FFIS - Japan Fund (27 Jun 2016)

United Nations Development Programme in Iraq 

Funding Facility for 

Immediate Stabilization 

Japanese Funded Livelihood Activities 

in Iraq 

Window Two: Livelihoods 

Al Dour, Mkeishifa and Rabia

Table of Contents 

3 

1. Introduction ........................................................................................................2 

2. Japan Fund ........................................................................................................3 

3. Livelihoods in Salah al Din Governorate: Al Dour and Mkeishifah ......4 

3.1 Background....................................................................................................4 

3.2 FFIS Intervention ..........................................................................................5 

3.3 Achieved Outputs........................................................................................7 

3.4 Lessons Learned and Challenges ...........................................................9 

3.5 Photos from the Field .................................................................................10 

4. Livelihoods in Ninewah Governorate - Rabia .............................................13 

4.1 Background....................................................................................................13 

4.2 Action ........................................................................................................13 

4.3 Achieved Outcomes ...................................................................................14 

4.4 Challenges ......................................................................................................15

1. Introduction 

Iraq has been undergoing political, economic, 

and social turmoil most recently as 

a result of the conflict with Islamic State of 

Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The group occupied 

approximately one-third of Iraq’s territory 

by the summer of 2014, the pinnacle being 

ISIL’s taking of Mosul that June. Since 

that time, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), 

Peshmerga (Kurdish) and Popular Mobilization 

Forces (PMF) conducted clearing 

operations to retake territorial control from 

ISIL. These military operations have also 

occurred in the context of the national reconciliation 

and political reform, which aim 

to provide inclusion for marginalized communities 

and devolve administrative and 

fiscal authority to the governorates. The 

onslaught of ISIL beginning in 2014 has 

resulted in the displacement of 3.3 million 

Iraqis, many of whose places of origin are 

the target communities for stabilization initiatives. 

Since ISIL has been able to exploit and hijack 

Sunni Arab disenchantment for the organization’s 

objectives, national and international 

actors have realized that military 

clearing operations to root out ISIL militants 

must be followed by rapid, timely, and effective 

efforts by the Government of Iraq 

(GoI) to restore essential services and livelihoods 

that will help facilitate the return 

of displaced persons. Further, the Government 

response following liberation must 

attempt to restore the trust between the 

Government and the people. Broader reconciliation, 

national dialogue and reform 

efforts currently led by the Prime Minister 

depend on strong government responses 

following liberation at the local level. 

In late 2014, the Prime Minister and the 

Special Representative of the Secretary- 

General (SRSG) for Iraq agreed to establish 

a joint UN trust fund to support stabilization 

and reconstruction in areas newly liberated 

from ISIL. In March of 2015, the Government 

reviewed the structure of the trust 

fund and decided to separate out stabilization, 

for which UNDP prepared a concept 

note for a stabilization funding facility. The 

note was endorsed by the Prime Minister 

and leading members of the Stabilization 

Working Group of the Global Coalition to 

Defeat ISIL, co-chaired by Germany and the 

United Arab Emirates. Following the Working 

Group’s endorsement in April 2015, 

UNDP developed the programme document 

to create the UNDP Funding Facility 

for Immediate Stabilization (FFIS), which 

was formally established on 11 June 2015. 

The intended objective of FFIS is to provide 

the Government of Iraq with a mechanism 

to address immediate needs of the populations 

following military clearing operations 

and liberation. As per the programme 

document, attached for reference, the outputs 

of FFIS are: (1) rapid stabilization and 

recovery assessments carried out with local 

authorities, UN agencies, funds and programmes, 

and civil society actors; and (2) 

support the Government of Iraq is supported 

to address the immediate needs of sta- 

Funding Facility for Immediate Stabilization - Japanese Funded Livelihood Activities in Iraq 2

ilization and recovery in newly accessible 

areas which allow the sustainable return 

of IDPs. The programme is designed to address 

four windows of engagement: light 

infrastructure rehabilitation; livelihoods 

support; capacity building; and community 

reconciliation. 

