SECTORS

Project Name:

DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN ENHANCMENT OF THE CENTRAL ALLEY AND VISITOR ROUTES AT ERBIL CITADEL, IRAQ

Activities :

conservation and Restoration of Central Alley and Visitors Routes at Erbil Citadel, Urban Enhancement, community empowerment through engaging local community in planning and implementation, and support to Livelihood through Cultural Heritage development by improving self-reliance through access to immediate short-term decent employment opportunities, 15,000 working days in total.

Location:

Erbil

Donors& Partners:

Donor: UNESCO, HCECR, ILO,EU

Project Name:

GENERATION UNLIMITED IMAGEN VENTURES IRAQI YOUTH CHALLENGE PROGRAM FOR ALL GOVERNARATES

Activities :

KOHRW and the Ministry of Youth and Sports with the support of UNICEF. The project aimed to support young people as teams to make their entrepreneurial ideas become real and to be part of a global challenge program. Two teams will be representatives of Iraq in the world within more than 50 countries around the world. The program focuses on youth in all governorates Iraq, more than 300 teams have applied for the program, and 10 teams were selected to participate in a 5-day Boot camp to learn how to develop their entrepreneurial ideas, how to create their own projects. 5 teams are selected by a committee, to give them a financial grant of $3,000 for each team to create their projects, eventually two teams will be selected to move to the global challenge.

Location:

Iraq

Donors& Partners:

Donor: UNICEF

Project Name:

THE IMPACT OF IRAQI LAWS ON MINORITIES IN IRAQ

Activities :

KOHRW with CAPNI conducted a research/study on laws and regulations negatively affecting minorities in Iraq the study covered the governorates of Ninawa, Erbil, Kirkuk, and Baghdad.

Location:

Erbil, Kirkuk, Ninawa, and Baghdad

Donors& Partners:

Donor: CAPNI

Project Name:

Opening the Square: Protecting the Right to Peaceful Assembly in Iraq

Activities :

-Develop a reference guide, monitoring protocol, and reporting template for the monitoring reports

-Establish and support up to 50 two-person monitoring teams.

- The monitoring teams will submit periodic monitoring reports to ICNL and KOHRW will review the monitoring reports and will compile a short email update on the right to peaceful assembly in Iraq

- KOHRW will compile an in-depth consolidated quarterly report on the right to peaceful assembly in Iraq

- KOHRW will post the vetted reports on an interactive and user-friendly page on its website.

- Identify priorities for reform at the national and provincial levels

- KOHRW and ICNL will support local coalitions of activists seeking to improve national and provincial laws and policies restricting the right to peaceful assembly

-  Establish a small grant fund to advance reform of laws and regulations at the national and provincial levels

Beneficiaries:

Direct:100 lawyers, journalist and activists.

Indirect: 150, 000

Location:

18 governorates

Donors& Partners:

Donor: DRL

Partner: ICNL

Project Name:

Youth Innovation and Creativity Award (Khotwa/ PACE), NINEWAH and

Kirkuk Governorates to appraise outcome indicators

Activities :

-Launch media campaign

-Screening 500 applications

-Select 100 applications

-Train 100 youth on how to start your business

-Open incubator space

-Grant 20 top business ideas

Beneficiaries:

Direct: 100 youth

Indirect 500 youth

Location:

Ninawa& Kirkuk

Donors& Partners:

Donor: UNDP

Project Name:

Returns& Recovery of IDPs in Anbar

Activities :

-Rehabilitate 86 HH in Qaim

Beneficiaries:

Direct:86 HH

Indirect: 480

Location:

Anbar

Donors& Partners:

Donor: IOM

Project Name:

Voter Education

Activities :

-Train youth

-Awareness workshop.

-FGD

-Distribute leaflets.

Beneficiaries:

Direct:63,000 youth

Indirect: 450 youth

Location:

Basra, Diyala& Erbil

Donors& Partners:

Donor: UNAMI-UNDP

Project Name:

Strengthening Media for Democratization in KRI

Activities :

Train journalist on

- Right to information.

- Reporting and networking.

-Train ICHR staff in access to information.

Beneficiaries:

Direct: 1700 journalists

judicial actors and law enforcement authorities

Location:

Erbil, Duhok, Sulaymaniyah and Halabja

Donors& Partners:

Donor: UNDEF

Project Name:

Empowering Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to promote Social Cohesion in Kirkuk, Diyala, Anbar, Salaheldin and Niewna-Phase II

Activities :

- CBOs’ capacity and peace skills enhanced through training and

development activities to better serve their communities.

- CBOs’ are provided with grants to implement community initiatives

that have been prioritized by their communities.

Beneficiaries:

Direct: 10,180 beneficiaries (women, youth and men)

Location:

Kirkuk, Diyala, Anbar, Salaheddin and Niewna

Donors& Partners:

Donor: UNDP - German cooperation

Project Name:

Provision of PSS, CoVID instructions and facemasks to vulnerable

host community students

Activities :

-Provide 10,000 facemasks

-Provide PSS and positive psychology to students in five schools

Beneficiaries:

2500 students in primary and secondary schools

Location:

ُErbil

Donors& Partners:

Donor: KOHRW

Project Name:

Beneficiaries Selection, Capacity Building and Baseline Assessment Ninawa, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din, Diyala and Anbar

Activities :

-Develop a conflict-sensitive community outreach and beneficiary selection plan for each specified location that include clear eligibility and selection criteria, beneficiary’s selection methodology, scoring approach, tools for beneficiaries’ outreach and registration with clear segregation by gender and age group

-Develop, distribute, and collect application, which should be developed per each immediate livelihood intervention (i.e. cash for work) in close consultations with UNDP Livelihoods Team.

