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PART II: MuLTI-PuRPOSe CASH ASSISTANCe

MULTI-PURPOSE CASH ASSISTANCE

OVERVIEW NO. OF PEOPLE IN NEED BY SEX BY AGE
An estimated 3 million people have been and remain
displaced since January 2014 . The resources of many
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local communities hosting displaced families are 2.2M 50% 50% 47% 48% 5%
male
female
overburdened by this additional population, which is children adult elderly
often too large for local economies to support. The limited financial (<18 yrs) (18-59) (>59)
resources of displaced families are largely spent on essential items,
such as food, water, transport, and rent. Iraq’s household expenditure
patterns show that food accounts for approximately 37 per cent of potentially create further vulnerability, as most basic services are
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family spending, rent 31 per cent, and 14 per cent on healthcare. To available once the financial means to access them are available :
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stretch their budgets, many displaced families practice negative coping Food: the majority of vulnerable households still report food as
strategies such as eating lower quality food, foregoing basic health the most common need. Generally, people’s ability to cope with
care, and drinking from unclean water sources, further exacerbating displacement or conflict remains extremely low. Households are
their vulnerability. increasingly dependent on debt or external assistance to their food
needs. Moreover, high rates of unemployment, particularly among
displaced people, indicate that it is unlikely that households can
AFFECTED POPULATION sustain their normal level of food consumption without assistance. 5
Livelihoods: More than three-quarters of displaced households report
An estimated 2.24 million people are at risk of employing negative that they do not generate sufficient income to meet their basic needs.
coping strategies to meet their basic needs. This figure includes
internally displaced families, vulnerable affected residents of the Shelter: With regional variations in shelter type across the country,
host community, returnees and highly vulnerable families residing many people report living in inadequate shelter, with the high
in conflict and newly retaken areas. Displacement has increased cost of rent reported as the primary reason for being displaced
since the Mosul crisis began in October 2016, and it is expected that multiple times.
displacements will continue until military operations end. Large Health care: While health facilities are available throughout Iraq,
numbers of displaced families are also returning to their homes the unaffordability of health services remains a constraint for crisis- 29
(800,000 returnees since March 2016, with Anbar, Ninewa and Salah affected vulnerable households, particularly displaced people who are
al-Din accounting for the majority) . At the same time, conflict has not living in camps.
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markedly impacted local economies, particularly in Ninewa and Water and sanitation: The unaffordability of clean drinking water
Kirkuk Governorates, where many businesses have closed down, and forces many families to deprioritize this as a household expense,
unemployment and poverty levels have increased. potentially exposing people to a high risk of waterborne disease as
free or low-cost water sources of poor quality are used.

HUMANITARIAN NEEDS Education: Vulnerable families with limited access to food and water
deprioritize education, with the majority of people reporting the
Multi-purpose cash assistance provides a means to ensure that financial costs involved in schooling as a significant barrier.
humanitarian needs are met, whilst avoiding coping strategies that
RRM CASH WORKING GROUP
4. ReACH Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment III, (July 2016).
5. ReACH Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment III, (July 2016).
1. IOM/DTM (2016).
2. Cash Consortium of Iraq – Baseline Data (2016).
3. IOM-DTM (January 2017).

PEOPLE IN NEED CHILDREN DISPLACED PEOPLE IN NEED PEOPLE IN NEED FOR MULTIPURPOSE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE DATA (2016) IDPS OUT OF CAMPS TAKING ON
CASH ASSISTANCE DEBT TO AFFORD BASIC NEEDS
1 out of 2 37%
Ninewa 1.3M Ninewa 711k
Anbar 369k 31%
displaced is a child Salah al-Din 301k
Anbar 300k Kirkuk 214k
Erbil
11% Diyala 130k 174k
Salah Al din 156k Baghdad 127k
Dahuk 101k 14% 30%
Sulaymaniyah 37k 11%
Dohuk 132k Babylon 20k
Najaf 18k 4% 3%
Erbil 128k of the people in need will Kerbala 15k
Wassit
8k
be displaced in 2017 Qadissiya 7k
Basrah Food Rent Healthcare Other* Transport Education
Kirkuk 100k 2k
Thi-Qar 2k *Other includes Water, Hygiene,Communications, Clothing
Source: RRM Data 2016 Source: OCHA Muthanna 1k Source: Cash Working Group Source: Cash Consortium of Iraq, Baseline Data, 2016 (Sample 14,453 HHs) Source: REACH Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment, Round 3 (August 2016)
Missan 1k