The programme is intended to directly impact 

the Government of Iraq’s ability to respond 

to people’s needs through increased 

capacity for service delivery through material 

support and enhanced personnel 

support. Further, the programme directly 

benefits hundreds of thousands of Iraqis 

in liberated areas who have endured traumatic 

conflict, notably those who fled the 

fighting, through the provision of needed 

infrastructure for regrowth, support to 

re-establish businesses, opportunities for 

livelihood restoration and support to community 

cohesion. UNDP is the primary Implementing 

agency of FFIS, though it may 

partner with UN agencies for specific projects, 

and contracts with NGOs and other 

vendors will facilitate many activities 

2. Japan Fund 

Japan agreed to contribute $1 M to support 

the livelihoods window within the 

stabilization efforts. The generous contribution 

was physically received on 1 September 

2015 to cover particular livelihoods 

activities up to 31 January 2016. UNDP has 

used the fund to finance FFIS initiatives in 

three sub-districts, Al-Dour, Mkeishifa, and 

Rabia, to provide quick job opportunities 

for 400 individuals and support the restoration 

of agriculture businesses to benefit 

1.6661,666 households. Both interventions 

aim to jump-start the local economy and 

generate income for local households, particularly 

families returning to their homes, 

including youth, women and vulnerable 

households. Through the Japanese fund, 

UNDP has partnered with NGOs and UN 

agencies to improve and promote the 

economic and social stability of vulnerable 

communities within liberated areas 

through cash-based interventions. These 

included short-term “cash-for-work” (CFW) 

job creation schemes implemented in 

Salah al-Din province, and providing fertilizers 

to local farmers in Ninewah. 

FFIS has adopted two main activities under 

the livelihood window: (1) Cash-for-Work 

(CFW) and (2) providing financial support 

to restore local and small businesses. The 

cash-for-work modality is being applied for 

multi-benefit activities that are designed to 

target individuals through job creation and 

support to local communities by providing 

public services that help renovate public 

and private facilities. CFW activities include 

general debris removal and rehabilitating 

streets, schools, public health centers, 

hospitals, worship houses, government 

buildings, police stations, orphanages, universities, 

market places, parks and greenspaces, 

houses of vulnerable. Also, the CFW 

programmes include solid waste management 

and recycling debris for construction 

material. Additionally, the small business 

grants work as a booster for local markets 

to reopen and help the vulnerable business 

owners to start generating income 

and provide their services and goods to the 

returnees. 

In addition to CFW, UNDP, in partnership 

with the Food and Agriculture Organization 

(FAO), is providing fertilizers to increase 

food availability and enhance rural house- 


hold incomes among conflict-affected 

populations in liberated areas with economies 

that depend on agriculture. This intervention 

is carried out in close coordination 

with Federal Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) 

and the Kurdistan Regional Government’s 

Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources 

(MoAWR), as well as the local community 

leaders in Ninewah. 

3. Livelihoods in Sala al- Din 

Governorate - Al Dour and 

Mkeishifa 

3.1 Background 

Al Dour and Makhashefa sub-districts were 

liberated by the Iraqi Security forces March 

and April 2015, respectively. During the 

fighting most of the buildings and individual 

houses were damaged or destroyed. 

Al Dour is located to the east of the River 

Tigris (Map 1) while Mkeishifa is located on 

the opposite bank and to the west of the 

River Tigris (Map 2). Located to the south 

of Tikrit, Al Dour has a population of 60,000 

residents and Mkeishifa 40,000 residents. 

Al Dour and Mkeishifa are habitated predominantly 

by farming communities. Each 

town has a row of shops and market stalls 

but all of them have been damaged or destroyed 

beyond use. Farm equipment such 

as tools, irrigation pumps and piping has 

been stolen or if left in place is damaged. 

In Al Dour and Mkeishifa there have been 

clear emerging opportunities to create 

livelihoods, support extremely incapacitated 

local authorities and to stimulate 

the private sector in the recovery of the 

local economy. The use of a cash-for-work 

modality was designed not just to inject 

cash into the local economy, but also to 

ensure that the beneficiary groups and local 

stakeholders receive early financial assistance 

and support that will then allow 

them to create long-term business opportunities, 

such as reopening of shops, local 

markets and small stalls and kiosks, as well 

as supporting the recovery of land-based 

initiatives in a number of enterprises such 

river-irrigated farming, agroforestry livestock 

production, and dairy production 

and poultry farming, and even the use of 

public-private-partnerships for solid waste 

collection services, waste processing and 

recycling, management of waste disposal 

sites, management and recycling of building 

materials. 

