IRAQ HUMANITARIAN FUND

Humanitarian needs and response in 2021The humanitarian situation in Iraq continued to evolve in 2021, four years after the attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and subsequent military operations to defeat them. The vulnerabilities of people hardest hit by the conflict were deepened in 2020 by the socioeconomic effects of the COVID- 19 pandemic and plummeting oil prices. In 2021, despite an accelerated drive for durable solutions and sustained humanitarian response to mitigate the outcomes of the conflict, 4.1 million Iraqis were still in need of humanitarian assistance, 2.5 million of whom were acutely vulnerable.