecommunication Cluster Recognising that humanitarian response in Iraq is shifting focus from emergency frontline assistance to addressing recovery, resilience and development-peace nexus activities, the Emergency Telecoms Cluster (ETC) has planned to phase out of Iraq by 30 March 2019. Therefore, during Q1 of 2019, the ETC will close internet connectivity services in 18 camps in As Salamiyah, Haj Ali and Hassan Sham as there is the availability of services from local providers that humanitarian actors can contract directly. The locations where ETC will be phasing out by 31st March 2019 are listed below As Salamiyah As Salamiyah 1 As Salamiyah 2 Hammam Al Alil 1 Hammam Al Alil 2 As Salamiyah Nimrod Hassan Sham Khazer M1 Hassan Sham M2 Hassan Sham U2 Hassan Sham U3 Haj Ali Qayyarah Jad’ah camp Jad’ah airstrip Jad’ah camp 2 Jad’ah camp 3 Jad’ah camp 4 Jad’ah camp 5 Jad’ah camp 6 ETC will start discussions with the CCCM cluster on the way forward regarding the towers and equipment as part of the ETC exit strategy. The ETC will also complete outstanding projects for which commitments have been made to the humanitarian community and handover support and maintenance of the secure communications network to either United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) or lead agency to be agreed by Iraq ICT Working Group. (OPS code is HIRQ19-TEL-154871-1)
Respond to women reproductive health needs among IDP, host community and vulnerable returnees in Iraq UNFPA aims to continue providing IDPs, host communities and returnees with quality reproductive health services at all levels – primary and referral. The demand for reproductive health services still in high demand due to the existing IDP camps as well as returns to the areas of origin, where basic social services are yet to be fully functional. Given this situation, lack of services including health is one of the top three concerns of both IDPs and returnees in Anbar (60% among returnees and 41% among IDPs), while it is the top concern among returnees in Kirkuk (100% among returnees), and Ninewa (72% among returnees and 51% among IDPs), and 81% among Salah al-din returnees. Preliminary findings from reproductive health service mapping reveal that while many partners have started to provide reproductive health services, such as, antenatal care, family planning and sexually-transmitted infections syndromic treatment, none of the partners provide support to emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC), both basic or comprehensive. Through implementation of this project UNFPA plans to intervene in selected governorates and districts on the basis of numbers of IDPs, residents and returnees in the governorates of Ninewa, Salah al-din, Kirkuk, Anbar, Diyala, Duhok, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. UNFPA will ensure uninterrupted RH services in all 52 IDP camps, four delivery rooms in IDP camps, six delivery rooms in host communities and six maternity hospitals in selected governorates. UNFPA, during the implementation of the project, will provide support to the service providers, procure and distribute RH kits and essential medical equipment to strengthen the technical capacity of health faculties. Through the implementation of this project, UNFPA will conduct series of training for service providers to strengthen their technical capacity.
Support to vulnerable farmers through agricultural inputs/kits, capacity building and cash for work schemes to revitalize food production, livelihoods and income in the rural areas of Anbar, Kirkuk, Diyala and Salah Al Din. Over the course of the four-year crisis, nearly 6 million people were displaced by the ISIL conflict in Iraq. Of the 8.3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance across Iraq, 2 million people are estimated to be food insecure with the majority (77 percent) women, children and elderly, including female-headed households. A majority of the returnees has been observed to be already food insecure or at elevated risk of becoming food insecure as the negative impact of the conflict prevails – following the loss of their food reserves and various productive assets/resources through looting and/or damage during their displacement. The project is expected to make a significant contribution to the sustainable food and agricultural livelihood security of Iraq’s rural and peri-urban population in Kirkuk, Anbar, Diyala and Salah Al Din Governorates. Returnees and host community will benefit from social safety interventions, appropriate agricultural input packages and training to reduce their household food insecurity and malnutrition and increase their income generating opportunities Furthermore, supporting rural women and girls to become more economically productive will promote equitable and sustainable economic growth. Most importantly, enhancing rural men and women’s life skills, will directly contribute to increase access and utilization of services, as well as the sustainable impact on social and economic status. OPS code: HIRQ19-FSC-154444-1
Improving Shelter Standards for IDP Camps in Iraq This project aims to cover critical gaps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in protracted displacement in two large and underserved camps in Iraq that are likely to remain open or serve as transition camps. Qayyarah Airstrip and Jad’ah camps host an estimated population of over 89,650 people living in tents that were provided in different periods during the Mosul crisis from 2016. The tents in those camps have long passed the standard lifespan and aren’t anymore adequate to provide shelter to the IDPs, especially in consideration of harsh weather conditions with cold winters and very hot summers. IOM will support humanitarian partners and camp management agencies to maintain an adequate shelter standard in those camps by setting up a procurement of 23,150 tents and tent replacement process that will lead to the replacement of 13,750 over a period of six months. This includes all the tents in Qayyarah Airstrip (to be replaced by DRC) and Jad’ah camps (to be replaced by IOM), since most of these tents were provided when the camps opened or expanded and have all been assessed by the Cluster for replacement. This will provide the camp population with an improved shelter standard and better living conditions that meet minimum protection and humanitarian standards. The revision request is for the additional procurement of steel frames to be used for already procured tents currently in the warehouses the tents and steel frames (800 tent structures in total) will primarily be used for the construction of quarantine/isolation areas in Dohuk governorate camps. Procurement and delivery of the steel frames should take 8-10 weeks from the signature of the project revision.
Protecting legal identity and housing, land and property rights to contribute to durable solutions in Anbar, Iraq OPS CODE: HIRQ19-PRO-153953-1 Through this project, NRC plans to support 9,219 beneficiaries (5531 returnees, 1936 internally displaced people (IDPs) and 1752 vulnerable host community individuals) to increase protection of their legal identity and housing, land and property (HLP) rights in three districts of Anbar governorate: Al Qa’im, Ana, and Ramadi. NRC will implement this project in collaboration with local partner Mercy Hands, and this project will build on NRC’s extensive experience in delivering legal protection activities in Anbar governorate as well as across wider Iraq. To strengthen the protection of legal identity rights, NRC’s Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) programme will provide multifaceted information on key Iraqi civil documents, as well as providing access to a related range of services and other rights. This will be accompanied by tailored legal counselling to empower people to seek solutions to their own legal needs, as well as referrals to specialised actors when relevant. In cases where follow up action by the beneficiary is challenging due to, for example, movement restrictions faced by some women in parts of Anbar, or people with disabilities, NRC will provide legal assistance to obtain civil documents. This work will also build upon NRC’s current research on the particular challenges faced by women headed-households, and their undocumented boys and girls, and will be accompanied by evidence-based advocacy to help find solutions for these people. This project will also strengthen HLP rights of target populations, and prevent and help resolve HLP disputes through information, counselling and legal assistance. NRC’s definition of legal assistance is any direct action taken on behalf of beneficiaries. Under this banner NRC will include community-based activities, using collaborative dispute resolution approaches such as mediation and negotiation. This will be accompanied by capacity building of duty bearers for community leaders and government staff, with a focus on women’s HLP rights. The OPS code for this project is G569760070, and this project received a GAM code of 4 (T).
Ensuring equitable access to assistance, protection, and services for IDPs living in out-of-camp settings in Salah Al Din The project will respond to the needs of the IDPs living in informal settlements and collective centres in West Shirqat, Tikrit and Samara in Salah al Din governorate by ensuring equitable access to assistance, protection, and services through CCCM. Specific activities include (a) establishing CCCM mobile teams for site management, monitoring and community engagement (b) establishing /updating master list of informal IDP sites at appropriate geographic level (c) establishing/updating 3W’s of partners operating in informal IDP sites (d) coordinating/ conducting intention surveys with relevant partners and clusters to ensure the intentions of populations are understood and supported (d) establishing or supporting existing governance structures and focal points for informal IDP sites (e) in collaboration with other clusters and partners, as well as the authorities, coordinate the establishment/ efficient use of documented referral pathways for assistance/service delivery (including to persons with special needs) (f) conducting site risk reduction activities through CFW or contractual implementation methods. In addition, complaint feedback mechanisms will be established across the sites of intervention to ensure ongoing modification of the project based on beneficiaries' inputs. The proposed project refers to the OPS Project Code: HIRQ19-CCM-154365-1
Transitional shelters for extremely vulnerable families in Zummar area – Phase II Taking into close consideration the national S-NFI Cluster’s specific guidance and priorities as well as the Iraq Humanitarian Pool Fund’s (IHPF) 2019 second standard allocation paper, UN-Habitat intends to distribute 1,000 Sealing Off Kits (SOKs), as well as supply 1,000 Non-Food Item (NFI) kits in partnership with a national NGO targeting people living in critical conditions in out-of-camp settings who do not have the necessary resources to improve their shelter conditions in Anbar Governorate. Based on UN-Habitat’s understanding of the demographics of Fallujah District, the project will directly benefit 6,000 people, including 2,160 women, 1,440 men, 1,440 girls and 960 boys. The average cost per beneficiary will be about USD72. More specifically, the project will ensure that displaced families and vulnerable populations living in critical shelter conditions have improved, safe, appropriate shelter, by upgrading and repairing basic shelters through the fast-track procurement and distribution of Sealing Off Kits. Additionally, an equal number of NFI Kits will be provided to beneficiaries to ameliorate the stresses and tensions placed on these families. While not a long-term intervention, the NFI Kits will support vulnerable individuals in strengthening their coping capacities as they transition incrementally to more durable shelter solutions. UN-Habitat has already dispatched a team of highly experienced national field engineers to conduct a preliminary, rapid assessment of the vulnerable caseload and consulted closely with the Mayoralty of Al-Amiriya Sub-district, Fallujah District. In consultations as recently as late August 2019, sub-national government officials confirmed the scope and needs of these vulnerable households and endorsed the proposed holistic package of activities. Due to the dynamic nature of the situation on the ground, UN-Habitat will continue to monitor and consider the critical gaps in the targeted areas in close consultation with the S-NFI Cluster to direct its response, ensure adequate coverage and avoid duplication of activities with other cluster partners, while ensuring the necessary flexibility to adapt the response according to prevailing needs. UN-Habitat has an extended history of working with national NGOs to implement core activities of its projects, while building the capacity of these national partners to ensure the long-term sustainability and impact of its interventions. These national NGO partners have extensive experience in implementing kit distribution and community-support work in the local area. To this effect, UN-Habitat will partner with a national NGO to carry out the distribution of NFI kits in the areas of intervention and also work on their capacity building through joint planning and implementation of project activities and workshops. Protection and gender mainstreaming will be central in selecting the beneficiaries during distributions and people most in need will be prioritized, including female-headed households and households with disabled or elderly family members.
Improving the lifes of vulnerable returnee- and host community households in Sinuni and Wana sub-districts through the provision of protection services and agricultural support (multi-cluster project) Although, Dorcas Aid International (DAI) is already present in Sinuni with Protection (GP amp GBV) and in Wana with FSL an additional needs assessment was necessary to identify the needs of the unreached populations in these locations. 12 Arab villages in Sinuni have been assessed, and 5 vilages in Wana. Core protection issues in the Arab and neighbouring villages in Sinuni sub district relate mainly to loss/absence of civil documentation, HLP problems (lost/damaged houses) and mental health problems. Core FSL challenges in Wana relate to loss of access to land and infrastructures, limited/no means to purchase inputs to restart livelihoods amp damaged/looted irrigation systems. DAI is currently working together with Harikar to tackle protection challenges in Ninewa amp Dohuk Governorates and as such presents a strong partnership to tackle the identified protection issues in the Arab villages in Sinuni and the FSL challenges in Wana. Though the sectoral approach per location is different, the reasoning behind this multi-cluster project is that because of the close coordination between the organizations and between the teams cross-referrals and exchange of info can be established. Moreover, through mixing teams and having Harikar's staff work out of DAI's offices on-the-job learning (capacity building) is ensured, quick and smooth coordination is envisaged and overhead costs are significantly reduced. The envisaged service package is the following: For the 12 Arab villages and we will also be able and willing to work in nighbouring villages in Sinuni sub district in Sinjar district, the consortium proposed a comprehensive protection package of outreach activities and through case management external and internal referrals. Internal referrals relate to legal assistance/counseling, HLP assistance and/or PSS assistance. External referrals can be done to DAI's amp Harikar's programs in the areas and to other service providers (such as MSF, MdM, Medair, NPA, SP, etc.) in the area identified through updated service mapping. For the 5 villages in Wana a comprehensive package of providing agricultural inputs (seeds, greenhouse structures, fodder, vaccines) and rehabilitating infrastructures (boreholes) is envisaged to enable sustainable returns to the area as livelihoods can be (re)started. Moreover, Harikar's experts ensure technical training of beneficiaries under each activity package to ensure received support is well-understood and sustainably used.
Provision of Child Protection and Education in Emergencies to conflict-affected IDP girls and boys in Ninewa and Salah Al Din governorates The proposed project will provide needs-based child protection (CP) and education services to support the acquisition of critical skills in literacy, numeracy and social and emotional learning to the most vulnerable girls and boys in Haj Ali, Hamman Al Alil, Qayara Airstrip, and Jeddah camps in Ninewa governorate, and Al Alam Camp in Salah Al-Din governorate. This project continues much of the work currently being undertaken by SC funded by UNOCHA. In Ninewa, CP teams will identify, monitor and report critical CP concerns and grave violations to the MRM, identify unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), support the most at -risk and vulnerable children with case management support and referrals to appropriate services, as per Iraq Inter-Agency Case Management SOPs, vulnerability criteria and referral pathways. UASC will be assisted with family tracing and reunification (FTR), and/or temporary alternative care arrangements where needed. The project also seeks to strengthen the psychological well-being and resilience of girls, boys, parents and caregivers, paraeducators and communities affected by conflict through the provision of resilience programmes and psychosocial support activities, positive parenting programming. Community structures will also be established/reactivated to lead on the CP community-based activities. In Salah Al-Din and Ninewa, SC will continue to extend access to quality formal and non-formal Education in Emergencies. SC will target school-age IDP girls and boys in camp settings to continue accessing essential education services, complementing with existing CP programs. The primary modality will be through ongoing support to existing TLSs and formal schools in camps to ensure continued access to essential education services. In Ninewa, formal schools in camp settings will be supported with urgent rehabilitation needs. In Salah Al Din, SC will provide formal, accredited learning opportunities and teachers will be supported with salaries. The OPS codes for Education and CP are as follows: Education: HIRQ19-EDU-154355-1 CP: HIRQ19-PRO-CPN-154597-1
Guarantee access to quality formal and non formal education for IDPs children in Jad Ha camps and returnees children in Falluja and Ramadi districts The action is proposed by TdH Italy in consortium with the local NGO SSORD. TdH Italy has a consolidate experience and presence in Ninewa camps through interventions of CP and NFE. On the other side SSORD is one of the main actor in Anbar, providing CP and NFE activities in and out camps since 2015. The project aims to support access to quality education to 3,000 IDPs children living in Jad Ha 1-2-3 camps (Ninewa) and 3,000 returnees children living in Falluja urban area (Anbar) through: (1) Provision of appropriate teaching/learning materials to 2 IDPs formal schools in camps and 3 primary schools in returnees areas (2) Light rehabilitation works for 3 primary schools in returnees areas and 2 IDPs formal schools in camps (3) catch up and remediation for children linked with the formal education system for 1,500 IDPs children living in Jad Ha 3 camp. The project aims to have a qualitative impact through capacity building programs targeting 150 formal school teachers, who will be trained on positive discipline, PSS, etc., and the light rehabilitation of formal schools. Mine risks awareness will be also provided to at least 6,000 children and 5,000 IDPs and returnees adults will be informed and mobilized on child protection and children right to education. Due to the possibility of closing Jad Ha 1,2 and 3 camps any time soon the projects already consider a possible alternative plan to minimize the risks. The b plan includes: (1) increased the activities in Falluja area covering more school (2) move the activities proposed for the camp setting in Jad Ha areas in the neighbours in West Ninewa and West Mosul where Jad Ha IDPs families will return. In this case activities will not change a lot but they will be re-focused to support formal schools and OOSC newly returned. Additional information about the B plan are included in the proposal. No changes in terms of number of beneficiaries reached are expected even if the locations will changed.
