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General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers Joint Coordination and Monitoring Center-JCMC

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Report No :11 2/12/2019

Risks and Recovery in Iraq

30 –November s1 Risks and Recovery in Iraq betweenSection One: General Overview on

November 2019 Section Two: Response to Risks Section Three: Readiness and Risk Reduction

Section Four: Recovery and Reconstruction

Section Five: Population Movement of Return and Displacement Section Six: Executive Decisions

Section One: General overview on Risks and Recovery between 1st November – 30 Novmmber 2019

Response to Risks

Risks / Governorates Diyala Basra

Population Movement displacement X

Biological Plant Pests X

Risk Reduction and Preparedness

Threats / Governorates Salah al- Din

Technical Risks – Rain flooding X

Recovery and Reconstruction

.According to the information by each governorate

Section One: Response to Risks Population Movement: (Displacement):

Description of the Problem: The JCMC represtational office in Diyala reported that 91 families were displaced from there

houses in October 2019 towards the center of Khanqin district ( 44 families from Shafiq Villiages; 14 families from Maakayha

village; 23 families from Ahmed Hilal village ) . The families were displaced as a result of terrorist acts.

Measures taken by JCMC representational office in Diyala

- The JCMC represtational office in Diyala adreesed an official letter to the military operations command in the governoarate

to enforce the security in the areas and ensure safe return for the displaced families to their houses.

- Adressing an official letter to the Direcotrate of Migeration and Displacement; to take the necessary actions.

Biological Risks- plant pests

The JCMC representational office in the governorate reported that it been notified by Basrah agriculture directorate that the

apricot stem pests affected (buckthrone) Ziziphus trees across the governorate. The total number of these trees have been

(116.060). It is worth noting that this pest kills the affected branch and small trees; make large tress inable to grow naturally

and produce fruits.

Measures Taken by the Directorate of Agriculture:

Adressing an official letter to the Direcotrate of plant protection services to take the necessary actions.

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Recommandations:

- Implement necessary activities to control pests to protect agricultural wealth

- Implement the necessary measures to prevent the transfer of pests from the affected areas to others

- Implement the necessary activities that raise farmer’s awareness of the danger of these pests, prevention methods, and

report incidents.

IDPs’ needs (Kurdistan Reigion)

In its report issued on November 7, 2019, the Joint Crisis Coordination Center in Kurdistan Region identified the needs of the

displaced in the governorates of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah and Dohuk for the current winter season, as shown in the table

below:

Measures taken by JCMC

Ministries of Migration and displacement, Oil, and Trade have been contacted by JCMC pertaining the needs outlined in the

JCC’s report.

Access to Basic Services- Roads & Bridges

Futher to the former official letters adreesed by JCMC; The Ministry of Housing & Municipalities reported that the directorate

of roads and bridges Prepares schemes; bills of quantities; funding and other implementing requirments to fix the road of

Hamrin lake which had been damaged due to elevation of water levels in the lake during the flooding period.

The project includes: constructing a bridge of 3 Km length; elevate the remaining (4km) road to match the bridge’s height,

pave the roadsides with stones, and install safety fence to protect the road and passers-by.

Description of activity: Subsequent to the JCMC report for August, which identified the problem of the collapse of the

Thiraa Dijla bridge in Taji district, formerly constructed by the Mayoralty of Baghdad, the Ministry of Housing and

Municipalities reported that the Roads and Bridges Directorate has prepared the design schemes to construct an iron bridge

instead of the tubular one. Currently in the stage of including the project within the investment plan for this year.

Access to Basic Services- Clean Water

Description of activity: Further to the report issued by (JCMC) in July; in which the shortage of clean water supply to the

returnee families in the village of (Ajheish) in Kirkuk Governorate has been identified; the Ministry of Housing &

Municipalities reported that Kirkuk water directorate has accomplished detailed estimates to obatain the required finicial

allocations for the project to supply potable water to the mentioned village. Fixing the problem would improve stabilization

in the area and provide the population with the necessary services.

Erbil 116,626 14,685 500 14,610 14,611 24,573,200 64,159 16,937 28,993 20,756 13,386 65,038 9,389

Sulaymaniyah 46,547 7,067 2528 6,450 6,450 9,308,600 93,094 46,547 139,641 93,094 46,547 139,641 0

Dohuk 95,141 45,380 15,162 80,246 42,969 19,028,200 268,306 42,969 171,876 42,969 0 171,876 0

Total 258,314 67,132 18,190 101,306 64,030, 52,910,000 426,559 106,453 340,510 156,819 59,933 376,555 9,389

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/Blankets

Matresses/ Pillows

kerosene for

& cooking

Heating(Liter)

Man

Coat

Kids

Coat

Wmaon Clothes

)(set)

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Shoes /different

sizes (pairs)Governorate Families

Tents &

Caravans

Tents need to

be replaced

kerosene

Stove

Cooking Gaz

Bottle

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Technichal Risks- Demining

Description of activity: On November 21, a joint team from the JCMC HQ office; Europian union; the United Nations Mine

Action Service (UNMAS) and JCMC Ninawa office visited Sinjar district to examine the ongoing demining operations of G4S

and Al-Saqer in AL Jazeera compound. Furthermore, the joint team carried out a visit to Al Qahtaniya district. The demining

operations would ensure safe return of the IDP families to their places of origin.

