Iraqi Kurdistan: IDP Community Project Manager

Sep 12, 2014 | Croix-Rouge Française

Mid-2013, the French Red Cross (FRC) launched operations to assist the Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict that had been affecting the country for 3 years. There are today more than 2,3 million people that have crossed the border to neighboring countries, living in camps or in host communities. The humanitarian needs involved by the magnitude of this crisis are substantial and call for an increasing response. On the side of the National Societies, FRC is involved in contributing to this response and to assisting the most vulnerable refugee population. This intervention concerns Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq (region of Kurdistan) and mainly targets the fields of health, water, sanitation, and winterization. Iraq has welcomed over 220 000 refugees, and more than 97% of them are in Iraqi Kurdistan. Since September 2013, FRC intervenes in Dohuk province in partnership with the local branch of the Iraqi Red-Crescent. An emergency sanitation and winterization program targeted at the most vulnerable sections of the population in Domiz Camp (the Kurdistan’s largest camp, with more than 45 000 people) ended in January.

To ensure continuity of action, FRC developed for 2014 a broad water/hygiene /sanitation (WASH) program including improvement and construction of health infrastructures activities and community mobilization in Domiz Camp. FRC planned to extend its action for urban refugees called “non-camps”, living outside the camps and representing 60% of the total refugee population. More 100 000 refugees are living in Dohuk governorate in old buildings, shacks on privately owned lands or in shared apartments in town, with many families. For these urban refugees, 2 types of activities are foreseen: 1. The first one is an individual support to the most vulnerable people in terms of training (vocational training and cash grant) and rehabilitation of shelters; 2. The second is a support to public infrastructures through capacity building at school and urban health care facilities level, which will also benefit to the host population. Iraq, now more than ever intertwined with the Syrian civil war, has reached another inflection point with the current increase of violence in the North.

The Project Manager is responsible for the current WASH project for the IDP Response in the communities targeted by the operation.

• He / she will be responsible for the planning, implementation and monitoring of the project. In addition, the project manager will ensure the proper management of budgets and actions in accordance with the required procedures. • He / she will pay particular attention to the implementation of the project in close collaboration with UNICEF, Dohuk Governorate, and with other partners and stakeholders involved in the WASH sector. • He / she will seek to achieve the objectives through effective coaching, coordination and horizontal relationships, emphasizing teamwork. • He / she will work toward meeting the objectives of the IRCS/FRC in the country thanks to supervision and effective horizontal relationships and by encouraging teamwork. Description of activities into the community: • Activities in up to 20 different sites over Dohuk Area (public buildings, informal settlements, churches, mosques, town halls, under construction buildings) • Cleaning campaigns linked with hygiene promotion sessions on IDP community involvement in cleanliness • Waste management: Installation/Enhancement of system: distribution & installation of waste collection points, coordination with the municipality on collective collection of solid waste • Hygiene promotion sessions on water management (storages, usage & waste) linked with the Wash activities of the technical team (water trucking, installation/rehabilitation of water points, etc.) • Hygiene promotion sessions on water borne diseases, basic/domestic hygiene reflexes in emergency, linked with the Wash activities of the technical team (latrine construction, shower and bathroom construction/rehabilitation, kitchen construction/rehabilitation, etc.) • Distributions of NFIs: Hygiene kits, Cleaning Kits, Sleeping kits, cooking kits

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