Improving Access to Education for Vulnerable Children Returning to Conflict-Affected Areas of Iraq This action will support 19,826 boys, girls, women and men in returnee areas with the highest severity of conditions in Kirkuk and Salah Al-Din governorates. PIN and SSDF will provide an integrated package of EiE support to students, teaching staff and parents in 24 schools identified and 1 TLS as most acutely affected in the target area. An anticipated 8300 girls and boys will benefit from enhanced access to quality and safe education. A thorough and transparent school selection process will take place at the outset of the project in order to identify schools most in need of support. This process follows PIN’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for school selection adapted to the Iraqi context. The selection process aims to ensure that schools most in need are targeted for support that the process promotes participation of relevant stakeholders and that transparency is at the forefront. More than 30000 community members will indirectly benefit from the activities and will be reached by the awareness campaigns. The selected locations are Haiwja and Beiji (PIN) and Samarra, Tikrit and AlKarama camp (SSDF). The joint proposal will bring together the expertise of both organisations ensuring a quality provision of education in line with the country priorities.
Education in Emergency intervention in support of boys and girls affected by the conflict in Iraq The 9 months project is a continuation of the one ending in December 2019 as part of the 1st SA IHF. The proposed action aims at providing access to safe and protective learning spaces to approximately 10,000 school-aged children through: i) rehabilitation of school buildings and TLSs ii) provision of equipment and Teaching and Learning Material (TLM) iii) establishment and support of Parents Teachers Associations (PTAs) iv) training to teachers in child safeguarding and pedagogy v) structured psychosocial support and vi) provision of catch up and remedial classes (NFE) for children who are failing to cope, at risk of drop out or who have been out of school. Building on a strong coordination with government, Department of Education (DoE), UN agencies, and Education Cluster, the Consortium (composed of INTERSOS as lead and Islamic Relief Worldwide - IRW) will ensure safe access to quality education to school-aged boys and girls (6-17) in IDP camps and urban settings. In Tel Afar the consortium will rehabilitate 4 schools providing a comprehensive education package which ultimately aims at supporting the formal school system and reintegrating Out of School (OOS). As for camp setting, the Consortium will intervene in their own structured Temporary Learning Spaces (TLSs) in Qayara Airstrip camp, Salamya 1amp2 and Jedda 5 (moving activities and resources from Nimrod and Haj Ali) enhancing the link between the formal and non-formal education. Thanks to the already established partnership and in collaboration with the DoE and formal school principals a referral system between formal and non-formal education will be created in camps. The children with more difficulties in catching up with the curriculum will be referred to the TLS, attendance and results jointly monitored. The established TLSs will be improved to guarantee a safer and conducive learning environment for students through enlargement works and maintenance moreover, they will be provided with TLM promoting the enrolment of children. TLM are also provided to formal schools in camps, supporting the transition to the formal education system. In order to ensure the synergy between formal and NFE (non-formal education), Partners will train Outreach workers, Education Monitors, Educational facilitators, formal school teachers and PTA members, both in camps and urban areas, on school code of conduct, safe identification and referral, child safeguarding and PSEA. Moreover, Partners will facilitate training on pedagogy and curricula focusing on the four main subjects for both teachers and Educational facilitators, through trainers identified by the DoE. This activity aims at improving the quality of teaching and establishing more structured interactions between NFE and government-supported schools.
Integrated CCCM response and Information management to facilitate durable solutions for vulnerable populations in Iraq Through this 12-month integrated response project, ACTED will lead a consortium composed of its sister organisation IMPACT Initiatives, through REACH Initiative and Voice of Older People and family (VOP-FAM), a national NGO aiming at providing an integrated response to the most urgent needs in and out of camp while supporting the facilitation of voluntary returns through enhanced information management and information sharing between camps, informal settlements within the service provided in the Community Resource Centres (CRC). This will be done through a clusterised response as follow: CCCM (Dohuk and Ninewa governorates) seeks to monitor service delivery in and out of camps, provide support to camp governance structures, build the capacity of local actors in Dohuk governorate, while creating a tangible link between camp management of Salamiyah 1 and 2 and CRC work in Mosul through Mobile Team (9 months, October 2019 – June 2020) REACH / Information Management (nationwide) seeks to provide the continuation of nationwide assessment and information management support to the CCCM cluster to enhance the capacity of actors to plan evidence-based responses for vulnerable IDP populations in Iraq (12 months, October 2019 – September 2020). ACTED will continue its ongoing CCCM activities to ensure that IDPs in the 17 IDP camps of Dohuk governorate (Berseve 1, Berseve 2, Derkar, Chamishku, Rwanga, Bajidkandala 1amp2, Khanke, Shariya, Kabarto 1 and 2, Essian, Shekhan, Mamrashan, Garmawa, Mamilian, Dawodiya) have access to life-saving assistance in Dohuk governorate and contribute to improve information sharing between the CRC in East Mosul and Hamdaniyah camps in Ninewa governorate. ACTED will carry out activities to improve the camp management capacity of local actors and promote the self-reliance of IDPs in Dohuk camps and informal settlement alongside VOP-FAM. Among the CCCM activities, ACTED will work on establishing/supporting existing governance structures for formal and informal settlements to ensure accountable participation, providing training on camp governance amp coordination, IDP communities in informal settlements across Dohuk governorate and enhance the capacity of the national partner of the consortium, VOP-FAM throughout the implementation of the project by providing an organizational support tailored to the organisation’s needs. ACTED and VOP-FAM will carry on the monitoring of service delivery in formal camps in Dohuk governorate and conduct informal sites assessments to identify gaps and avoid duplication of activities and participate in relevant CCCM coordination forums. To further deepen the understanding of gaps and needs, ACTED will conduct risk and safety audit in camps with VOP-FAM and similar assessments together with the sector leaders and volunteers of targeted informal settlements and VOP-FAM. REACH, a common initiative of ACTED, IMPACT Initiatives and UNOSAT, will focus on 1) profiling of formal camps to understand conditions and needs of the resident population 2) understanding IDP’s movement intentions in camps and in informal settlements 3) understanding needs and vulnerabilities of underserved population in informal sites across the country and 4) conducting area-based assessment and response gap analysis in selected areas of high returns to inform CRC operations and partnerships to facilitate durable solutions for those who return to their areas of origin . Additionally, REACH will support the CCCM Cluster with a part-time dedicated Assessment Officer, who will work on ad hoc requests from the Cluster, on additional analysis on REACH data according to the Cluster’s needs, and will be providing direct secondment at UNAMI with the Cluster one day per week.
NCCI Bureaucratic Liaison Unit -- Year 2 A clear and practical regulatory environment is critical to principled humanitarian access and programming. NGOs working in Iraq have regularly cited access, a lack of regulatory clarity, inconsistencies in the application of regulations, frequent procedural changes, and overlapping jurisdictions as impediments, which constrain humanitarian space and create challenges that cause delays to implementation and increase operational costs. BLU was founded in 2018 to advocate for the regulatory and operational space that allows NGOs to operate in Iraq. The unit is a leading information resource, providing relevant and updated information to members. BLU has fostered high-level relationships with relevant actors, including the central and local authorities in the GOI and KRI, the UN and the diplomatic community. Since early 2019, BLU has increasingly focused on access related issues. This project will extend BLU’s operations for one year. In 2019, NCCI will scale up work on access and field level constraints in close collaboration with the Access Working Group (AWG) while continuing to address the many other regulatory impediments. BLU will work with the authorities and other external actors to understand and communicate changing policies and practices to the NGO community. BLU will track, report and analyse NGO challenges and communicate concerns to government stakeholders. NCCI’s advocacy, knowledge management and coordination capacity will continue to help the NGO community maintain and expand humanitarian access. While many impediments arise unexpectedly, in 2019, BLU will prioritise NGO-oriented solutions to bureaucratic impediments, including working closely with the central and governorate-levels government and other external actors to understand and communicate changing regulatory policies and practices to the NGO community. Access: Acceptance of Access Letters in federal Iraq is inconsistent and continues to pose a challenge. Local actors, notably in Ninawa, have demonstrated a reluctance to accept letters issued by the JCMC. It is anticipated that this trend will continue with a spill-over to other governorates. BLU is working closely with the AWG and member NGOs, including relevant heads of base, to ensure a unified response. BLU’s engagement with the central government has already resulted in positive change in the Access Letter application process. NCCI’s advocacy with DNGO has brought the issue to the attention of the Secretary-General of COMSEC. BLU will increase its high-level engagement with the central and local authorities, and NGO heads of base, to find a workable solution. Blue will also submit all reported access incident to the AWG matrix. GoI Visas: BLU will continue to advocate for a faster and more streamlined visa issuance process including. clarity in the visa renewal process. Hiring quotas: Government officials, particularly in KRI, continue to pressure NGOs to comply with certain staff quotas. BLU will continue to advocate for principled humanitarian policies and regulations that are inclusive to all ethnicities. Work permits: MOLSA has asked NGOs to apply for work permits for their expat staff at a cost of 1000 USD per employee per year. BLU is working with the DNGO and MOLSA to obtain an exemption for expat NGO staff. Tax and customs: BLU will continue working with relevant government institutions on NGO compliance with tax, customs and transport regulations and to ensure the uninterrupted movement of goods and cargo from the KRI into GoI. Registration: The GOI registration process is cumbersome and can take in excess of one year. In May 2019, DNGO announced that it would no longer issue temporary registrations. BLU will advocate with DNGO to reconsider its decision. Residency restrictions on shared office space: As a result of our engagement, Residency has temporarily suspended restrictions on NGO collocation. BLU will advocate for this to become permenant.
Provision of Emergency Livelihood Support for Highly Vulnerable Returnees and Non-Displaced in Sinjar, Tel Afar and Tuz Khurmatu This project targets 1,350 highly vulnerable returnees (80% of the caseload) and host community members that have not been displaced and live in recently accessible areas (20% of the caseload) who are in urgent need of livelihood support in Sinjar, Tel-Afar, and Tuz Khurmatu. In line with the Emergency Livelihoods Cluster (ELC) strategic priorities, the project’s objective is to reestablish livelihoods through asset replacement intervention that would ensure a more sustainable and needs-based approach for income generation. The targeted beneficiaries will receive tools replacement grants or in-kind support (to a value of 600 USD) coupled with business training before the asset replacement and coaching throughout. This sustainable approach to restoration of livelihoods will help families resettle in their areas of origin. The 60% of the caseload assisted will be female headed households (FHH) with businesses in areas that are prioritized due to of high density of returnees as well as severity of conditions in the host community.
Livelihood recovery support for conflict affected households in urban settings in Kirkuk governorate This project will deliver a cash-based asset replacement livelihood intervention in urban areas of Riyadh and Hawija sub districts (Hawija district), in Kirkuk governorate. Cash grants will be distributed to 190 identified selected beneficiaries following a socio-economic vulnerability and capacity assessment of crisis-affected populations. With reference to the cluster’s SOPs and in consultation with Advisory Committees, TF will ensure that specific vulnerable target groups (including women, people living with disabilities, and the elderly) and a proportionate representation of all minority/ethnic/religious groups are selected for assistance. A breakdown in gender and age is provided as a part of disaggregated indicators. The overall number of direct beneficiaries is expected to be 70% men, 30% women. TF recognizes that HHs depict a number of cultural norms such as patriarchy in the HH, associated with men as decision-maker and control over finances. Nonetheless, there is a growing number of women achieving a degree of independence, often through sheer necessity, and the project aims to capitalize on this social trend. Priority will be given to female headed HHs and HHs with (large) numbers of dependents with special needs like people with a disability or elderly. The grants are intended to replace or repair productive assets lost or damaged during conflict and/or displacement such as equipment, supplies and infrastructure necessary to re-establish livelihoods. Upon completion of project awareness and sensitisation in targeted locations, individuals will submit grant applications to be considered for funding. A vulnerability and capacity assessment will be conducted on shortlisted applicants, to select final beneficiaries. Beneficiaries will submit a business plan after undergoing a four-day business development training to improve their financial literacy and business management skills. Grants will be disbursed through a mobile money transfer (Zain money) or Hawala agents, with whom TF has existing framework agreements. TF will conduct Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) 3-4 weeks after grant disbursement to gather feedback on the distribution process and monitor grant utilisation. Additional coaching and mentoring will be provided on a continuous basis with project staff to monitor business performance, and knowledge and skills gained during the business development training. Business appraisals will be conducted three months after grant disbursement to assess profitability and sustainability of income generating activities. The project will be implemented in consortium with a local NGO, Women Empowerment Organization (WEO), who will be responsible for conducting PDMs, and providing coaching and monitoring support to beneficiaries. Tearfund will use dedicated resources provided by this grant (see line 2.7 within the budget) to build their capacity in project management, and strengthen their livelihood programming through the following: - Livelihood training sessions, and training on the Kobo tool -Training on the SEVAT - ToT training for WEO staff on the Business Development Module facilitation - Joint review with TF staff on business plans and mentoring - Mentorship and capacity building of selected WEO staff on business appraisal process - Mentorship and capacity building to target WEO staff in conducting PDMs - Payment of salary of one WEO staff (Project officer) who will work from TF office in Kirkuk during the project period and attached to TF livelihoods Project Manager to develop their skills and expertise in project cycle management Through these activities, WEO will increase their livelihoods programmatic capacity, and gain exposure to IHF compliance, and coordination mechanisms.
