Displacement as challenge and opportunity - Urban profile: Refugees, internally displaced persons and host community, Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

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Publication language
English
Pages
79pp
Date published
31 May 2016
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Education, Livelihoods, Forced displacement and migration, Host Communities, Targeting, Identification and Profiling, Urban
Countries
Iraq

Taken together, conflict, displacement, and a weak economy are negatively impacting government function, household resilience, private sector survival, and public services provision in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, including Erbil Governorate. Solutions to redress the situation must come from a holistic analysis taking into account all the dynamics. This profiling exercise, hence, takes place within a complex environment, affected by many layers of external and internal shocks.