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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