Contribution to the improved protection of children and families in Salah al-Din TGH and Justice Centre have been implementing Child Protection and Legal Assistance programs in Balad, Yathrib, Aziz Balad amp Samarra, Al Mutassim since February 2019, under IHF 1st Allocation 2019. TGH continues to be the only INGO providing child protection services in this southern region of Salah al-Din, and this project is a continuation on and an expansion of those services, to cement protection response in the region. TGH has extensive experience in Child Protection interventions in rural, urban and camp settings. TGH will continue partnership with Iraqi partner NGO Justice Center (JC), continuing implementation of their expertise in legal assistance. The project aims at providing timely, culturally appropriate and gender sensitive child protection, and legal services to conflict affected children and their families, while strengthening community based mechanisms of risks prevention and response. As such, both immediate responses and long term solutions will be implemented, notably by building on the systems and service delivery already implemented, and continuing to build capacities. Based on the MCNA data and needs severity districts, as well as other secondary data and TGH/JC own needs assessments, TGH and JC propose to focus on Balad District, and Samarra District (Dijla), in Salah Al Din Governorate. A mix of mobile and static approaches will allow TGH, and JC to be flexible and to maximize its population coverage in this underserved area. Experience in working in the region has demonstrated to TGH and JC the ongoing need for support to address significant protection concerns. Psychosocial activities for teens, youth and children. PSS activities adapted to age, gender and specific needs will be provided by taking into each group’s specificities at all stages of the intervention. Mobile PSS with PSS bus will commence within first 6 weeks of project (allowing for procurement/contract signing with supplier amp recruitment). In the first 3 months of the project TGH, and JC will also seek suitable locations to use as community based centres in Balad and Samarra by which community members can attend for support services, and PSS. Both activities will run in parallel. Notably, and thanks to teams composed of skilled Child protection staff, and Lawyers, the intervention will tackle various risks that affect children and women’s access to their rights, development, resilience and well-being, and provide a comprehensive response. This project directly targets children, adolescents, families and to a larger extent the community. TGH will continue to expand and develop activities in schools and learning spaces (such as PSS, trainings of teachers and social workers, awareness events, and whenever possible support and linkage between members CPCs and PTAs). JC will continue awareness raising on Legal Rights and processes. The intervention will also target relevant stake-holders (teachers, social authorities, local authorities) to build their knowledge and capacity and improve on the long run children’s protective living and learning environment. The final month of implementation will focus on community feedback and assessments, providing evidenced based recommendations for ongoing humanitarian needs. TGH teams will conduct satisfaction surveys and needs assessments, recorded on KOBO Collect, ensuring consistency and clarity in data collection. Focus Group Discussions and Key Informant Interviews will also be conducted, with summaries provided annexed to final report.
Emergency shelter for vulnerable conflict affected population in Amiriyat Al-Fallujah The original project that started in November 2019 can be summarized as follows: This project aims at providing emergency shelter and NFIs support to 1337 vulnerable households from IDPs and Host Community in Amiriyat Al Falluja, through Seal-off Kits, shelter repairs, cash for rent, and Non-Food Items (NFI) distributions. ZOA and the consortium partners ensured working evidence based, by forming an assessment team that conducted a Rapid Shelter Assessment in Amiriyat Falluja sub district’s villages and neighborhoods, where 1528 hosted IDPs live in sub-standard shelter conditions. The assessment identified that IDPs who reside in rural communities and slum areas, live in shelters that lack the basic critical shelter minimum standards and are in need of shelter support. Additionally, some of those who reside in Al Ikhaa residential compound, have compiled debts because of delayed rent. Thus the project was designed to provide an integrated approach for shelter rehabilitation, with a complementary bundle of solutions Seal-off kits, shelter repairs for the missing home installations of water and electricity that increase workload, consume women time, and cause high risk on women and children rent cash support, and distribution of non-food items such as water filters, sanitary items, and home appliances. The nine-months' project structure is composed of a project coordinator from ZOA, two project managers with the partners, 2 project technical engineers with the two partners, two logistic officers with the two partners, 2 researchers with the partners, and an M and E officer from ZOA. ZOA leads the implementation and provides technical leadership and project management to the project, within the SNFI cluster's technical parameters for emergency shelter and with the SNFI Cluster coordination team's guidance. The extended project, that will run from December 2020 until June 2021 can be summarized as follows: The extended project targets more beneficiaries with SoKs and shelter repairs only. The budget under the cost extension will be USD 639,750 and will be implemented by ZOA and local partner EADE. Since we target less beneficiaries under the cost extended project and because the project duration is shorter, ZOA will work with only one local partner organization (EADE), therefore our partner Al Rafedain is not included in this extended project. The proposed activities, targets and locations are as follows: ZOA and EADE will distribute 350 SoKs ($270) and rehabilitate 400 ($875) critical shelters. In Ameriyat Al Fallujah ZOA identified a total of 361 IDP households in need of shelter support, either through SoK or shelter rehabilitation: - 150 households in sectors 2, 4, 9 and 14 in BzBz (these sectors were not targeted in the original project). - 34 households in sector 7 and 13 in BzBz (these households did not receive support under the original project). - 72 households in neighborhoods outside BzBz (Al Bu Hori, Al Bu Jasim, Al Hmideen, Al Hrimat). In Al Huriyah neighbourhood in Ameriyat Al Fallujah ZOA identified 105 IDP households living in unfinished buildings who therefore can be considered for SoK support. In Ramadi ZOA and EADE aim to support 389 vulnerable IDPs and Returnees with SoK or shelter rehabilitation support. - 389 households in Al Tash and Al Hmiray neighborhood in Ramadi.
Providing primary and reproductive health care services in Anbar, Dohuk, Erbil , Sulyamania, Diyala and Ninawa governorates The project is a consortium project and will aim to provide primary and reproductive health care services for the IDPs in two major camps in Dohuk governorate and area of returnees in Ninawa governorate. The intervention will provide continuation of ongoing life-saving assistance while ensuring access to essential and quality primary and reproductive health care services for IDPs and returnees families in a manner that is accountable, conflict-sensitive and supports the government's responsibility as the first responder. The primary health care response strategy will include providing the following services to the target population 1- Provide comprehensive primary health care services and BEmONC services for the returnees in Ninawa governorate, including treatment of common illnesses communicable and non-communicable diseases, chronic diseases, vaccination services, health education, strengthening of the referral mechanism, reproductive health services. 2- Provide reproductive health consultations (gynecological, antenatal, postnatal and family planning) in two major IDPs camps in Dohuk governorate. 3- Continue the early warning and response activities in the areas of returnees, continue the integration process of early warning system into the routine disease surveillance system In the consortium project the following organizations will work Dary Human organization will provide primary health care services target the following locations Khatare and Dughata in Tilkaef district/Ninawa governorate through running 2 primary health clinics. West Bank of Mosul city/Ninawa through running 4 MMCs providing primary health services in different neighborhoods according to a prepared schedules in coordination with cluster focal point and the health directorate where the there is a gap in the primary health care service provision, the following neighborhoods will be included in the MMCs schedule, however the schedule and targeted neighborhoods can be changed according to the need. Harkiar organization will provide support for the running of RH clinics to provide reproductive health care services in the following target locations Berseve 1 IDPs camp/Dohuk governorate. Essian IDPs camp/Dohuk governorate. Zhian organization will provide support for the running of RH clinic and delivery to provide reproductive health care services in the following target locations Al-Karam RH clinic in Mosul/Ninawa governorate. Al-Qush delivery room in Tilkaef district/Ninawa governorate.
Education assistance for conflict-affected populations in Iraq UNOPS CODE: HIRQ19-EDU-153954-1 The action will target IDPs in camps in Ninewa Governorate, (Hamam Al Alil 1 amp 2 (HAA 1amp2) and returnees in Ana Centre, in Anbar Governorate where the lowest net enrolment rates for primary education and secondary education of the country are reported. Children aged 6-18 years will be the direct beneficiaries of the education component. Teachers, non-teaching education professionals, parent teacher association members and the wider community members, will benefit from this project. There will be 13,870 direct and 13,870 indirect beneficiaries, utilising an one-to-one ratio. Vulnerable children will be identified, responded to and participate in the project through the activities. According to the Ministry of Education, in Ninewa, only 80% of females are enrolled in primary education, dropping to 25% female enrolment in secondary education. Anbar is the second lowest, with 86% of females enrolled in primary education, but only 39% in secondary education. These findings demonstrate the issue of access to education, and equitable access by gender. Therefore, beneficiary targets will be 50% female and 50% male, including those with disabilities. NRC has strong relationships in Anbar and Ninewa with the Departments of Education and will continue to coordinate and communicate with them, as well as the MoE to ensure effective delivery of assistance. This will include advocating and collaborating with the DoE Planning Departments to facilitate the continued rehabilitation and re-opening of formal schools, back to school campaigns and to ensure all policy changes are rapidly adapted into project implementation. To support protection mainstreaming, NRC will conduct awareness and sensitisation campaigns about the importance of girls' education through Mother Groups (MGs) and Adolescent Girl Clubs (AGCs). Specific programming will be considered for children with disabilities to encourage their access, participation and integration in education programmes, and teachers will be trained in Child Safeguarding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) in Schools. This would include rolling out focal points, a no tolerance policy, code of conducts and referral pathways. All teacher training will emphasise the unacceptability of corporal punishment, and will provide alternative methods which teachers can use to support classroom management. Where possible, NRC will seek to recruit at least 50% female teacher facilitators. If the presence of unexploded ordnance is suspected, NRC will engage with an appropriate mine clearing agency. Geographic Area Total # of Beneficiaries – Adults amp Children (M/F) # of Beneficiaries (M/F) – Children Only Ninewa Hamam Al Alil 1 9,730 (4,869 M, 4,861 F), 9,500 (4750 M, 4750 F) Hamam Al Alil 2 Anbar Ana Centre (Ana District) 4,140 (2070 M, 2070 F) 3,600 (1800 M, 1800 F) TOTAL 13,870 (6,939 M, 6,931 F) 13,100 (6550 M, 6550 F)
Provision of emergency one-off and multi-month, multi-purpose cash assistance to vulnerable households affected by conflict. In consortium with Medair and Jiyan Foundation, this project will provide one-off and multi-month cash assistance (MMCA) to a total of 2,827 vulnerable households (HHs) in Kirkuk, Salah al Din and Ninewa governorates. The cash will assist HHs to meet critical basic needs according to HH priorities. Assistance will be given regardless of HH status of either being an out of camp IDP, returnee or host family but on the basis of vulnerability,scored using the socio-economic vulnerability scoring tool (SEVAT) from the CWG, through blanket assessments conducted within all HHs in targeted locations. It is anticipated that 1,196 HHs will receive one off cash assistance, 965 HHs will receive two MMCA and 666 HHs will receive three MMCA. Of these beneficiaries, IHF funding will provide the survival minimum expenditure basket (SMEB) determined by the CWG to 648 HH (242 HH will receive one off assistance245 HH will receive two MMCA and 161 HH will receive three MMCA), with each cash transfer representing the equivalent of US$400. Both TF and Medair have OFDA funding for MPCA for July 2019 - June 2020 in confirmed locations. As such, this grant will also cover the non food portion of the SMEB (68%) for 2,179 HH (954 HH will receive one off assistance 720 HH will receive two MMCA and 505 HH will receive three MMCA) this intervention will enable partners to cover the food portion of the SMEB, and serve additional beneficiaries. Mobile cash transfers will be the preferred cash delivery mechanism Hawala agents will be used where mobile money is not available, or appropriate. By providing cash to vulnerable HHs, HHs will be able to prioritise their needs and the needs of their respective members. The partners will mainstream protection principles throughout implementation in line with HRP S02 on the centrality of protection the use of the new SEVAT and scoring tool will enable CWG partners to refer the most vulnerable HHs to government social protection services, where available, ensuring continued assistance through government support. Assessment data will also be used to identify HHs in need of referrals to other sectors specific assistance namely legal, case management, health, livelihoods and shelter services and, if possible to the Cash Transfer Social Protection Program (SPP) implemented by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MoLSA). Protection assistance will be provided through the partners’ referral mechanisms. Jiyan will facilitate referrals through transportation stipends in Mosul and Sumel for target beneficiaries to access protection, psychotherapy, legal, court representation, medical and psychiatric services to 80 cases (averaging 9 sessions each). The active participation of partners at CWG forums and activities ensure that both partners remain well informed of CWG requirements, processes and activities this will ensure high quality programming. TF has been implementing MPCA projects in Iraq since 2014, including projects in Ninewa, Kirkuk and Dohuk governorates while Medair has implemented MPCA and cash based intervention (CBI) programming in Iraq since 2015 in Kirkuk, Ninewa and Salah al Din governorates. Both partners deliver MPCA in accordance with CWG’s strategic objectives, and procedures, including the use of assessment and scoring tools. As long term partners globally, TF and Medair will share peer learning, best practices, processes and technical support to maximise project success. Through this consortium, the partners are able to ensure a wider geographical spread, to fill response gaps across ten sub-districts. TF will provide Jiyan with dedicated capacity building support, to strengthen their MEAL processes, and receive training on the SEVAT. Jiyan staff will receive training, to support the consortium in carrying out two joint vulnerability assessments in Sumel.
Protective environment supported in Iraq, to enable people to live a life of dignity where their rights are respected Although the context of Iraq is moving towards an ’early recovery’ level of stability that can enable durable solutions, simultaneously many parts of the country still require an emergency response modality of humanitarian intervention. In line with the Iraq HRP 2019 SO1, the first objective of the Protection Cluster, and the strategy of the 2019 IHF 1st Allocation, DRC proposes to implement a protection project in priority areas of Salah al-Din (Shirqat, Baiji, Tikrit) to achieve the following three outcomes: (1) access to justice is improved and legal rights are respected and obtainable (2) effective prevention, response, and remedial actions are delivered for rights violations and (3) Quality government, humanitarian, and recovery response to meet the needs of vulnerable populations. Activities will be delivered by experienced teams using a combined mobile and static approach. To contribute to the third objective, DRC proposes to host the Rapid Protection Assessment (RPA). OPS code: HIRQ19-PRO-154713-1 Project GAM Reference Number: G208836292 (4 (M): The project will significantly contribute to gender equality, including across age groups.)
Water, Hygiene and Sanitation support to most vulnerable displaced population in camps of Ninewa, Salah al Din and Baghdad Governorates This proposal represents projects from the six partners who make up the WaSH Consortium for In-Camp Interventions (WCICI), led by Solidarités International and representing ACTED (Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development), Sahara Economic Development Organization (SEDO), Arche noVa, Canadian Aid Organization for International Society Rehab (CAOFISR) and Sabe' Sanabul Organization for Relief and Development (SSORD). These six partners are proposing WaSH projects for eight camps across Iraq, focusing on provision of essential WaSH services, critical upgrades and where possible, pursuing longer term durable solutions for provision of these services. Below the partner projects are expanded in more detail. ACTED proposes to provide access to emergency water, sanitation services and hygiene support in Salamiyah camps 1, including the rehabilitation of Salamiyah Water Treatment Plant. As well as the activities within the camp, ACTED also plans to rehabilitate the Salamiyah WTP which is located outside of the camp, providing water supply to the in camp population. SEDO proposes to continue WASH activities in Haj Ali camp, Qayyarah district. It was established by UNHCR and IOM and has a population of approximately 16,000 people displaced from Mosul and Hawija cities. Arche noVa (AN) proposes to implement works on maintenance of water supply and sewerage systems in Al Wand 1 and Al Wand 2 IDP camps, increase hygiene and health awareness, solid waste management and desludging. CAOFISR proposes to target the water, sanitation and hygiene support in Basateen Al Sheoukh IDP camp, located in Shirqat, Salahaldin. CAOFISR is also the CCCM partner for this camp. SSORD proposes to maintain support for Abugrehab camp’s IDPs where as many as 750 families are still living, mainly in Abu Gharib (Al-Shams , Al-Amal and Al-Ahal) Rusafa (Nabi Younis , Maryam Al-Athraa) and Al-Rasheed (Latifya 1 , 2 and Al-Wahda). Solidarités International proposes to upgrade, operate and maintain the WaSH facilities at Nimrud Camp, and continue WaSH sub-cluster coordination.
