IRAQ AND IRAQI KURDISTAN

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Education and protection

FUNDING

IHF - OCHA

• Number of beneficiaries: : 11,906 direct beneficiaries, including 1,189 people with disabilities (+24,216 indirect beneficiaries)
• Partner: Justice Center : https://justice-center-iraq.org/

Since 2014 and the emergence of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, conflicts have led to numerous losses, destruction and population displacements. TGH works with children, the most vulnerable population in the face of these profound upheavals.

TGH and the Iraqi NGO Justice Center have been implementing child protection and legal assistance activities in Balad, Yathrib, Aziz Balad, Samarra and Al Mutassim since February 2019. TGH is now the only international NGO providing child protection services in this southern region of the Salah al-Din Governorate. This action is in line with the projects aimed at strengthening child protection services previously implemented in the region. This project is being carried out in partnership with the Iraqi NGO Justice Center, which provides its expertise in legal assistance. TGH brings its technical expertise in child protection developed through its field experience and the many interventions already carried out by the organisation in this sector in rural and urban areas and in IDP camps in Iraq.

The project aims to provide child protection services and legal assistance as well as to strengthen community-based risk prevention and intervention mechanisms. Thus, emergency and long-term responses will be put in place, building on systems and services already implemented in previous projects. These objectives are implemented through various actions, including the establishment of appropriate educational activities in childcare spaces and the sensitisation of communities on the vulnerability and rights of children.

The project is built around two main axes:

• Improving the environment for vulnerable children and their families through specialised services. Children at risk are cared for and referred to specialised actors according to their health, legal and social situation. Particular attention is paid to children who have been involved in armed groups or who have suffered physical, moral and sexual violence.
• Capacity building of NGOs and national partners to support national capacity development and channel support and funding at the local level. The objective here is to strengthen the skills of Iraqi national institutions and NGOs in order to ensure the sustainability of care for children at risk after the end of the project. To this end, TGH organises training sessions on both project management and child protection standards.