-Apply eligibility and selection criteria and a clear evaluation and scoring system to short list the applicants in order to ensure selecting the most vulnerable, poor, and eligible beneficiaries of IDPs, returnees, and community members, with special focus on youth and women

-KOHRW will develop and conduct a 5-day tailored training for all the selected beneficiaries under the immediate livelihoods interventions.

-KOHRW will Roll out the life skills training, jobs orientation and awareness raising session over a 5- day period. During the training period each participant will get an amount of $20USD per each training day as a stipend to cover transportation and food cost, except for the women headed household that will receive the stipend part of the cash grant that will be released through a contractor recruited by UNDP.

-KOHRW will design and implement appropriate instruments(s) (e.g. questionnaires and surveys) to collect the necessary data, such as demographic and socio-economic data about beneficiary, household conditions (income, 5 source of income, coping strategies) among other data points for the baseline assessment and socio-economic profiling, in close consultations with UNDP livelihoods team.

-KOHRW will analyze the data collected and produce a baseline assessment and socio-economic profiling report.

Beneficiaries:

3501 Beneficiaries (Women-Headed Households& youth)

Location:

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Ninawa, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din, Diyala and Anbar

Donors& Partners:

Donor: UNDP - German Development Bank

Project Name:

Establishment and Empowerment of Youth and Women Groups

Activities :

-Launch call for application to establish the three groups (1 youth group, 2 women groups) in the targeted locations

-Review current youth and women groups structure and members in the targeted location

 - Hold monthly meeting for the group members to discuss issues related to developing their work, coordinating their activities, and reaching out to other peace mechanisms in their areas.

 - Support the youth and women groups to develop group’s internal policies and processes and work plan for 2021.

 -develop a restructuring mechanism whenever needed to ensure effective selection and wide representation of new group members.

-Provide a two 5-day training in initiative development (design and implementation), leadership, teamwork, small grant management, conflict analysis, gender and countering violent extremism

-Develop a methodology on how creative peace initiatives can be developed and implemented and provide examples of initiatives that were useful in the past in the local context.

-Support youth and women groups to design and implement 50 Community based initiatives on issues that include (Strengthening community resilience, peace and coexistence in the liberated areas.

Provide cash grant (2500-3000) to youth and women groups to implement the 50 community initiatives.

- Monitor and report on implementation of 50 Community based initiatives by youth and women groups.

- Design a methodology for establishment of one network consisting of youth group, women group, and LPCs in each governorate, and one network in the five governorates.

- Hold a quarterly meeting for the network to discuss ways of coordination.

- Organize two conferences at the national level at the beginning of the establishment of the network and at the end of the project.

- Organize a minimum of one meeting on sub-national level with local authorities and community leaders to showcase the achievements of network.

Beneficiaries:

1000 Beneficiaries 

Location:

Ninawa, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din, Diyala and Anbar

Donors& Partners:

Donor: UNDP- German cooperation

Project Name:

Durable solution for IDPs and Refugees

Activities :

-Advocacy for civil documentations and child labors

-Advocacy sessions with the MoLsa, DoLsa and Judicial Council on Civil Documentations and Child Labir

-Develop Child Labor Policy

Beneficiaries:

101 Beneficiaries 

Location:

Erbil, Sulymaniah, Duhok

Donors& Partners:

Donor: Oxfam -RDPP

Project Name:

Protect Human Rights Defenders

Activities :

-Activity 1.1: Provide six advanced human rights monitoring training for 120 human rights defenders (80 in centre & south of Iraq&40 in KRI). Each training will last three days.

Activity 1.2: Provide six trainings to 120 human rights defenders (80 in the centre & south of Iraq&40 in KRI) on how to protect themselves and deal with the militias and security personnel during their abductions and arrest. Each training will last three days. 

Activity 1.3: Provide six training to 120 human rights defenders (80 in centre & south of Iraq&40 in KRI) on advocacy for human rights issues. e.g LGBTIQ in Iraq and KRI.

Activity 1.4: Establish a network for human rights defenders in Iraq

Activity 2.1: Develop regulations for the Ministry of Interior. 

Activity 2.2: Provide training and capacity building to strengthen the capacity of 500 security personnel to respond appropriately to those at risk of abduction, arrest, and disappearance

Beneficiaries:

985 Beneficiaries 

Location:

Erbil, Sulymaniah, Baghdad

Donors& Partners:

Donor: British Embassy

COVID - 19 Response
Distribution of Life – Support Packages in Ninawa, Salah Al-Din, and Al-Anbar

The KOHRW offices in Ninawa, Salah Al-din, and Al-Anbar governorates have started a food package distribution Campaign called "Ahalna" in cooperation with UNDP. The campaign started on 25/4/2020 and still on going.