The project’s pre-assessment findings 

showed that destruction in Al Dour and 

Mkeishifa is massive. In both towns, the 

assessment concluded to 321 destroyed 

houses, 404 burned and vandalized houses 

and shops, and 1,452 stolen shop and 

house. Also, all the main roads are at the 

best 70% blocked, while 80% of the sub 

roads are 90% blocked and cannot be used. 

None of the schools were operating, the 

public facilities like the water and electricity 

station were not accessible, other public 

buddings and Public Health Centers were 

in a very bad conditions and needed to be 

cleaned before the rehabilitation. 


Map 1: Al Dour and its agricultural strip to the east of the River Tigris 

Map 2: Mkeishifa located in surrounding agricultural fields to the west of the River Tigri 

3.2 FFIS Intervention 

UNDP started cash-for-work activities in Al 

Dour and Mkeishifa in mid-January 2016 

contracting with two NGOs for a period of 3 

months. The cash-for-work jobs employed 

980 youth, of whom 116 were women. For 

the work in Al Dour and Mkeishifa UNDP 

used the same two NGOs that worked 

with youth brigades and cash-for-work activities 

in Tikrit. These NGOs (Al Nour and 

HRF) implemented cash-for-work schemes 

and house repairs for 105 families, mostly 

female-headed households. Out of the 

105 house repairs, 73 houses were female 

headed households. In addition, 193 small 

cash grants were provided for a range of 

small businesses in Al Dour and Mkeishifa, 

including tomato/cucumber farms of 

whom 43 were run by women. In total 1279 

people benefited from the livelihoods activities, 

of whom 234 women, equaling 

18%. Identifying qualified NGOs with the 

capacity to manage significant amounts 

of money for quick impact projects is a significant 

challenge that UNDP will have to 

weigh in other areas where livelihoods will 

be supported. This is why the same NGOs 


were used for the three locations. As direct 

beneficiaries from Al Dour and Mkeishifa, 

the cash-for-work, house repair, and the 

small grants, reached to 1,279 individuals. 

While the women’s participation in the 

cash-for-work is slightly below the target, it 

has been much higher than other interventions. 

This is because of cultural norms that 

encourage women not to participate in 

outdoor activities. The below table shows 

the number of beneficiaries from each activity 

with sex disaggregation. 

UNDP’s partner Al Noor, initiated the establishment 

of NGOs consortium called the 

Civic Alliance for Iraq Stabilization (CAIS), 

consisting of twelve NGOs from Salah Al- 

Din Governorate, including NGOs from 

Mkeishifa & Al Dour. The main mission of 

CAIS was to activate the role of the NGOs/ 

CSOs in stabilization activities by working 

closely with the public, the local government 

and international organizations. Al 

Noor has supported NGOs of Al Dour and 

Mkeishifa to return and to start performing 

their work under CAIS. 

The project is required to provide immediate 

support for current residents and the 

safe return of displaced families through 

the rehabilitation newly accessible areas. 

Rendering the towns of Al Dour and 

Mkeishifa safe is crucial for the swift recovery 

and rehabilitation of these locations. 

Coupled with livelihood stabilization and 

enterprise recovery, these are the building 

blocks of long-term recovery. Economic recovery 

is required to build social cohesion 

and minimize the impact of the regional 

conflict and deter extremism and sectarianbased 

violence. 

Over the period of three months, the project 

has provided immediate temporary 

employment through cash-for-work jobs 

to clean, paint, and lightly rehabilitate public 

buildings, streets, mosques, schools, and 

other community buildings, in addition to 

short-term income through cash grants 

by contributing to the rehabilitation and 

restoration of basic social, economic and 

productive community infrastructure in Al 

Dour and Mkeishifa. With a total amount 

of USD 261,450, Al Noor targeted 210 beneficiaries 

for CFW over 30 working days, in 

addition to 80 cash grants for small businesses, 

40 shops and 40 home businesses. 

