This joint IRC and CARE report seeks to deepen the current gender analysis available by encompassing learning from global gender data available for the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Right now, an Iraqi military operation to retake the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul is underway and 200,000 terrified citizens are expected to flee the city in the first weeks. Without clear routes for families to escape safely, hundreds of thousands of people may be caught in the fighting.