“Protecting and Empowering Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Kurdistan Region of Iraq” SEED Foundation’s new program in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

2021-04-19T13:53:30+00:00December 10th, 2020|News|

Like in the rest of Iraq, gender inequality and gender-based violence (GBV) are pervasive in the Kurdistan Region (KRI). There are efforts by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to face the problem of GBV, including a strong law addressing domestic violence and a law enforcement department called the Department of Combating Violence Against Women and [...]

Supporting the Will of Informed Survivors of Human Trafficking

2020-12-03T16:14:36+00:00November 30th, 2020|Stories|

SEED supports clients from diverse backgrounds and is dedicated to taking a client-centered approach, ensuring each individual’s needs are met. Maureen, a 38-year-old woman from Tanzania, was placed in a household in Sulaimani, Kurdistan, as a domestic worker. After nearly a year, Maureen was forced to work longer hours than agreed upon, denied freedom of [...]

UNFPA’s ‘Reporting on Gender-Based Violence During Public Health Crises’ Now Available in Kurdish

2020-11-26T09:33:45+00:00November 26th, 2020|In the Media, News|

Reporting on gender-based violence, especially during crises such as #COVID-19, is a difficult and sensitive task. When ethical reporting standards are not followed, it can place the lives of survivors at risk. @UNFPAIraq’s guidelines provide journalists with key steps to follow when communicating these difficult stories. SEED has worked with UNFPA to make these [...]

Therapy and Mental Health Support Help Yezidi Survivor Feel Alive Again

2020-11-14T17:59:47+00:00November 14th, 2020|Stories|

Nagham*, a 21 year old Yezidi girl, currently lives in an IDP camp after ISIS invaded her home town of Shingal (Sinjar), where she grew up with her family. After the ISIS invasion, life became extremely unsafe and Nagham and her family were forced to flee to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Although they [...]

COVID-19 PSS Training for Community Coordinators and Mobilizers

2020-11-25T06:04:41+00:00October 15th, 2020|News|

As SEED’s community coordinators and mobilizers logged on one by one to the video call and greeted each other, there was both excitement and curiosity for the first remote psychosocial support (PSS) training for staff since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). This was the start of a two-day training in [...]

SEED Launches a MHPSS Standard of Care Tailored for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

2020-10-31T16:26:47+00:00October 11th, 2020|In The Media - Homepage, News|

To promote improved services to some of the most vulnerable and violence-affected people in the world, SEED Foundation worked with a broad range of stakeholders to develop a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Standard of Care Model, tailor made for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Delivering high quality services to meet the [...]

NLG Report: MHPSS gaps and recommendations Iraq and Syria Report

2020-11-22T13:13:21+00:00September 20th, 2020|In the Media, In The Media - Homepage, MHPSS SoC page|

"In Iraq, the SEED Foundation has created parallel lines of management and technical supervision for frontline staff. Technical supervisors provide frontline staff support with the clinical and more technical aspects of the implementation of their activities – community based MHPSS, mental health and case management – and also conduct field visits to support front [...]

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Iraq: Challenges and Solutions

2020-11-22T13:13:43+00:00September 16th, 2020|In the Media, In The Media - Homepage, MHPSS SoC page, Uncategorized|

SEED’s mental health advisor, Anne Lepelaars, spoke to Julie Meier to help frame her research for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, about the challenges to providing mental health and psychosocial support services in Iraq.  Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Iraq: Challenges and Solutions Julie Meier | July 27, 2020 | Georgetown Journal [...]

A Safe Space for Survivors of Trafficking During COVID-19

2020-09-12T17:07:53+00:00September 12th, 2020|Stories|

Shelter-in-place orders, restricted movements and government closures, necessary measures to slow the spread of the COVID-19 in Kurdistan, have resulted in a financial crisis leaving many migrant workers unemployed, and with compromised legal status as work permits expired. International travel bans meant those undertaking domestic work were unable to return to their home countries, and [...]

SEED Launches Group Therapy in Chamishko Camp

2020-08-20T15:58:00+00:00August 20th, 2020|Stories|

SEED continuously strives to strengthen its services to meet the needs of the communities it serves. One of the gaps that was identified was the need for a specialized group response to benefit from support of peers with similar challenges. This need could be addressed by launching an adapted version of group therapy for camp [...]

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