The rehabilitation of houses that were constructed between the years 2005-2006 is one of the important projects that  have been  implemented in the Christian villages of Dohuk within the district of Amadiya, and the village of  Jumbur, as the  people who live in those villages suffer from many problems related to their housing and do not have the ability to maintain their homes and make them habitable, so CAPNI emergency program with the kind support of the Bavarian Lutheran Church in Germany, worked to rehabilitate the houses to preserve the dignity of their residents and protect them from hard climatic impact, such as rain and snow.

Impact Achieved By The Project

The rehabilitation of 63 family houses helps 63  families to live in their home with adequate health conditions and will give them a  durable solution and stable living conditions that will lead to the development of their livelihoods in  all economic and living aspects, and this emergency response and such support for the most needy families in the targeted areas will protect their right to live in dignity, as well as  give them the opportunity to live in  ideal health conditions by providing them with ideal housing and this will give them confidence in their future life in the motherland.

Project Activities

  1. Prepare appropriate assessments (social and technical) using Kobo application and place questions on the tablets used for this purpose.
  2. The assessment began in the targeted villages through community observation and interview
  3. methods to select partially damaged housing units according to the agreed criteria.
  4. 101 houses in 11 Christian villages underwent technical and social assessments by interviewing their owners, assessing their house damages and identifying their living conditions.
  5. Since the allocated budget was not enough to rehabilitate more than sixty houses, the project started by the selection of the most affected houses and the ones inhabited by the neediest families. The selection was made based on a detailed information form covering the social, economic and other aspects of families. The data information was uploaded to a scoring system that electronically ranks families according to the most need to rehabilitate their homes.
  6. Obtaining confirmation letters from the Mukhtars (mayors) of the targeted villages that the beneficiary will remain living in the village after the rehabilitation of the house.
  7. Organizing field visits to the targeted villages and preparing 60 bills of quantities of the affected houses to rehabilitate them according to engineering specifications.
  8. Agree that the owner of the house will implement the rehabilitation under the direct supervision of CAPNI engineer and according to the specifications mentioned in the bill of quantity.
  9. With the completion of the rehabilitation of 60 houses and having a certain amount of surplus in the budget, CAPNI was able to rehabilitate three additional houses, bringing the total number of houses that have been rehabilitated to 63 houses.

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