Food Security, Agriculture, and Livestock Assistance to the extreme vulnerable returnees and local communities in Wana sub-district, Ninewa governorate, Iraq This project aims to decrease vulnerability of the returnees and local communities in Wana sub-district. Based on the program experience at the local level and strong coordination with Department of Agriculture, UN agencies, and FSC, this consortium (composed of IRW (Lead) and Dijla Agriculture Association DAA-NNGO) will ensure qualitative assistance to the targeted families which will enable them secure income that will help in supporting their family members and children to provide them with nutritional values and improve daily food intake of the family members and children. According to the FSC-Iraq, there are more than 2.5 million people in need of which 51% are children. IDPs in camps and non-camp settings are subject to returns to their areas of origin where they face ongoing insecurity, lack of basic services, lack of income sources, and food insecurity, tribal disputes and explosive hazard contamination, and often end up re-displaced. Consequently, return movements must be monitored to ensure that they are safe, having basic and essential food and livelihood assistance, informed and sustainable. In response, this project will provide food security and livelihood assistance to the extreme vulnerable returnees and local communities in Wana sub-district in Ninewa. The overall objective of this project is to decrease vulnerability of the Iraqi people and improve the food intake with focus on agriculture sector through the provision of agricultural inputs and services to protect agricultural productive assets and help restore fragile livelihoods of returning or vulnerable families in Wana sub-district. The nine months project will target 1400 HHs equivalent to 8400 individuals (2200 men, 2100 women and 4100 children) severely food insecure households in the targeted sub-district of Wana. A total of 600 HHs will be economically supported through livelihood intervention in the sectors of agriculture, poultry, and livestock, of which 270 HHs (main recipients are men) will be supported through distribution of seeds (Wheat and barley) and fertilizers, 30 HHs (main recipients are men)will be provided with 30 greenhouse (Please see specification in the attached BoQ) which will enable farmers to grow certain types of crops of vegetables year round, the farmers will also be trained on how effectively utilize the greenhouses and obtain maximum benefit, the training will be provided through an external expert hired to deliver training sessions to the selected farmers. The project team will ensure that the farmer who participated in the training will also convey the knowledge and skills gained from the training to other farmers in the area to ensure sustainability of the project as well as convey of the experience among the farmers in the area. 250 HHs (main recipients are women) will be supported with livestock inputs (3 female sheep pre family) for animal breeding, fodders and vaccines to cover the hunger gap for sheep, and a total of 50 HHs (main recipients are women) will be supported through provision of poultry to improve the food intake of the family and children through the intake of eggs and meat, in addition, broilers can be also sold to bring an income to the household and improve their income. (see BoQs-Annex-I). In addition, this project will benefit 800 HHs through rehabilitation of two boreholes, provision of sprinkler irrigation systems to 10 farmers, provision of cash for work for 50 farmers/labors for the purpose of preparation of lands of farmers in the targeted area. The cash transfer will be done through cash transfer Hawala (Asia Hawala/Hawala firm). The project will also form community committees among men and women in the targeted area to act as a link between the project and targeted beneficiaries, represent the beneficiaries, and be part of the service delivery monitoring process. The formed committees will be part of the rapid assessment to identify the most vulnerable returnees and local communities
Water, Hygiene and Sanitation support to most vulnerable displaced population in camps of Diyala and Baghdad Governorates and out of camps in Ninewa, Salah Al Din and Al Anbar, Arche noVa, Canadian Aid Organization for International Society Rehab (CAOFISR) and Sabe' Sanabul Organization for Relief and Development (SSORD), COOPI, Relief International (RI), SEDO and French Red Cross (FRC) have come together, under the lead of Solidarités International (SI) to make up the WASH-In and off camps consortium (WIOC) and to provide WASH support to the most vulnerable IDPs in camp as well as most vulnerable population out of camps. Based on the lessons learns from the WCICI and WOOC, funded by IHF this project was designed by these 8 NGOs, both national and international, to meet the uncovered WASH needs of 8 716 IDPs (individuals), in 11 IDPS camps across Iraq, while being in line with the WASH cluster and IHF’s strategy. For intervention out of camps, 74 166 individuals will be covered. Through this project, the consortium intends to have an integrated approach, by satisfying IDPs’ needs for clean water, guaranteeing IDPs the possibility to have good hygiene practices and provide them a healthy living environment. More specifically, partners propose to provide clean water, in sufficient quality and quantity, by maintaining and operating the water supply in the camps. Partners will also focus on upgrading latrines and showers and making hygiene services accessible to the whole population of the camp, including those with special needs, and increasing hygiene and health awareness. In addition, partners will provide a clean environment to the camp population by upgrading the desludging system and maintaining the solid waste management. Below the partners’ contributions are explained in more detail. Arche Nova (AN) proposes to reach a total of 4,746 beneficiaries, intervening in Qoratu, Al Wand 1 (ALW1) and Al Wand 2 (ALW2) IDP camps in Bagdad governorate. AN will implement works on maintenance of water supply and upgrade of sewerage systems and hygiene facilities, as well as increase the access to hygiene items and good hygiene practices. In addition, AN will provide solid waste management services. SSORD proposes to maintain WASH support to 3,970 IDPs in the Baghdad camps living in Abu Gharib (Al-Shams and Al-Ahal) Rusafa (Nabi Younis, Maryam Al-Athraa) and Al-Rasheed (Latifya 1, 2 and Al-Wihda school). Throughout all these activities, all the partners will integrate an inclusive approach, with a strong focus on gender and social habits of the beneficiaries, on addressing the needs of people with disabilities and mitigating against GBV risks. SI, CAOFISR, COOPI, SEDO, RI and FRC will implement activities out of camps respectively in Mosul, Muhallabiyah, Shirqat, Beiji, Tuz Khurmatu, Fallauja and Ramadi and SInjar. Finally, the project is integrated into a wider approach of capacity building between partners, so that all can benefit from the consortium structure, going beyond the administrative modality. This capacity building component will be integrated in the Consortium Management Unit (CMU) composed of one Wash Specialist, one Compliance specialist, one MEAL officer and Support Manager to launch activities. this CMU will be managed by The country Director. CAOFISR: due to closure of Basateen camp announced for end of September and on going displacement between Qayarah camp and Shirkat city (out of camp), CAOFISR proposes to target 2500 families in secondary displacement in Shirqat through WASH and CCCM activities from the closure of Ninewa and Salahaldin camps. The activities are aimed at ensuring the families continue to have access to life saving assistance while living in informal settlements, and to try and identify durable solutions for the population in need while centralizing protection through AAP and PSEA activities. CAOFISR is as well proposing emergency activities through CCCM cluster in basateen camp. The related project summary is in annex 33.
Mobile site management response to vulnerable IDPs in informal sites across Anbar Governorate Camp HIRQ19-CCM-154826-1 As Kilo 18 and other camps in Anbar are imminently closing, NRC’s project will focus on providing support to underserved populations in continued displacement, both in secondary displaced areas, and at areas of origin, in alignment with the 2019 CCCM Cluster Strategy. NRC’s CCCM intervention will support these populations through a comprehensive package of community mobilization, small-scale care and maintenance activities, the establishment or bolstering of referral pathways (with an emphasis on referrals to protection services), and linkages to other services which will benefit displaced populations. The proposed activities are a continuation of NRC’s support to Camp Management activities in Kilo 18 camp, and will be delivered through a mobile site management (MSM) approach for internally displaced persons (IDPs) across informal sites in Anbar Governorate. The population of IDPs is expected in informal sites is expected to increase as camps such as Kilo 18 have faced premature closure and coerced returns or evictions, while other camps such as Bziebiz and HTC appear to be on the same track. Building on its existing geographic presence in Anbar, NRC will seek to reach 1,000 households (HH) through MSM interventions across Anbar, with a focus in Qa`im, Rawa, Ana, Hit, and the rural areas of Al-Khaldiyah. The intervention will begin with identified informal sites, but also expand to newly identified locations of displacement in coordination with the CCCM Cluster. NRC expects a further 926 vulnerable host community individuals to benefit from project activities that emphasize community public works, in the form of communal infrastructure/service projects. This gives NRC a unique opportunity to provide multiple services to vulnerable HHs where other actors are yet not present. The selection of informal sites in Anbar for this project is based on the current movement trends out of the Anbar camps – as they are forcibly closed (such as Kilo 18) and through analyzing the areas of origin of IDPs currently in Bziebiz and HTC camps - which are both expected to close in the coming months. As many IDPs will be unable to return to their areas of origin due to lack of services, destruction of homes, security clearance issues, and perceived extremist affiliations repeated displacement is expected to rise. This project is based on NRC’s direct assessment of needs, as well as an analysis of displacement data from the International Organisation of Migration (IOM)’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), the Rapid Assessment Site Profile (RASP), and the Formal Site Monitoring Tool (FSMT). The proposed activities will complement and build upon NRC’s existing ongoing multi-sectoral programming in Anbar governorate, both in CCCM and across a range of other integrated sectors such as Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA), Education, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). Recognizing that different groups such as men, women, boys and girls, people with disabilities, or the elderly have different needs and abilities to access services, NRC will assess and tailor approaches accordingly. One of the examples in this context, in particular accessing women and people with disabilities (PWD), that NRC uses are (i) gender-sensitive mobile teams to support linking these groups with relevant services, and (ii) referral system. These interventions are highly important for vulnerable populations who remain displaced in Anbar during 2019. Although continued returns of displaced populations were witnessed in 2018, the slowed pace of returns in the final quarter of 2018 has indicated that voluntary returns are likely to be saturated. As the focus of both the GoI and institutional donors shifts towards returns and durable solutions for those who are able to return, it is imperative that humanitarian actors maintain support to meet the needs of the underserved population that will remain in protracted displacement.
Sustaining Access to Nutrition, Neonatal and Child Health Care Services to Vulnerable IDP Children and Women living in Camps 126,719 vulnerable IDPs, including 44,076 pregnant and lactating women (PLW), 40,491 under 5 girls (U5) and 42,152 U5 boys living in camps in 8 governorates require sustained and scaled up access to proper health and nutrition services, without which they will remain at risk of and be more prone to diseases. Being unable to cover these services, or directly apply for IHPF funding, Ministry of Health has therefore requested UNICEF as a provider of last resort for support to sustain and scale up critical basic health and nutrition services including: immunization, nutrition, (Infant Young Child Feeding/ growth monitoring/ management of SAM) and neonatal health care. UNICEF is therefore requesting IHPF funding to sustain and scale up: Nutrition services (a. protect, promote and support optimal infant and young child feeding practices with special attention to breast feeding and complimentary feeding counseling for all PLW mothers and their babies b. Management of malnourished children including screening, treatment and referral). Newborn home visits (for all in camps newborn babies and their mothers) with timely referral services whenever required. OPS code :XNP--151824-1 (provide basic health and nutrition services to IDPs and Returnees ) UNICEF will support the following camps : Anabr Governorate 1. Ameriyat AL-faluja camp 2. Habniya Tourist city camp 3. Bezaibz camp Salah EL-din Governorate 1. Al-Alam camp 2. Shahama camp 3. Dream city IDP complex 4. Qadssiya IDP complex Baghdad /Abo Graib 1. Al-Ahel camp 2. Al-Amel camp 3. Ah-Shams IDP complex Erbil 1. Baharka Camp 2. Harsham(Al Bohoth Al Zirayah)Camp 3. Dibaga Camp 2 4. Dibaga(Shuhadaa Al Emarat)Camp 5. Laylan 2 Camp 6. Laylan Camp 7. Nazrawa camp 8. Yahyawa camp Kirkuk 1. Laylan 2 Camp 2. Laylan Camp 3. Nazrawa camp 4. Yahyawa camp Ninawa 1. As Salamyiah 1 camp 2. As Salamyiah 2 camp 3. Hasansham U2 camp 4. Hasansham U3 camp 5. Khazer M1 camp 6. Salamyiah Nimrud camp 7. Haj Ali camp 8. Hammam al-Aliel 1 camp 9. Hammam al-Aliel 2 camp 10. Qayyarah Jad’ah 2 camp 11. Qayyarah Jad’ah 3 Camp 12. Qayyarah Jad’ah 4 Camp 13. Qayyarah Jad’ah 5 camp 14. Qayyarah Jad’ah 6 camp 15. Qayyarah Jad’ah 1 Camp 16. Qayyarah Airstrip 17. Mamilyan 18. Garmawa 19. Esyan 20. Mamrashan 21. Shekhan Sulaymaniyah 1. Darbandikhan 2. Dokan 3. Kalar 4. Sulaymaniya 5. Sulaymaniya Duhok 1. Bersev 1 2. Bersev 2 3. Darkar 4. Cham meshko 5. Kabarto 1 6. Kabarto 2 7. Bajed Kandala1 8. Bajed Kandala 2 9. Khanky 10. Rawanga 11. Sharyia
Consortium of Community Protection, Legal and HLP Assistance to Conflict Affected Iraqis in Salah al-Din and Kirkuk A consortium of one local NGO, Justice Center, and two INGOs, Oxfam and IRC, will target Kirkuk and Salah al-Din with Justice Center leading on legal assistance, representation, awareness raising, counseling and coordination of the judicial system. Assistance will be integrated into Oxfam’s community-based protection activities, including community groups, cash for protection, integrated referral systems, and capacity building of local NGOs in protection and community-based protection approaches. The project targets community groups to improve identifying, responding and advocating for their protection needs. This will be done through building the communities’ self-protection capacity, facilitating safe and timely access to emergency and protection services and cash for protection as practical live-saving humanitarian assistance to support vulnerable groups to reduce, mitigate or respond to protection risks. Community-based activities will contribute to the process of strengthening community structures that will provide minimum services including referrals link to address gender and protection risks for women, men, girls and boys. The project will further strengthen the capacity of the local actors, particularly those working with women and children to mainstream protection, gender and GBV prevention in humanitarian interventions and to provide appropriate response measures. As consortium lead, IRC will directly implement housing, land, and property (HLP) and legal assistance activities in Kirkuk and coordinate the consortium’s integrated programming by ensuring collaborative approaches, planning, capacity building and mentorship and will lead on building the operational capacity of the local NGO partner. IRC will also provide legal mentorship of the local NGO partners implementing their legal activities and provide an MampE support system to ensure accountability to our beneficiaries and quality legal assistance. A key component of this project is to both support conflict-affected Iraqis claim their legal rights and strengthen community protection within at risk and vulnerable communities, whilst also strengthening local NGO operational and technical capacity so as to transition into a national based approach to the emergency and impending early recovery and development phase of post-conflict Iraq. The focus on legal assistance will be integrated into the referral systems of community-based protection, awareness raising across the consortium partners, and legal systems strengthening through the roundtables and events. Legal teams will also be able to make direct referrals from the service mapping provided, have a protection lens in their approach and assistance, and build trust and rapport within the affected communities. Justice Center’s capacity will be carefully managed by providing a full-time legal Team Leader in Salah al-Din and capacity building trainings from both Oxfam and IRC for JC. A shared learning approach will be applied with case conferences made and technical support from IRC available and proactively following up on JC cases and impact. A consortium coordinator will monitor JC’s work, monitoring and accountability and run a consortium opening, conduct monthly visits to JC office, and run quarterly lessons learned, and facilitate the relationship between Oxfam, IRC and JC.
