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PART II: COORdINATION ANd COMMON sERVICEs

COORDINATION AND COMMON SERVICES

OVERVIEW HUMANITARIAN NEEDS
Three million Iraqis are currently displaced. Iraq The limited information on humanitarian activities, services
further has 1.4 million returnees and 230,000 and outreach, especially in hard to reach areas, remains the
refugees. In 2017, partners estimate that up main challenge to coordinated response activities in Iraq.
to 11 million Iraqis will require some form of Limited two-way communication between displaced people
humanitarian assistance. The Mosul city humanitarian crisis is and aid agencies, and restricted access to feedback, affects
expected to continue in the early part of 2017, and measurable the ability of humanitarian partners to understand the needs
improvements in humanitarian conditions will likely only of IDPs in real-time and adjust programmes and services
develop late in the year or in 2018. Humanitarian needs accordingly. In particular, as military operations often result in
outstrip available resources and capacity, and coordination and complex population movements, there is a need for real-time
common service modalities are essential to ensure principled, monitoring of the key displacement and return trends. Due to
rapid and effective humanitarian action. With an expanding the evolving complexity of the Mosul humanitarian emergency
humanitarian community engaged in multi-sectorial and its protracted nature, it is increasingly important to support
interventions across Iraq, the Coordination and Common the capacity of national partners. Effective NGO coordination
Services Sector provides a structure for effective country- mechanisms and approaches need to be reinforced, alongside
wide coordination and evidence-based humanitarian action at strengthened NGO access to critical information and analysis.
national, regional and governorate levels. Operational engagement and coordinated support and services
are enhanced through the development of common analytical
positions.
AFFECTED POPULATION
There is a need for further strengthening of the current
In 2017, a total of 146 humanitarian organizations will provide coordination structures and ensuring coherence of the national
critical aid to over 11 million people in need across all the 18 and sub-national coordination structures at both strategic
32 governorates. The primary focus for the Coordination and and operational level. Assessment coordination, regular and
Common Services Sector is to support coordination across mobile data collection exercises, analysis and dissemination
humanitarian organizations operating in Iraq and facilitate a through multiple interactive platforms will further strengthen
principled and timely humanitarian response. information-sharing and the appropriate targeting of
humanitarian assistance.

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