Oxfam: Promoting Gender Equality, Resilience and Social Cohesion Iraq 2020-2022
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The Oxfam project "Promoting Gender Equality, Resilience and Social Cohesion in Iraq" is implemented in the Ninewa region in Iraq during 2020-2022. It contributes to two objectives of the Swedish strategy for development cooperation with Iraq, to contribute to peaceful and inclusive societies and gender equality. As many people was forced to flee due to the vi...
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The Oxfam project "Promoting Gender Equality, Resilience and Social Cohesion in Iraq" is implemented in the Ninewa region in Iraq during 2020-2022. It contributes to two objectives of the Swedish strategy for development cooperation with Iraq, to contribute to peaceful and inclusive societies and gender equality. As many people was forced to flee due to the violent conflicts in Iraq, there is now a big need to create livelihood opportunities for people returning and for people living in poverty. Oxfam's project aims to strengthen women's economic empowerment and resilience among the population living in conflict affected areas through increased access to safe and sustainable livelihood within the agricultural sector. With a specific focus on women, the project aims to contribute to women's economic participation and empowerment within the frames of the strategy. The project also aims to contribute to social cohesion and thus to contribute to the decrease of tensions in Ninewa, a region in Iraq that has been much affected by conflicts, and which has a population of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, as well as different experiences from displacement and return. Therefore it is very important to contribute to increased opportunities for a safe and sustainable return. The contribution contributes to this through the creation of livelihood opportunities within the agricultural sector, with potential to generate income for people living in poverty, especially women and youth, but also for others assessed to be living in vulnerability.
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Results Oxfam works through two different implementing partner organisations; Al Ghad (partner that focus on Social Cohesion) and Sewan (partner that focus on gender), two partners that where identified and chosen during the inception period of the project. Results so far are on an output level. - The project has started different educational programmes within both agribusiness but also in normative dialogue. Sida visited classes within these courses in Mosul in December 2021. The activities made a valid impression and Oxfam seemed to have found suitable implementing partners as well as participants to the courses at hand. Attendees on these courses expressed that they where satisfied with the curriculum and seemed to value what they where taught within them. In the first annual report, covering the first year of the project (1 October 2020 - 31 December 2021), some examples of the reported results included: - Oxfam has been successful in setting up partnerships with Directorate of Agriculture (DoA) in the selected areas of operations, which is shown by a Memorandum of Understandings, which also means that DoA has a role to play in implementation of Farmer Field Schools that can have a positive impact on sustainability. - Training of trainers has been conducted, both in relation to Farmer Field Schools, and the implementation of the Gender Action Learning System. GALS has started implementation together with Oxfam's local partner SEWAN. The target for people reached by GALS has been increased due to lessons learnt during studies conducted and thus GALS will continue to be implemented during 2022 to reach more beneficiaries. - Selection of value chains and identification of private sector companies that are now part of activities related to women's friendly skill development has been conducted, with full roll-out of activities to be conducted during 2022.
The overall objective of the project is to promote gender equality, resilience and social cohesion through increased livelihood opportunities for women in the agricultural sector, the introduction of climate smart agricultural skills, social cohesion and community-based discussions and advocacy on shared concerns. The Outcomes and Outputs of the project are: Outcome 1. Women's Economic Empowerment is strengthened in target communities through improved access to safe and sustainable livelihood opportunities - Output 1.1 Increased evidence-based research for self-sufficient and durable agri-economic opportunities for vulnerable individuals with a focus on women. - Output 1.2 Targeted households have improved climate smart agriculture skills and agri-business knowledge - Output 1.3 Targeted households have increased access to sustainable income opportunities in the agriculture sector - Output 1.4 Linkages between targeted households and extension services and private sector market actors are strengthened - Output 1.5 Increased opportunities for women to engage in local and national advocacy for WEE and locally identified concerns related to unpaid care work, barriers to economic opportunities Outcome 2. Increased social cohesion in target communities through increased opportunities for women focused community engagement - Output 2.1 Increased opportunities for community-based discussions around shared concerns through community organizations, farmers associations, women's support groups meetings
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