Akaam Kamal Ghaour
PhD student in Yüzüncü Yıl University
Email: [email protected]
DOI: 10.23918/ICABEP2021p36
Abstract
Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq is hosted more than 218,050 Syrian refuges and 1509,700 internally displaced person in Iraq in the last few years from 2014 till 2020. As of December 31, 2018, according to Data provided by UNHCR Iraq the number of IDPs in Sulaymaniyah still amount to 169,195 individuals and refugees count for 32,591 individuals.
The humanitarian context in Iraq has transitioned into a new phase. Although Iraq is currently in a post-conflict landscape after the end of military operations against ISIL, there are still unpredictable dynamics throughout the country. Asymmetric attacks by armed groups continue to be carried out along with small scale military operations, resulting in new displacement and impacting the IDP return rate. In tandem, new sources of instability are also emerging linked to rising poverty rates, delays in community reconciliation, lack of livelihood opportunities and political and social tensions. While the people of Iraq welcomed displaced families into their communities, the scale and complexity of the crisis has overwhelmed the resilience of some host communities, particularly in the northern Region of Iraq. From April 2014 to March 2019, a program funded by Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe was implemented by REACH in Sulaymaniyah governorate to support the coping mechanism of out-of-camps IDPs and Refugees. The choice of providing services to refugees and IDPs out of camps has been relevant all over the course of the project. A large majority of both communities is still living out of camps (92% of IDP’s and 80% of refugees). The proportion even increased from the baseline in the 2014 proposal when non-camp population in Iraq represented over 58% of the refugees and 75% for the IDPs.
The intended objectives included strengthening coping mechanisms and improving the psychosocial wellbeing of vulnerable communities through psychosocial activities, capacity building, community empowerment, resource mobilization, and the overall restoring of normal daily life. This study describe a key pillar of the project was the cooperation and participation of target groups, including the local community, the evaluation of enhanced protection and empowerment of the project, the project management lifecycle in the areas and to formulate findings and recommendations in order to shape the development of the effect of this project in different communities in Iraq, meanwhile this report is to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency impact and sustainability of the projects in humanitarian work in the area.
Keywords: Syrian Refuges, Internally Displaced Person, Project Evaluation, Project Cycle, Resilience.
ICABEP2021
International Conference on Accounting, Business, Economics and Politics
3rd joint conference organized by the collaboration of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics,
Tishk International University, College of Administration and Economics, Salahaddin University-Erbil, and
University of Szczecin, Poland.
