IOAC Field visits in Iraq, 22-24 March 2017

Overview

The objective of the IOAC Mission was to review the implementation of the WHO Health Emergencies (WHE) Programme in Iraq by:

• Meeting with WHO staff to review WHO’s structure, human resources, funding, emergency business processes, partnerships, implementation of projects and service provision, as well as staff wellbeing and security.
• Meeting with Government (MoH Baghdad and Kurdistan), UN Partners (HC, OCHA, UNICEF, UNFPA), implementing partners (INGOs/NGOs/private sector) and key donors (ECHO, OFDA/DART), health cluster partners, and coordinators to review how WHO’s services, performance and approach to partnership are perceived.
• Examining to what extent the WHO Country Office (CO) and partners on the ground are aware of and benefitting from the WHE programme roll-out and “WHAT WHO” they want to see in future.
• Carrying out targeted site visits to see WHO’s work on the ground in the service of affected. populations and with implementing partners and government. The IOAC team visited Emergency Hospital Erbil, Adhbah Field Hospital (10 km from Mosul) and Primary Health Care centre at Haman al-Allil-1 IDP camp (10 km from Mosul).