Provision of Emergency Livelihood Support for Highly Vulnerable Returnees and Non-Displaced in Kirkuk camps Lailan Camp 1, Lailan Camp 2, in Diyala: Khaneqeen; Jalawla Saadia And in Salah El Din: Tooz Khurmatu This project targets 518 highly vulnerable camps IDPs (40%) returnees (40%) and host community (20%) members who live in recently accessible areas and who are in urgent need of livelihood support in Kirkuk camps , Diyala -Khanaqin (Jalawla, Sadiyah) and Salahadin (Tuz Khurmatu Hay Komari-120, Hay Rizgari-114 and a cluster of smaller locations). In line with the Emergency Livelihoods Cluster (ELC) strategic priorities, the project’s objective is to re-establish livelihoods through asset replacement intervention that would ensure a more sustainable and needs-based approach for income generation. The targeted beneficiaries will receive tools replacement grants or in-kind support (to a value of 600 USD) coupled with business development training before the asset replacement and coaching throughout in addition to promoting saving groups as a way to increase financing options for small and micro income-generating activities. This sustainable approach to the restoration of livelihoods will help families resettle in their areas of origin. 60% of those assisted will be female while the remaining 40% will be male. Female-headed households will be particularly prioritized. The consortium members are POINT andOxfam and it’s led by a national partner, POINT. Oxfam will cover Diyala and Salahadin and POINT will cover Kirkuk camps. All the consortium partners will implement the activities through local partners with the technical support and guidance of consortium members. Emphasis will be placed on building the capacity of local partners throughout the project period.
Nissa III - Strengthening the provision of GBV services in Ninewa and Kirkuk governorates Women and girls have been disproportionately impacted during the previous crisis and conflict and continue to face risks of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the post-conflict Iraq. As displacement becomes increasingly protracted and the general lack of safety in communities persist and continue to deteriorate, risks of all forms of GBV against women and girls persist, including sexual violence, intimate partner and family violence, sexual exploitation, harassment and forced marriage. Current GBV service provision is insufficient to meet the needs of survivors with substantive gaps in the availability of lifesaving GBV case management and PSS services across Iraq, especially care for girls and child survivors.Combating GBV requires a comprehensive strategy that prioritizes access to services while also fostering a protective environment through coordination of GBV prevention and response efforts amongst all humanitarian actors. Since October 2017 UPP has been managing 6 women’s centers inside Mosul under the project “NISSA – Strengthening the provision of GBV services in Ninewa Governorate” funded by UNFPA and IHF. The project provides GBV and MHPSS services to women, girls, boys and men, including case management, awareness raising, Adolescents Girls (AG) program, community engagement and promotion of behavior change. An important component of capacity building on GBV response and prevention includes training on CRM (Clinical Management of Rape), targeting DoH staff, with the objective of supporting the sustainability of the action. UPP will continue the intervention inside Mosul and expand it to Bartella through a mobile team. Women Rehabilitation Organization (WRO) has been providing GBV services in Salamiya 2 camp since 2018, through awareness raising, structured psychosocial support,case management and capacity building for community members.Special focus has been put on adolescent girls and the engagement of men and boys.Their intervention will expand in Nimrud urban area, through the deployment of a mobile team that will provide basic GBV response services. The access to GBV and MHPSS services would therefore be strengthened through the proposed activities in Mosul and Nimrud subdistrict providing capacity building and training specifically chosen to support the economic empowerment of the beneficiaries. Kirkuk Governorate is a priority area included in the National Protection Cluster Allocation Strategy Paper. Thanks to the setup of a women's center in Daquq (Kirkuk District) and a mobile team in Laylan 1 and 2, Al Amal Association (IAA) will be able to provide GBV case management (including legal assistance), PSS support for singles and groups, outreach and awareness activities that involve men and boys. Women and girls will benefit from the activation of recreational activities and referred to livelihood opportunities, if present. Identified community members will take part in capacity building activities concerning GBV prevention. Through 3 static centers in East and West Mosul, 1 mobile team in Bartella, 1 static center in Salamiya 2 camp, 1 mobile team in Nimrud, 1 static center in Daquq and 1 mobile team in Laylan 1 and 2, UPP, WRO and IAA will provide the following joint response and prevention activities 1. Conduction of continuous GBV assessments: Focus group discussions and key informant interview Adolescent girls’ assessment Service mapping exercise GBV situational analysis 2. Provision of awareness raising and community outreach activities to WGBM: Door-to-door dissemination of information on available GBV-related services Awareness sessions on domestic violence, reporting, sexual violence and family planning with a special focus on men and boys Mass information campaign through dissemination of key messages on prevention, where to report, physical and mental health consequences of sexual violence and other forms of GBV, how to access care, victim blaming.
Camp Coordination and Camp Management of Basateen Al Sheoukh IDP Camp CAOFISR will continue its coordination and management of Basateen Al Sheoukh IDP Camp in order for the camp residents to receive the timely distribution of aid and shelter, while mitigating risks and hazards within the camp. Due to the expressed need from the families, CAOFISR will also be implementing additional activities to support the return of families. The success of the project relies on the efficiency of staffing by identifying the needs of the camp population, and designing ways to assist returns or connections with the job market. The project's objective is aimed at supplying the camp population with life saving support through CCCM activities and protection, while simultaneously providing them with trainings and opportunities that may initiate their camp departure. The main objective is to allow for CAOFSIR, as the CCCM actor, to empower the camp population to begin functioning independently, identify needs that can also assist that process, and coordinate the assistance. Current mechanisms will be updated and reinforced to ensure the sharing of information is efficient, and that the government takes a larger role with managing the population in need. The CCCM team will conduct surveys within Shirqat to understand the current market needs, and the trainings taught to the camp residents will be targeting those gaps, and allow for income opportunities. Protection is the main concern for CCCM, and through all activities, the mitigation of risks and hazards are done through the program activities. The activities are aimed to support the camp population by maintaining the database of the camp population, identifying needs within the camp, referring individuals to the correct authorities, mitigating risks and hazards, supplying individuals with financial aid through CFW activities, providing trainings and awareness session on GBV and gender equality and establishing government structures. The goal of this project is to create a plan forward for the families in the camp so that they become less dependent on aid and the responsibility of their livelihood shifts from the CCCM partner, to themselves. For CAOFISR to efficiently perform the trainings, a communal space will be constructed. It will be used by the committees as well, and a space for other organizations to utilize for any of their activities or trainings. OPS ref #: HIRQ19-CCM-154451-1 / location_on Iraq 2019 / CAOFISR / Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM)
Evidens för stärkt resiliens hos hälsosystem vid översvämningar i Kambodja Health system resilience and flooding in Cambodia: Developing the evidence Kambodja är ett låginkomst- och katastrofbenäget land, där naturkatastrofer förutspås bli mer intensiva och mer frekventa på grund av klimatförändringar. En stor del av befolkningen är sårbar, framförallt de som lever i fattigdom och katastrofer riskerar förvärra deras situation ytterligare. Hälso- och sjukvårdssystemen i resurs-knappa miljöer är mindre motståndskraftiga i att absorbera de chocker en katastrof innebär, vilket leder till en erodering av hälsosystemets kapacitet och motverkar uppbyggandet av ett resilient system. Det nationella folkhälsoinstitutet (NIPH) arbetar under hälsoministeriet och är ett unikt utbildnings- och forskningsinstitut inom folkhälsa i Kambodja. NIPH är internationellt erkänt inom hälsorelaterad akademisk undervisning och forskning, och har en gedigen multidisciplinär erfarenhet av olika EU-finansierade forskningskonsortier. Syftet med detta forskningssamarbete mellan NIPH och Kunskapscentrum för Katastrofmedicin (KcKM) Global hälsa- Hälsosystem och Policy vid KI är att stödja och stärka den institutionella kapaciteten inom forskning, undervisning och policy dialog på NIPH, inom folkhälsa, katastrofer och hälsosystem. Detta kommer i sin tur leda till förbättrad och utökad kapacitet att förebygga katastrofer, förbättra katastrofinsatser och förmågan att förbereda hälsosystemet att hantera kommande katastrofer. KcKM har över tio års erfarenhet av både forskning, undervisning och praktiskt arbete i katastrofsituationer och fokus på verksamheten ligger i att förbättra katastrofinsatser genom forskning, utbildning och teknisk support. I januari 2015 genomförde KcKM en workshop i Phnom Penh, Kambodja, för forskare på NIPH och hälsoministeriet för att belysa ämnesområdet katastrofmedicin. Det öppnade vägen för ett fortsatt och utökat samarbete mellan KI och NIPH. Under workshopen definierades områden för gemensamt arbete, både inom Kambodja (ex. mellan hälsoministeriet och NIPH) och internationellt med KI. Det första målet med det föreslagna samarbetet är att bedriva operativ forskning om hälsosystem och folkhälsa i katastrofer, relevant för den lokala kontexten. Syftet med samarbetet är att genom relevant och innovativ forskning av god kvalité bidra till evidens för stärkt resiliens hos hälsosystem vid översvämningar i Kambodja samt bygga kompetens och förmåga hos NIPH och KI. Vi söker bidrag för att starta forskning och utveckla samarbete som på lång sikt kommer stärka den nationella resursbasen, både i Kambodja och Sverige, att förhindra och hantera katastrofers effekter på hälsosystemet. Cambodia is a low-income country where flooding is predicted to become more intense and frequent as climate change continues. Health systems in resource scarce settings are less resilient to absorb the shocks of disasters, leading to erosion of health system capacities. The purpose of this project is to build on an ongoing research collaboration between the NIPH and KI is to support and strengthen institutional capacities in research, education, response and policy dialogue. Between 2017 and 2019, we aim to explore the health and health system effects of flooding in Cambodia and factors that may strengthen health system resilience, by identifying morbidities and risk factors for changes in health service delivery during flood periods. We also aim to expand and provide support to the current NIPH education and training programs and build capacity for response and policy dialogue, aligned with the Cambodia disaster response system, through teacher exchanges and research-related workshops and group meetings. Improving capacity will lead to Cambodia's improved preventative and resilience capabilities in upcoming disasters. Both institutions will benefit from the knowledge generation, and individual researchers and students will gain from the educational and supervisory opportunities and the application of skills and training.
Development and expansion of the health and social protection action research & knowledge sharing network (SPARKS) Utveckling och spridning av forskningsnätverket SPARKS (social protection action research & knowledge sharing network) The primary focus of SPARKS is on social protection and health, an issue that is timely in the context of the sustainable development goals and relevant to Swedish development goals. This proposal will expand the implementation research arm of SPARKS by 1) Developing a common framework and protocol to evaluate health and social protection interventions 2) Developing and growing a collaborative SPARKS network between institutions/organizations in South East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and North America to facilitate action research on social protection 3) Building social protection action research capability in the network’s identified institutions and beyond and 4) Identifying, drafting and submitting joint funding applications and publications within the network on social protection action research for tuberculosis, and other communicable and non-communicable diseases. The collaboration will be conducted democratically with the participation of partners from Mozambique, Uganda and Vietnam. The funding is sought for two years, during which the collaboration will hold two face-to face-meetings, and at least four research clinics (online journal clubs) for early career researchers. In addition, relevant online courses from each partner will be opened for participation for all the other partners. Online tools will be used to work on joint proposals. The collaboration will contribute to global goals and further implementation science in social protection and health. Solidariskt finansierad och heltäckande sjukvård av hög kvalitet (Universal Health Coverage - UHC) ligger högt på den globala hälsoagendan. Att nå det i alla länder världen över är ett av de högst prioriterade globala målen för hållbar utveckling inom Agenda 2030 (SDGs). Sådana sjukvårdssystem ska säkerställa såväl tillgång till optimal vård som att katastrofala sjukvårdskostnader undviks för personer som drabbas sjukdom. Detta är en nödvändig men inte tillräcklig komponent av fattigdomsbekämpning och sociala skyddsnät. Utöver minimering av sjukvårdskostnader krävs även en heltäckande socialförsäkring som kan kompensera för inkomstbortfall och andra indirekta kostnader kopplade till ohälsa och sjukvårdsutnyttjande.   Många länder stärker sina system för att skydda sin befolkning från förödande privata sjukvårdsutlägg, men system för skydd mot inkomstbortfall och andra kostnader släpar efter betydligt. Ansvaret för sådana system vilar på både sjukvården och socialsektorn. I termer av Agenda 2030 krävs en tydlig koppling mellan mål 1 (fattigdomsbekämpning och sociala skyddsnät) och mål 3 (god hälsa, inklusive UHC), och därmed tvärsektoriellt arbete mot katastrofala sociala och ekonomiska konsekvenser av ohälsa.   Forskningsnätverket SPARKS (health and social protection action research & knowledge sharing network) etablerades 2016 för att stärka interdisciplinär forskning på detta område. Till en början har detta nätverk fokuserat på socioekonomiska konsekvenser av tuberkulos. Tuberkulos är den infektionssjukdom som dödar flest människor i världen, ca 1,7 miljoner dör varje år. Sjukdomen är vanligast bland de fattigaste i fattiga länder, och den leder ofta till såväl stort fysiskt lidande och död som grava sociala och ekonomiska konsekvenser för patienter och anhöriga. Inkomstbortfall är den viktigaste faktorn till ekonomiska problem, och få tuberkulosendemiska länder har bra sociala skyddsnät för personer som drabbas. Forskning behövs för att utveckla lämpliga system, såväl för tuberkulospatienter som för andra som drabbas av fattigdomsrelaterade sjukdomar.I detta projekt kommer vi att vidareutveckla och sprida SPARKS, i synnerhet med fokus på att höja kapaciteten för interventionsforskning kring sociala skyddsnät vid sjukdom. Projektet har följande målsättningar:  1) Utveckla ett gemensamt ramverk och riktlinjer för att utvärdera sociala interventioner för personer som drabbas av sjukdom och funktionsnedsättning.2) Utveckla och fortsätta växa ett SPARKS nätverket för att facilitera implementationsforskning inom sociala skyddsprogram vid  ohälsa, med fokus på institutioner och organisationer i Sydostasien, Afrika, Europa och Nordamerika3) Bygga kapacitet inom implementationsforskning både på institutioner inom nätverket och utanför.4) Identifiera och ansöka om finansiering inom SPARKS nätverket med fokus på implementationsforskning kring tuberkulos och andra fattigdomsrelaterade smittsamma och icke smittsamma sjukdomar.Samarbetet kommer utföras jämlikt och demokratiskt med aktivt deltagande av involverade partners från låg- och medelinkomstländer, framför allt Mocambique, Uganda och Vietnam. Finansieringen söks för två år, och samarbetet inkluderar två fysiska möten, närvaro på ett stort internationellt SPARKS-möte, samt minst fyra webbaserade ”research clinics” för doktorander och juniora forskare. Online kurserna kommer att vara tillgängliga för alla SPARKS partners. Online-verktyg kommer även användas för att kunna arbeta på gemensamma ansökningar och artiklar. Samarbetet kommer bidra på innovativt sätt till att skapa synergier och nya interdisciplinära och tvärsektoriella samarbeten kring hälsomålet och fattigdomsbekämpningsmålet inom Agenda 2030.
