During 2019 – 2021 UNDP Security Sector Reform/Rule of Law (SSR/RoL) Programme designed and implemented a Community Security Integration Pilot (CSIP Basra/ Qurna and Sinjar/ Qairawan  in Iraq . The CSIP were tailored to support the most vulnerable groups in the community to increase their skills and emotional resilience, and thereby economic stability through a combination of vocational and business development trainings, mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSS),  business start -up assistance  and community security investment schemes with an emphasis on the Security - Development Nexus (SDN).

UNDP  implemented this important work with generous funding from the Government of Japan