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Highlights

The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) extended its Internet connectivity services to the affected community in the CDO Community Centre in Arbat camp. This is the ETCs second Services for Communities (S4C) project in Iraq.

The ETC conducted a mission to Athbah, 15km from west Mosul, to install CMOSS-compliant radio equipment for staff in the new IHP overnight camp within Athbah field hospital compound.

A total of 87 humanitarians have registered to access ETC Internet connectivity services in Domiz and Arbat camps since the beginning of 2017.

More than 1,411 vouchers have been used by the affected population at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Youth Centre and Internet cafe in Domiz camp since the project started in June 2016. This was the ETCs first S4C project.

The ETC is in the process of receiving US$1.47 million from the Iraq Humanitarian Pooled Fund (IHPF), led by the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) and managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), to provide services until the end of May 2018.

Situation Overview

People continue to flee Mosul under difficult circumstances, which are exacerbated by high temperatures. Many people living in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-controlled areas are food insecure and have not had access to safe drinking water and medicines for weeks or months. Humanitarians continue to respond to the extremely fast outflows of people, but the pace and scale of displacement is stretching response capacities. In the past weeks, mass displacement of civilians continues in western Mosul. Since the start of the Mosul operation in October 2016, 678,177 Iraqis have been displaced.

Humanitarian and protection needs remain severe. Where possible, humanitarian partners, including the ETC, are planning to conduct more assessment missions in newly-accessible priority sites to determine needs on the ground.

The ETC is planning to conduct needs assessment missions in the priority camps identified to determine communications needs of humanitarians and later, affected communities.

See more here:
Iraq - ETC Situation Report #43 Reporting period 26/05/2017 to 30/06/2017 - Reliefweb