A Bird’s-Eye View on Agricultural Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of living standards indicators Jordbrukets strukturomvandling i Afrika söder om Sahara studerat med hushållsdata, satellitbilder och maskininlärning Detta projekt syftar till att förbättra kunskapen om hur den afrikanska landsbygden och särskilt jordbruket har förändrats sedan millennieskiftet och hur det påverkat bland annat fattigdomen i regionen. Vi utvecklar nya metoder anpassade från bland annat ansiktsigenkänning, tillämpade på detaljerade satellitbilder över olika afrikanska regioner. Syftet är att genom maskininlärning träna en algoritm att känna igen byar som t ex är fattiga eller byar där jordbruksproduktionen ökar. Eftersom satellitbilder är yttäckande till skillnad från urvalsstudier och eftersom samma område täcks in flera gånger per år kan vi följa utvecklingen över tid och rum på ett helt nytt sätt. För att lära en algoritm att känna igen objekt krävs extremt stora mängder träningsdata. Sådana har byggts upp av t ex Google (GoogleLeNet) och innehåller miljontals bilder och kategorier. Problemet är att dessa bilddatabaser innehåller begränsad information om kategorierna som är intressanta här. De är heller inte anpassade för det fågelperspektiv som satellitbilder medför.Vår lösning bygger bland annat på konceptet ”transfer learning”. Det betyder att algoritmen lär sig kunskap att stegvis och från olika källor. Processen liknar mycket hur människor lär sig – stegvis och genom exempel. I ett första steg lär vi algoritmen så mycket som möjligt från stora bilddatabaser. Därefter förs processen vidare genom träning på satellitbilder som innehåller information om t ex vegetation och nattbelysning på jordklotet. I det här steget lär sig algoritmen att koppla samman tidigare kunskap med faktorer som kan kopplas till jordbruksproduktion och fattigdomsnivåer. Förutom satellitbilder har projektet tillgång till stora mängder hushållsdata varifrån etiketter som ”fattig” eller ”icke-fattig” kan skapas som stöd för inlärningsprocessen.När sedan en tidigare osedd satellitbild matas in kommer den tränade algoritmen att kunna avgöra ifall ett område är fattigt eller välmående eller hur stor jordbruksproduktionen är i området. Algoritmen kan vidare appliceras på satellitbilder från olika tidsperioder och därmed bidra med kunskap om hur regionen utvecklats.Maskininlärning bygger på studiet av statistiska samband eller korrelationer. Vid en orsaksanalys är tidsföljden fundamental, medan en korrelationsanalys inte tar någon hänsyn till denna. För att reda ut orsakssambanden, förlitar vi oss inte enbart på maskininlärning utan på ekonometriska metoder som är gjorda för statistisk analys av orsakssamband.Våra metoder tillåter oss att modellera lokala förhållanden och gå ner på en detaljnivå som tidigare inte varit möjlig; men vi kan också generalisera med bibehållen hänsyn till lokala variationer, vilket tidigare inte varit möjligt. Våra resultat kommer därför att vara relevanta för beslutsfattare på alla nivåer: lokala, regionala, nationella och till och med den globala nivån. FN:s globala hållbarhetsmål saknar t.ex. indikatorer för många av sina mål, också inom områdena livsmedelssäkerhet och -produktion eller fattigdom där vår forskning kommer att ha betydelse. The last major area in the world where poverty and all of its related issues seem intractable is sub-Saharan Africa. It has long been a problem that fundamental and detailed data regarding development indicators and their distribution over space and time and among different segments of the population are unavailable. This is especially a concern in rural areas and among the farming population. In this project we address longstanding and unresolved questions in development research regarding the distributional effects of rural transformations, poverty and production levels. We do this through an innovative framework featuring a new application of artificial intelligence techniques. More precisely, we apply machine learning to satellite imagery along with more conventional panel survey data. This is the first study of its kind and combines expertise from distant disciplines such as physics, development research and remote sensing in a cross-disciplinary effort.This innovative approach will also provide a real-life contribution to addressing a practical problem of collecting statistics on the ground in developing countries that lack infrastructure or administrative resources. The project hence will be able to fill the data-collection needs inherent in monitoring a number of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Migration and development. What space for civil society in global governance? (MIGLINK) Migration och utveckling. Det civila samhällets roll i global styrning. (MIGLINK) Migration och utveckling. Det civila samhällets roll i global styrning. (MIGLINK) År 2014 skall den svenska regeringen vara värd för det Globala forumet för migration och utveckling (GFMD), åtföljd av Turkiet 2015. GFMD representerar den mest omfattande globala dialogen mellan regeringar, transnationella och internationella organisationer för utveckling av gemensamma normer, regelverk och former för styrning av migration. GFMD är kopplad till FN:s *högnivå dialog om migration och utveckling* som inleddes 2006. Så kallade *civilsamhällsdagar* (CSD) för delegater från icke statliga organisationer organiserades redan som en del av första GFMD mötet i Bryssel i 2007. I samband med det fjärde GFMD möte i Mexiko under 2010, inrättades dessutom ett såkallat ?common space? för överläggningar mellan regeringar och aktörer inom det civila samhället. Det föreslagna svensk-mexikansk-turkiska Research Links-projektet - MIGLINK - syftar till att följa de två kommande GFMD möten i Sverige och Turkiet i syfte att undersöka utvecklingen av en framväxande global styrning av migration. Mot bakgrund av en kritisk granskning av FN:s högnivådialog och tidigare GFMD möten - med särskild tonvikt på det Globala forumet för migration och utveckling i Mexiko 2010 - kommer de samverkande forskargrupperna från universitet i Sverige, Mexiko och Turkiet att följa förberedelser, dagordningar och interaktion mellan relevanta medverkande aktörer inom GFMD/CSD, liksom resultaten av de kommande GFMD/CSD möten i Sverige och Turkiet. Projektet syftar till att kontextualisera dessa två möten ur ett historiskt och geografiskt perspektiv, med fokus på att identifiera utrymmet för det civila samhället och dess roll i debatter, diskussioner och det globala politiska beslutsfattande i anslutning till dessa möten och de processer som pågår. Detta kompletteras av en processbaserad kritisk granskning av globala rörelser inom det civila samhället och alternativa dagordningar för global styrning av migration, såsom det artikuleras i globala fora såsom World Social Forum on Migration och Peoples Global Action för Migration, Development and Human Rights (PGA). En viktig del av forskningsprojektet MIGLINK är att tillämpa en vetenskapligt förankrad och genusmedveten analys av kunskapsproduktion (dokument, hemsidor, intervjumaterial, statisk material, m.m.) bland relevanta aktörer inom GFMD avseende synen på migration, utveckling och mänskliga rättigheter. En sådan analys syftar dels till att förstå hur dagordningen kring migration utvecklas, dels till att förstå kunskapsproduktionens påverkan på analyser av migration och hållbar utveckling i utvandrings och invandrings länderna, och dess roll i att bekämpa främlingsfientliga reaktioner på migration. MIGLINK konsortiet kommer att studera hur migranternas mänskliga rättigheter och arbetsrätt är strukturerade i politiska diskurser - inklusive beredskap för både institutionalisering och implementering av dessa rättigheter - i både ursprungs- och mottagarländer. MIGLINK kopplar samman forskare från Sverige, Mexiko och Turkiet, och länkar tvärvetenskaplig kunskap om den historiska utvecklingen av migration och global styrning med fokus på hinder och förutsättningar för en hållbar utveckling, fattigdomsbekämpning, globala arbetsmarknadsinstitutioner och mänskliga rättigheter. Konsortiets undersökning av GFMDs historiska och samtida agerande i fråga om migration har hög politisk relevans. Genom sammanförande av internationellt uppmärksammade miljöer och individuella forskare avser MIGLINK att bidra med kunskap som kan främja statliga och icke-statliga aktörers förmåga att skydda migrerande arbetstagares rättigheter och samtidigt stödja hållbar utveckling i global mening. Särskild tonvikt läggs på att kunskapsmässigt bidra till det civila samhällets kapacitet (inklusive fackföreningar, migrantorganisationer och stödorganisationer) i frågor som rör civilsamhällets deltagande i den globala dialogen och inflytande på politikens utformning. MIGLINK is a Swedish-Mexican-Turkish Research Links consortium specialised on migration and development. MIGLINK aims to examine the development of an incipient global governance framework for migration with a focus on the role of civil society. GFMD, initiated at the UN global dialogue High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in 2006, is the most inclusive state-led forum between governments on developing policies for international migration. Since its inception, so-called *Civil Society Days* were organized as a side event to the GFMD meetings. On the background of a review of the UN High Level Dialogue and previous GFMD meetings - with particular emphasis on GFMD in Mexico 2010 - the consortium will follow preparation, agenda setting, debates and outcomes of upcoming GFMD meetings in Sweden, 2014 and Turkey, 2015. It will contextualise them in historical and geographical perspective, aiming to identify the role of civil society in global policy making through the GFMD. This is matched by examination of the parallel development of a global movement of civil society and its alternative agenda for global governance on migration. MIGLINK will produce knowledge of importance for capacity building of state and none state actors. The consortium links interdisciplinary knowledge on the historical development of global governance on migration with a focus on conditions for sustainable development, poverty reduction, global labour and human rights
Detektion och karakterisering av den vattenburna parasiten Cryptosporidium i Bangladesh och i Sverige Detection and characterization of the waterborne parasite Cryptosporidium in Bangladesh and Sweden Cryptosporidium is a zoonotic pathogen posing a significant public health threat globally. It is an important cause of water and sanitation-related diarrheal disease worldwide. Despite major knowledge gaps in this area, the prevalence of cryptosporidiosis is generally considered higher in developing countries than in developed countries. Previous studies indicate that cryptosporidiosis may be a significant cause of diarrheal illness in Bangladesh, especially in young children. Outbreaks may also occur in developed countries, exemplified by two major outbreaks in Sweden in 2010-11. There is an overall need for improved epidemiological and diagnostic tools employed for the environmental survey and laboratory diagnosis of this parasitic disease. The proposed study will contribute to the elucidation of the prevalence of Cryptosporidium in water in Bangladesh. Molecular differentiation of Cryptosporidium species commonly found in animal faces or human feces will provide important epidemiological data and improved sensitivity and accuracy for human diagnostics. The execution of the project builds on reciprocal exchange at the methodological and educational levels. The results will provide important information to Health Authorities of both countries in respect of prevalence and spreading potential of this parasite. Furthermore, the establishment of methodologies for diagnostics and genetic characterizations of the parasite will aid in actions to be taken in outbreak situations. Smittspårning och förfinad diagnostik av den utbrottsrelaterade vattenburna parasiten Cryptosporidium i Bangladesh och i Sverige Parasiten Cryptosporidium orsakar diarrésjukdom, kryptosporidios, hos både människor och djur. Parasiten smittar via förorenad mat och förorenat vatten, kontakt med djur eller mänsklig avföring. Symtom på infektion är illamående, diarré och magkramper. Immunförsvagade individer, som exempelvis genomgår kemoterapi, är infekterade med HIV eller har annan immunnedsättning kan löpa ökad risk att drabbas. Personer med nedsatt immunförsvar riskerar även att bli kroniskt sjuka i kryptosporidios då effektiv behandling mot sjukdomen saknas. WHO har identifierat kryptosporidios som ett viktigt folkhälsoproblem i utvecklingsländer. Sannolikt är att den främsta spridningsvägen är kontaminerat vatten. Gjorda studier indikerar att parasitens förekomst är vanligare i u-länder jämfört med i-länder. Förekomsten av diarresjukdom är hög i Bangladesh och tidigare studier har visat av parasitförekomsten är sannolikt hög. Dricksvattenkvalitet och sannitet kan vara viktiga faktorer men även andra faktorer som översvämningar, nära kontakt med djurspillning kan vara viktiga. Kryptosporidios förekommer även i Sverige. Under hösten och vintern 2010 inträffade ett utbrott i Östersunds kommun där totalt över 20 000 personer bedöms ha smittats. Kort därefter inträffade ett nästan lika stort utbrott av kryptosporidios i Skellefteå, under 2011. I bägge fallen tros smittan ha spridits via dricksvattnet. En teori har varit att utbrottet i Skellefteå orsakats genom att smittan transporterats från Östersund till Skellefteå, men med tillgänglig metodik har denna hypotes har inte kunnat undersökas rigoröst. Det största kända utbrottet av kryptosporidios inträffade 1993 i Milwaukee i USA år 1993 där cirka 400 000 personer insjuknade. På liknande sätt som i Östersund och Skellefteå tros smittspridningen där ha skett via det kommunala vattnet. En begränsning vad gäller utredning av smittkällor och spridningsvägar för Cryptosporidium är avsaknad av metoder för att snabbt identifiera och karakterisera parasiten. Med de senaste årens revolutionerande framsteg inom DNA-sekvensering, dvs. bestämning sekvensinnehållet i DNA, har nya förutsättningar skapats för att utveckla robusta och högupplösande metoder för smittutredningar och molekylär epidemiologi. Vi kommer att kartlägga förekomsten av smittkällor för Cryptosporidium i Bangladesh genom en analys av kontaminerat vatten, där parasiten förekommer, och vidare, genom en genetisk karakterisering av parasiten. Detta kommer att ge viktig information om parasitens ursprung, till exempel att avföring från djur (boskap) eller från människor kontaminerat vatten. Motsvarande analyser kan göras i Sverige där parasiten sprids via dricksvatten och orsakar utbrott. Sammantaget kommer denna kartläggning av bidra med kunskap i hur vanlig parasiten är i miljön (prevalens), hur parasiten sprids och överförs till människa, och hur man bättre kan diagnosticera sjukdomen kryptosporidios med DNA teknik.
Personnel to the UN mission in Mali, MINUSMA Personalbidrag till FN:s stabiliseringsinsats i Mali, MINUSMA The Swedish Police Authority has been assigned by the government, through the ordinance on police peace support (1999:1155) and yearly regulation letters, to recruit and make personnel available for international civilian crisis management and peace support operations under the auspices of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation i Europe (OSCE) or similar organisations. The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) is one of the operations to which the Swedish Police Authority contributes with personnel. Polismyndigheten har, enligt förordning (1999:1155) om Polisens utlandsstyrka samt årliga regleringsbrev, i uppdrag från Regeringen att rekrytera och ställa personal till förfogande för internationell civil krishantering inom ramen för bl. a. Förenta Nationernas (FN:s), Europeiska unionens (EU:s),och Organisationen för säkerhet och samarbete i Europas (Osses) freds och säkerhetsfrämjande insatser. FN:s stabiliseringsinsats i Mali (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, MINUSMA) utgör en av dessa insatser. That the Swedish Police personnel contributes to fulfill the mission's mandate. Polismyndighetens personal ska bidra till genomförandet av insatsens uppdrag.