Description of activity: The JCMC representational office in Basra reported that the Civil Defense Directorate cleared 160

unexploded projectiles in different areas in the Governorate for the period from September 16, 2019 until October 16, 2019.

Description of activity: On November 6, the JCMC office in Ninewa governorate reported that through the efforts of the

Ministry of Defense 100% of the residential complexes in Al-Qahtaniyah, Adnania and Al-Jazeera areas have been cleared

and duly handed over to the local government.

Description of activity: the JCMC office in Ninewa governorate reported that Mosul airport was cleared of the UXOs. The

office added that a coordination meeting between mine action organizations and Directorate of Mine Action (DMA) has been

held to prioritize areas for work.

On November 5, the local government of Ninawa has received the airport after it had been cleared of explosives hazards.The

United States of America funded the clearance operations, and teams from the following companies participated in the

project: (Janus, Tetra Tech, Al Fahad). The work continued for the period between April 2018 to October 2019, during which

170 explosive objects were removed, including unexploded ordnance and explosive devices. Work has also been carried out

to remove tons of debris to enable the local government to rebuild the airport.

Facilitating the movement of humanitarian organizations

The Joint Coordination and Monitoring Center (JCMC) ensures the delivery of humanitarian aid to the families affected by

displacement and other risks on daily basis, through direct coordination with international organizations. Between 1-30 Nov

2019, 67 access permission letters were issued in coordination with the relevant authorities. The permissions facilitated the

movement of 830 trucks transferring humanitarian relief items and employees. Furthermore, during the above-mentioned

period, JCMC granted 70 landing permissions for UN’s aircrafts, in addition to the issuance of 13 emergency and multi-entry

visas to the International Organizations’ humanitarian actors.

Section Two: Risks Reduction and Preparedness

Description of the threat: On November 19, 2019, the JCMC representational office in Salah Al-Din Governorate reported

that the Khudraniyah and Hooriya areas in Al-Sharqat district could be subject to inundation in the event of heavy rains and

the flow of torrents in valley (Jerab Afrah), which is located to the west of these areas. Last year, flooding inundated these two

areas and caused casualties and displacement among residents and damaged their properties, in addition to the efforts that

were made by the responding entities to address the crisis.

Requirements set by the Joint Center Representation in the governorate

Dredge and clear up the valley bed from the last year’s accumulated sediments and direct the water course towards the river

basin to protect the areas.

Measures taken by JCMC

Address an official letter to the Ministry of Water Resources to take the necessary action regarding the requirements set

by the JCMC representational office in Salah al-Din Governorate.

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Access to the basic services:

Al-Muthanna Governorate indicated in its Letter to JCMC on November 24, 2019, that the province is one of the poorest

governorates by more than 52% of the population; according to official statistics, and has identified a number of needs in

many sectors, as shown in the table below:

Sector Requirments

Municipality 6 sweeper trucks to clean the main roads of the city, cover the shortage of the manpower in the municipal

sector and to meet the ongoing urban expantion of the city.

Clean Water

Providing enough quantities of Alum & Clorine to ensure sufficint quantities of clean water.

Fix and operate machines, equipment, water plants and water networks, in addition to establishing new

network of water pipes to the areas in need.

Maintannace and operating the machines and the projects and water stations and water supplying pipes;

And serving the new disricts with clean water pipenet

Constructing Al-Khalt water project with capacity of 2000m3per hour; and Barbouty water project with

capacity of 4000m3 per hour, in addition to the water network.

Employment Ensures enough job vacancies for the unemployed in the Governorate.

:Recommandation

Addressing the risks of poverty in the governorate by implementing the required projects and programs, and providing

the needs identified by the governorate.

Section Four: Recovery and Reconstruction

Description of Activity: The JCMC representational office in Anbar Governorate reported that the Alramadi dam and Alwarar

water regulator, which were damaged by the terrorist acts of Dae’sh during its control of the area, have been reconstructed.

