IOM #Iraq Ninewa Governorate Displacement Snapshot (September 2014)

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DISPLACEMENT SNAPSHOT: NINEWA PROFILE OF DISPLACEMENT1

96%

DISPLACEMENT IN 2014

of IDP families were reported to be in need of

core relief items (CRIs)

TOTAL

PRE-JUNE 2014

JUNE-JULY 2014

AUGUST 2014

338 IDP families

2,542 IDP families

14,624 IDP families 17,504 IDP families

84%

of IDP families were reported to have food

items as a top priority need

2,028 IDP individuals

15,252 IDP individuals

87,744 IDP individuals

105,024 IDP individuals2

17%

of IDP families were living in school

40 locations

10 locations

27 locations

67 locations3

16%

buildings

of IDP families were living in religious

IDP MOVEMENT IN 2014

buildings

Tilkaif

Telafar Sinjar

OVERVIEW Ninewa, located in northern Iraq along its border with Syria, has experienced a massive increase in violence and displacement since armed groups (AGs) seized its capital city of Mosul in early June. While the security situation in Ninewa had been volatile for months preceding this seizure and subsequent conflict between AGs and government forces, since June large portions of the governorate have been taken over and are currently being controlled by AGs.

Mosul

All information, unless otherwise specified, in this report is from IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) from 1 September 2014 and from field reports of the Rapid Assessment and Response Teams. For more information on the DTM, visit: http://iomiraq.net/dtm-page

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Al-Shikhan

Akre

6,776 0 9,5

6,7769,1 3 0 IDENTIFIED IDP FAMILIES 9,549 63

Al-Hamdaniyah Al-Ba’aj

9,196 121,972 FLED NINEWA Primary Movements 353 LEGEND Identified IDP Families63,416 Primary Movements

Hatra

LEGEND

Therefore, hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in Ninewa to seek safety as the conflict rages. Nearly 200,000 people were displaced from locations in Ninewa in June and July 2014, a very substantial figure; however, this pales in comparison to the over 600,000 individuals who were forced to flee in the month of August.

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IOM IRAQ SEPTEMBER 2014

17,001 DISPLACED WITHIN NINEWA 503 TO NINEWA

17,504 TOTAL IN NINEWA 3

20,001-40,000 20,001 - 40,000 Identified IDP Families 10,001 - 20,000 10,001-20,000 20,001 - 40,000 5,001LEGEND - 10,000 5,001-10,000 10,001 - 20,000 1,501 - 5,000 Primary Movements 1,501-5,000 5,001 - 10,000 0 - 1,500 IDP Families 0-1,500 Identified 1,501 - 5,000 20,001 - 40,000 10,001 - 20,000

0 - 1,500

5,001 - 10,000 1,501 - 5,000

Figures for number of individual IDPs have been calculated by multiplying the As a single location may host groups of IDPs from different waves of 0 - 1,500 number of families by 6, the average size of an Iraqi family. displacement, this figure represents the number of distinct locations in the governorate hosting new IDP populations for 2014, regardless of date of displacement.

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IOM IRAQ SEPTEMBER 2014

DISPLACEMENT SNAPSHOT: NINEWA DISPLACEMENT TRENDS IDPS FROM NINEWA Nearly half of the 1.7 million IDPs displaced within Iraq in 2014 have originated from the governorate of Ninewa. Displacement originating from Ninewa has occurred in multiple waves. The first wave began when AGs seized the city of Mosul in early June and over the following weeks, quickly expanded the areas of northern Iraq under their control. Through July and August, AGs’ advance through the north resulted in the displacement of thousands more, particularly those belonging to Christian groups and other minorities such as the Turkmens. In early August, tens of thousands of Yazidis living in Sinjar district of Ninewa were displaced from their homes after an AG offensive. For the more than 130,000 families fleeing their homes in Ninewa, only 12% still remain within the governorate, primarily in Akre and Al-Shikhan districts. Over half have sought safety and security in the bordering Dahuk governorate, a total of over 75,000 families. Most of these families are Kurdish Yazidis who fled Ninewa using a humanitarian corridor through Syria before reentering Iraq through Dahuk’s Peshkhabour border crossing.