House rapiers are planned to be conducted 

through CFW activities by allocating workers 

to repair houses and provide the needed 

materials and supplies. From the project 

budget line, 20-30 house repairs have been 

planned. The project targeted the poorest 

community members through the selection 

of vulnerable groups with tolerance 

and sensitivity toward the political issues 

and religious considerations. 

To maximize the impact in all three components 

of the project, selection criteria for 

each component were developed in order 

to maximize the impact to the most vulnerable 

residents of Al Dour and Mkeishifa. In 

addition, a minimum of 15% of the project 

beneficiaries will be women and their families. 

In all subsequent allocations a division 

of 60/40 percent was applied with 60 percent 

of the resources being utilized in the 

larger town of Al Dour and the remaining 

40 percent being allocated to smaller town 

of Mkeishifa. This ration is based on population 

size and the prior assessment conducted 

by UNDP and Al Noor. 

The selection criteria for CFW activities included 

selecting adult males with no-income 

and one of the following: (i) disabled 

family member, (ii) more than four children 

under the age of 16, or (iii) more than two 

adults over the age of 60 residing in the 

same house. For the house repair, the plan 

was to make it available only for the emergency 

repair of a single room to ensure a 

family has at least one habitable and safe 


oom for the winter period, which may include 

filling holes and repairing outside 

walls, windows and roofs. The selection criteria 

of the targeted beneficiaries are (i) divorced 

or widowed female with no income, 

ii) household with no income and disabled 

family member, or iii) household with no 

income and children. Small Cash grants 

intended to be used to target a range of 

micro-enterprises, including shops, markets, 

small stalls and kiosks, and a range 

of farming enterprises including river-irrigated 

farming, agroforestry livestock production, 

and dairy production and poultry 

farming. An average payment of US$500 

per grant was made available depends on 

the assessment of each case. 

Location Al Dour Mkeishifa 

Number of Beneficiaries 

Activity HRF Al Noor HRF Al Noor 

Cash for work 300 

(11% females) 

House repair 40 

(90% females ) 

Small grants 35 

(51.5% females ) 

125 

(13.5% females) 

280 

(13% females) 

275 

(11% females) 

5 (40% females) 40 (65% females ) 20 

(45% females) 

33 

(27% females) 

104 

(10.5% females ) 

22 

(30% females) 

3.3 Achieved Outputs 

The achieved outcomes were different 

from the targeted outputs because they 

went higher and covered more beneficiaries, 

especially under the CFW component. 

The policy is always to maximize the beneficial 

impacts whenever there is possibility. 

Given the uncertain working environment, 

along with changes that took place 

between the times of the assessment, the 

time of the project design and the time of 

the implementation and during the implementation, 

are affecting the application of 

the activities on the ground. Another contributing 

factor to the difference between 

the planned and the achieved targets, is 

the activation of the local governance as 

soon as FFIS is on the ground. This brings 

more coordination to the work and makes 

more advice available to the implementing 

partners. 

In order to further maximize benefits 

among targeted groups, Al Dour changed 

teams and added workers to employ 350 

workers under the CFW modality instead 

of the 210 originally targeted. Then, As 

the number of returnees increased during 

the implementation period, instead of 

employing 210 workers for 30 days, 400 

workers were employed. For small grants, 

58 shops were granted cash to reopen their 

business instead of 80. An amount of USD 

10,000 was reallocated to the machinery 

rental item which was used for the Al Dour 

residential complex. The project found out 

that more machineries are needed to open 

the area of the complex market, giving cash 

grants to the shops to open without cleaning 

the areas from the debris and open 

blocked roads will not achieved the goal 

from opening the market and the shops. 

Also, USD 10,000 was relocated from the 

small grants budget line to the house repair 

materials, as shop owners reside in 

the complex will not be willing nor able to 

come to their shops if their houses in the 

complex is not ready for their return, this 

helped them to return to their areas and 

start their business. 


The target of employing 15% females was 

achieved. The indoor activities at Al Dour 

Residential Complex helped in having 

more female participation in the CFW activities. 

Also, an average of 73% of the CFW 

beneficiaries were between the ages of 16- 

36 years. 

