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Iraq allocates $250 million for joint projects with UN; UN says Iraq lacks ability to adequately distribute aid

The manager of the UN Development Program in Iraq Wednesday, the Iraqi government has allocated $ 250 million to fund joint projects in 2012, indicating that the program will focus on fighting poverty and creating new jobs and public sector reform.

said Peter Batchelor during a press conference held in Baghdad said that “Iraqi government allocated $ 250 million for 2012 from the balance of the budget,” adding that “the aim is to use the money to do joint projects between the government and the United Nations and other international partners.”

He said Batchelor said it “is unique because most governments expect to Funding is from the United Nations or the World Bank. ” and will spend the UN Development Program about a hundred million dollars of his own money in Iraq next year.
He said Batchelor, “The United Nations Development Programme focuses on fighting poverty in Iraq,” pointing out that there are “more than 23 percent of Iraqis live in abject poverty. ” He continued that the program “focuses also on the economy moving and behind the new jobs, as well as government action in terms of reforms to the institutions in the public sector.”

Iraq has signed on 21 March of this year 2011 memorandum of understanding and action plans related to the activities of development with three agencies of the United Nations in Iraq is the UNFPA, and UNICEF, and UNDP of the United Nations to implement the strategic action programs for four-year span from 2011 to 2014, including the activation of the capacity of Iraqi institutions at both the federal and local , particularly with regard to economic development projects such as statistics, child care, maternity and others.

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UN: Iraq lacks the technical capabilities that frame the assistance


Baghdad (news) .. revealed by the United Nations in Iraq, that Iraq lacks the capabilities of technical frame to provide assistance to the beneficiaries of aid internationalism, stressing that the UN is committed to providing support to the Iraqis.

The Country Director of UNDP in Iraq Pietro Ptchelor conference a press conference this afternoon Wednesday, and was attended by reporter Agency (news) that the rates of poverty in Iraq, according to figures registered with the United Nations, it reached 23% which is worrisome to the United Nations, and pointed Ptchelor: The United Nations is working to create job opportunities for citizens in the sectors of oil and gas, adding that one of the biggest challenges facing Iraq is the lack of capabilities of technical frame to provide assistance to the beneficiaries and there is a gap in technical capacity to provide assistance.

The Ptchelor: that the United Nations today works largely on the support of the national reconciliation process in Iraq especially in the Iraqi parliament as the MPs representing different sects, adding that if he committed the two parliaments to support the national reconciliation is that will reflect positively on the government’s commitment to this Almsah The United Nations is working on a dialogue between the various components in the disputed areas, especially in Kirkuk and Nineveh .

The Ptchelor: that the United Nations and through its development program, it has allocated in collaboration the central government about $ 250 million for the rehabilitation of the education sector in Iraq through the establishment of school buildings, teacher training and called on the UN conference to protect Iraqis from the poverty that was caused by the intensification of the conflict between the blocks political about Vdrlh Iraq, Msheerta it is possible to resolve the issue through dialogue and away from violence, said Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, “Amat Al Aleem” The United Nations remains in the box is committed to supporting the Iraqis who should be their national programs is the basis not of any action by the United United in particular on the subject of federal safety and stability of Iraq, Makdta it must be invested properly, which keeps the power of Iraq and not to resort to violence and stress to resolve things through dialogue between all parties.

He said that Iraq signed on 21 March of the year 2011 a memorandum of understanding and action plans Development Activities with the three agencies of the United Nations in Iraq is the UNFPA, and UNICEF, and UNDP of the United Nations to implement the strategic action programs for four-year span from 2011 to 2014, including the activation of the capacity of Iraqi institutions at both the federal and local levels, particularly with regard to developmental projects economic statistics, such as child care, maternity and others

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