Iraq: Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment (MCNA) VIII - Erbil Protection Working Group (3 February 2021)
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MCNA Objective
To serve as a comprehensive evidence base for humanitarian actors on the type, severity, variance and development of sectoral and multi-sectoral household needs.
To inform strategic planning within the Humanitarian Planning Cycle by serving as the main data source for the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and inter-sectoral PiN and severity calculations.
MCNA Framework
Conducted in close coordination with the Assessment Working Group (AWG), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), and the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG).
In 2020, the MCNA was conducted for the eighth time in Iraq. Globally, REACH conducted Multi-Sector Needs Assessments in 12 humanitarian crises, allowing a global community of practice and informing more effective humanitarian action.
COVID-19 Context - Iraq - Overview of the humanitarian situation and the impact of COVID-19
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While Iraq has started to slowly recover from the several waves of conflict that the country has experienced in the past decades, COVID-19 and its social and economic impact has exposed people to new risks, perpetuated existing vulnerabilities and has put additional strain on an already fragile public sector. With petroleum accounting for 92% of the country’s exports, declining oil prices have plummeted the country into a financial and economic crisis, with the World Bank projecting a contraction of the Iraqi GDP of 9.7% in 2020.1,2 While the Iraqi government has been struggling to pay the salaries of the country’s six million public sector employees, millions of others working in the private and informal sector have lost their employment and livelihoods as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
Iraq: UNHCR Civil documentation for IDPs November 2020
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IN BRIEF
According to the Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment 2020, 55% of IDPs in camps, 47% of IDPs in out-of-camp situations, and 57% of returnees in Iraq miss at least one key civil document. Civil documentation serves as proof of one’s legal identity. Due to the lack of civil documentation, many IDPs and returnees are unable to access basic services such as education and health care, experience restrictions on their freedom of movement, are exposed to an increased risk of arrest and detention and may be excluded from restitution and/or reconstruction programmes. The lack of civil documentation may also increase the risk of statelessness for undocumented children.