KOHRW
Social Cohesion
ArabicEnglishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseRussianSpanish

Social Cohesion

Part of all our programs is an effort to facilitate improved social cohesion amongst all religious groups, ethnicity, genders, age and other societal differences. Our programs create dialogue amongst community leaders and encourage a culture of tolerance, pluralism and mutual respect.

1. Building for Peace Facility (B4PF) in Kirkuk and Ninawa


2025- ongoing: KOHRW with KFW in partnership NRC is leading program B4PF that focus on peacebuilding of infrastructure and Good Governance in Kirkuk and Ninawa/ Sinjar

2. Social and Economic Development of Displaced and Returnee Women and Girls in Kirkuk


2024-2025: KOHRW In partnership with UN Women and supported by the Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund, the program trained over 80 women leaders in leadership, conflict resolution, peaceful coexistence, and countering violent extremism. Women’s groups carried out social initiatives and formed networks in Kirkuk to drive positive change in their communities.

3. EMPOWERING COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS (CBOs) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL COHESION IN KIRKUK, DIYALA, SALAH AL-DIN, AND NINEWA - PHASE II  2021-2022:


CBO-II is a project implemented by KOHRW and UNDP with support of German cooperation, after successfully achieving phase-I. KOHRW was successful in implementing the project in the 5 governorates and reaching even beyond the set goals, in capacity building of 317 CBOs, and forming about 10 partnerships among them, providing grants for 50 CBOs for social cohesion projects

4. ESTABLISHMENT, AND EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH AND WOMEN GROUPS IN THE GOVERNMENTES ANBAR, DIYALA, SALAH AL-DIN, KIRKUK, AND NINEWA


2021-2022: The project is supported by UNDP and covers a wide geographical area of Anbar, Diyala, Salah al-Din, Kirkuk, and Ninewa, which aims to develop the capacity of Youth and women groups by establishing and empowering effective groups to implement creative peace initiatives proposed at the community level, the project has reached out to more than 2149 beneficiaries. 50 groups of youth and women were developed, and provided with small grants for peace initiatives

5. Empowering Community Based Organizations for Social Cohesion project (Ninawa, Salahaldin and Anbar)


2019-2020: KOHRW implemented Empowering CBOs project in partnership with UNDP covering three governorates (Ninawa, Anbar and SalahAl-Din) to empower the local CBOs. Eventually, 31 CBOs were provided with grants to implement their peace initiative and social cohesion projects in their respective areas.