The project has contributed to the return of 

25 families to Mkeishifa and 45 families to 

Al Dour through the CFW and small grant 

activities. UNDP played a significant role, 

through the local NGOs, as a neutral party, 

to resolve the dispute between the municipality 

of Al Dour and the private contractor 

who operates the Residential Complex and 

the shop owners. The Complex, including 

the market, has been operated by a company 

who claimed no responsibility for 

the restoration. At the same time, the municipality 

had no budget to perform the job 

and held the company responsible. After 

discussions, Al Noor, through the CFW and 

the small grants opened the roads, repaired 

houses and gave cash grants, allowing the 

company to provide services as usual. The 

municipality then took over its role to the 

limit that the budget allowed. 

Also in Al Dour, the project has cleaned and 

restored the Technical Institute (TI) through 

the CFW activities, which cause the TI to be 

back to operations, having part of its staff 

and students back too. 

Component Number of beneficiaries Location 

Cash for work 400 

House repair 26 

Small grants 58 

Mkeishifa: 

Town main entrance 

Main street 

Water station 

8 schools and 2 Kindergartens 

11 sub streets 

Al Dour: 

Two main streets 

Four government services 

buildings 

Park 

The public stadium 

The residential complex and 

its market 

8 sub streets 

Mkeishifa: 

16 houses – western area, 

next to the Youth Club, next 

to the Traffic Office 

Al Dour: 

10– the residential complex 

Mkeishifa: 

20 shops 

Al Dour: 

38 shops 

Table (2) Achieved 

quantitative livelihood 

targets in Al 

Dour and Mkeishifa 


In Mkeishifa, the project has cleaned 

Mkeishifa River and restored back its connection 

to the pumping stations. The river 

is a main source for irrigation in Mkeishifa. 

Finally, the CFW activities helped in cleaning 

and preparing public buildings to receive 

500 families displaced from Samarra 

Island at the time of “Operation Samara” 

and the fight between the Iraqi Forces and 

ISIL. The families are still displaced at those 

buildings. Table No 1 below summarizes 

the achieved quantitative targets of the 

project and the locations of each activity. 

3.4 Lessons Learned and Challenges 

Carrying out livelihood activities in the liberated 

areas seems to be a great incentive 

for IDPs to return to their home of origin, 

as it helps in providing the needed cash to 

rebuild their lives. Also it gives confidence 

to the IDPs and positive messages on opportunities 

to restore their dignity as well 

as their livelihoods. However, the pathway 

has been full of challenges that in some 

cases forced the FFIS team to adjust the approach 

of implementation. Below are the 

key lessons learned and challenges: 

• In some cases, the application of the 

selection criteria was not easy. By the 

time of implementation, the criteria 

were found to be tight and result in 

lower number of selected beneficiaries. 

The project team had to redesign 

the criteria for wider coverage. 

• In addition to coordination with the 

local governance, a separate coordination 

with the security forces, mainly 

the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), 

is sometimes necessary. Few incidences 

were reported on PMF requesting 

the use of the project’s machineries 

and CFW volunteers to work at a certain 

areas concerning the PMF. 

• More awareness about FFIS and the 

difference between FFIS mandate and 

the humanitarian agencies mandate is 

needed. Even local governance at levels 

lower than the governorate are not 

aware of the difference. 


3.5 Photos from the Field 

1) Al Dour 

1. Residential Complex – Credit Al Noor Universal Foundation 


2) Mkeishifa (Credit Al Noor Universal Foundation ) 

a) The main street 


) The river 

c) Mkeishifah Secondary School 


4. Livelihoods in Ninewah 

Governorate – Rabia 

4.1 Background 

The current escalation of armed conflict in 

Iraq particularly in Central and North region 

of Iraq has resulted in a precarious and dangerous 

humanitarian situation leading in 

deterioration of both accessibility and the 

quality of essential services. In the current 

context, 8.2 of the 36 million people living 

in Iraq are provisionally estimated as being 

in need of humanitarian assistance with at 

least 4.4 million people of them are now 

food insecure. 

The majority of Iraq’s wheat is produced in 

conflict-affected areas and nearly all water 

resources flow through the areas controlled 

by armed groups. The June 2014 cereal 

harvest and post-harvest activities were severely 

impacted, reducing national food 

availability. 

