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UN Country Team Iraq Projects Map

The IAU had produced the latest UN Country Team (UNCT)
Map of Projects showing the 503 UNCT active projects in Iraq. The map can be downloaded from the map catalogue of the IAU website at: http://www.iauiraq.org/documents/1789/IAU_3W_2012_9_v4_final.pdf

Considered one of the Arab region’s most vulnerable countries to climate change, Iraq faces a unique set of environmental challenges. The impacts of changing weather patterns have already made themselves felt in recent years, with a higher frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and rising environmental degradation throughout the country.

Contamination

Years of war and internal conflict have left a dangerous legacy of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO). The widespread contamination is one of the largest in the world.

Contaminated sites cover an estimated 1,730 square kilometres and affect around 1.6 million people in over 1,600 communities. Chiefly, landmines dominate the contamination profile in the north while in the south, in addition to the mines, scattered UXO are more pervasive.

What’s New

Iraq Knowledge Network (IKN)

INTRODUCTION:

The Iraq Knowledge Network (IKN) survey is part of a Socio-Economic Monitoring System being developed by the Iraqi Ministry of Planning to advance evidence-based planning and improve services provided to Iraqi citizens. The IKN survey data was collected in the first quarter of 2011 from 28,875 Iraqi households. The sample was designed to provide statistics at the district and governorate levels and nationally by urban and rural areas. This factsheet is a brief analysis of labour force data from the IKN.

1.Overview

IAU May 2011 newsletter highlights the IAU new products including factsheets on violence against women, water resource management and landmines and UXOs and the Iraq information portal.

Three decades of war, armed conflict, sanctions and neglect of infrastructure - combined with limited environmental awareness - have undermined Iraq's water resource management system. Improvements in management of the country's water resources will have a profound effect on Iraq's efforts to reduce poverty and hunger (MDG 1), reduce child mortality (MDG 4) and ensure environmental sustainability (MDG 7).

Iraq faces difficulties in meeting the target of 91% of households using a safe drinking water supply by 2015.