Basic Facts |
Pending durable solutions through voluntary returns, resettlement to third countries or local integration, protection and material assistance for some 40,000 refugees will continue to be provided in camps, settlements and individual urban refugees. UNHCR has 13 refugee camps and settlements in Iraq, the major ones are in Western Anbar (Al Waleed camp for Palestinians, Iranian Kurds and Ahwazis); in Erbil (Makhmour for Turkish Kurds and Kawa for Iranian Kurds); and in Dohuk (Barika settlement for Iranian Kurds). Targeted assistance is provided to scattered urban refugees Iraq-wide. UNHCR continues to search for durable solutions for refugees who do not have potential for return or local integration inside Iraq. The Palestinian refugees in Al Waleed camp are likely to be resettled in 2010.
SHELTER rehabilitation and reconstruction for returnees and IDPs, focus in the Central region where higher number of returns occur.
WAT/SAN 17 minor water and sanitation projects linked to the shelter rehabilitation with a direct and communal impact
REINTEGRATION support and outreach continued through the Return, Reintegration and Community Centers (RICCs) and mobile teams. Border monitoring, returnee monitoring, data collection and analysis of conditions, assessment of needs and gaps. The RICC are managed by national NGOs to better to build local capacity and better sustain return.
LEGAL ASSISTANCE and advice provided by the Protection and Assistance Centers (PACs) and their mobile teams. Database maintained where protection monitoring reports are compiled and analyzed to inform UNHCR protection strategy and interventions.
SUPPORT to MODM-managed Return Assistance Centers in Baghdad which engage in registration, access to the GOI return assistance grant, property restitution.
DIYALA INITIATIVE strengthened and expanded with GoI leadership by coordinating with other actors in order to reach a comprehensive reintegration package for returnees.
ESSENTIAL ITEM distribution of domestic, non-food items, hygiene items, cash to vulnerable families: IDPs, returnees, refugees, asylum seekers with focus on people displaced in settlements.
IDP SETTLEMENTS; vulnerable displaced people occupying public areas or camp-like situations will receive essential domestic items, shelter assistance. UNHCR will advocacate with authorities to protect from arbitrary eviction.
CONTINGENCY stock of non-food domestic items for 100,000 persons.
COMMUNITY-BASED support to communities via multi-sector micro-projects directly targeting returnee and IDP-hosting areas through the N/NGO Partnership Empowerment Scheme through national NGOs.
RETURNS MANAGEMENT to insure refugees/IDPs have sufficient knowledge to make informed choices about return, expanded border monitoring, returnees interviews, information dissemination on conditions in Iraq.
UNHCR collaborates with other UN agencies on the ground through the Protection and Shelter Outcome Teams where UNHCR leads Protection and co-leads shelter with UN-Habitat as the lead. We work with 11 international partners and directly with 12 national partners. UNHCR’s Governmental partners are the Ministry of Displacement & Migration and the Bureau of Displacement and Migration (BDM).
UNHCR IRAQ 2010 COUNTRY BUDGET IS US$ 264,285,225.
Iraq country budjet is part of the UNHCR's Regional Appeal for the Iraq Situation of US$ 508,166,791.
