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The network’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background; it is not a university and grants no degrees. KCO’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background.

A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area.

Health, Protection and Humanitarian Coordination

Programmes that touch health, safety and relief need shared safeguards. This community would set them for the network’s programmes.

Register interestCommunities of practice

Status
Proposed
What it offers
4
Courses
3
Country programmes
35
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.HealthSafety

A set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit. are written and reviewed by peers. A course plan with outcomes, modules and assessment, written before the lessons and reviewed before teaching starts. are A text awaiting review; it can change before it is used. until expert review.

In context

  • Health This is health information for learning, not medical or mental health advice. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.
  • Safety Safety guidance here is general. Your risk depends on who you are and where you are. Protected participation explains how members are protected. Protected participation

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Sources

Open scholarly records on this subject, from approved indexes. Listed for reference, not yet reviewed.

  1. Saya Omar Abdulrahman, Goshan Mohammed Karadaghi (2026). Loss of confidence: exploring medical health professionals’ perceptions of the Kurdistan Healthcare System. Healthcare in Low-resource Settings. DOI 10.4081/hls.2026.13974
  2. Afrouz Zibaei (2018). Understanding the Mental Health Literacy in Kurdish Refugees. Mental Health & Human Resilience International Journal. DOI 10.23880/mhrij-16000124
  3. A Bezenchek, L Emberti Gialloreti (2017). DHIS2 in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, Iraq KRG Health Monitoring System KRG Health Monitoring System Implementation. Unpublished. DOI 10.13140/rg.2.2.22896.51201
  4. Haveen H. Alsilefanee, Sivar A. Qadir, Shahla O. Salih et al. (2022). Integrating maternal and child health data into the Iraqi Kurdistan health information system. Journal of Health Research. DOI 10.1108/jhr-11-2020-0542
  5. Azhin Omer, Austen Garwood-Gowers (2025). Strengthening Health System Governance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Springer Nature Singapore. DOI 10.1007/978-981-96-3898-7

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Report an error What we are and are not

01What it offers

  • 01

    Safeguarding standards

    Rules for work with children and adults at risk.

  • 02

    Referral criteria

    How a care service is vetted before it is listed.

  • 03

    Humanitarian guidance

    Guidance on lawful, transparent channels for relief.

  • 04

    Interpreting

    Standards for interpreting in Kurdish varieties in health and asylum settings.

02Who it is for

  • Health professionals
  • Protection specialists
  • Humanitarian workers
  • Interpreters

03How it works

Proposal
the community awaits the governing body’s decision.
Join
members would take part by A narrower topic within a discipline. and declare interests.
Draft
members would draft safeguards and criteria.
Review
each output would be peer reviewed before use.

04What it always keeps

  • Independent of any party, state or funder
  • An interest of a person, such as money, family, an employer or a political role, that could make them decide differently from a fair person in the same place. are declared
  • Every output is reviewed and sourced
  • No personal health or case data is used

05Disciplines

  • A group of related disciplines within a faculty; it is an arrangement of subjects, not an institution. of Public and Global Health

    Public health

    Protecting the health of populations, from refugee camps to the cities of the diaspora.

    0 courses5 fields A proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides.

  • Department of Public and Global Health

    Global and humanitarian health

    Health care in displacement, camps and conflict, for mothers, children and everyone else.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

  • Department of Public and Global Health

    Mental health and psychosocial support

    Help for people and communities living with loss, violence and displacement, without stigma.

    1 course4 fields Open

  • Department of Social Development

    Social work and safeguarding

    Supporting people through hardship and protecting children and adults at risk, including survivors of violence.

    1 course4 fields Open

  • Department of Risk, Resilience and Humanitarian Action

    Humanitarian action

    Relief and protection under humanitarian principles, in camps, cities and host communities.

    1 course5 fields Open

  • Department of Forensic and Other Medical Sciences

    Forensic science and medicine

    Forensic science documents injury and death with care, including the exhumation and identification of victims of mass atrocities.

    0 courses4 fields Proposed

06Courses

A A record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

07Communities of practice

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Health, Protection and Humanitarian Coordination. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/communities/health-protection/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Health, Protection and Humanitarian Coordination.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/communities/health-protection/.

BibTeX
@misc{kco2026_learn_communities_health_protection,
	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Health, {Protection} and {Humanitarian} {Coordination}},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/communities/health-protection/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/communities/health-protection/},
}

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08Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Loss of confidence: exploring medical health professionals’ perceptions of the Kurdistan Healthcare System

    Saya Omar Abdulrahman, Goshan Mohammed Karadaghi · 2026 · Healthcare in Low-resource Settings

    ArticleDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

  2. Understanding the Mental Health Literacy in Kurdish Refugees

    Afrouz Zibaei · 2018 · Mental Health & Human Resilience International Journal

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefOpen access

  3. DHIS2 in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, Iraq KRG Health Monitoring System KRG Health Monitoring System Implementation

    A Bezenchek, L Emberti Gialloreti · 2017 · Unpublished

    ArticleDataCiteOpenAIRE

  4. Integrating maternal and child health data into the Iraqi Kurdistan health information system

    Haveen H. Alsilefanee, Sivar A. Qadir, Shahla O. Salih et al. · 2022 · Journal of Health Research

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  5. Strengthening Health System Governance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Azhin Omer, Austen Garwood-Gowers · 2025 · Springer Nature Singapore

    BookCrossref

  6. Self-governing from below: Kurdish refugees on the periphery of European societies

    Veysi Dag · 2023 · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  7. Supporting Iraqi Kurdistan Health Authorities in Post-conflict Recovery: The Development of a Health Monitoring System

    Leonardo Emberti Gialloreti, Faiq B. Basa, Faiq B. Basa et al. · 2020 · Frontiers in Public Health

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. Fleeing the war: A socio-ecological perspective on the mental health of internally displaced and refugee children and adolescents living in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

    Wittmann J, Ibrahim H, Neuner F et al. · 2025 · PLOS Ment Health

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  9. The Future of Health Care in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq: Toward an Effective, High-Quality System with an Emphasis on Primary Care

    Melinda Moore, C Ross Anthony, Yee-Wei Lim et al. · 2014 · RAND Health Quarterly

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  10. Frailty and barriers to healthcare access among older adults of the kurdistan region of Iraq: relevance of a health information system

    SIVAR ABDALKHALIQ QADIR QADIR · 2021 · Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

    OtherDataCite

  11. Supplementary file – Participants’ quotations "Health system performance, mitigation, and imperative reform approaches in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: a qualitative swot analysis from the stakeholder’s point of view"

    Hushyar Sulaiman · 2022 · Mendeley

    DatasetDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  12. Masculinity and health practices among male Kurdish immigrants to the US

    Jihad K. Othman · 2015 · OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.

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