Skyddar värd genetiska faktorer mot naturlig och vaccin-inducerad rotavirusinfektion? Do host genetic factors restrict natural rotavirus infection and vaccine performance in Nicaragua? Akuta diarrésjukdomar är fortfarande ett av de främsta globala hälsoproblemen och orsakar nästan en femtedel av alla dödsfall bland barn under 5 år i utvecklingsländer, och mer än HIV och Malaria tillsammans i denna åldersgrupp. Rotavirus är den vanligaste orsaken till de allvarligare diarrésjukdomarna hos barn och orsakar ca en halv miljon dödsfall per år. Eftersom förbättrad sanitet och hygien har begränsad effekt på sjukdomsspridning ses rotavirusvaccination som det viktigaste sättet att minska dödligheten i hårt drabbade länder. De två tillgängliga vaccinen (Rotarix och RotaTeq) rekommenderas av WHO och andra hälsoorganisationer men flera studier har visat på att vaccinen inte är lika effektiva i låginkomstländer, till exempel många länder i Afrika samt Nicaragua där effektiviteten har visats vara ~58%. Detta ska jämföras med runt 90%-igt skydd i Europa och Nord Amerika. Skälen till den låga effektiviteten är ännu inte fastställda men några anledningar som föreslagits är undernäring, förekomst av andra sjukdomar samt cirkulation av ovanliga rotavirustyper mot vilka vaccinen inte skyddar. Enligt vår hypotes beror det begränsade vaccinskyddet på att vaccinstammarna är Europeiska och Nord Amerikanska och på intet sätt representerar stammar i Afrika eller Sydamerika. Tidigare arbete som vi bedrivit i Burkina Faso, Västafrika, har gett viktiga pusselbitar som pekar mot att det är värd genetiska faktorer som är den främsta anledningen till den låga vaccin effektiviteten hos vissa befolkningar. Vi fann att barn som inte kan uttrycka en specifik socker molekyl kallad Lewis, är helt resistenta mot de rotavirustyper (genotyp P[8]) som finns i båda vaccinen. Faktum är att vi inte funnit ett enda Lewis-negativt barn i Afrika som infekterats med P[8] vaccin-liknande rotavirusstammar. Enligt vår hypotes behövs Lewis molekylen på tunntarmen för att rotaviruset ska kunna ta sig in i och infektera värdcellen. Detta skulle i sin tur innebära att dessa barn inte får ett immunologiskt skydd efter vaccination. Förekomsten av ?Lewis-negativa? barn är liten i Europa och Nord Amerika (2-5%) medan vi tidigare har visat att ungefär 30% av barnen i Nicaragua bär på denna fenotyp. I detta nyskapande projekt vill vi bekräfta vår hypotes att värd genetiska faktorer är anledningen till det begränsade skyddet efter rotavirusvaccination i vissa låginkomstländer. Detta ska göras genom ett nära och långvarigt samarbete med vår samarbetspartner Dr Filemon Bucardo och andra medarbetare i Nicaragua, ett land som har rotavirus vaccination sedan 2006, och där vi har varit starkt bidragande tillsammans med WHO och Gates foundation för nationell introduktion av rotavirusvaccin. Frågor som ska studeras är (1): Slå fast kopplingen mellan värd genetik och mottaglighet till olika rotavirus typer. Specifikt ska vi genetiskt identifiera vilka rotavirusstammar som infekterar Lewis-negativa och Lewis-positiva individer i Nicaragua. (2) Beror det begränsade vaccinskyddet på om barnet är Lewis-negativ eller inte?. Genom omfattande vaccinations studier i Nicaragua har vi tillgång till faces prover från barn som naturligt infekterats. Vi ska bestämma vilka genotyper som dessa barn har infekterats med (3) Har ålder en koppling till uttryck av Lewis molekylen och påverkar detta vaccineffektiviteten? En mycket intressant observation är att nyfödda asymtomatiskt infekterade barn förefaller att aldrig infekteras med vaccinliknande P[8] stammar. Vill bekräfta denna observation och koppla detta till Lewis fenotypen, vilket om vi kan konfirmera i Nicaragua starkt skulle stärka vår hypotes Samt (4) bestämma om mammans Lewis fenotyp och lokala IgA svar har betydelse för vaccin svaret. Sammanfattning. Projektet är starkt hypotes drivet och söker för första gången hitta en värd genetisk förklaring till varför rotavirusvacciner utvecklade i I-länder och framgångsrika i I-länder inte är framgångsrika i vissa utvecklingsländer. Våra studier kan komma att få stor betydelse för flera utveckli The objective with this novel proposal is to determine if the Lewis antigen restrict rotavirus (RV) infections and the take of RV vaccines in a low-income country as Nicaragua. The proposal is hypothesis driven towards diarrheal disease mechanisms. Currently two licensed oral RV vaccines (Rotarix and RotaTeq) are used throughout the world. While both vaccines contain viral strains from ?developed countries? and were evaluated in large vaccine trials in Europe and USA with >85% efficacy against severe diarrhoea, recent information shows low (50-60%) efficacy in low-income countries, with 58% in Nicaragua. We have most recently found from studies in Burkina Faso, West Africa that Levis-negative individual?s (32% of the population) are entirely resistant to RV infections associated with viruses carry genotype P[8 ] a main component of both the vaccines. Having identified the first host genetic restriction factor to RV infection in humans our hypothesis is that the low efficacy of the vaccines in several low income countries is due to the high proportion of Lewis-negative individuals in the population that restrict infection with genotype P[8]. The overall aim is to determine if Lewis-negative individuals in Nicaragua are restricted from infection with genotype P[8] wild virus and current P[8] vaccines.
Immune profiling and immune checkpoint modulation of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis infection (IPIM) Immunprofilering och immun checkpoint modulering av multidrogresistent tuberkulos infektion (IPIM) Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a serious threat to global elimination of TB and a difficult challenge in treatment and management of disease. This 4-year project aims to explore how immune checkpoint molecules are modulated in MDR-TB patients depending on clinical disease severity and bacterial strain virulence. Our original findings from TB patients show that antimicrobial macrophage and T cell responses are severely impaired, while myeloid-derived suppressor cells and regulatory T cells expand in the TB lesions. To advance our understanding of immunoregulation in MDR-TB compared to drug-susceptible TB, we will examine stimulatory and inhibitory checkpoint molecules in a well-defined patient cohort in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We will model disease progression and quantify disease severity at enrolment and after chemotherapy using a composite clinical TB score and chest X-ray grading. Drug susceptibility testing will determine the level of resistance and genotyping of patient´s strains will signify bacterial virulence. Longitudinal assessment of checkpoint molecules in peripheral blood and induced sputum samples involves deep profiling with RNA-sequencing, multicolor flow cytometry and in vitro suppression assays. We will also exploit in situ imaging of resected lung tissue from MDR-TB patients. This collaborative project offers untapped opportunities for translating new advances on checkpoint molecules in chronic infections into clinical applications for MDR-TB. Tuberkulos (TB) är en bakteriell lungsjukdom och en av världens största infektionssjukdomar med ett starkt fäste i utvecklingsländer i Afrika och Asien. Ett allvarligt hot mot den globala kontrollen av TB är utvecklingen av antibiotikaresistens och framför allt multidrogresistent TB sk. MDR-TB. Få studier görs för att bringa klarhet i de patogena mekanismerna som förknippas med MDR-TB och hur dessa skiljer sig från antibiotika-känsliga stammar. Vi vet också förhållandevis lite om hur hypervirulenta MDR-TB stammar modulerar skyddande immunitet och vilken effekt det kan ha på sjukdomsutveckling. Det här projektet syftar till att utforska sjukdomsmekanismer vid MDR-TB med fokus på regulatoriska immunceller och uttryck av immunmodulerande receptorer sk. checkpoint molekyler eller kontrollpunktsmolekyler. Vi har tidigare upptäckt att antimikrobiell immunitet är nedreglerad vid aktiv sjukdom, medan immunsuppressiva celltyper anrikas vid infektionsstället. I forskningssamarbete med Etiopien, kommer vi att rekrytera en patientkohort för att studera immunsvar och uttrycket av en rad olika checkpoint molekyler i blod- och hostprover som tas från patienterna vid tiden för diagnos samt vid olika tidpunkter efter start av antibiotikabehandling. Dessa immunsvar kommer även att studeras i lungvävnad som erhålls från MDR-TB patienter som genomgår kirurgi för att begränsa sjukdomen. Proverna analyseras med avancerade metoder såsom RNA-sekvensering, flödescytometri och bildanalys, som har potentialen att producera resultat med mycket hög upplösning utifrån väldigt små provmängder. Perifera immunsvar i blodet kommer att jämföras med immunsvar lokalt i lungan och relateras till svårighetsgraden av sjukdom som bedöms och mäts utifrån kliniska symptom samt lungröntgenfynd. Vår förhoppning är att projektet ska bidra med unik kunskap kring hur uttrycket av checkpoint molekyler styrs vid kronisk TB infektion vilket öppnar upp möjligheter för utveckling av nya behandlingsformer för MDR-TB.
Studier av grupper med hög risk för HIV i Guinea-Bissau; mot ökad förståelse för överföring, sjukdomsutveckling och behandling STUDIES ON POPULATIONS AT HIGH RISK OF HIV INFECTION IN GUINEA-BISSAU; TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HIV-1 AND HIV-2 TRANSMISSION, DISEASE AN We will establish a collaboration with ENDA (environmental and development action in the third world), a NGO based in Dakar, Senegal, and strengthen their ongoing intervention project among female sex workers (FSWs) and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Guinea-Bissau. FSWs are considered to be a core group for transmission of HIV in Guinea-Bissau, and in the neighbouring country Senegal high rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections have been reported among MSM. Our proposal involves studies that directly may improve health among these two groups of marginalized and vulnerable individuals at high risk of HIV infection, as well as restricting further spread of HIV in the society by proper management of STIs and improvement of antiretroviral treatment. In addition, we address specific basic medical questions that may reveal novel approaches to combat HIV transmission and disease. The latter is based on our recent major finding from studies of seroincident individuals, where we identified HIV-1+HIV-2 dually infected subjects as a new group of slow progressors that is able to control their HIV-1 infection as compared to single HIV-1 infected subjects. Our observations were built on a study cohort of police officers in Guinea-Bissau with high follow-up rate (>75%) and long follow-up times (>20 years). In the current proposal, we will instead follow the ongoing cohorts of FSW and MSM in Guinea-Bissau that has been running since 2007. Vi har startat ett samarbete med ENDA (environmental and development action in the third world), vilket är en internationell organisation baserad i Dakar, Senegal, som sysslar med hållbar utveckling, miljö, energi, hälsa och särskild inriktning på fattigdomsbekämpning. De har drivit ett interventionsprojekt i Guinea-Bissau sedan 2007 riktat mot kvinnliga sexarbetare (FSW) och män som har sex med män (MSM). Man har funnit hög förekomst av HIV bland FSW, över 50% i de först1 122 analyserade proverna. De använder dock bara snabbtester för HIV vilket är något osäkra, och behandlingen av övriga sexuellt överförbara sjukdomar (STI) grundar sig enbart på uppgivna symtom. Alla HIV-positiva FSW uppmuntras till antiretroviral behandling (ART), men tyvärr är följsamheten relativt låg, både i denna grupp och nationellt. I grannlandet Senegal har man testat > 500 MSM och man fann en HIV-prevalens på ca 22% vilket var ungefär lika mycket som hos de prostituerade kvinnorna i Senegal. Dessutom visade det sig att > 80% av dessa män också hade heterosexuella kontakter. Det nationella antiretrovirala behandlingsprogrammet startade 2005 i Guinea-Bissau och hittills har mer än 5000 satts in på behandling. WHO rekommenderar att man bör utföra återkommande undersökningar av eventuella överförda resistensmutationer mot HIV-läkemedel hos nydiagnosticerade personer med HIV som en kontroll på det nationella behandlingsprogrammets kvalité. Några sådana undersökningar har dock aldrig gjorts i Guinea-Bissau. Inga möjligheter finns heller i landet att mäta virusnivåerna i blodet för att kontrollera att behandlingen fungerar, utan behandlingen styrs utifrån symtom och CD4 mätningar. Detta gör att viral svikt upptäcks sent med risk för ökad smittsamhet samt resistensutveckling. Vi har i en unik studie identifierat en ny grupp av HIV slow-responders, alltså personer som har en långsammare sjukdomsuteckling än förväntat. Genom vår långa uppföljningsstudie av poliser i Bissau har vi funnit en stor grupp personer med nysmitta av HIV-1 och HIV-2 (seroincidenta med känd infektionstid), och genom att följa dessa med virologiska, immunologiska och kliniska undersökningar under mer än 20 år har vi kunnat visa att personer som smittats med både HIV-1 och HIV-2 förefaller ha en långsammare sjukdomsutveckling jämfört med de som bara har HIV-1. Detta gäller i särskilt hög grad de som första har en konstaterad HIV-2 infektion innan de blir smittade av HIV-1. Det förefaller alltså som om HIV-2 infektionen kan modulera HIV-1 förloppet på ett fördelaktigt sätt. Vi har nyligen avslutat en prospektiv studie av kvinnor med misstanke på sexuellt överförd infektion (STI) vid ett center för kvinnohälsa i Guinea-Bissau. En första sammanställning har visat att > 12% var smittade med HIV, och ungefär lika många hade Chlamydia trachomatis. Knappt 8 % var positiva för Herpes simplex typ 2 respektive Mycoplasma genitalium. Vi undersökte också antibiotikaresistensen hos identifierade gonorréstammar mot vanligt förekommande preparat i Bissau och vi fann väldigt höga siffror (80-100%) mot en del antibiotika. I de nu planerade studierna vill vi förbättra det pågående interventionsprojektet med FSW och MSM, två mycket utsatta och marginaliserade grupper i samhället. Vi kommer att införa tillförlitlig diagnostik av HIV och andra STI, och vi kommer även att implementera virusbestämning av HIV i Bissau. Vi kommer att erbjuda testning och gratis behandling av förekommande könssjukdomar, och HIV-positiva kommer att remitteras till ett särskilt antiretroviralt behandlingsprogram. Dessutom kommer ett särskilt utformat preventionsprogram att genomföras riktat till MSM. Denna typ av information har visat sig särskilt viktig för att minska riskbeteende i denna grupp och vi tror att vårt projekt kan få stor betydelse när det gäller minskad smittspridning av HIV och andra STI. Vi kommer att förutom vanlig diagnostik av HIV och STI även undersöka virologiska och immunologiska orsaker till den lägre sjukdo
Studier av T-cellsvar mot enterotoxinbildande E. coli och H. pylori bakterier med syfte att stödja vaccinutveckling och vetenskaplig träning Collaborative studies of T cell responses to enterotoxigenic E. coli and H. pylori infections to support vaccine development and scientific train Studier av hur T-celler i immunförsvaret kan bidra till skydd mot diarré- och magsårsbakterier Bakteriella infektioner är mycket vanliga i låg- och medelinkomstländer och orsakar mycket sjukdom och lidande och även många dödsfall i dessa delar av världen. Två bakterier som är vanligt förekommande är enterotoxinbildande E. coli (ETEC) och Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) som ger upphov till olika typer av hälsoproblem. ETEC orsakar akut diarre´ och denna infektion har visas ge upphov till ca 400 miljoner diarré-episoder och ca 400,000 dödsfall årligen hos barn under 5 år i låg- och medelinkomstländer. ETEC är också den vanligaste orsaken till så kallad turistdiarre´. Studier har visat att en majoritet av barn i fattigare delar av världen, såsom Bangladesh och Indien, infekteras med H. pylori före två års ålder. H. pylori-infektion är kronisk och 15-20% av de infekterade individerna utvecklar symptom såsom dyspepsi, magsår eller magcancer senare i livet. Trots att dessa två bakterieinfektioner är så viktiga orsaker till sjukdom och död hos både barn och vuxna finns det fortfarande inga vacciner mot dessa infektioner. Vi har studerat hur immunsystemet kan skydda oss mot ETEC och H. pylori-infektion. Vi har nyligen funnit att en speciell typ av T-celler som hjälper andra celler i immunförsvaret att bekämpa infektioner verkar ha stor betydelse för hur skyddande immunsvar mot dessa infektioner utvecklas. T-hjälpar celler som producerar signalämnet IL-17A (en sk cytokin) verkar ha särskilt stor betydelse för infektionsskyddet. I experimentella studier har vi funnit att en ny immunförstärkande substans som ges tillsammans med vacciner, sk vaccinadjuvans, kan förstärka funktionen hos dessa hjälpar T-celler. Ökad produktion av IL-17A leder till att neutrofiler som kan äta upp bakterierna lockas till infekterad slemhinna och ökar produktionen av antikroppar och andra antimikrobiella substanser som kan hjälpa immunsystemet att försvara sig mot infektionerna. Målet med detta forskningsprojekt är att öka förståelsen för hur dessa hjälpar T-celler fungerar i immunförsvaret mot H. pylori och ETEC-infektion hos människa. Vi vill studera förekomst och funktion hos dessa celler i blod och slemhinna hos infekterade personer. Vi vill även vidare undersöka den funktionella förmågan hos två nya vaccinadjuvans att förstärka funktionen hos hjälpar T-celler från människa och framför allt den typ av T-celler som producerar IL-17A. Ökad kunskap om hjälpar T-cellernas funktion och hur denna kan påverkas med hjälp av adjuvans kan utnyttjas vid utveckling av nya vacciner mot ETEC och H. pylori-infektion som för närvarande pågår vid Göteborg universitet. Projektet kommer att genomföras i nära samarbete mellan forskare vid Göteborgs universitet och ett världsledande forskningsinstitut för studier av infektionssjukdomar i Bangladesh; icdd,b. Ett viktigt mål med projektet är att etablera en bas för vetenskaplig träning för yngre forskare och doktorander vid de två samarbetande forskningscentren. Detta kommer att möjliggöra fortsatt och utökat samarbete inom infektionsforskningsområdet i framtiden, vilket är viktigt för att kunna utveckla nya vacciner och på andra sätt motverka de många negativa konsekvenserna av infektionssjukdomar som framför allt drabbar befolkningen i fattigare delar av världen. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and Helicobacter pylori (Hp) are common infections in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). ETEC gives rise to watery diarrhea, causing 400 000 deaths/year, primarily in young children. LMIC children are also often chronically infected with Hp and in 15-20% of cases, the infection causes symptoms later in life such as peptic ulcers or gastric cancer. Our recent results suggest that CD4+ T helper cells, particularly those that secrete the cytokine IL-17A (Th17), play important roles in promoting protective immune mechanisms in both infections. The overall aim of this project is to advance the knowledge we have recently gained on Th17 responses in different model systems to human ETEC and Hp infection. This includes (I) to characterize T helper cell responses to these infections in humans and (II) to study the functional capacity of novel mucosal vaccine adjuvants to enhance human CD4+ T helper cell responses. This collaborative project, performed at the University of Gothenburg and the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, will benefit from the combined expertise of the applicants, including broad knowledge in techniques for analyzing T cell responses and extensive experience of studies of mucosal immunity in LMIC. The project also aims to establish a framework for mutual learning and training of PhD students and younger scientists at both sites, forming a basis for extended future collaboration.
