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Endline Evaluation of a Rehabilitation and Reintegration programme in Iraq
Client
An international fund dedicated to preventing violent extremism by supporting locally-led initiatives in vulnerable communities.
Countries
Iraq
Services
End-to-end research, assessments and evaluations, Mixed methods data collection
Team
Jana Sakakini, Shireen Issa, Sanghamitra Mazumdar
Start Date
November 24, 2025
Thematic Area
Displacement & Migration, Peacebuilding & Social Cohesion, Social Inclusion & Protection, Livelihoods
Methods
Desk research / Literature review, In-depth interviews, In-person focus group discussions, In-person structured surveys, Key informant interviews, Remote / telephone surveys, Validation workshop / survey
Project Summary
Nurai led the independent evaluation of a complex rehabilitation and reintegration initiative supporting returnees and their families across Mosul, Salah al-Din, and Anbar.
Working within a compressed 10-week timeframe, Nurai evaluated a multi-partner programme involving five implementing organisations and several interconnected intervention areas, including case management, MHPSS, education support, frontline worker capacity strengthening, and media and community engagement.
Nurai added value by bringing structure, methodological rigour, and practical problem-solving to a highly complex evaluation. The team designed and implemented a mixed-methods approach that combined 16+ key informant interviews, 20 focus group discussions, and more than 750 structured surveys with returnees, community members, frontline workers, teachers, and media actors, using both in-person and remote modalities. The evaluation was supported by an agile local team, enabling Nurai to work through local access channels, respond quickly to operational realities, and adapt data collection approaches across locations as conditions evolved.
The evaluation carefully handled protection-sensitive topics and triangulated evidence across beneficiary perspectives, partner interviews, quantitative data, and programme documentation. Rather than relying on simple attribution claims, Nurai assessed contribution across a fluid operational context, identifying where reintegration progress was most visible, what was enabling change, and where sustainability remained constrained.
Final outputs included a clear, evidence-based evaluation report, in-depth case studies capturing lived experiences of reintegration, and an interactive dashboard enabling our client and its partners to explore survey findings by location, population group, and service type.
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