Helping people in Iraq | ASB Foreign Aid

The project will equip vulnerable communities with the tools they need to build comprehensive WASH capacities that take climate and environmental risks into account. This will enable them to better prepare for extreme weather events, anticipate them and proactively provide humanitarian aid. The project focusses on 73,000 people, including employees of various institutions, representatives of administrative structures, three primary health care centres, three non-governmental organisations.

Project title: Strengthening local climate-sensitive and universal WASH capacities by applying and disseminating the Green Humanitarian Aid approach
Project region: Salahaddine Governorate, Iraq
Project volume: 650,000 € for Iraq
Funding (general project): 12,000,000 € (Federal Foreign Office and ADH)
Project partner: Implemented by ASB
Project duration: November 2023 to Oktober 2026

The ASB is working in Kirkuk province to improving healthcare. Support is given to people living in the catchment area of three health centres in rural regions.

Project title: Improving health services by strengthening healthcare structures in underserved regions of Kirkuk province, Iraq
Project region: Kirkuk province, Hawija district
Project volume: € 3.52 million
Project financing: BMZ transitional aid
Project duration: 11/11/2021 - 31/12/2025

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The ASB is committed to supporting smallholder families, returnees and, in particular, households run by women in Anbar province. The ASB improves their livelihoods and creates prospects for them so that they can stay in the region.

Project title: Creating improved livelihoods and increasing resilience for conflict-affected residents and returnees in Anbar province
Project region: Anbar province, Ana, Haditha, Rutba districts
Project volume: € 3.35 million
Project financing: BMZ transitional aid
Project duration: 30/10/2020 - 31/12/2024

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The ASB is working in Saladin on strengthening health structures and improving basic healthcare with a particular focus on women, children and people with disabilities. The people in the catchment area of three health stations in particular receive support.

Project title: Strengthening health structures in a sustainable manner to improve the availability of gender-sensitive primary healthcare for the population in Saladin, Iraq
Project region: Saladin province, Tikrit district, Shirqat district, Baiji district
Project volume: € 3.50 million
Project financing: BMZ transitional aid
Project duration: 01/10/2020 - 31/12/2024

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The ASB worked in Anbar on sustainably improving the healthcare system in the underserved region. People in the catchment area of four health centres are helped. Trainees in the healthcare professions are also offered support.

Project title: Sustained improvement of the healthcare system in underserved regions of Anbar province
Project region: Anbar province, Qaim, Heet, Ramadi districts , Al-Qaim, Al Karabilah, Al Baghdadi, Al Jazeera sub-districts
Project volume: € 3.37 million
Project financing: BMZ transitional aid
Project duration: 08/10/2019 - 31/12/2022

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The ASB has been active in conflict-affected areas in northern Iraq to support internally displaced persons, returnees and host communities. The ASB helped them to build a livelihood and generate an income in the long term.

Project title: Creating sustainable and resilient livelihoods in conflict-affected areas of northern Iraq
Project region: Ninawa province, Sinjar district
Project volume: € 2,296,000
Project financing: BMZ transitional aid
Project duration: 01/09/2018 - 31/12/2022

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The ASB was active in Saladin province in equipping a primary health centre to fight COVID-19. The health centre is also to be prepared for future pandemics.

Project title: Strengthening response capacities to COVID-19 and emerging pandemics at a higher education institute
Project region: Saladin province, Tikrit
Project volume: € 187,954.37
Project financing: Aktion Deutschland Hilft (ADH)
Project duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2022

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The project aimed to strengthen the resilience of the people of Anbar. The aim was to train them to respond better to pandemics or other disasters, and in particular to the negative economic impact of COVID-19.

Project title: Promoting peaceful and inclusive coexistence, livelihoods and economic cycles in Anbar, Iraq – promoting community resilience to COVID-19 in Anbar
Project region: Anbar province, Ramadi district, Fallujah district, Heet district
Project volume: € 250,000
Project financing: GIZ
Project duration: 01/12/2021 - 30/06/2022

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The project was aimed at residents, especially farmers, of the rural project region of the districts Talafar, Zummar and Sinjar, which were heavily affected by the conflict with ISIS, as well as returnees returning to their places of origin. Since a large proportion of households in the project region were engaged in agriculture and related activities before the crisis, the revitalisation of the agricultural sector is crucial. This has improved food production and ensured people’s livelihoods.

Project title: Strengthening the resilience of conflict-affected residents and returnees in newly accessible areas by improving food security, livelihoods and solidarity
Project region: Ninawa province, Sinjar and Talafar districts
Project volume: € 1,700,000
Project financing: BMZ transitional aid
Project duration: 18/08/2017 - 31/08/2020

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Between 2014 and 2021, the ASB provided emergency assistance to a total of 13,838 families (78,683 people in total) who had to flee from the war in Syria or the advance of ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq.

Project title: Emergency relief for Syrian refugees and internally displaced persons in camps in northern Iraq from 2016 to 2021
Project region: Northern Iraq
Project volume: € 3,591,754.89 (total); of which € 521,513 (ASB-Ö/NiN) and € 2,910,241.89 (Federal Foreign Office/ADH)
Project financing: Nachbar in Not / Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund in Austria / Federal Foreign Office / Aktion Deutschland Hilft
Project duration: 2016 - 2021

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