The reconstruction operations have been financed and supervised by the Reconstruction Fund for Areas Affected by Terrorist

Operations (REFAATO) and implemented by joint efforts of the following companies of the Ministry of Water Resources: the

General Company for Dams and Reservoirs; the Al- Rafidain Company for dam Constrcuting and the Iraq General Company

for irrigation projects. The reconstruction of these two facilities will have a positive impact, including controlling the water

quantities in the Euphrates River, preventing floods and delivering water shares to the southern governorates.

Description of Activity: projects of the Reconstruction Fund for Areas Affected by Terrorist Operations (REFAATO) funded

through the federal budget for 2016-2018, as reported by JCMC focal point on 10th of November 2019:

Governorate Sum Ratio of implemented projects to total

number of projects in the governorate

Ratio of governorate’s projects to the

total number of projects Total implemented

Anbar 216 212 98% 42%

North Babylon 21 20 95% 4%

Baghdad Belt 37 35 95% 7%

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Description of activity The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported that the total number of stabilization

projects in the governorates of Anbar, Salah al-Din, Diyala, Ninewa and Kirkuk have been 3448 projects, including 2266

projects completed, 213 projects under implementation, 205 projects under contract, 764 projects under development; as of

17 November 2019; as shown in the table below:

Governorate

Total

number

of

projects

Projects under

development

Projects

under

contract

Projects under

implementation

Implemented

projects

Implemention

ratio of the

Projects in the

Governorate

The ratio of

governorate

projects to the

total number

of projects

Anbar 1057 396 19 34 608 58% 31%

Salah Al-Din 337 89 44 28 176 52% 10%

Diyala 34 8 4 1 21 62% 1%

Ninewa 1892 239 1 139 1406 74% 55%

Karkuk 128 32 21 11 52 41% 4%

Total 3448 764 89 213 2263

Section Five: Population Movement (Return & Displacement

On November 14, the JCMC representational office in Ninewa Governorate reported that a joint meeting chaired by the

governor was held with IOM’s representatives. During the meeting, the organization presented a proposal to evaluate the areas

of origin for the1.368 displaced families who currently residing in Al Salamiyah camp. The aim of the proposal is to implement

programs, projects and activities to enable these families to return to their areas. The implementation period should not go

beyond June 2020. The activities shall include the following:

Reconstrcting the fully destroyed houses,

Rehabilitating the partially damaged houses.

Provide small size projects to the returnees in the returnee areas.

In coordination with the local government, support the rehabilitation operations of the infrastructres,

Generalize the proposle to the NGOs and UN agencies to have thier opinion about the possibility to implement the

similar project to benefit other camps,

The Ninawa local government provides all required facilitations to IOM to implement the project.

The JCMC representational office in Anbar Governorate reported that the process of closing and consolidating camps is

ongoing as per the conditions where (the Fallujah Camp 7 and Fallujah Camp 5) were consolidated with the (Central Altahrir

Camp and Altahrir Camp 2) in the camps of Habbaniyah tourist city,. 96 families were moved to the new camps, after

Diyala 54 52 96% 11%

Salah al-Din 49 40 82% 10%

Kirkuk 42 31 74% 8%

Ninewa 92 67 73% 18%

Grand Total 511 457

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preparation and installing 53 new tents which were made available by UNHCR and in cooperation with CCCM which is led by

the Danish Refugee Council.

The Ministry of Trade reported that the number of registered IDP families in October 2019 was 84,506 families

(453,884 individuals). The Ministry also stated that its staff continues distribution of PDS’s items to the displaced people across

all governorates.

Al-Diwaniyah Governorate reported that as of 1st October 2019, the number of the remaining IDP families has been 417

families (2,191 individuals). The table below shows the governorates of origin and the number of IDP families:

Governorate Ninewa Anbar Karkuk Salah Al Din Baghdad Babylon Diyala Sulaymaniyah

Families 119 27 218 17 18 7 10 1

Section Six: Executive Decisions

Risk Category Risk area Recoomandation Implementing agency

Population movement-

Displacement

Governorate of Diyala -

Khanaqin District

- Address the causes that led to

the displacement of families and

create conditions to return to

their areas of origin.

- Provide the necessary relief to

the displaced families

Security bodies

Minstry of Migration and

Displaced

Iraqi Red Crescent Society

Relevant organizations &

Agencies

Plant Pests

Governorate of Basrah

Adress the risk mentioned in the

report and take into

consideration the

recommentations

Ministry of Agricultutre

Basrah Governorate


Agencies

Access to basic Services Governorate of Al-

Muthana

Address the poverty risk in the

governorate and take into

consideration what is

mentioned in the summary of

the needs.

Ministry of Planning

Ministry of

construction,Housing and

Municipalities

Al-Muthanna Governorate


Agencies

Naseer Abdul Sattar Abdul Jabbar

Head of JCMC

2 /12/ 2019

For more information, please contact: General Secrtariat of the Council of Ministers/JCMC

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