2016

humanitarian RESPONSE PLAN

DEC 2015

IRAQ

OCHA/Gwen McClure

Part I:   

Total population of Iraq

people in need

people targeted

requirements (US$)

# Humanitarian partners

36M

10M

7.3M

861M

188

TURKEY

Dahuk

657,446 Erbil

474,394

Ninewa

2,825,286

Sulaymaniyah Kirkuk

SYRIA

812,039

210,059

Salah al-Din

IRAN

658,906

Diyala

603,293

02 Baghdad

Anbar

1,514,276

1,368,919 Kerbala

125,825

Najaf

Wassit

Babylon

154,000 180,841

Qadissiya

Missan

156,899

49,490 Thi-Qar

67,835

169,010

Basrah

SAUDI ARABIA

Muthanna

30,742

8,345 KUWAIT

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People in need

ndaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. The data for this map has a limited number of sources, including parties to the conflict. a has not been independently verified and is subject to error or omission, deliberate or otherwise by the various sources. Due to the fluidity of the conflict, control status is likely to change.

The designation employed and the presentation of material and maps in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Humanitarian Country Team and partners concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

Part I:   

Table of content Part I: Country Strategy Foreword by the Humanitarian Country Team  �������������������  04 The Humanitarian Response Plan at a glance  ��������������������  05 Overview of the crisis  ������������������������������������������������������������  06 Scenario planning  �������������������������������������������������������������������  09 Strategic objectives  ����������������������������������������������������������������  10 Response strategy  ������������������������������������������������������������������  11 Operational capacity  ��������������������������������������������������������������  13 Humanitarian access  ��������������������������������������������������������������  14 Response monitoring  �������������������������������������������������������������  15 Summary of needs, targets and requirements  �������������������  16 Summary of cluster response  �����������������������������������������������  17

Part II: Kurdistan region of Iraq 

21

Part III: Operational Response Plans

29

Part IV: Annexes

93

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Part I: Foreword by the humanitarian country team

Foreword by

the humanitarian country team The conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has had profound humanitarian consequences. Nearly one-third of Iraq’s population, 10 million people, need help. Three million Iraqis have fled their homes and 3 million more are living under ISIL control. Countless people have been brutalized in some of the most horrific violence in the world. The situation of women and children, including those who have been captured and enslaved, is heartbreaking.

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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