Akre and Al-Shikhan districts each hold 37% of the IDP population in Ninewa (approximately 6,500 families in each district); notably, IDPs in both of these districts are currently being assisted by Dahuk and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Families in these districts are nearly all Kurdish Yazidis. Mosul, Tilkaif, and Telafar districts hold the remaining IDP population in Ninewa, with 15%, 9%, and 2% respectively. Just over 500 IDP families displaced to Ninewa from Anbar and Salah al-Din in 2014 and are primarily Arab Sunni Muslims concentrated in Mosul district. While 30% of IDPs in Mosul district are Kurdish Yazidis, all IDPs currently in Telafar and Tilkaif are Arab Sunni Muslims. While Ninewa held just over 17,500 IDP families as of 1 September, many families have first displaced within Ninewa before later seeking a longer-term displacement location in another governorate. In locations assessed with the full DTM assessment in June and July, all IDPs displaced in Ninewa intended to return to their place of origin when the situation permitted.4

Displacement Tracking Matrix Round IV Overview Report, as of 7 August 2014. Available here: http://iomiraq.net/dtm-page

76,938

17,001

Dahuk

Ninewa

13,601

Other governorates

12,428

Najaf

10,570

Erbil

8,435 Kerbala

DISPLACEMENT ORIGINATING FROM NINEWA 2014

Najaf, Erbil, and Kerbala together hold another 23% of IDPs displaced from Ninewa. In Najaf and Kerbala, both Shia-majority governorates, the IDP population is entirely Turkmen Shia Muslims, while in Erbil, most IDPs are Chaldean Christians. 4

CURRENT LOCATION FOR IDP FAMILIES FROM NINEWA

DISPLACEMENT TRENDS IDPS IN NINEWA

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PRE-JUNE 2014

JUNE-JULY 2014

AUGUST 2014

IDP FAMILIES

13

32,614

106,346

IDP INDIVIDUALS5

78

195,684

638,076

Figures for number of individual IDPs have been calculated by multiplying the number of families by 6, the average size of an Iraqi family.

TOTAL 2014 138,973 IDP families 833,838 IDP individuals

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DISPLACEMENT SNAPSHOT: NINEWA

IOM IRAQ SEPTEMBER 2014

SHELTER, SERVICES, AND NEEDS Core relief items (CRIs) and food items were by far the most commonly cited needs for families displaced within Ninewa, with 96% and 84% of families reported to be in need of these services, respectively. As well, with the school year beginning, the other 3,000 families being accommodated in schools as of September 1 may be exposed to further vulnerability as they will either need to move to a new location or will remain in the schools and inhibit children’s access to education.

Notably, most of these families were pre-June IDPs displaced from Anbar. Displaced families within Ninewa, as of September 1, were primarily being hosted by relatives, in religious buildings, in school buildings, or were staying in abandoned buildings/public spaces/buildings under construction.

Being hosted by relatives was the most common shelter type in Ninewa, with 29% of families in this type of accommodation. School buildings and religious buildings, such as Generally, IDPs in Ninewa were reported to have sufficient access to goods and services. mosques, holy shrines, and churches, were the two next common; half of IDPs in schools In Mosul district, however, 18 locations holding 158 families reported much poorer access were living in 7 locations in Al-Shikhan, while nearly all of those in religious buildings to potable water, adequate quantities of food, health facilities, and sanitation facilities. were in 9 locations in the districts of Akre and Al-Shikhan.

MOST COMMON SHELTER TYPES FOR IDP FAMILIES IN NINEWA Al-Shikhan

Akre

Mosul

Tilkaif

Telafar

HOSTED BY RELATIVES

1,250

1,762

948

1,000

SCHOOL BUILDINGS

1,000

1,526

410

RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS

1,300

1,360 A young girl, displaced from her home in Mosul, waits with her family to recieve an IOM non-food item kit, a WFP food parcel, and a UNICEF hygiene kit in Qasrok, Akre district on 19 June, soon after the conflict began.

ABANDONED BUILDINGS, PUBLIC SPACES, AND BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

931 0

800 1,000

429 2,000

3,000

4,000

This governorate profile was developed under the framework of the Community Revitalization Programme III (CRPIII), funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM).

5,000

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