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Contributing Factors in Whether Displaced Households Want to Receive Humanitarian Information from Humanitarian Actors: Iraq Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment

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  • Jin-Won Noh

    (Division of Health Administration, College of Software and Digital Healthcare Convergence, Yonsei University, Wonju 26493, Korea
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jooyoung Cheon

    (Department of Nursing Science, Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul 02844, Korea
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Kyoung-Beom Kim

    (Department of Health University, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Korea)

  • Si Eun Song

    (Department of Health University, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Korea
    Industry-University Cooperation Foundation, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, Korea)

  • Jiho Cha

    (Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea)

  • Young Dae Kwon

    (Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, College of Medicine and Catholic Institute for Healthcare Management, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea)

Abstract

Due to political conflict, insurgency, and the COVID-19, the number of displaced households in need of humanitarian support in Iraq has increased. This study investigated factors related to desire of displaced households to receive humanitarian information. Data from the eighth round of the Iraq Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment was used. We classified the household displacement status, identifying levels and types of humanitarian information that the households sought, together with whether the households were impacted by COVID-19. We identified safety and security, housing, water and electricity services, education, health care, and levels of humanitarian assistance resulted in significant differences between internally displaced person (IDP) and returnee households in terms of interest in receiving humanitarian information. The desire to receive humanitarian information was related to whether household members were unemployed due to COVID-19, displacement status, and walking time to reach the nearest health care facility and marketplace. Returnees and IDPs in Iraq are facing a new crisis. Their individual, structural, and environmental vulnerabilities are increasing commensurately. New strategies such as strategies using online or mobile communication that provide humanitarian information are needed to provide humanitarian information to vulnerable groups such as those who have lost jobs due to COVID-19, female heads of households, and those with health problems. In addition to traditional cash and voucher support, the use of the latest technologies such as smartphones and mobile clinics in humanitarian settings would be new strategies.

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  • Jin-Won Noh & Jooyoung Cheon & Kyoung-Beom Kim & Si Eun Song & Jiho Cha & Young Dae Kwon, 2022. "Contributing Factors in Whether Displaced Households Want to Receive Humanitarian Information from Humanitarian Actors: Iraq Multi-Cluster Needs Assessment," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(16), pages 1-13, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:16:p:10114-:d:889264
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