Home Iraq Stories The Women Rebuilding Iraq The women rebuilding Iraq March 6, 2019 After nearly four years of conflict with ISIL, Iraq is recovering. Meet 15 women defying traditional gender roles and working to stabilize the country. Click on their photos to learn more. Related Content Stories Wajida Khalaf Jassim: Inspiring a Generation of Female Leaders in Fallujah At 54, Wajida Khalaf Jassim never imagined herself as a cornerstone of transformation in her community. As a teacher at Al-Bushra Secondary School for Girls in… Read more Stories Life is sweet in Sinuni: Bee cultivation and honey production in Iraq Salem and his brother Issa own an apiary in their hometown of Sinuni, producing enough honey to cover all their living expenses. Salem explains, "I also sell new… Read more Publications Funding Facility for Stabilization - 2024 Quarter One Report Building Back Better The Role of the Funding Facility for Stabilization in Iraq’s Development In recent years, Iraq has embarked on a significant journey… Read more Publications Funding Facility for Stabilization - Annual report 2023 The humanitarian operation in Iraq in 2014 and the inception of the Funding Facility for Stabilization through UNDP and its partners, was the international… Read more Publications Funding Facility for Stabilization - Quarter Three Report - 2023 The Funding Facility for Stabilization (FFS) has completed 3,651 projects by 30 September 2023, across the five liberated governorates of Anbar, Diyala, Kirkuk,… Read more Stories 5 ways UNDP is supporting Iraq’s stabilisation The years of conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) left a trail of destruction in Iraq. Entire communities were uprooted, infrastructure… Read more
Stories Wajida Khalaf Jassim: Inspiring a Generation of Female Leaders in Fallujah At 54, Wajida Khalaf Jassim never imagined herself as a cornerstone of transformation in her community. As a teacher at Al-Bushra Secondary School for Girls in… Read more
Stories Life is sweet in Sinuni: Bee cultivation and honey production in Iraq Salem and his brother Issa own an apiary in their hometown of Sinuni, producing enough honey to cover all their living expenses. Salem explains, "I also sell new… Read more
Publications Funding Facility for Stabilization - 2024 Quarter One Report Building Back Better The Role of the Funding Facility for Stabilization in Iraq’s Development In recent years, Iraq has embarked on a significant journey… Read more
Publications Funding Facility for Stabilization - Annual report 2023 The humanitarian operation in Iraq in 2014 and the inception of the Funding Facility for Stabilization through UNDP and its partners, was the international… Read more
Publications Funding Facility for Stabilization - Quarter Three Report - 2023 The Funding Facility for Stabilization (FFS) has completed 3,651 projects by 30 September 2023, across the five liberated governorates of Anbar, Diyala, Kirkuk,… Read more
Stories 5 ways UNDP is supporting Iraq’s stabilisation The years of conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) left a trail of destruction in Iraq. Entire communities were uprooted, infrastructure… Read more