In a first stage, the focus will be on enhancing levels of enrollment through targeting 30, 000 children in four chosen governorates: Baghdad, Basra, Ninewa, and Erbil.
The results there and in Ninewa province, which includes the equally disputed (and recently much bloodier) city of Mosul, appear to reflect a shift in the balance of power of the Kurds in the north which alarms many Iraqi Arabs as well as Turkey's and Iraq's Arab neighbours.