Iraq 2017 Appealing Agency Project Title Project Code Sector/Cluster Refugee project Objectives SECOURS ISLAMIQUE FRANCE (SIF) Emergency response to the extremely vulnerable resident families, out-of-camp IDPs and newly returnees through delivery of basic food assistance in hard-to-reach areas in Ninewa and Anbar provinces IRQ-17/F/108630 Food Security No Overall objective: provide life-saving food assistance to most vulnerable communities (IDPs, returnees and host communities) in hard to reach areas of northern Iraq. Specific Objectives: 1. Provide emergency food to extremely vulnerable resident families and out-of-camp IDPs as soon as they are accessible 2. Facilitate access to regular food assistance of extremely vulnerable resident families and out-of-camp IDPs in priority locations for the first three months of displacement Category of project s beneficiaries: This project will mainly target the extremely vulnerable resident families and out-of-camp IDPs, priorities will be given to those who have no access to PDS, markets, agriculture assets, emergency cash assistance and other forms of food assistance in hard-to-reach areas in Ninewa and Anbar province Beneficiaries Total: 62,220 Out-of-camp IDPs, returnees and vulnerable residents in conflict areas Female: 19,288 Male: 18,666 Children (under 18): 24,266 Adult (18-59): 37,154 Elderly (above 59): 800 IDPs: 35,000 Returnees: 20,000 Other group: 7,220 vulnerable residents in conflict areas Implementing Partners Intellect organization for sustainable development; Al-Mortaqa foundation for human development and Sabee Sanabul organization for relief and development Project Duration Feb 2017 - Oct 2017 Current Funds Requested $893,000 Location Priority / Category Gender Marker Code Contact Details NOT SPECIFIED High 2a - The project is designed to contribute significantly to gender equality Mohammed Abdelrazzak, dep.rep.iraq@secours-islamique.org, 009647700641920 Cash transfer programming Is any part of this project cash transfer programming (including vouchers)? Conditionality: Restrictions: Estimated percentage of project requirements to be used for cash/vouchers: No 0 Page 1 of 5
Needs Parties to the conflict are regularly violating human rights and international humanitarian law. Indiscriminate bombing, killing, abduction, rape, looting and expulsion are common in hard-hit areas and sectarian violence is threatening to tear communities apart, undermining national reconciliation, perhaps for generations. Of the many constraints affecting the operation, access remains the most paralysing. Few, if any, humanitarian organizations are able to reach the estimated over 0.8 million people living in areas held by ISIL, including western parts of Mosul and Anbar in addition to Haweja. Partners are also struggling to reach people in areas newly retaken from ISIL including districts in Ninewa, Anbar and Salah al-din governorates. Besieged areas are known to be mined and infested with unexploded ordnance. Humanitarian organizations trying to access hard-to-reach areas by road convoys are frequently stopped at checkpoints, harassed, and routinely denied entry. Many private transporters refuse to enter conflict areas, or charge exorbitant monopoly prices to move life-saving goods. SIF has identified two critical areas where there is very limited humanitarian actors in spite of the increasing needs, these areas were western Mosul (the areas to the west of Qayyara all the way to Mosul/Tal Afar intersection) and western Anbar (Heet, Baghdadi, Haditha all the way to Rutba and Al-Waleed). Most of the NGOs due to their own security measures prefer to target the accessible locations (mainly the IDP camps) leaving a huge category of affected population (returnees, out of camp IDPs and the extremely vulnerable residents in conflict areas) without access to the minimum requirement of food assistance. It is estimated that more than 700,000 individuals (including at least 100,000 child under 5 yrs) will either be displaced to the proposed areas or stranded at their homes/checkpoints/mustering points, those people will be in dire need for food assistance at the early stage of their displacement to save their lives. According to SIF needs assessment in Hamdaniyah, Namroud, Bertella and other sub-districts and villages to the south east and east of Mosul, more than 37% of the interviewed out-of-camp IDPs confirmed that they had no access to food for more than 11 days from the date they passed the security screening process, they had no coping strategy at all while the ISF and other forms of Iraqi securities were providing them with some of their own food at least to save the lives of the children and elder people. Those IDPs have left their homes carrying nothing except their IDs, no money, no snacks, no form of transportation at all, SIF rapid needs assessment team met with almost 48 IDP families from Mosul in Namroud sub-district, the HHs confirmed that they forced to walk for almost 41 Kms along two days to reach that point but they had no access to food, the returned communities provided them with very basic food aids such as yoghurt, few pieces of local bread and some dates to fill their hunger but they were not enough at all. Additionally; the returnees to vulnerable villages in the same proposed areas will already have no access to the markets, jobs, cash or even the PDS at least during the first two weeks, all these very known measures have pushed SIF to develop this proposal to play significant role in the humanitarian response as FSC partner. Activities or outputs Page 2 of 5
