USAID awards Community-based Conflict Mitigation Program in Iraq

Valued at $22m, the ICCM program will work to assess the nature of community conflicts, including those that are resource-based, and offer quick response programs to address them. This will help to build conflict mitigation networks that promote local cooperation and engage the next generation of Iraqis in preventing conflict.

The ICCM Program will take advantage of the access and on-the-ground knowledge provided by Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs), which consist of USAID subject-area experts and representatives from Coalition forces and other U.S. government (USG) agencies.

As part of the USG's New Way Forward in Iraq, 25 PRTs have been established throughout the country in an effort to coordinate programmatic interventions on the local level. PRTs have developed strong relationships and in-depth knowledge of local Iraqi civil society, tribal leadership, and local government. By working through PRTs, the ICCM program will coordinate with other projects already on the ground promoting economic growth, responding to humanitarian crises, developing local government capacity, and mobilizing communities.

USAID has provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years.