Farming not only directly sustains the local 

population but also provides valuable market 

products for the supply to regional markets 

that extends even as far as the capital 

Baghdad. Due to the recent protracted conflict 

many of the fields were not cultivated 

in 2015, resulting in a decline in locally produced 

food items, a loss of profits, and the 

overall collapse of local markets resulting 

in major food insecurity. As a result people 

have been resorting to harvesting wild fruits 

and other marginal plants. In addition to 

the negative impact on food security many 

of the farm lands have been neglected and 

thus are now overgrown with weeds and 

scrub bushes. Also due to this period of neglect 

during the traditional farming seasons 

the top soils have been left exposed to rain, 

solar, and wind erosion. 

Wheat production in the conflict affected 

areas of Iraq will be much lower in 2015 

as planting and irrigation faced major disruptions 

during the planting period. This 

is based on the fact that large number of 

farmers fled to other places or has insecure 

access to wheat farms in addition to poor 

financial ability of farmers for continuing 

wheat planting. In Ninawah, the population 

of Rabia are predominantly farming community 

and wheat is one the main harvests 

for their income. 

4.2 Action 

In order to carry out stabilization activities 

in the liberated areas through FFIS, UNDP 

and FAO aim at enhancing the livelihoods in 

conflict-affected and newly liberated areas 

through the Increase of food availability and 

enhance rural household income among 

the population of Ninewah through providing 

wheat seeds and fertilizers. 

UNDP and FAO have signed a UN to UN 

agency agreement with total amount of 

USD 521,777, of which $ 365,243 is financed 

through the Japanese fund to implement 


a project in Rabia, aiming to improve the 

food and nutrition security of vulnerable 

households, stimulate livelihoods and increase 

on-farm incomes of vulnerable rural 

households (including smallholder and marginal 

farmers, agricultural wage earners and 

returnees) in crisis-affected liberated areas 

through the provision of agricultural inputs. 

The rest of the total fund allocated to the UN 

to UN agreement is financed by other donor. 

To address this, the project aimed to assist 

1666 vulnerable affected beneficiaries residing 

in the crisis-affected districts through 

the provision of 250 metric tonnes (MT) 

of wheat seeds and 250 MT of fertilizers to 

plant 1666 ha of wheat. The target was to 

produce 5,831 MT of wheat grain enough 

to feed more than 9,000 (54,000 individuals) 

families for one year and in addition to 

utilizing the wheat straw for feeding their 

livestock. It is expected that beneficiaries 

will generate some US$ 3.8 million from the 

wheat seeds provided by the project. 

FAO is responsible for the overall implementation 

of the project and will work closely 

with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) 

(Baghdad) and the Ministry of Agriculture 

and Water Resources (MoAWR) (KRG) to 

ensure project goals are achieved through 

proper technical expertise and monitoring 

capacity. To this end, the constant monitoring 

of activities will enable FAO to take informed 

decisions should the security situation 

impose some adjustments to the initial 

set of activities. 

FAO has identified two implementing partners 

of the project. Tahreer, an Iraqi NGO, 

supports the process of the beneficiaries’ 

selection and identification, creates the database, 

identifies the areas and monitors the 

distribution process, which is being carried 

out by a contractor and the Agriculture Department 

and the Negotiation Center. The 

Agriculture Department, FAO, UNDP and 

effectively the Mukhtar, are involved with 

Tahreer in the beneficiaries selection process 

according to the criteria. The second 

partner is Mine Action Group (MAG), who is 

carrying out the mine threat awareness sessions. 

The selection criteria baseline is to distribute 

to the most needy, vulnerable families who 

have land owned or leased and harvesting 

is their only sources of income. In the case 

of owned land, the criteria implies to check 

that the beneficiaries is not wealthy and 

has no other sources of income or assets. 

Hence, those who own lands from 5-50 ha 

are eligible to be listed for further criteria application. 

On more specific level, the criteria 

targeted the female headed households, 

families with disabilities and/or none-employed 

head. 

4.3 Achieved Outcomes 

The agreement is basically based on the distribution 

of seeds and fertilizers as two complementary 

main items for the poor farmers 

to generate income and improve their livelihood. 

The agreement was done according 

to the assessment UNDP and FAO have conducted 

on the time prior to the conclusion 

of the need and the design of the project 

proposal and doing the agreement. 

