2015 PJ3491 Dutch Relief Alliance Northern Iraq Joint Response 2 (IQJR2)

War Child supports the efforts of War Child UK to provide vulnerable children in Iraq with protection and psychosocial support - the programme is largely directed towards internally displaced families in northern Iraq. This project of War Child is part of the Joint Humanitarian Response for North Iraq (NIJR), consisting of 13 Dutch NGOs with the lead being Cordaid, and the funding of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As part of the consortium’s intervention in North-Iraq this project aims to respond to the current conflict in Iraq, specifically to the displacement caused by the unrest in the region. This project will respond to the psychosocial needs of children and will support them and their communities through psychosocial, mental health and child protection services.