Four dams included in disaster system, intention to enter Iraq into GCF

Baghdad-INA

 
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced on Wednesday the intention to include Iraq in the Green Climate Fund, while noting that four Iraqi dams have been linked to a disaster system.
 
Green Climate Fund Support
 
"The program supported Iraq's entry into GCF with the first preparation project between 2018 and 2020 and we are currently working on the readiness project," program resident representative Zena Ali Ahmed told The Iraqi News Agency (INA), noting that "within the outcomes of the first and second project we have supported the formation of the National Authority (NDA) and the process of providing no-Objection Procedure messages has been adopted and activated by the National Authority as well as the involvement of the private sector and all stakeholders and training in how to invest support from Green Climate Fund.

Flood response
 
"Over the past six years, UNDP has supported the development of the early warning, emergency response and flood preparedness system for Mosul dam hazards," Ahmed said, noting that "the system has focused on planning for flood preparedness in the provinces and conducting early flood warning and simulation exercises and simulations in 44 areas of Baghdad, Nineveh and Salaheddine provinces."
 
"More than 1,000 government officials have been trained to prepare for floods, early warning and flood response, 318 doctors and paramedics from 20 hospitals in the three provinces to deal with flood disaster victims, 314 teachers in 100 schools on school readiness methods, and 78 schools have been developed as flood evacuation centers," she said.
 
"In addition to the Mosul dam, three other dams (Haditha, Derbandikhan and Hamrin) have been linked to the National Early Warning and Communication System, which is led by the project's board of directors and civil defense," she said.

Returning displaced people
 
"The return of displaced persons to their homes needs to provide services such as water, electricity and roads," she said, adding that “The programme, in cooperation with the Iraqi government, has rehabilitated more than 3,800 legislators in the five liberated provinces.”
 
"The return of displaced persons is an Iraqi achievement," she said, adding that "the rate of Iraqis returning is 80%."
 
"Dialogue committees have been established in areas where there have been problems, and there is considerable cooperation with clerics in the five provinces: Salah al-Din, Kirkuk, Anbar, Nineveh and Diyala," she said.

"Displaced families who grant security approvals to return to their areas and the people of those areas do not want to do so, so we are doing part of social cohesion with the help of tribal elders, clerics and security personnel," she said.