Since the time of the assessment and agreement 

conclusion, as an unforeseen, the rain 

season came earlier and heavier than usual 

and expected. This has caused the farmers 

to plant the seeds earlier than expected. 

Also, the early rain season has changed 

the equation of seed amount per the land 

space. That means less amount of the seed 

is needed for the same targeted land and 

beneficiaries. The early planting was more 

limited to farmers who were able to manage 

the seed from different resources, mostly 

landowners. Other farmers who are workers 

lost the opportunity to work on the planting 

phase, the next phase now has the fertilizing. 


Having this implication, UNDP and FAO 

have concluded that in order to maximize 

the efficient use of the resources, to better 

sustain the livelihood impact of the activities 

and to increase the number of beneficiaries, 

the agreement need to be amended to include 

only fertilizers instead with fertilizers 

and seeds. Also, the total number of household 

benefices went to be 1,500 not 1,666 

as a result of the schema revision. Also, the 

application of the criteria has affected the 

identification of the areas, the distribution 

plan as well as the number of the beneficiaries 

accordingly. 

Total number of beneficiaries reached so far 

is 500 households (3,000 individuals), where 

each family received 500 KG of fertilizers 

over three rounds. Each round of 500 KG is 

amounting to 250 metric tonnes (MT). The 

second round is ongoing. The third round 

will be distributed on time in terms of the 

season. Table 2 below shows the distribution 

against the selected areas for the first 

round. 

4.4 Challenges 

Main challenges faced the project at the implementation 

phase were the difficulties to 

import the fertilizers. As a chemical items, 

fertilizers has to go into a complicated process 

of laboratory inspection by the Government, 

while the project has complied 

already with the national standards, the 

process of importing and clearing the fertilizers 

and then transporting it to the targeted 

areas are still a big challenge. Adding 

to that was the risk factor of over the land 

transportation. Another challenge, was cultural 

presented by women abstaining from 

benefiting from the distribution even when 

heading a family and having land available. 

Finally, some areas were not accessible although 

the information the project has confirms 

the availability of eligible beneficiaries. 

Those include some areas under the control 

of Peshmerga. 

Village name No. of families Area Amount received/KG 

Maska 40 45 donum 500 

Kalhi 108 30-50 donum 500 

Ali abbar 19 40-50 donum 500 

Tal Hawa 3 50 donum 500 

Tal thiban 14 35 donum 500 

Alwaleed 19 40 donum 500 

Aida 14 50 donum 500 

Khorbet Mahmoud 16 50 donum 500 

Sha’lan 23 16-17 donum 500 

Rajm hasan 27 50 donum 500 

Ouwaisia 23 50 donum 500 

Abtakh 43 50 donum 500 

Jawharia 10 50 donum 500 

Momi 39 50 donum 500 

Azaiem 17 30-50 donum 500 

Owaina 20 50 donum 500 

Om Rabiean 20 20-45 donum 500 

Beir lavi 4 50 donum 500 

Kobr 41 50 donum 500 

Table (3) Fertilizers 

distribution in Rabia 

as per the area 


Window : Livelihood 

Output : Jumpstarting of the local economy and income generation 

through cash for work and micro grants 

Activity Activity description Committed budget 

US$ 

Cash based intervention 

in Aldour and Mekashefa 

(Salah Al Din) 

Livelihood intervention 

in Ninawa 

Engage with Local NGO 

to carry out cash for 

work and cash grants 

activities 

Livelihood activities 

that aimed at Increasing 

of food availability 

and enhance rural 

household income 

among the population 

of Ninewah through 

providing wheat seeds 

and fertilizers. 

411,314.80 

364,935.2 

Table 4 

Financial Section 

Sub-Total 776,250 

Project Management Salary of operation 

106,359 

Manager for three 

months 

Salary of Human resource 

10,110 

officer for three 

months 

Salary of Admin 2,552 

Monitoring 8,781.76 

Travel and DSA 8,403 

Communication 3,825 

Office equipment and 

9191.59 

supplies 

Miscellaneous 453.65 

Sub- Total 149,676 

GMS 8% 74,074 

Total 1,000,000 


United Nations Development Programme in Iraq

FFIS - Japan Fund (27 Jun 2016)

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