Social Cohesion

Services Category

Small Gifts, Big Changes

Al-Liqaa Foundation empowers Iraq’s most vulnerable with dignity, inclusion, and hope, building resilient lives and lasting peace.

Support for Social Cohesion is a programmed to promote stronger, peaceful, and more cohesive communities in all areas of Iraq. Built on integrating the success and lessons learned from social cohesion projects and interventions implemented, the programmed takes a multi-faceted approach to address institutional frameworks, local mechanisms, capacity development, inter-group and state-citizen relations, and conflict-sensitive responses. Activities aim to facilitate locally driven solutions and support the integration of conflict sensitivity and social cohesion into Iraq’s governance, stabilization, and development agendas.

he Integrated Reconciliation Project supports a national agenda for long-term reconciliation by creating infrastructure to promote peace within communities, focusing on the most vulnerable communities and minorities in Iraq. The creates and strengthens community social cohesion mechanisms, providing socio-economic support services, reinforcing civil society capacities, and bolstering national systems to effectively coordinate and plan social cohesion and reconciliation efforts in Iraq.

Our expertise

Bringing quality healthcare to everyone, regardless of background, by providing accessible, compassionate, and comprehensive medical services for all individuals.

Developed mechanisms for community consultation and dialogue, including forming Local Peace Committees.
Establishment “Youth for Peace” Groups and “Women for Peace” groups, for implement initiatives.
Trained social workers to provide psychosocial support and treatment for victims of violence in conflict settings.
Held roundtable discussions with youth and social media influencers to discuss digital campaigns advocating for reconciliation and peaceful coexistence.
Support for livelihoods for households, each farmer or female-headed household or traditional artisan will get $3,000 in small business.
Providing services, counseling and awareness sessions about coexistence with others and access to different services and protection risks and help request services through a helpline for women, men, children and youth.
Vocational training for women and adolescents affected by armed conflict and received small grants

Why It Matters

Social cohesion and child protection are not parallel tracks—they are interwoven threads in Iraq’s recovery fabric. When a returning child is welcomed into school, when a Yazidi artisan revives her craft alongside a Sunni neighbor, when a Local Peace Committee mediates a land dispute before it escalates—peace becomes lived, not just declared. Al-Liqaa Foundation stands with Iraqi communities to turn reconciliation from a national aspiration into a daily reality—one dialogue, one grant, one protected child at a time.

Our Approach to Social Cohesion

In a country marked by years of conflict, displacement, and social fragmentation, social cohesion is not a luxury—it is a prerequisite for stability and development. Al-Liqaa Foundation’s social cohesion programming is rooted in locally led peacebuilding, drawing on lessons from past interventions to design context-sensitive, multi-layered strategies that address both the symptoms and root causes of division.

Child protection for stabilization

The child protection activities target the most vulnerable children and their families/caregivers based on standard vulnerability criteria. In addition to the children, they focus on vulnerable children affected by armed conflict and recent returnee children from the Al Howl camp in Northeast Syria.

case management services

Integrated case management services for children and adolescents affected by armed conflict are received.

mental health services

Providing focused mental health services (IASC Level 3/4) to children affected by armed conflict.

formal and non-formal education

Providing formal and non-formal education opportunities as part of the social reintegration of children affected by armed conflict.

MHPSS

Providing the MHPSS specialized individual services to children and adolescents.

Training on child protection approaches

Training of social workers, community police staff, and the Women and Youth Affairs Department on child protection approaches, protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, and case management

Training on child protection

Training women and men in community forums on child protection approaches and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse.

legal counseling

Providing legal counseling and representation services to children and adolescents.

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