- In coordination with LAs, local health directorate and based on agreed criteria, conduct a field assessment and select and contract with warehouses owners in geographic location close to where IDPs are congregated in the proposed province; - Conduct introduction meetings with MoDM branches authorities, ICRC field offices, IRCS, RRM partners to ensure they fully understand how the program will operate, their roles and responsibilities as well as their accountability within the process, FSC will be in loop of all these meetings and their outputs; - Coordinate with CMCoord, National Operations Center and PMF units to ensure full access to the proposed locations 24/7; - Coordinate with OCHA zone coordinators and NCCI filed coordinators to share information on sudden displacement and return to enable SIF staff respond in time; - Procure the food parcel through transparent tendering process; - Provide the ready-to-eat food parcels whenever needed once the GL be secured by the FSC; - Establish a distribution plan of dry food parcels for the agreed operational period/target population in close coordination with FSC's focal point on ground; - Be responsible for the proper receipt, storage and security of all documents and contact details provided either by MoMD branches or the beneficiaries themselves; - Inform beneficiaries of distribution dates and locations in consultation with the local ISF and relevant authorities; - Ensure a smooth, timely and secure distribution of the food parcels in the nominated locations in coordination with FSC's focal point, its expected that SIF will organize ; - Ensure that all food parcels reach the intended beneficiaries as per the information provided by the local MoDM authorities without unreasonable delay; - Undertake monitoring of food distributions and carry out periodic Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) exercises in coordination with OCHA and FSC. The PDM involves quantitative and qualitative assessment of food security related elements through systematic household surveillance. - Consult with other FS partners on ground to avoid duplication and update the 5Ws matrix on periodic basis In general; SIF will ensure that the affected population will have a priority in reaching any temporary employment opportunity under this project including the field staff positions, upload/offload labours, field monitors, etc. Equal employment opportunities will be given to both genders wherever the security and local traditions will permit. The expected outputs of the above activities are: 1- Recruitment of the project staff 2- Renting of two main warehouses in Ninewa governorates 3-12,500 ready-to-eat food parcels distributed to moving IDPs and returnees within 36 hours whenever there will be sudden displacement or return during the project 4-12,000 dry food parcels distributed over three months per household during the project 5- Advocacy made for the affected population with the concerned governmental sides including MoMD, MoT, IRCS and Sunni endowment 6- SIF attended the general FS cluster meetings and updated the 5W matrix periodically 7- SIF provided FSC with information on daily basis (24/7) Indicators and targets Page 3 of 5
Indicators: 1. # of new IDPs, vulnerable returnees, and people in newly accessible areas assisted 2. # of people in hard-to-reach areas reached SIF will ensure appropriate protection mainstreaming measures are in place at distributions, i.e. - presence of transparent complaining mechanism; additionally; work closely with the UNOPS IDP Information Centre (IIC) to monitor beneficiaries feedback and complaints. - weather appropriate waiting areas; - Crowd control measures (separate and well identified lines, narrow pathways, etc.) - pregnant and nursing women, the elderly and people with disabilities are prioritised; - the distribution point is close to and safe for beneficiaries; - adopt FSC protocols and mechanisms for responding to prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse related complaints. - The waiting period will be a good opportunity to reinforce key message by sensitizing the beneficiaries SIF has involved a sample of 61 ongoing displaced families in southern Mosul, 11 local authorities' members and other counterparts (NGOs, CSOs, interlocutors, community leaders in the preparation for this proposal and seek their feedback, thoughts, opinions and ideas regarding each single component of this proposal, during the assessment; meetings with community representatives (hosting, returnees and IDPs) have been held to ensure (in case of intervention) that: 1. The intervention will not have any negative impact on the proposed target population 2. Security for community and beneficiaries will be ensured during the distribution, and 3. SIF would be able to maintain it neutrality. SIF will ensure to undertake the commitments on AAP into consideration and as follows: 1. Transparency: Provide accessible and timely information to affected populations that mobilize the FSC partners including SIF to ensure that they can make informed decisions and choices; 2. Feedback and complaints: Actively seek the views of affected populations to improve targeting/implementation process, ensuring that feedback and complaints mechanisms are streamlined, appropriate and robust enough to deal with (communicate, receive, process, respond to and learn from) complaints about breaches in policy and stakeholder dissatisfaction; 3. Participation: Enable target populations to play an active role in the decision-making processes that affect them through clear practices to engage them appropriately and ensure that the most marginalized and affected are represented and have influence; 4. Design, monitoring and evaluation: Design, monitor and evaluate the goals and objectives of programmes with the involvement of affected populations, feeding learning back into the organisation on an ongoing basis and reporting on the results of the process. Page 4 of 5
Secours Islamique France(SIF) Original BUDGET items $ Staff 60,000 Inputs 750,000 Administration 83,000 Total 893,000 Secours Islamique France(SIF) Current BUDGET items $ Staff 60,000 Inputs 750,000 Administration 83,000 Total 893,000 Page 5 of 5