Dear ACD Programs,

CARE Iraq

Sub: Gender gap assessment to compliment the upcoming multi-agency assessment in Kirkuk

I would like to finorm you that I have selected four key areas, as per your recommendation, to enable the multi-agency assessment is gender sensitive and considers priority issues of women, men, girls and boys.

Duration: The assessment is rapid and will be for a maximum of five days, unless agreed by all actors for a possible extension due to unforeseen circumstances.

The prioritized areas include:

1. Protection

# of rape cases reported and GBV injuries (clinical reports)
# of honoured killings
# of psycho social support seekers versus estimated survivor numbers
# and % of PLW, people with special need, female and child headed families

2. Access to and quality of services

# of health staff per facility, sex disaggregated
Water user committees and proportion of members by sex
Existence of SRH services and gaps
Shelter condition and rooms for women and men

3. Sanitation and hygiene facilities (latrines, sanitary pads need):

# and % of PLW, people with special need, female and child headed families
SADD: children under five, sexual reproductive age group (15 to 49) and others
Understand why latrines are not sensitive to children, people with special needs

4. Social norms and practices:

- Women mobility
- Honor killing and other actions
- Restrictive cultural norms on women, youth
- Why women are vulnerable to diarrhea than men
- WASH and other workload and role division

In terms of tools and methodology:

Our team will focus on KII, individuals’ interview and collecting data through observation, and few FGDs. This is because, if the multi-agency assessment team has FGD plan, it will be difficult to have additional FGDs at the same time in same community. Gender and protection audit tool will also guide some of the GBV protection enquiries.

I am planning to visit with my team one community per day, five for the whole survey, with the following coverage.

5 KII groups per community (depending on the availability of each): one community or camp leaders; one protection sub-cluster leaders; one staff groups from health facilities; one police or local administration staffs; one NGOs staff members);
Two FGDs per community: one women group; one adolescent female group
Individual interview: 5 Women (FHH); 5 Survivors of GBV; 5 health professionals working on psycho social support;
Observation (tour by team members) – water facilities mainly reported as risky, schools, health facilities, shelter and sanitation facilities.

Research team: We need three women and three men data collectors. Consideration should be given for fair representation of the data collectors, if camps have diversity in tribes and other factors.

Next steps:

- Once you review this plan and approve, I will contact the multi-agency assessment team leaders and orient them on the selected data enquires by our assessment and how we can work together as a team.
- I will also discuss with the organizers to include few enquires in to the HH survey: # of PLW, people with special needs; ensure SADD collection is well detailed and review their survey questionnaires, if ready.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any further enquiries,

Thanks

Moges