Exploring host target interactions as potential new treatment options for highly pathogenic RNA viruses like Ebola, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fev Utvärdering och validering av värdinteraktioner som möjliga mål för ny behandling av högpatogena virus RNA-virus orsakar årligen allvarliga infektioner med stor inverkan på människors hälsa över hela världen. Detta projekt fokuserar på RNA virusen Ebola, Krim-Kongo hemorragisk feber och Zika som på grund av sina allvarliga konsekvenser ingår i WHOs initiativ för pandemi och epidemiska sjukdomar (PED). Vid det senaste utbrottet av ebolavirus (EBOV) i Liberia, Sierra Leone och Guinea smittades över 28 000 människor och över 11 000 dog. En annan allvarlig viral hemorragisk feber som är spridd i över 30 länder på flera kontinenter orsakas av det fästingburna Krim-Kongo hemorragisk feber viruset (CCHFV) och har en dödlighet på 5-50%. WHOs initiativ inkluderar även allvarliga vektorburna virala sjukdomar som gulafebern, chikungunya-feber, zikafeber och West Nile-feber. Vid det senaste zikavirus (ZIKV) utbrottet i Sydamerika upptäcktes ett troligt samband mellan zikavirusinfektion och mikrocefali hos nyfödda barn och belyste ytterligare allvaret i denna grupp av infektioner.Dessa allvarliga virusinfektioner drabbar ofta de fattigaste delarna av världen hårt. Infektionerna orsakar inte bara allvarliga sjukdomstillstånd med hög dödlighet de har också stora negativa indirekta effekter på samhället och ekonomin i övrigt. Minskad tilltro och användning av sjukvårdssystemen samt minskad ekonomisk aktivitet i samband med ett sjukdomsutbrott leder till ökad fattigdom och undernäring som i sin tur leder till ökad känslighet för andra smittsamma och livshotande sjukdomar. De sjukdomar som är i fokus för detta projekt orsakas av RNA-virus som överförs från djur/vektorer till människor. När människor flyttar till nya geografiska regioner ökar risken att de kommer i kontakt med de djur som är värdar för dessa smittämnen. Faktorer som har bidragit till dessa förändringar är befolkningstillväxt, migration från landsbygden till städerna, internationella resor, fattigdom, krig, och negativa klimat förändringar.Idag är forskningsverksamhet runt dessa högpatogena RNA virus infektioner begränsade eftersom i) hantering av dessa virus kräver högsäkerhetslaboratorier, ii) det finns begränsad tillgång till cell och djurmodeller för att studera sjukdomens patologi och iii) det finns mycket litet ekonomiskt incitament för företag att investera i forskning och läkemedelsutveckling runt dessa RNA virus infektioner då det är osannolikt att investeringskostnaderna återställs.Vi presenterar ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt som omfattar virologer, molekylärbiologer, läkemedelskemister, farmakokinetiska experter, farmakologer och toxikologer från flera universitet och forskningsinstitutioner i Sverige för att generera ny kunskap om patogena RNA virus och utveckla nya antivirala behandlingar för dessa patogener. Vi planerar även att samarbeta med experter i låginkomstländer i de delar av världen som drabbas av den här typen av infektioner för att studera effekten av våra nya molekyler på kliniska isolat från infekterade patienter. Genom att kombinera befintlig kompetens med unik tillgång till laboratorier med biosäkerhetsnivå 4 samt in vivo djurmodeller och toppmoderna faciliteter för läkemedelsutveckling kan vi bilda den kritiska massa som behövs för att studera grundläggande biologiska processer för hur viruset interagerar och utnyttjar humana proteiner och mekanismer för sin replikation med målet att ta fram nya antivirala behandlingsalternativ för dessa allvarliga infektioner. Genom att inrikta oss på humana proteiner involverade i virusets replikationsprocesser kan resistensutveckling undvikas, som ofta är ett problem med behandlingar riktade mot virusproteiner.Vi strävar efter att utveckla biologiskt aktiva småmolekylära hämmare med goda farmakokinetiska egenskaper och säkerhets-toxikologisk profil och validera dessa i proof-of-concept studier in vivo. Våra tidiga småmolekylära hämmare stoppar effektivt virus-replikation och dödar flera RNA virus in vitro (EBOV, CCHFV och ZIKV) och har därmed den potentiella möjligheten att fungera som allmänna behandlingsalternati Incidences of emerging infections caused by RNA viruses are increasing and outbreaks threaten human health all around the world. This project focus on the important RNA viruses Ebola, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and Zika, to understand the basic biology of proteins involved in virus-host interactions and to validate these as novel targets for antiviral therapy. To target host proteins involved in virus replication processes is one way to avoid resistance development that often is a problem for treatments directed to viral proteins. During 4 years we plan to work in a multidisciplinary project team involving virologists, molecular biologists, medicinal chemists, pharmacokinetic experts, pharmacologists and toxicologists from several universities and research institutions to generate new knowledge about pathogenic RNA viruses and develop novel antiviral compounds targeting these pathogens. We also plan to collaborate with experts in the countries affected by the studied viruses to evaluate the effect of our compounds on clinical patient isolates. By combining existing expertise, with unique access to biosafety level 4 laboratories and in vivo animal models as well as state of the art drug discovery facilities we can form the critical mass needed to translate basic science into novel general antiviral treatment options for these serious infections.
Utveckling av ett förebyggande ramverk för Ryggmärgsskador i ett låginkomstland Developing a prevention framework for Spinal cord injuries (SCI) in a low income country Spinal cord injury is an important public health problem creating several physical, social and economic problems. In low income countries, without social support system and governmental assistances, spinal cord injury victims suffer a lot. We have several studies from high income countries on this issue and prevention, but no study from low income country. This study has intended to develop a prevention framework of spinal cord injuries in Bangladesh. This study will first determine the physical, mental, social and economic consequences of spinal cord injuries in Bangladesh. Then ask the victims, their family members, physicians, nurses and social workers about their opinion on preventing spinal cord injuries. Five specific objectives:1)To measure the quality of life of people with spinal cord injury. 2)To measure different levels of participation restriction in major domains of life of spinal cord injury victims. 3) To estimate the costs of rehabilitation programs and total cost of a large group of spinal cord injury victims. 4) To develop a prevention framework for SCI from views of health and social service (care) providers? of SCI victims. 5)To assess victims? knowledge of SCI and develop a prevention protocol for SCI from victims? perspective. Injury prevention expert researchers from Sweden and Bangladesh will conduct the study using quantitative and qualitative interviews. Prevention framework, experience and collaboration will be generated from the study. Ryggmärgsskador (SCI) är ett stor hälsoproblem i hela världen. Ryggmärgsskadade i låginkomstländer lider mer utan socialt stöd och på grund av långsiktig ekonomisk börda. De har flera problem. Denna studie kommer först att fastställa de fysiska, psykiska, sociala och ekonomiska konsekvenser av ryggmärgsskador i Bangladesh. De drabbade, deras anhöriga, läkare, sjuksköterskor och socialarbetare kommer att tillfrågas om deras åsikt om att förebygga ryggmärgsskador. I studien har fem specifika mål: 1) Att mäta livskvaliteten hos personer med ryggmärgsskada. 2) Att mäta olika nivåer av delaktighetsbegränsning i viktiga livsområden hos ryggmärgsskadade. 3) Att uppskatta kostnaderna för rehabilitering och totala kostnaden för en stor grupp av ryggmärgsskadade. 4) Att utveckla ett förebyggande ramverk för SCI på basis av bland annat erfarenheter från vårdgivare inom hälso- och socialvård 5) Att mäta ryggmärgsskadades kunskaper om SCI och utveckla förebyggande insatser på basen av de skadades perspektiv. Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP) är enda organisationen i Bangladesh för att stödja de ryggmärgsskadade. Forskare från Sverige och Bangladesh samarbetar i denna studie. Vi kommer att intervjua ryggmärgsskadade som besöker CRP. Forskningsprogrammet genomförs tillsammans av forskare från Örebro universitet och forskare från Centrum för Injury Prevention, Bangladesh och Centrum för rehabilitering av Paralyzed (CRP), Bangladesh. Resultaten av studien kommer att bidra till att formulera en särskild förebyggande strategi för ryggmärgsskador, särskilt i ett låginkomstland. Erfarenhet och samverkan kommer att utvecklas inom studien, vilket inom en snar framtid kommer att använda för insatser i andra låginkomstländer.
Personalbidrag till Osses insats i Nordmakedonien, OSCE mission to Skopje Personnel to the OSCE Mission to Skopje The Swedish Police Authority has been assigned by the government, through the ordinance on police peace support (1999:1155) and yearly regulation letters, to recruit and make personnel available for international civilian crisis management and peace support operations under the auspices of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation i Europe (OSCE) or similar organisations. The OSCE Mission to Skopje is one of the operations to which the Swedish Police Authority contributes with personnel. Polismyndigheten har, enligt förordning (1999:1155) om Polisens utlandsstyrka samt årliga regleringsbrev, i uppdrag från Regeringen att rekrytera och ställa personal till förfogande för internationell civil krishantering inom ramen för bl. a. Förenta Nationernas (FN:s), Europeiska unionens (EU:s),och Organisationen för säkerhet och samarbete i Europas (Osses) freds och säkerhetsfrämjande insatser. Osses insats i Nordmakedonien (OSCE Mission to Skopje) utgör en av dessa insatser. That the Swedish Police personnel contributes to fulfill the mission's mandate. Polismyndighetens personal ska bidra till genomförandet av insatsens uppdrag.
Aktiviteter inom forskning, bibliotek och kommunikation/policy Activities within research, library and communication/policy Activities carried out by the Nordic Africa Institute within its core areas of research, library and communication/policy. Aktiviteter utförda av Nordiska Afrikainstitutet inom dess 3 kärnverksamhetsområden forskning, bibliotek och kommunikation/policy. 1.       Research; Promoting research on social, political and economic developments in Africa by conducting its own high-quality research, acting as a focal point and catalyst for Nordic research on Africa, stimulating research on Africa in the Nordic region and promoting cooperation and contacts between Nordic and African researchers. 2. Communication; disseminating advanced and relevant information based on research about modern Africa and African conditions. The Institute is to conduct an active policy dialogue and the information is to be made available to decision-makers in the Nordic region. 3. Monitoring and making available literature and other electronic and physical information carriers of relevance for research, study and information on modern Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute is to provide a library with lending, reference and information services. 1. Forskning; att främja forskning om den sociala, politiska och ekonomiska utvecklingen i Afrika genom att bedriva egen högkvalitativ forskning, verka som centralpunkt och katalysator för den nordiska Afrikaforskningen, stimulera till forskning om Afrika i Norden, samt främja samarbete och kontakter mellan nordiska och afrikanska forskare. 2. Kommunikation; att sprida kvalificerad och relevant information baserad på forskning om det moderna Afrika och afrikanska förhållanden. Att föra en aktiv policydialog och informationen ska göras tillgänglig för beslutsfattare i Norden. 3. Bibliotek; Att bevaka och tillgängliggöra litteratur och andra elektroniska och fysiska informationsbärare av relevans för forskning, studier och information om det moderna Afrika. Att tillhandahålla ett bibliotek med låne-, referens-, och informationsservice.