UN-Habitat recommended the prefab shelter solution for the most vulnerable families including orphans, women-headed households, disabled people, child-headed households, widows without support and the elderly.
In Barazinja and Sulaimanieh, UN-Habitat has finalized the topographic survey of the site and the draft site plan will host approximately 150-200 IDP families. In Duhok the governorate has just approved the selection of the site in Dawdia to host around 350-400 IDP families. The total area of the site can accommodate around IDP 2000 families, which will require mobilizing additional resources to complete the establishment of the prefab shelter units and associated infrastructure and services.
Responding to the request of the Chaldean Bishop to provide emergency shelter support to the Christian families who had been forced by ISIL to leave Ninawa governorate, UN-Habitat has finalized the preparation to establish a limited prefab shelter site within the land of the church of St. Teresa in Basra.
UN-Habitat is partnering with local NGOs to establish the prefab shelter units in the three governorates of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A cash-for-rent scheme has also been agreed with the local government to subsidize temporary accommodation of IDP families until the shelters are constructed.
UN-Habitat has sustained a significant present in Iraq for over seventeen years, and has responded to three crises prior to the current IDP crisis: between 1997 and 2003 UN-Habitat constructed over 20,000 homes for displaced and vulnerable families in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; following the 2006 IDP crisis UN-Habitat built housing for displaced IDPs in Hilla, Erbil.
Wasit and Thiqar, and has since been developing with government a national strategy to address IDP areas and informal settlements in order to find long term solutions for the remaining 1 million IDPs displaced in 2006; and the current Syria refugee crisis where it supported housing needs for refugees and infrastructure support in urban host communities in Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaymaniah; In parallel, UN-Habitat has supported key development actions, including upgrading informal settlements, preparing the national housing policy, and strengthening local capacities in planning and service delivery.
(Source: UN)
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