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Mission There is a need for Iraqis to engage in thinking about their future in a better way. To engage in thinking about development as opposed to politics. To come around issues that every Iraqi agrees upon. There is a need for Iraqis to explore their options for social and human development in the future, and be engaged in casting their voices to it. To this end, the National Human Development Report process aims. It aims to tap on the rich human resources of the Iraqi experts, who more than anyone else know how to rebuild their country. It aims to go beyond this select group of experts and involve the people whatever they represent or wherever they come from in the country. It aims to scientifically quantify and qualify the development challenges ahead. It aims to measure, analyze, prescribe, and provide the vision for Iraqis to invest in their wealth, and in their people for a better future.
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Planning
Meeting 1: On 8 November 2005, the first
planning meeting on the Iraqi National Human
Development Report took place in the UNDP
Iraq Office. The Senior Undersecretary of
the Ministry of Planning and Development
Cooperation headed a national team to
discuss with the UNDP team the means of
starting the NHDR process.
Training
the Core National Team: Two weeks after
the first meeting, the core team
participated in a training course in UNDP
Iraq Office. The training was supported by
the UNDP Sub Regional Resource Facility in
Beirut. The training covered HD concept and
its components, HD reporting and its
process, and linkages were made to new
issues such as the
Baghdad
NHDR Meeting: The core national team,
with support from the UNDP Iraq Office,
organized a consultative meeting in the end
of January 2006. This meeting involved more
than 55 national experts in the area of
human development. This meeting had the
specific objectives of agreeing on the theme
of the National Human Development Report,
its structure, and identifying a team of
authors. It was decided that the report be a
general overview of the human development
situation in the country, and the title
"Rebuilding the People, Rebuilding Iraq" was
chosen in this meeting.
Beirut
Training Workshop: The training of the author team
took place in
Beirut, 7-11 March 2006. UNDP, jointly with
the Arab States Sub-Regional Resource Facility provided the
training, and the resources required. Iraqi experts in Beirut, and
an International Consultant also participated in the training and the
discussions.
Project
Management Workshop: The project's national team joined UNDP
Iraq CO for a two-day workshop on the management aspects of the
project. The workshop that took place in Amman 10-11 January was an
opportunity to introduce the national team to the new UNDP Results
Management Guide (RMG) and the new project management procedures
included in the RMG. Decisions were also made with the agreement of
the Finance and Procurement Units on project payment and operational
procedures.
First
NHDR Review Meeting: Upon the completion of the second draft set
of statistical tables for the NHDR report, the national team
including the report's statistical team and the project's
Statistical Advisor met in Amman 23-26 September 2007 to review the
tables and the completed chapters. The project's completion plan was
updated and all additional substantive requirements for the report
were agreed upon in this meeting.
Visit
of Baghdad NHDR Team to Kurdistan: The Iraq NHDR 2007 will be a
nation-wide report and will include the region of Kurdistan. A team
headed by the project's National Coordinator and the Lead Author
with an accompanying delegation from the Central Organization for
Statistics and Information Technology visited Kurdistan's Ministry
of Planning and agreed with the Minister and the Region's experts on
the actions needed for a complete and integral representation of
Kurdistan in the NHDR.